Edmund Kemper and Behavioral Analysis The motivation for writing this paper is derived from my love of true crime and my profound curiosity in behavioral analysis and psychology. My introduction to behavioral analysis originated from reading an article that mentioned criminal psychology. It immediately sparked my interest and I wanted to know more, so I did some research, and behavioral analysis and criminal profiling kept coming up. After researching those topics, I became fascinated by the work of the behavioral analysts at the FBI. I hadn’t thought about the topic for a while because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, until I was listening to an episode on the Crime Junkie podcast called Serial Killer: Ed Kemper. At the end of the …show more content…
He killed his grandmother, Maude, because Ed says he “just wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma” (Ferrarin). Then he killed his grandfather, Edmund Kemper the First, because Ed didn’t want his grandfather to see his wife dead. Ed called the police to turn himself in. The police were noticeably astonished to learn what this young kid had done. They sent Ed to be tried as an adult because they were so surprised that a child would execute a crime to that extent. The judge trying Ed as an adult was just as astonished, so the judge sent him to Atascadero State Hospital, a high-security mental rehabilitation center. There, Ed was found to have a very high IQ, around 136, after completing psychological tests. Ed was so smart and such a “model prisoner” that he was even allowed to distribute these psychological tests to the grown men in the center. Six years later, Kemper was let out on parole at age 21 because of his good behavior. His diagnosis was reduced to a “personality disorder with passive aggression” rather than “paranoid schizophrenic” as it was when he started in the center (Flowers). The legal system in California at that point was very passionate about rehabilitation rather than punishment for committing a crime, so the police and psychologists saw Ed almost as a “success story,” according to the Ed Kemper Crime Junkie podcast episode. Ed lived contentedly with his …show more content…
At this time, FBI Special Agent Howard Teten and a few others started thinking about the psychological science of serial killers. In 1972 the Behavioral Science Unit was launched and later renamed the Behavioral Analysis Unit. Congress’s viewpoint on the FBI being involved in serial killer cases is outlined predominantly in legislation passed during the 1980s. In 1983, there was a hearing on serial murders, and the people attending discussed the plan for a National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, or NCAVC. It’s a center that helps agencies process violent crimes by assisting with research, training, and criminal profiling. At the same hearing, the attendees talked about the idea for the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or ViCAP, which is a data center that collects, analyzes and provides reports on violent crimes from local agencies. This helps connect crimes that are related to those that wouldn’t have been connected otherwise. In the mid-1980s, law enforcement asked for the FBI’s assistance in around 600 cases per year. In the 1990s it was around 1,000 cases annually; in the 2000s, the average cases per year numbered only 371. There has been a clear link between the drop in cases in the 2000s and the BAU. Other establishments in the BAU and FBI that work closely together include ViCAP, NCVAC, National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS),
Edmund “The Co-Ed Killer” Kemper Edmund Kemper Born on December 18, 1948, Ed Kemper is best known for his enormous size, intelligence, dark fantasies, and his ten serial murders and necrophilic acts (World of Criminal Justice, 2002). During the 1970’s, Kemper sent the Santa Cruz college area in a panic, which unfortunately ended six of young female lives. Kemper had ten victims in total which included such acts from shooting his victims to acts of necrophilia and dismemberment. Kemper’s main targets
Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 13, 1948 in Burbank, CA. He was born to the union of Edmund E. Kemper Jr. and Clarnell Strandberg. After his parents divorced, Clarnell took Kemper along with his two sisters to live by her very high standards and abusive ways. She berated Kemper mentally by having him sleep in a windowless basement because she feared of the harm he may cause to his sisters. In turn, this caused the hatred that he had for her to fester and turn into hatred against all women
Edmund Emil Kemper III: Serial Killer Edmund Emil Kemper III was raised by a verbally abusive mother and her succession of abusive husbands. He was 6'9'' and therefore there was really no where that he could hide once the police caught on to his murderous activities. At a young age Edmund tortured and killed animals and had fantasies that combined sex and violence (crime library, 2000). Edmund's younger sister said that "he would stage his own execution in the form of a childhood 'game' in
ability to comprehend what is sane and not. Well, Edmund Emil Kemper III had all of the makings of becoming a serial killer due to his troubled childhood. He was born in Burbank, California on December 18, 1948 and was the son of Edmund Emil Kemper, Jr. and Clarnell Stage. He was the middle child of the family and was the only son. At a young age he experienced the first tragic thing in a child’s life and that is divorce of the parents. When Kemper was 9, his parents divorced and it affected him very
Edmund Kemper was born in Burbank, California on December 18, 1948. His parents divorced in 1957, and he moved with his mother and two sisters to Montana. His mother was alcoholic and known to have a borderline personality disorder, and Edmund Kemper claims that she favored his two sisters above him. His mother forced Edmund Kemper to live in the basement when he was ten years old, so that his sisters could be “safe” away from him. Later when he was caught, he blamed his mother for all of his problems
The question of whether or not man is predetermined at birth to lead a life of crime is a question that has been debated for decades. Serial killers are made not born; it has been demonstrated that a man 's initial years are the most vital years. A youngster 's initial couple of years is a period of experimentation, a period to make sense of things for themselves, a period to set up the bits of the riddle. Like a newborn child, the mental health is reliant on its environment. A youthful youngster
Edmund Emil Kemper III: Born or Product? A morning filled with shouting and screaming to one another, was the conversation held between a boy and his grandmother. Infuriated with his grandmother, he rushed off searching for the rifle he received as a gift for hunting. The next step was a gruesome decision that would change his life forever. As he held the gun in his hands, he started walking towards his grandmother. She was quietly sitting at the kitchen table working on her latest children book
look like on stick”.(Edmund Kemper).Imagine putting yourself in place of those families where some sister`s lost their brothers and some brothers lost their their sisters, women lost their husbands and men lost their wives, parents lost their son and daughters and kids lost their parents.A lot of families are losing their loved ones just because their loved ones are becoming the target of Serial killers.US is 5% of world`s population and 75% of world`s population.Edmund Kemper is one of those serial
Hearing a killer attempt to justify their killings is not only terrifying but also menacing. “If I killed them, you know, they couldn’t reject me as man”; those were the words of the notorious Coed Killer, also known as Edmund Kemper. Kemper spent the 1970s terrorizing the coast of California and helped ten women meet their fate. Without a doubt, this murderer managed to catch the attention of everyone and has gone down as one of the most horrific and gruesome serial killers of all time. However
Young, yet Violent Edmund Kemper, an active serial killer in the 1970s, was also known as the Co-ed killer. When Kemper was young, his parents had gotten a divorce. He then moved with his mother and two sisters. Moving in with his mother seemed like a good idea in the beginning, but then began to be his biggest nightmare. He had a difficult relationship with his alcoholic mother, who abused him as a child and would lock him in the basement, scared he would hurt his sisters. Kemper found interest in
“The Co-Ed Killer” This is a bio about a man name Edmund Kemper who would go from just a killer to a stone cold serial killer. Edmund Kemper was born on December 18, 1948 in Burbank, California. He was the middle child of E.E. and Clarnell Kemper. When Edmund parents’ divorce in 1957, Edmund moved in with his mother and two sisters in Montana. Edmund mother was an alcoholic, which made their relationship difficult. When Edmund was just ten years’ old, his mother made him move into the basement because
The serial killer, Edmund Kemper a.k.a “The Co-ed Killer” was born on December 18, 1948. Kemper did not have a good relationship with his mom, who was an alcoholic and abusive towards her children. At ten years old she made him live in the basement because she thought he would hurt his sisters. As a child, Kemper had horrible fantasies such as killing his mother and stated that in order to kiss a teacher he had a crush on, he would have to kill her. Kemper would make his sisters play a game where
a stick.” Edmund Kemper III is an intimidating man at 6 foot 9 inches, three hundred pounds, without also being given the title “the Co-ed Killer.” In less than a year, Kemper killed and dismembered several hitchhiking co-ed females around the Santa Cruz area, including his mother and her friend, until he turned himself in and eventually convinced the police he was in fact “The Co-ed Killer.” Biological, psychological and even critical theories have tried to indirectly explain Kempers abnormal deviant
Imagine seeing someone who is a staggering six foot nine and 300 pounds (Edmund Emil). This person turns out to be the nicest, most polite person anyone has ever met (Murder). This person is even friends with many cops (Murder). Then they’re charged for 10 accounts of murder and no one could believe this person actually did this (Murder). This was basically what happened with a serial killer named Edmund Emil Kemper III, also known as The Co-Ed Killer (MacLeod). Robert K. Ressler actually said, “One
Edmund Kemper also known as the Co-Ed Killer or the Co-Ed Butcher is an American serial killer that has ten confirmed victims. His killing spree lasted from 1964 to 1973, killing three of his own family members, six students from different colleges and high-schools, and his last victim being his mother’s best friend. Edmund Kemper weighing in at six feet, nine inches, and over 250 pounds was arrested in 1973. Edmund Emil Kemper III was born in Burbank California on December 18, 1948 by his two parents