Ed Kemper was born December 18, 1948 in California. He was a large baby, weighing 13 pounds at birth. He had a terrible childhood. His parents divorced when he was 9 and he moved to Montana with his mom and two sisters. His mom was cruel, mocking him and telling him that no one would ever love him. His dad once said that “suicide missions in wartime and the later atomic bomb testings were nothing compared to living with Clarnell.”She wouldn’t coddle him for fear that he would grow up to be gay. He also claimed that his older sister tortured him, once pushing him in front of an oncoming training and another time trying to drown him in a swimming pool. As a child he was disturbed, decapitating his sister’s doll. At age ten he buried his cat alive. Once it was dead he dug it up, decapitated is and displayed the head on a spike. He also stalked his second grade teacher outside her house, carrying his father’s bayonet. At thirteen he killed the replacement cat with a machete, slicing off the top of its skull while holding its legs. His mom also locked him in the basement for fear that he would try to rape or kill his sister. At age fifteen he tries to reconnect with his dad but was rejected. His dad had remarried and his step mom didn’t like him. Kemper then went to live with his grandparents in California. During his first summer there he shot his grandma in the head then repeatedly stabbed her for fear she wasn’t dead. When asked why he said that it was because, “‘I just wondered how it would feel to shoot Grandma.” When his grandpa came home Kemper killed him too so he wouldn’t see what he had done to his grandma. Kemper then called the police and his mother and waited for them to come pick him up.He was admitted to a State hospital and was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He liked to listen to other inmates describe serial rapes. He also helped to write the assessments of FBI diagnoses and made friends with the therapists. During this time he was also given an IQ test and found to incredibly intelligent. He was paroled after just five years and his juvenile record was expunged. He was released into his mother’s care in 1969. Kemper went to a community college and wanted to be a police officer but he was too large to become one. He maintained friendships with police officers and got a job at the California department of Transportation.  He and his mom fought often. Kemper tried to move in with a friend but his mom continued to call him and would show up unannounced at his place. He ended up moving back in with his mother. Between May 1972 and April 1973 was Kemper’s murder spree. He would pick up female hitchhikers, take them to remote areas  and then shoot, stab, smother or strangle them. Once they were dead he would take the body back to his house where he would decapitate them and perform irrumation (The act of forcing male genitals into a mouth, as opposed to the mouth actively stimulating the male genitals). He would then have intercourse with their corpses and dismember them. He would often go ‘hunting’ after fighting with his mom. Psychiatrists and Kemper both say that the things he did to these girls were surrogates for the real target, his mother. Kemper’s first two victims were  Mary Anne Pesce and Anita Mary Luchesser, 18 year old hitchhikers who were trying to get to Stanford University. When he was driving home with the bodies he was pulled over by a cop, who did not detect the bodies.  He later disposed of them in plastic bags on a mountain. His next victim was Aiko Koo, a 15-year-old Korean dance student. He pulled a gun on Koo before locking himself out of his car. However, Koo let him back inside because he had gained her trust. Next he killed Cindy Schall, an 18 year old college student. He lived with his mother at the time and kept her body in a closet until his mom left for work.  He disposed of most of the body parts by throwing them over a cliff, but held on to the head for a c