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Edmund Kemper, known as the “Co-ed Killer,” was an American serial killer who murdered 10 people in California, including his paternal grandparents, six young women, his mother and one of his mother’s friends. Kemper committed his first murders as a teenager in 1964, killing his grandparents before being sent to a psychiatric facility. He was released in 1969, and between 1972 and 1973 he began targeting female college students in the Santa Cruz area, often picking them up while they were hitchhiking before killing and dismembering them. His crimes were marked by extreme violence, postmortem mutilation and a disturbing level of planning.

Kemper’s final murders were his mother and her friend in April 1973. Afterward, he fled California but eventually called police and confessed, effectively turning himself in. He was convicted of eight counts of first-degree murder for the later killings and sentenced to life in prison. Kemper later became widely known because of the extensive interviews he gave about his crimes, upbringing and psychology, which have been studied by law enforcement and criminologists and helped shape early efforts to understand serial offenders.


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