Edmund Kemper's Influence On Human Behavior

Edmund Emil Kemper III was an American serial killer and necrophile who was active in California in the early 1970s. He was born December 18, 1948 to the parents of Edmund Emil Kemper Jr and Clarnell Stage. As a child, he was extremely bright but exhibited antisocial and psychopathic behavior such as cruelty to animals; he reportedly fatally stabbed a pet cat at age 13. He buried animals alive, including his family's pet cat, and would later dig them up for further torture. He acted out bizarre sexual rituals with his sister's dolls and exhibited a dark fantasy life. Later he recalled that his eldest sister pushed him into the deep end of a swimming pool and he had to struggle to get out and nearly drowned. She also pushed him within yards of a moving train. Kemper had a
Once there he found out that his father had remarried and had another son. He stayed there for a short while until his father sent him back to Montana. His mother refused to let him back in her household and sent him away to live with his grandparents, Edmund and Maude Kemper, who lived on a 17-acre ranch in the mountains of North Fork, California. Kemper hated living in North Fork; he referred to his grandfather as "senile" and claimed that his grandmother "was constantly emasculating Kemper and Kempers grandfather”. On August 27, 1964, Kemper's grandmother, Maude Matilda Hughey Kemper, was sitting at the kitchen table working on her latest children's book when she and Kemper began arguing. Eventually, Kemper shot her in the head. Some reports say he stabbed her as well. Later Kemper said that he shot his grandmother to see what it felt like, his grandfather came home from grocery shopping, he shot him too because he knew his father would would be angry. He was only 15 at the time he killed his grandparents. Kemper was committed to Atascadero State Hospital and became friends with his