Edmund Kemper

American serial murderer and necrophiliac. A sadistic sociopath, he selected his victims for the purpose of venting deep-rooted sexual and sadistic urges. His victims were high-born, educated, spoiled, perhaps too-pretty, the kind who he felt were cruel to him in high school.

The son of an electrician, Kemper was born after a short two-hour labor. He grew to 6' 9" in height, 280 lbs. He was so strong that friends called him "forklift." He could lift two 98 lb. sacks of flour easily. As a kid in grade school he slaughtered cats and dogs and decapitated his sister Allyn's dolls. He showed an unusually strong sexual curiosity but had a total lack of sex education other than misinformation from his peers. A middle child, he had two sisters. His dad was not often around and left the family when Kemper was seven years old. His mom moved the family to Montana so he never saw his dad; he blamed his mom entirely. At eight, he began to live in two separate worlds.

When he was 14, Kemper's mom was having an increasingly difficult time handling him. She was planning to remarry so she sent him, protesting and against his will, to live with his paternal grandparents on an isolated farm. On 27 August 1964, when Kemper was 15, he shot and stabbed both his grandparents, North Fork, CA, then called his mom to tell her what he had done. He was institutionalized as a juvenile in Atascadero mental hospital for five years, when he was released to his mother's custody as "cured." He and his mom resumed their repeated arguments, as when he was a kid. In March 1970 he went to work as a laborer at Green Giant farms in Watsonville, California.

After 1970, he killed, beheaded, dissected and cannibalized eight women, including his mother, whose head he dismembered and placed on the mantle, throwing darts at it. During the act of killing, Kemper had spontaneous orgasms. As an adult, he could only achieve sexual satisfaction with dead women.