Ed Kemper

Biography

Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 18, 1948, in Burbank, California, to a family of three children. At the age of 15, he murdered his paternal grandparents, and between May 1972 and April 1973, he convictedly killed seven women, including his own mother, and one girl, mostly college students hitchhiking in Santa Cruz County. Found sane and guilty, Kemper received eight concurrent life sentences after requesting the death penalty; he remains incarcerated at California Medical Facility.