But when she arrived, he strangled her to death.ĭespite fleeing the scene, Kemper called the police and admitted to the murders. After decapitating her body and hiding it in her wardrobe, he went out for a drink and later invited his mother’s best friend round to watch a movie. In the April of that year, Kemper killed his mother as she lay in bed asleep. When his grandfather returned home, Kemper killed him, too.Īfter handing himself into the police, where he reportedly told them that he killed his grandmother because he wanted to know “what it felt like”, Kemper was deemed to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and was sent to the Atascadero State Hospital where he remained on the ward for the criminally insane until his 21st birthday in 1969.Īfter moving back in with his mother in 1973, Kemper started to take his deceased victims back to the home he shared with her. Kemper, now 70, killed his first victim – his grandmother Maude Matilda Hughey Kemper – at the age of 15 with a rifle that had been given to him as a gift from his grandfather. How did he commit his crimes? Edmund Kemper, who killed a number of people including his mother and paternal grandparents (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) But after a short time, Kemper’s father sent him away to live with his grandparents. He also used to decapitate the heads and hands of the dolls that belonged to his sisters.ĭue to his dysfunctional relationship with his mother, who used to abuse him and make him sleep in the basement for fear that he would harm his sisters, Kemper ran away to Van Nuys to reunite with his father Edmund Emil Kemper II when he was 15-years-old. It is believed he used to ask his sister to tie him up and flick an imaginary switch which would imitate the effects of the electric chair or gas inhalation. Growing up, Kemper’s childhood games also had a macabre undertone.
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