Edmund Kemper Personality Type
American serial killer (born 1948)
Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer who murdered six college students before murdering his mother and her best friend from September 1972 to April 1973, following his parole for murdering his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. He is noted for his height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) and his intellect, possessing an IQ of 145. Most of his murders included necrophilia, with occasional incidents of rape.Born in Burbank, California, Kemper had a troubled upbringing. His parents divorced in early life; as a child, he moved to Montana with his mother Clarnell, who kept Kemper locked in their basement which had been frequented by rats. He ran away to reunite with his father, but was left behind in North Fork, California, on Christmas Day in 1963, where, at the age of 15, he murdered his paternal grandparents. Following the murders, Kemper was briefly diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by court psychiatrists and sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile.
