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Edmund Kemper: A Serial Killer
How would you feel if your loved one’s went outside the house and never came back?.There are many innocent people in the world that disappear and never came back. One of the evil person who kill those people was Edmund Kemper. He had a offensive childhood. Edmund’s parents got divorced, his mother was abusive so he ran away to live with his father. Edmund wanted to know how it feels to kill someone, so he killed his grandparents,his desire to kill people started to increase. His parents played a huge role in order to make him kill strangers. He always thought to kill someone.
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Edmund always had a difficult relationship with his alcoholic mother, who forced him to live in the basement. She was wary of him that he might hurt his sisters
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Clarnell frequently locked her son in a dark basement alone at night.Not surprisingly, Edmund grew up to hate his mother and at the age of 14 ran away from home in search of his father in Van Nuys, California. After locating but being rejected by his father, young Edmund was sent to live with his paternal grandmother and grandfather in North Fork, California. Kemper claims that his grandmother, similar to his mother, was very abusive and he disliked her intensely.. His parents got divorced so he lived with his mom, the abusive behavior of his mom made him angry all the time. He always had a dream to kill his mom because she tortured him several times. He use to cut body parts of his sister doll for fun and force her to play “Gas Chamber” with her. One day he told his sister that he likes a teacher and “want to kiss her” her sister said “you should do it then” then he replied “I have to kill her first” that tells us that he did not had a normal childhood. He had killing intentions since he was a kid. He wanted to lives with his father because of harsh behavior done by his mom but …show more content…
His lust started to increase so, he killed people in order to fill his sexual desires.He does sex with people after killing them. He killed young girls in order to fulfil his sexual desires.l

Kemper was asked by a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter during a prison interview how he felt when he saw a pretty girl after killing his mother. He said, “One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side says, "I wonder how her head would look on a stick.”
During an interview where Kemper was asked about his feeling about pretty girls, he said that he had two viewpoints. One was to talk to her and try to date her and another much darker, how her head would look on a stick.
Studies have found a link between damage to the brain’s frontal lobe and changes in the amygdala in criminal serial killers.
Scientists say that damage to the frontal lobe, the hypothalamus and limbic system can cause extreme aggresion, lose control, and poor

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