Edmund Kemper
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, and dismemberment.
Quotes
[edit]- I just wondered how it would feel to shoot Grandma.
- To the police, some time after murdering his grandparents (in or after 1964); Elliott Leyton, Compulsive Killers (1986), p. 39
- This seemed only appropriate, as much as she’d bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years.
- Explaining why, after decapitation, he cut out his mother's larynx and put it down the garbage disposal (in or after 1973); Donald T. Lunde, Madness and Murder (1975), p. 56
- Death by torture.
- When asked what he considered a fit punishment (1973); John Godwin, Murder U.S.A. (1978), p. 317
- The original purpose was gone. It was starting to weigh kind of heavy. The need I had for continuing death was needless and continuous. It wasn’t serving any physical or emotional purpose. It was just a pure waste of time. I wore out of it.
- To the police, explaining his decision to surrender (in or after 1973); Oliver Cyriax, Crime: An Encyclopedia (1993), p. 207
- What do you think, now, when you see a pretty girl walking down the street? One side of me says, "Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her." The other side of me says, "I wonder how her head would look on a stick?"
- Interviewed by Marj Von Beroldingen in Front Page Detective magazine (March 1974) [1]
- Paraphrased, and misattributed to Ed Gein, in Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991), ch. 10, and the film adaptation (2000)
