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Edmund Emil Kemper III

The "Co-Ed Murderer"

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|Information summarized by Radford University students |

|Michel ”Mika” Labergerie, Erin Connors, Diane Duncan, Bonnie Cullipher |

|John Stone, Paige Borton, Scott Campbell, Donald “Troy” Williams |

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|Serial killer timelines researched by Radford University students |

|Sandy Crump, Shae Dunavant, Ashley Carle, A.J. Smith, Samantha Layne, |

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|Department of Psychology |

|Radford University |

|Radford, VA  24142-6946 |

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|Date |Age |Life Event |

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|December 18, 1948 |0 |Ed was born in Burbank California the second of three kids. The son of Clarnell and E.E. Kemper Jr. |

|1957 |9 |Edmund’s Parents had an unstable marriage and separated (divorcing four years later) |

|1958 |10 |Mother moved his room to the basement claiming his sisters were afraid of his size. |

| | |Pre-teen years Ed killed the two family cats both were mutilated and buried. (found by Ed’s Mother) |

| | |During his pre-teen years Edmund had a crush on a grade school teacher and his sister asked why he didn’t just go ahead and kiss |

| | |her to which he replied “If I kiss her I would have to kill her first.” (Warning signs of latent necrophilia) |

| | |Played Gas chamber with his sisters during his preteen years (age10-11) |

|1961 |13 |Edmund’s parents divorce is final and he is very affected by his father’s absence. |

|1963 |15 |Sent by his Mother to live with his Father and step Mother in Los Angeles California. |

|1963 | |Age 15 Mother left him at his Grandparents, Maude (age 66) and Edmund Kemper Sr.(Age72) house during Christmas at North Fork, |

| | |California |

|1963 | |Age 15 Mother called him a “real weirdo” to his face. |

|1964 | |Attended Sierra Joint Union High School  |

|1964 | |Edmund was an average student and caused no trouble |

|1964 | |Edmund visited his Mother and was much worse upon returning to his Grandparents house. |

|1964 | |Edmunds Grandfather gave him a .22 caliber rifle to shoot and kill rabbits and gophers. |

| | |Edmunds Grandmother would hide her husband’s .45 caliber handgun, so that Edmund would not take it while she was out of the |

| | |house. |

|August 27,1964 |15 |Edmund shot his Grandmother three times in the back of the head, with the rifle that his Grandfather had given him. |

|1964 | |Edmund’s Grandfather returned shortly and was shot by Ed in the back of the head. Ed said that he did it because he “wanted to |

| | |protect his Grandfather from seeing his wife dead and possibly having a heart attack.” |

|1964 | |After killing Grandparents, Edmund calls his mother and asks her what to do. She said to call the Sheriff. |

|1964 | |He was taken in for questioning and confessed to both murders. He told the Sheriff that he “just wanted to see what it felt like |

| | |to shoot Grandma.” |

|1964 | |Edmund was sent to Juvenile Hall while the California Youth Authority decided what to do with him. |

| | |Psychiatrists diagnosed that Edmund had a personality trait disturbance, and was a passive aggressive type. |

|December 6,1964 | |Ed is diagnosed as paranoid and psychotic by a court appointed Psychiatrist. |

| | |The Youth Authority committed him to Atascadero State Hospital. |

|1969 |21 |He was released from Atascadero State Hospital to his Mother’s new home against the recommendation of his Doctor. |

| | |He argued with his Mother, and collected guns and knives |

| | |Edmund was 6’9” tall and weighed 300 pounds |

|1969 |21 |Edmund attended the Community College while being monitored by the youth Authority. He made A’s while attending school at this |

| | |time. |

|1969 | |Edmund is considered “square” by his peers in the Hippie Counter Culture movement of the late 1960’s. |

|1969 |21 |Edmund wanted to be a Law Enforcement Officer but was denied at both local and state Police Departments due to established |

| | |maximum height requirements. |

| | |Edmund got a job with the Division of Highways working as a road construction flagman. |

|1969 |21 |Edmund bought a motorcycle to deal with his disappointment and make him feel like a police officer. |

| | |Edmund crashed the motorcycle injuring his head and received a settlement and used this money to buy a car resembling an unmarked|

| | |Police patrol car. |

|1970 |22 |Edmund purchased a radio receiver-transmitter to listen to Police broadcasts |

| 1970-1971 | 22 |Edmund cruised the highways picking up female hitchhikers, refining his technique to make them feel more comfortable about |

| | |getting into his car. |

|1971 |22 |Edmund starting making friends with police officers and hanging out with them in the “jury room”; a bar frequented by off-duty |

| | |officers. |

|May 7, 1972 |23 |Edmund killed 2 students; Mary Anne Pesce and Anita Luchese from Fresno State College. Placed Anita body in the trunk of his car|

| | |and tried to strangle Mary Anne unsuccessfully. Then stabbed her several times and cut her throat. Ed removed Anita from the |

| | |trunk and stabbed her with a larger knife. Ed brought the girls into his home, undressed them and dissected their bodies. He |

| | |decapitated and kept their heads, before disposing of them in a ditch. |

| August 1972 | |Mary Anne’s head was found in a ravine and the police identified Anita’s head but the bodies were never found. |

|Sept. 14, 1972 | |Ed picked up Aiko Koo, a 15 year old. She caught on to his scheme and tried to escape unsuccessfully. He tapped her mouth shut |

| | |and tried to suffocate her by putting his fingers into her nostrils. That failed, Ed then raped and strangled her with her |

| | |scarf. He placed her body into the trunk of the car and went to a bar for drinks. He brought her body to his house and |

| | |dissected her. |

|Sept 16, 1972 | |Edmund visited a court-appointed attorney who stated that there was nothing wrong with him. During this visit, he still had the |

| | |head of Aiko Koo in his trunk of his car. He disposed of her head and hands in separate locations. |

| January 8, 1973 | |Ed bought a .22 caliber Ruger hand gun. He was afraid that he was going to be caught because he was not allowed to own a gun due |

| | |to his previous felony convictions. He picked up a girl named Cindy Schall and drove her to Watsonville. He placed her in the |

| | |trunk where he shot her in the head and took her to his mother’s house. |

|January 9, 1973 |24 |Ed had sex with her body. He dismembered Schall’s body and buried her in the back yard. He threw the rest of her remains off a |

| | |cliff; which where found the next day. |

|Feb 5, 1973 | |After a fight with his mother, he stormed out ready to kill and picked up Rosalind and Alice. Ed stated that the next “good |

| | |looking” girl he saw would die. Ed did not stop the car to kill them. Ed turned to Alice in the back seat and shot her several |

| | |times. Alice did not die right away. Ed shot Rosalind point-blank and went to a cul-de-sac and placed the bodies in the trunk. |

| | |He later beheaded them. The following morning, Ed brought Alice’s body into his home, had sex with her body and removed the |

| | |bullet from Rosalind’s head. He disposed of some parts of the body in Santa Cruz. |

|April 20, 1973 | |Ed stayed awake that night deciding what to do about the killing of his mother. Ed killed his mother with a claw hammer while she|

| | |was sleeping. He slashed her throat and placed her larynx in the garbage disposal; but it was thrown back out. Later that day, |

| | |Ed decided to kill someone else to insure that suspicion would not be on him. He invited his mother’s friend to the home, Sara |

| | |Hallett, She came over for dinner. When she arrived, he strangled her to death with Aiko Koo’s scarf. Ed had sex with her |

| | |corpse that night. |

|April 21, 1973 |24 |Ed left town in Sara’s car then rented a separate car for fear of being discovered. He dropped off Sara’s car at a repair shop, |

| | |pretending that it needed maintenance. He then drove 18 hours; stopping only for gas, no-dose, and soda. In Colorado, Ed was |

| | |stopped for speeding, paid the fine and went on. Then Ed became tired, stopped in Pueblo, Colorado. Called the Santa Cruz |

| | |Police Dept. Where he knew some of the officers and started to confess. Ed had to call several times to prove that it was not a|

| | |prank and had to tell them where he was. That was difficult because he was disoriented. Ed was then taken into custody and |

| | |confessed to all 8 murders in great detail. While returning to Santa Cruz Ed took investigators to various disposal sites where |

| | |they thought the investigation would never end. |

| | |The court appointed defender, James Jackson, had no strategy for a defense except for claiming insanity. All witnesses that |

| | |testified stating that Ed did not know what he was doing; where discredited by the prosecution. The most damaging witness was |

| | |Dr. Joel Fort, who claimed that Ed was not a paranoid schizophrenic. But was only obsessed with sex and violence and craved |

| | |attention. |

|April, 1973 |24-40 |Edmund tried to slash his wrists during the trial with a ballpoint pen but was not successful. |

|April, 1973 | |No one could prove his insanity and therefore he was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced on all 8 counts. He was |

| | |placed under observation at Vacaville Medical Facility and then sent to maximum security prison at Folsom for life. When asked |

| | |what type of punishment he thought was appropriate, Ed said “death by torture.” |

|1980 | |Ed became eligible for parole at age 31. Since then he has been denied six times. |

|1988 | |At age 40 Ed and John Wayne Gacy took part in a broadcast by satellite where they discussed the details of their crimes in an |

| | |interview with FBI agent Robert Ressler. |

|1990-1999 | |Since 1990 then he has recorded audiotapes for the blind and has continued to compose petitions for his parole. Ed routinely |

| | |answers his “fan” mail at the prison and enjoys his notoriety. |

|2004 | |To date, all petitions for parole have been denied. |

|General Information |

|     Sex |Male |

|     Race |White |

|     Height | 6’8” |

|     Number of victims |10 |

|     Country where killing occurred |United States |

|     States where killing occurred |California |

|Childhood Information |

|     Date of birth |December 18, 1948 |

|     Location |Burbank California |

|     Birth order |Second of three |

|     Number of siblings |2 |

|     XYY? |Not found |

|     Raised by |Parents, grandparents, state institutions |

|     Birth category |Middle |

|     Parent’s marital status |Separated, then divorced |

|     Family event |Parents separated |

|     Age of family event |9 |

|     Problems in school? |No |

|     Teased while in school? |Yes, by peers for his height |

|     Physically attractive? |no |

|     Physical defect? |no |

|     Speech defect? |No |

|     Head injury? |Fell off motorcycle hit head |

|     Physically abused? |None Documented |

|     Psychologically abused? |Mom blamed him for her problems |

|     Sexually abused? |None Documented |

|     Father’s occupation |Past military combat experience, electrician |

|     Age of first sexual experience |23 |

|     Age when first had intercourse |23 |

|     Mother’s occupation |College admin assist. |

|     Father abused drugs/alcohol |No |

|     Mother abused drugs/alcohol |No |

|Cognitive Ability |

|     Highest grade in school |10th |

|     Highest degree |GED |

|     Grades in school |Average |

|     IQ |145 |

|Work History |

|     Served in the military? |No |

|          Branch | |

|          Type of discharge | |

|          Saw combat duty | |

|          Killed enemy during service? | |

|     Applied for job as a cop? |Yes, turned down because he was too tall. |

|     Worked in law enforcement? |No |

|     Fired from jobs? |No |

|     Types of jobs worked |Labor for highway division/ flagman |

|     Employment status during series |Construction road worker |

|Relationships |  |

|     Sexual preference |Heterosexual |

|     Marital status |Single |

|     Number of children |None |

|     Lives with his children |N/A |

|     Living with |Mom |

|Triad |

|     Animal torture |Yes, Family cats |

|     Fire setting |No. |

|     Bed wetting |No. |

|Killer Psychological Information |

|     Abused drugs? |No |

|     Abused alcohol? |No |

|     Been to a psychologist? |Yes |

|     Time in forensic hospital? |Yes |

|     Diagnosis |Sociopath |

|Killer Criminal History |

|     Committed previous crimes? |Yes |

|     Spend time in jail? |No |

|     Spend time in prison? |No |

|     Killed prior to series?  Age? |Yes, 15 |

|Serial Killing |

|     Number of victims |8 |

|     Victim type |Family, young women |

|     Killer age at start of series |23 |

|     Gender of victims |female |

|      Race of victims |Caucasian, Asian |

|      Age of victims |15 - 72 |

|      Method of killing |Knife, strangulation, firearms, hammer |

|      Type of serial killer |Organized Lust |

|      How close did killer live? |Drove to crime scene. |

|      Killing occurred in home of victim? |No |

|      Killing occurred in home of killer? |Yes |

|      Weapon |Killer brought with him, and found at scene |

|Behavior During Crimes |

|     Rape? |Yes |

|     Tortured victims? |Yes |

|     Stalked victims? |No |

|     Overkill? |Yes |

|     Quick & efficient? |Yes |

|     Used blindfold? |Yes |

|     Bound the victims? |Yes |

|After Death Behavior |

|     Sex with the body? |Yes |

|     Mutilated body? |Yes |

|     Ate part of the body? |Yes |

|     Drank victim’s blood? |No |

|     Posed the body? |Yes |

|     Took totem – body part |Yes |

|     Took totem – personal item |Yes |

|     Robbed victim or location |No |

|Disposal of Body |

|     Left at scene, no attempt to hide |No |

|     Left at scene, hidden |No |

|     Left at scene, buried |No |

|     Moved, no attempt to hide |No |

|     Moved, buried |Yes |

|     Cut-op and disposed of |Yes |

|     Moved, too home |Yes |

|Sentencing | |

|     Date killer arrested |April 24, 1973 |

|     Date convicted |1973 |

|     Sentence |Life |

|     Killer executed? |No |

|     Name and state of prison |Folsom |

|     Killer committed suicide? |No |

|     Killer killed in prison? |No |

|Date of death |Still Alive |

|References |

|Web Sites |

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|BOOKS |

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|Cheney, Margaret (2000) Why: The Serial Killer in America. CA: R&E Publishers. |

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|Newton, Michael. (2000) The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. New York: Checkmark Books |

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|Sifakis, Carl. (2001) The Encyclopedia of American Crime. Volume 2, New York: Facts on File, Inc. |

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|Douglas J. & Olshaker M. (2000) The Cases That Haunt Us, New York, New York: Mindhunters Inc. |

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|Mclead, M. (2000) Edmund Kemper III Meet Edmund, The Crime Library. |

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|Ressler, R.K. and Shactman, T. (1992) Whoever Fights Monsters, New York, New York: Pocket Books. |

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|Schecter, H. & Everett, D. (1996) The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, New York, New York: Pocket Books |

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|Wilson C. (1990) The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder. New York, New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers |

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