Edmund Kemper: Necrophiliac
Edmund Kemper was an American serial killer and a necrophile, where he would murder his victims and then later rape their bodies. Ed Kemper was an active serial killer in the early 1970s that really made a name for him in a real short amount of time. He went from a no named, odd job working man to one of the most famous and terrifying serial killers in the Santa Cruz California area. What made this man especially dangerous was his physique and intelligence; he stood six foot nine inches tall, over 300 pounds and had an I.Q. of almost 140. Once this man had you in his grasp, there was no getting away. Edmund Kemper I found very interesting in why he did all the things he had done in his life. What doesn’t make sense to me is the time frame he had committed all these murders and just decided to stop one day. In my paper over Ed Kemper I am going to go through Ed Kemper’s life from a young boy to an adult and ultimately try to figure out why he just wanted to stop one day. Edmund
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I don’t know why but he tried killing himself twice by cutting his wrists, both attempts were failures however. Ed wanted to plead insanity but further studies of him by psychiatrists showed that he knew what he was doing and there was evidence of premeditated murder. So the insanity plead didn’t stick long and a trial of six men and six women found him guilty of all account after only five hours of consolidating. Ed wanted the death penalty but capital punishment wasn’t reinstated until January 1st 1974 due to the (Furman vs. Georgia) case according to deathpenaltyinfo.org. Instead he was to serve life in prison in Folsom maximum security prison. According to Katherine once again,” He became a model inmate, helping to read books on tape for the blind, but when he went before the parole board, he told them he was not fit to go back into