The Peculiar Truth about the Serial Killer Who Narrated Audiobooks
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2 min readJul 25, 2023
- From 1964–1973, Edmund Kemper terrorized California as the Co-Ed Killer.
- Abused and neglected as a child, including imprisonment by his mother in a rat-infested basement, he would go on to commit grisly murders.
- At age 15, he killed his grandparents. That landed him in a state hospital for the criminally insane.
- Kemper was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia yet had an IQ of 145.
- He grew to be unusually tall — 6 feet 9 inches.
- By age 21, he convinced prison officials that his psychiatric episodes were over, and he was released into the general public.
- Then he began his serial murders of college women in the area of Santa Cruz, California.
- His crimes included murder, rape, dismemberment, and even necrophilia. Authorities couldn’t apprehend him.
- Kemper’s reign of terror ended after he killed his own mother and then turned himself in to the police.
- A jury found him guilty, and Kemper requested the death penalty. But California had stopped capital punishment, so he was sentenced to life in prison at Vacaville.
- Over the decades, Kemper influenced numerous fictional characters including Buffalo Bill, the…
