Edmund Kemper was a strange child who seemed obsessed with death. When he was fifteen he was staying with his grandparents on their ranch. His grandfather had given him a rifle to shoot rabbits. On one afternoon he was bored and so picking up his gun he went to go outside. His grandmother who was sat at the table called after him not to shoot at the birds. He turned around and from a distance of only a few feet he shot her in the back of the head. He fired into her body twice more. He began to drag her body into the bedroom when he heard his grandfathers car draw up outside. As the old man got out of the car Edmund Kemper lined up the gun and shot and killed him with a single bullet.

It was only now that he started to worry about what he had done. Picking up the phone he told his mother what he had done. She told him to ring the police which he did. When questioned he was asked why he had done it, his answer was quite simply he wanted to see how it felt to kill grandma. Edmund Kemper was never brought to trial but was sent to Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane.

Edmund Kemper grew into a strapping six-foot-nine-inch hate machine. He spent five yeaars in hospital before being released 'cured'. In order to be really cured you have to have something wrong with you in the first place and as far as Kemper was concerned there had been nothing wrong with him in the beginning. He was paroled into the care of his mother but this did not work very well as he constantly argued with her. Over the ensuing years, with the help to his campus pass obtained through his mother, Edmund began a murdering spree that earnt him the nickname of the Coed Killer.

He gained enjoyment from decapitating his victims and having sex with their headless corpses. He also buried heads outside his house with the eyes looking in the same direction as his mother's bedroom window.

He would often take Polaroid photos of his accomplishments and occasionally wouls actually eat parts of his victims. When questioned later about this he confessed that his acts of cannibalism were because, I wanted them to be a part of me, and now they are. During this time he was still recieving treatment and on one occasion he even visited his court-appointed psychiatrist with a head in the trunk of his car. The psychiatrist thought he was doing really well and was well adjusted. Kemper liked killing women who reminded him of his mother. On Easter Sunday 1973 he went after the root of his problem. Edmund Kemper smashed her skull and then decapitated her. Not satisfied, he called his mums best friend and invited her over. When she arrived he killed her too. After, he drove to Colorado, called the police and confessed. At first they thought he was kidding. What they found at his mums house made them change their minds. Ed was sent to Vacaville Prison where he is their model serial killer prisoner with a heart of gold.