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Edmund Kemper: A Brief Biography
Edmund Kemper was born Dec, 18 1948, in Southern California (Burbank). Edmund’s parents (E.E Kemper and Clarnell Kemper) divorced around the time he was 11. After the divorce he moved with his mother and two sisters to Montana. Edmund had a troubling relationship with his mother, especially since she was an alcoholic. At a young age Edmund had a dark mind, sometimes contemplating about murdering his mother , ripping the heads off his sister's dolls, burying his cat alive and viciously murdering the other cat with a knife. After that he moved in with his father, but ended up going back to his mother which sent him to live on a farm with his grandparents. During his adolescence he started learning about guns/firearms. On the farm he used to kill birds and small animals until his grandparents took his weapon away from him. After he got into an argument with his grandma he shoot her dead. Later that day when his Grandpa came home Ed shot his grandpa by the car. Afterwards he confessed to his mother and called the cops. Kemper was sent to California youth Authority, where they ran many test on Edmund, where they determined he was really bright(IQ wise) yet he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Edmund was Sent to Atascadero State Hospital for mental patients.

Edmund had a life after he was released at the age of 21. He
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Ed viciously murdered them. He decapitated their heads and after words indulge in sexual intercrose with the dead bodies. Kemper went on a killing spree, where he would pick up the women take them somewhere private kill them, decapitate them and have sexual intercorse with the headless boides. Edmund killed ended up killing six college students. The nickname he got for these murders is “The Co-ed

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