Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer
If you didn’t know about the evil lurking within Edmund Kemper, you would probably view him as a disarming gentle giant. Though Kember stands at 6'9", most of the people who knew him prior to his crimes considered him to be kind, intelligent, conversational, and remarkably normal.
But deep within Kemper lay a violent woman-hater. The same friendly bargoer who often spent his free time chatting with local police officers over a few beers was a brutal murderer who took great pleasure in inflicting fear and pain in others and defiling their bodies.
A Much-Less-Than-Ideal Start in Life
Most people who grow up in a bad environment don’t grow up to be serial killers, but sometimes it’s not that difficult to understand how someone grew up to be so disturbed.
Edmund Kemper was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, to Edmund Emil Kemper II and Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper. His parents had an arranged marriage devoid of love and mutual respect.[1] [4]
Kemper II, a World War II veteran who had worked on nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific, once said of his wife that “suicide missions in wartime and later atomic bomb testings were nothing compared to living with Clarnell.” [4]
