![]() ![]() It was here that Kemper embarked on his descent into madness and murder, after receiving an increasing amount of abuse from his mother.ĭouglas said the abuse left the hulking murderer - who stood at a towering 6-foot-9 and weighed nearly 300 pounds - permanently traumatized. In the '70s, the 'Co-Ed' killer still lived with his mother, a professor at the University of Santa Cruz, in a modest home in the beachside city. Unfortunately, however, that was only the start of Kemper's killing spree - and the murders only got more brutal from there. Kemper detailed to Douglas in a 1973 interview at California Medical Facility in the city of Vacaville, murderous urges he felt as a child, which he said would release on animals - some-thing Douglas would discern to be a telltale sign of a serial killer in his revolutionary profile He was released to his mother at the age of 20 after receiving psychiatric treatment, and his juvenile criminal record expunged. Years later, when Douglas asked Kemper why he would commit such an act at such a young age, the serial killer replied: ‘I wanted to see what it felt like.’Īfter those initial murders in 1964, Kemper spent fewer than five years in confinement. Kemper's murderous spree started when he was only 15 years old, when he killed his grandparents to spite his abusive mother and father. Speaking exclusively to, 'father of serial killer profiling' John Douglas described his chilling encounter 1973 with Kemper, who killed and dismembered six college students, three members of his own family, and a family friend in the '60s and '70s.ĭouglas' 25-year career in the bureau inspired the David Fincher-directed series Mindhunter, and Kemper is the subject of the first episode of his new FOX Nation series The Killer Next Door, which examines five of the worst serial killers of our time, and is narrated by the decorated ex-agent. ![]() The former FBI agent who interrogated infamous 'Co-Ed Killer' Ed Kemper has revealed how the experience led him to develop a profile that analyzes serial killers that's still used today. ![]()
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