Profile Of The Mass Murder- Edmund Kemper

When he was 15, Edmund Kemper killed grandparents because he wanted to see how it feels to be a killer. They put him in a highly secured mental institution, which, however, has not helped. After ten years, they fired him from the hospital, but his uncontrollable desire for killing led to new victims: young students.

Kemper, who became known as "Co-Ed Killer", was one of the blood- thirstiest serial killers on the US West Coast. He was over six feet tall and extremely intelligent. And he just could not stop killing.

From May 1972 to February 1973, Kemper has committed six shocking murders. He used to pick up hitchhikers on the highway, drove them to remote areas where they were killed and cut off their heads. He collected severed heads in his apartment and used them later for sexual satisfaction.

The students, who have had the misfortune to hitchhike in the district of Santa Cruz (Calif.) were not the only his victims.

He kept thinking about the final settlement with the mother, an alcoholic, who is troubled son (with pleasure tortured and abused cats sisters) punished by him locked in the basement. Because she lived with grandparents, parents, his father, who left the family.

As stated in an article published in "Psychology Today," Kemper was eventually achieved its main fantasy On Good Friday, 1973, he killed his mother with a hammer and strangled her best friend.

After sexual gratification with mother's severed head, Edmund Kemper phoned the police and confessed what he had done.

He was arrested in Colorado, where he fled before he felt a desire to confess what he had done. He was only 24 years old. He was convicted on eight counts of first-degree murder.

"Psychology Today" states that he dreamed of being tortured and killed in the gas chamber or electric chair. At that time, however, there was no death penalty in California, and he could not get what he wanted.

Journalist from magazine "Front Page Detective", who visited Kemper Prison of Santa Cruz while waiting the verdict, said that he had a tendency to relive the crimes he committed without any reason.

"You did not ask me a question that I would expect from one journalist," he told him.

"What do you mean?" Replied the reporter. "Name me some examples."

"For example, how does it feel to have sex with a dead body? How does it feel when you're sitting on the couch in the living room and see the decapitated heads of two girls on the arm of the chair? "he said, and replied:" In the first moment, you feel a sick. "