Edmund Kemper 111 was a psychopathic serial killer who became known as “The Co-ed Killer” who weighed 300 pounds and had a height of 6’9. He was born on December 18, 1948 in Burbank, California. He was the middle child of Edmund Kemper 11 and Clarnell Kemper. His parents decided to divorce in 1957 when he was nine years old, causing him to move with his mother and two sisters to Montana. Edmund always had issues growing up with his alcoholic mother because she was always so judgmental towards him. She was physically and emotionally abusive towards Edmund ever since he was little. She constantly teased him for how big he was and his weird personality he had. She always told him that nobody would ever love him, causing him to hate himself and women. Edmund had a crush on his teacher, which made his sister always tease him about it. His sister asked, “why don’t you try to kiss your teacher” and he replied, “If I kiss her, I’d have to kill her first” (Crime and Investigation, 2014). When Edmund turned ten years old, his mother locked him in the basement, away from his sisters, because she feared he might harm them. Edmund would always wonder off into a dark fantasy world, causing him to dream about killing his mother. Play time for him was always cutting …show more content…
Not only were women interested in him, but interest came from people who were developing the discipline of profiling. So many interviews were done on him, which made him become a template for the serial killers they were going to experience in the near future. One of his interviews had a question that stood out the most to me from a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter. The reporter asked him how he felt when he saw pretty girls after he did what he wanted the most, which was killing his mother. He said, “One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side says, “I wonder how her head would look on a stick” (Bonn,