Edmund Kemper Research Papers

Edmund kemper was arrested in April of 1973, at the age of twenty four after murdering six female college students, his own mother, and his mother’s best friend. Edmund Kemper is a psychopathic serial killer and necrophile who became known as “The Co-ed Killer”. He killed the students to practice killing so when he killed his mother who he hated so much it would be perfect and how he had imagined it his whole life.

Edmund Kemper was born on december 18, 1948, in Burbank, California. Kemper was the middle child of E.E and Carnell Kemper. After his parents divorce in 1957, he moved with his mother and two sisters to Montana. Edmund had a difficult relationship with his alcoholic mother as she was very abusive towards him physically and emotionally,

He had dark fantasies, sometimes dreaming about killing his mother. He cut off the heads of his sister’s dolls. When he was ten years old his mother forced him to live in the basement, away from his sisters whom she feared he might harm in some way. His mother would frequently locked him in the dark basement alone at night. When Edmund was thirteen he killed his cat with a knife. At the age of fourteen he ran away from home to find his father in Van Nuys, California. After locating but being rejected by his father Edmund was sent to live with his grandmother and grandfather in North Fork, California. Kemper claims that his grandmother was very abusive, similar to his mother. In 1964, at the age of fifteen, Edmund shot his grandmother in the head allegedly just to see what it felt like. The he killed his grandfather because he believed that his grandfather would be angry at him for killing his grandmother. Kemper was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and was put into the Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally

If you watch interviews of Edmund he talks very smart and seems normal it is scary. He feels no remorse for what he did, he feels that he had to kill his mother. Edmund Kemper is a psychopath. Sociologist believe the Psychopathic theory because the people that are considered psychopaths do not think right. Psychopathy is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior. Psychopaths exhibit a variety of maladaptive traits such as rarely experiencing genuine affection for others. They are skilled at faking affection, are irresponsible, impulsive, tolerate little frustration and they pursue immediate gratification. A writer who visited Kemper in the Santa Cruz County Jail while he was awaiting sentencing recorded this macabre conversation, Published in the March, 1974 issue of Front Page Detective magazine: For all of his seeming ability to relate to people in an animated and warm exchange, Kemper also has the ability to withdraw without warning into a kind of frightening reverie, reliving his acts of violence. I watched it happen. He had paused in his outpouring of talk about himself and looked at me curiously. “You haven’t asked the questions I expected a reporter to ask,” he said. “What do you mean,” I replied. “Give me some examples.” He drawled, “Oh, what is it like to have sex with a dead body? ... What does