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can't fault them for that." He was denied parole again in 1991 and in 1994. He then waived his right to a hearing in 1997 and in 2002. He attended the next hearing in 2007, where he was again denied parole. Prosecutor
Ariadne Symons said, "We don't care how much of a model prisoner he is because of the enormity of his crimes." Kemper waived his right to a hearing again in 2012. He was denied parole in 2017, and after declining to attend a parole hearing in 2024, Kemper was denied parole again. He is next eligible in 2031. Following his 2024 parole hearing, it was reported that Kemper was wheelchair-bound, suffered diabetes and
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fatally shot her in the head before firing twice more into her back. His grandmother's last words reportedly were, "Oh, you'd better not be shooting the birds again." Some accounts mention that she also suffered multiple post-mortem stab wounds with a kitchen knife. When Kemper's grandfather, Edmund Emil Kemper Sr. (1892–1964), returned from grocery shopping, Kemper went outside and fatally shot him in the driveway next to his car. He was unsure of what to do next, so he phoned his mother, who told him to contact the local police. Kemper did so and waited to be taken into custody.
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702:"Allison" Liu on the UCSC campus. According to Kemper, he first encountered Thorpe as she exited a building, having attended a lecture. Thorpe entered the front passenger seat and, believing Kemper to be a fellow student, began chatting amiably as he drove. Shortly thereafter, he observed Liu—whom he described as a "small Chinese girl"—"thumbing a ride". Kemper stopped his vehicle, and Liu entered the back seat of his car.
325:; at the age of 10, he buried a pet cat alive, then dug it up, decapitated it, and mounted its head on a spike. Kemper later stated that he derived pleasure from successfully lying to his family about killing the cat. At the age of 13, he killed another family cat when he perceived it to be favoring his younger sister, Allyn Lee Kemper (b. 1951), over him; he kept pieces of it in his closet until his mother found them.
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intercourse with the corpse, then dismembered and disposed of the remains in a similar manner as his previous two victims. Koo's mother called the police to report the disappearance of her daughter and put up hundreds of flyers asking for information, but she did not receive any responses regarding her daughter's location or status.
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and go to his second-grade teacher's house to watch her through the windows. Kemper also stated in interviews in his later life that some of his favorite games to play as a child were "Gas
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him. Clarnell often made her son sleep in a locked basement because she feared that he would harm his sisters, regularly mocked him for his large size — he stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) by the age of 15 — and derided him as "a real weirdo" in a phone conversation to Kemper's father,
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interview, he said, "There's somebody out there that is watching this and hasn't done that — hasn't killed people, and wants to, and rages inside and struggles with that feeling, or is so sure they have it under control. They need to talk to somebody about it. Trust somebody enough to sit down and
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Kemper hid his mother's corpse in a closet and went to drink at a nearby bar. Upon his return, he invited his mother's best friend, 59-year-old Sara Taylor "Sally" Hallett, over to the house to have dinner and watch a movie. When
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Kemper kept Schall's severed head for several days, regularly engaging in irrumatio with it, then buried it in his mother's garden facing upward toward her bedroom. After his arrest, he stated that he did this because his mother "always wanted people to look up to her." He discarded the rest of
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preying on hitchhikers in the Santa Cruz area, students had been advised to accept rides only from cars with university stickers on them. Kemper was able to obtain a sticker, as his mother worked at UCSC. He separately encountered 23-year-old Rosalind Heather Thorpe and 20-year-old Alice Helen
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Schall's remains by throwing them off a cliff. Over the course of the following few weeks, all except Schall's head and right hand were discovered and "pieced together like a macabre jigsaw puzzle." A pathologist determined that Schall had been cut into pieces with a power saw.
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and put them in the garbage disposal. However, the garbage disposal could not break down the tough vocal cords and ejected the tissue back into the sink. "That seemed appropriate, as much as she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years", Kemper later said.
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talk about something that isn't a crime; thinking that way isn't a crime. Doing it isn't just a crime; it's a horrible thing. It doesn't know when to quit, and it can't be stopped easily once it starts." He also conducted an interview with French writer
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article stated that he was the coordinator of the prison's program and had personally spent over 5,000 hours narrating books with several hundred completed recordings to his name. Kemper was retired from these positions in 2015 after he experienced a
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Appx. 5:15 A.M. Saturday. No need for her to suffer any more at the hands of this horrible "murderous Butcher". It was quick—asleep—the way I wanted it. Not sloppy and incomplete, gents. Just a "lack of time". I got things to
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on May 7, 1973. He was assigned the Chief Public Defender of Santa Cruz County, attorney Jim Jackson. Due to Kemper's explicit and detailed confession, his counsel's only option was to plead
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convicted of murdering seven women and one girl, between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the
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apartment, where he photographed and had sexual intercourse with the naked corpses before dismembering them. He then put the body parts into plastic bags, which he later abandoned near
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police officers despite his rejection from joining the force and became a self-described "friendly nuisance" at a bar called the Jury Room, a popular hangout for local cops.
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him back inside, despite the fact that the gun was still in the car. Back inside the car, he proceeded to choke her unconscious, rape her, and kill her.
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1766:""I Was the Hunter and They Were the Victims": Interview with Edmund Kemper"
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three hundred and ninety-six days and nights of fighting on the front did."
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When he had saved enough money, Kemper moved out to live with a friend in
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Kemper worked a series of menial jobs before gaining employment with the
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A direct-to-video horror film loosely based on Kemper's murders, titled
477:. He really took pride in his work." Kemper also became a member of the
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above average. Kemper was re-diagnosed with a less severe condition, a "
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3411:"Serial killer quoted in 'American Psycho' doesn't want to leave jail"
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389:. Kemper hated living in North Fork; he described his grandfather as "
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them. He would then take their bodies back to his home, where he
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2791:"Life Term Parole Consideration Hearing of Edmund Emil Kemper"
621:, when he picked up two 18-year-old hitchhiking students from
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2431:. London: Marshall Cavendish Partworks Limited. p. 26.
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2764:"Blind Couple See Only Good, Not the Guilt of the Helpers"
2246:"I'll Show You Where I Buried the Pieces of Their Bodies"
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Kemper has been the subject of multiple books, including
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510:. The last report from his probation psychiatrists read:
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Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate
3279:"Santa Cruz serial killer Ed Kemper denied parole again"
1681:"Santa Cruz Serial Killer Spotlighted In TV Documentary"
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Afterward, Kemper fled the scene. He drove non-stop to
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Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by California
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personality trait disturbance, passive-aggressive type
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personality trait disturbance, passive-aggressive type
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at the time, and he instead received eight concurrent
3577:
Cannibal Killers: The History of Impossible Murderers
2580:"Yesterday's Crimes: Big Ed Kemper the Coed Butcher"
1834:. San Francisco, California: San Francisco Book Co.
1316:. G.K. Hazlett & Company, Printers. p. 126.
1083:), about Kemper. Kemper was portrayed by 6'5" actor
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People with passive-aggressive personality disorder
3383:"Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz"
3250:"Parole denied for Santa Cruz County serial killer"
2325:. New York City: Infobase Publishing. p. 144.
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Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States
956:, as well as an appearance in the 1984 documentary
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3659:Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
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3720:American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
1312:McComb, Virginia Mary; Kemper, Willis M. (1999).
1106:Edmund Kemper: The True Story of the Co-Ed Killer
1024:were used as an inspiration for the character of
860:, no interference with thought, no expression of
449:, no interference with thought, no expression of
385:on Road 224, about two miles west of the town of
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2122:Clarke, Phil; Briggs, Tom; Briggs, Kate (2011).
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1370:William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services
649:Aiko Koo, who was picked up and killed by Kemper
3516:
3307:"All About Hannibal Lecter - Facts and Fiction"
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1071:, was released in 2008. In 2012, French author
519:While staying with his mother, Kemper attended
3381:Gillespie, Nick; Snell, Lisa (November 1996).
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856:disagreed on the basis that Kemper showed "no
722:Clarnell (Kemper) Strandberg and Sally Hallett
278:. Since then, he has been incarcerated in the
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2427:Wilson, Colin (1999). "Murder in Mind (56)".
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3790:People with schizotypal personality disorder
2795:State of California Board of Parole Hearings
2709:"Edmund Kemper Parole Consideration Hearing"
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2124:Extreme Evil: Taking Crime to the Next Level
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773:Mug shot of Kemper taken on November 9, 1973
3780:People with antisocial personality disorder
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1714:, pp. 129–131, 136, 139, 141, 144, 278
1179:List of serial killers by number of victims
1174:List of serial killers in the United States
848:by court-appointed psychiatrists; however,
483:Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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37:Mug shot of Kemper taken on April 28, 1973
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3517:Douglas, John E.; Olshaker, Mark (1995),
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2841:Douglas, John E.; Olshaker, Mark (1997).
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408:of Edmund Kemper after his arrest in 1964
190:August 27, 1964 – April 21, 1973
3765:People convicted of murder by California
3467:"Marc Dugain dans la tete de l'assassin"
2900:Fuller, Abby (director) (July 1, 2024).
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3439:"Lionsgate Giving Thanks For Ed Kemper"
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3038:"Parole Board Rejects Killer's Request"
2947:"Ed Kemper Interview - 1991 (extended)"
2762:Hillinger, Charles (January 29, 1987).
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3005:"'Ogre of Aptos' Parole Bid Rejected"
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1366:"Ancestry of Edmund Emil Kemper III"
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852:psychiatrists and social workers at
504:University of California, Santa Cruz
3715:American people convicted of murder
3436:
3409:Schram, Jamie (February 10, 2016).
3175:Squires, Jennifer (July 24, 2007).
2319:Newton, Michael (January 1, 2006).
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1062:head would look like on a stick'."
888:personality disorders. Kemper is a
433:that houses mentally ill convicts.
294:Edmund Emil Kemper III was born in
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2904:(docuseries). United States: Hulu.
2902:Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
2322:The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
16:American serial killer (born 1948)
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3358:. August 17, 2010. Archived from
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3069:"Kemper: The 'murderous butcher'"
3036:Grubb, Kathleen (June 16, 1988).
2126:. London, England: Canary Press.
1472:Crime & Investigation Network
1467:"Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer"
605:Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa
93:6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
3682:
3437:Foy, Scott (September 7, 2008).
3149:Schultz, Jason (June 28, 2002).
3121:Beck, David L. (June 30, 2002).
3067:Bergstrom, Mark (May 13, 1991).
2578:Calhoun, Bob (August 30, 2016).
2510:"Ed Kemper Interview 1984 (2/2)"
2484:"Ed Kemper Interview 1984 (2/2)"
2458:"Ed Kemper Interview 1984 (2/2)"
2208:. New York: Ballantine. p.
2095:"Kemper's Young Fiancé in Shock"
2035:"Ed Kemper Interview 1984 (1/2)"
1679:Larson, Amy (October 11, 2011).
1144:, "Temper Temper Mr. Kemper" by
783:not guilty by reason of insanity
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493:Release and time between murders
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328:Kemper was known to harbor dark
3775:People from Burbank, California
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3277:Baine, Wallace (July 9, 2024).
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3164:– via SCPL Local History.
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3138:– via SCPL Local History.
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3110:– via SCPL Local History.
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3084:– via SCPL Local History.
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1438:Murder, Torture & Depravity
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685:Rosalind Thorpe and Allison Liu
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489:to whom he administered tests.
372:borderline personality disorder
255:. Most of his murders included
3800:Serial killers from California
3710:American murderers of children
3537:Lawson, Christine Ann (2002),
3330:Bowman, David (July 8, 1999).
3151:"Kemper waives parole hearing"
3013:. June 4, 1985. Archived from
2738:"Relationship to God Archives"
2244:Stephens, Hugh (August 1973).
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1152:, "Killfornia (Ed Kemper)" by
220:April 24, 1973 (second arrest)
218:August 27, 1964 (first arrest)
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3770:People from Aptos, California
3643:, University of Texas Press,
1490:. Thousand Oaks, California:
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872:." Shortly after arriving at
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253:Santa Cruz County, California
3543:, Rowman & Littlefield,
2916:"Murder: No Apparent Motive"
2847:. Scribner. pp. 35–36.
302:veteran who, after the war,
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3621:, Random House Publishing,
3123:"Serial killer to stay put"
2535:Douglas & Olshaker 1995
2445:Douglas & Olshaker 1995
1551:. West Lafayette, Indiana:
1288:"California Inmate Locator"
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874:California Medical Facility
830:California Medical Facility
822:Supreme Court of California
731:and slit her throat with a
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280:California Medical Facility
229:California Medical Facility
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3755:Murder committed by minors
3750:Minors convicted of murder
3613:Schechter, Harold (2003),
3575:Martingale, Moira (1995),
3352:"Serial Killers in Movies"
2260:– via Truecrime.net.
2252:. Vol. 51, no. 8
1805:Frasier, David K. (2007).
1779:– via Truecrime.net.
1212:United Press International
1116:, "Abomination Unseen" by
985:Murder: No Apparent Motive
958:Murder: No Apparent Motive
850:California Youth Authority
443:California Youth Authority
437:Imprisonment (1964 – 1969)
3499:Cheney, Margaret (1976),
2805:– via Google Drive.
2041:. 12m 17s. Archived from
1830:Lunde, Donald T. (1976).
1730:"Edmund Kemper Biography"
1395:Brottman, Mikita (2002).
854:Atascadero State Hospital
423:Atascadero State Hospital
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3593:Ressler, Robert (1992),
3557:Lloyd, Georgina (1986),
2200:Gerritsen, Tess (2001).
1399:. Basingstoke, England:
1184:List of youngest killers
1091:television drama series
1035:The Silence of the Lambs
764:
589:on their severed heads,
164:with the possibility of
3735:Human trophy collecting
3657:Vronsky, Peter (2004),
3635:Strand, Ginger (2012),
2945:Landau (July 8, 2016).
2516:. June 17, 2011. 5m 51s
2490:. June 17, 2011. 5m 51s
2464:. June 17, 2011. 4m 55s
1996:"Psychiatric Follow-up"
1652:, pp. 129–131, 136
1553:Purdue University Press
1160:and "Edmund Kemper" by
1068:Kemper: The CoEd Killer
623:Fresno State University
311:Pacific Proving Grounds
272:suspended in California
3209:The New Zealand Herald
998:coronary heart disease
953:The Killing of America
947:
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846:paranoid schizophrenia
840:Psychology and beliefs
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431:San Luis Obispo County
419:paranoid schizophrenia
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348:near-death experiences
241:Edmund Emil Kemper III
47:Edmund Emil Kemper III
3128:San Jose Mercury News
2889:on February 10, 2015.
2875:Ramsland, Katherine.
2844:Journey Into Darkness
2830:on February 10, 2015.
2816:Ramsland, Katherine.
2742:Edmund Kemper Stories
2716:Edmund Kemper Stories
2658:on February 10, 2015.
2646:"Kemper on the Stand"
2644:Ramsland, Katherine.
2564:on February 10, 2015.
2550:Ramsland, Katherine.
2416:on February 10, 2015.
2402:Ramsland, Katherine.
2388:on February 10, 2015.
2374:Ramsland, Katherine.
2189:on February 10, 2015.
2175:Ramsland, Katherine.
2100:Greeley Daily Tribune
2008:on February 10, 2015.
1994:Ramsland, Katherine.
1978:on February 15, 2015.
1964:Ramsland, Katherine.
1914:Russell, Sue (2002).
1876:on February 15, 2015.
1862:Ramsland, Katherine.
1534:on February 10, 2015.
1520:Ramsland, Katherine.
1492:Sage Publications Ltd
1486:Gavin, Helen (2013).
1436:Pitt, Ingrid (2003).
1354:on February 15, 2015.
1340:Ramsland, Katherine.
1276:on February 10, 2015.
1262:Ramsland, Katherine.
1156:, "Edmund Temper" by
1134:Optimum Wound Profile
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3691:at Wikimedia Commons
3362:on September 1, 2010
3319:on October 11, 2008.
3102:. September 14, 1997
2670:"The M'Naghten Rule"
1770:Front Page Detective
1621:Sias, James (2016).
1403:. pp. 106–107.
1124:, "Severed Head" by
1081:Avenue of the Giants
800:California used the
635:Loma Prieta Mountain
379:Van Nuys, California
3730:Audiobook narrators
3212:. December 14, 2017
3155:Santa Cruz Sentinel
3100:Santa Cruz Sentinel
3074:Santa Cruz Sentinel
3017:on October 15, 2019
2818:"Prison Interviews"
1625:. London, England:
1623:The Meaning of Evil
1522:"Creating a Killer"
1146:The Celibate Rifles
1075:published a novel,
806:malice aforethought
779:first-degree murder
627:Stanford University
550:Turlock High School
463:standard deviations
319:antisocial behavior
296:Burbank, California
186:Span of crimes
141:First-degree murder
3559:One was Not Enough
3284:Lookout Santa Cruz
3048:on October 1, 2019
2926:on October 5, 2018
2306:Strand 2012, p. 70
2270:Strand 2012, p. 63
2177:"The First Murder"
2146:Strand, 2012 p. 65
1864:"Incomprehensible"
1832:Murder and Madness
1627:Palgrave Macmillan
1401:Palgrave Macmillan
1004:In popular culture
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802:M'Naghten standard
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346:. Kemper also had
323:cruelty to animals
225:Imprisoned at
68:, California, U.S.
3687:Media related to
3650:978-0-292-72637-6
3606:978-0-312-30468-3
3586:978-0-312-95604-2
3416:The New York Post
2982:Los Angeles Times
2854:978-0-684-83304-0
2769:Los Angeles Times
2332:978-0-8160-6987-3
2293:978-0-313-02476-4
2219:978-0-7394-2041-6
2133:978-0-7088-6695-5
2045:on March 25, 2013
1927:978-0-7860-1518-4
1816:978-0-7864-3031-4
1636:978-1-137-56822-9
1566:978-1-55753-106-3
1447:978-0-7134-8676-6
1397:Car Crash Culture
1132:, and "Crave" by
1128:, "New Flesh" by
1077:Avenue des géants
1055:in the 2000 film
990:Stéphane Bourgoin
931:Los Angeles Times
563:1969 Ford Galaxie
521:community college
500:Aptos, California
461:at 136, over two
421:. He was sent to
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162:Life imprisonment
58:December 18, 1948
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