‘Giant’ dubbed ‘Co-Ed Butcher’ wished to know what it felt wish to kill Grandma
Evil serial killer, Edmund Kemper was only 15 years old when he murdered his own grandparents.
The 6ft 9″ monster would then go on to kill female high school and college students, dismembering and violating their bodies earning himself the nickname, “The Co-Ed Butcher.”
It was 1973 when the depraved sicko was handed eight concurrent life sentences and locked up at California Medical Facility in Vacaville. The killings came six years after he shot his grandmother during a heated argument inside her kitchen, killing his grandfather when he returned home.
When asked why he had committed the crimes, he replied: “I just wondered how it would feel to shoot Grandma.”
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The teenager was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and served time at a maximum security facility for mentally ill convicts until he was released into the care of his mother at the age of 21.
But in 1972, he embarked on an 11-month murder spree after picking up female students who were hitchhiking and killing them before taking them back to his home to violate their bodies.
He also killed his mother and her best friend.
Kemper was known to decapitate and dismember the young women, as well as engage in necrophilia with their bodies.
He buried them all over Santa Cruz County before he reportedly called the police to confess and beg them to stop him.
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Found sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, Kemper testified that he killed his victims because he wanted them “for myself, like possessions.”
He requested the death penalty to pay for his crimes but capital punishment was suspended in California at the time.
He went on to become a prolific narrator of audio books for the visually impared while behind bars and participated in a number of interviews, which he claims to have participated in to stop others from killing.
He also influenced many works of film and literature.
Earlier this year, the 75-year-old was denied parole again after numerous attempts.
Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeff Rosell said: “We made the argument that he is essentially untreated for all these years.
“That in terms of serial killers, he is one of the most depraved in the country.”
Kemper, who is now wheelchair bound, will next be eligible for parole in 2021 at the age of 82.
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