Serial killer, 75, who decapitated seven women and one girl after murdering his grandparents appears before California parole board in bid for freedom
One of the country’s most notorious serial killers has been released after failing to appear before California’s parole board.
Edmund Kemper, also known as the ‘Co-Ed Killer’, murdered his grandparents, six young female students, as well as his own mother and her girlfriend in the 1970s.
A state commission on Tuesday rejected the 75-year-old’s request for release after the notorious killer failed to appear at a hearing, the agency reported. KSBW.
During his parole hearing, Santa Cruz District Attorney Jeff Rosell said Kemper is one of the nation’s most depraved serial killers and has gone untreated for the past 51 years.
“He’s basically brushing it off because he doesn’t care. He doesn’t respect it,” Rosell said. “I would submit to you that he’s more dangerous now than he was then. [his last parole hearing seven years ago].
Edmund Kemper, 75, murdered his grandparents, six young female students, as well as his own mother and her girlfriend
He was denied parole after serving 51 years behind bars on Tuesday when he failed to appear at his hearing
His cousin Patricia Kemper attended the hearing to represent the victims and pleaded with the board to keep him behind bars.
“The murders tore our extended family apart,” Patricia said. “He loves murder. He loves killing people. Especially women.”
Kemper has been rejected for parole eight times before, but in 2013 he will be eligible again, at age 82.
He murdered his grandparents when he was 15 years old in August 1964. First, he shot his grandmother Maude Kemper in the head in her California home. When his grandfather came home later, he shot him too.
Kemper spent five years in hospital for the murder of his grandparents before being released and living with his mother, Clarnell Strandberg.
Kemper has been rejected for parole eight times before, but will be eligible again in 2013 at age 82.
Santa Cruz District Attorney Jeff Rosell said Kemper is one of the nation’s most depraved serial killers
He killed his grandparents at age 15 in August 1964 when he shot his grandmother Maude Kemper in the head in her California home and then his grandfather Edmund Emil Kemper
His infamous killing spree began in May 1972, when he rounded up and murdered two Fresno State University students, Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa.
He took them home and photographed them naked before cutting them up and performing a sexual act on their skulls.
His next victim came four months later, when he murdered 15-year-old Aiko Koo in September 1972 and then 18-year-old Cindy Schall in January 1973.
Four weeks later, he murdered Rosalind Thorpe, 23, and Alison Liu, 20, and had sex with their corpses before mutilating their bodies.
Kemper’s killing spree came to an end in April 1973 when he murdered his mother and best friend, Sally Hallett.
He murdered his mother, chopped off her head and used it as a dartboard. THe then lured Hallett to the house, where he strangled her and fled.
When he called the police and told them what he had done, they didn’t believe him at first.
In May 1972, when he captured and killed two Fresno State University students, Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa,
He murdered 15-year-old Aiko Koo (left) in September 1972 and 18-year-old Cindy Schall (right) in January 1973
He murdered Rosalind Thorpe (left), 23, and Alison Liu (right), 20, in February 1973 and had sex with their corpses before mutilating their bodies
Kemper’s killing spree ended when he murdered his mother and best friend, Sally Hallett, in April 1973
At his trial he tried to argue that he was insane, but in November 1973 he was found guilty of eight murders and sentenced to life imprisonment, but with the possibility of parole.
The horror film American Psycho alludes to Kemper when the character Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale, utters the same lines Kemper uttered when he was being questioned by the police: “When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants me to take her out, talk to her, be really nice and sweet, and treat her well.”
When asked, “What does the other part think?” he replied, “What her head would look like on a stick.”
Kemper is also the inspiration for the film Silence of the Lambs and a key player in the Netflix hit series Mindhunter.