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Edmund Kemper

エドモンド・ケンパー　/　えどもんど・けんぱー

American serial killer

December 18, 1948 (age 77)　・　Burbank, California, United States

California
serial killer
prisoner
rapist

My Take

I include this profile with hesitation, and I want to be honest about why. Kemper's crimes were monstrous, and nothing here should read as fascination with the violence itself. What keeps his name in the record is grim utility: his unusually articulate prison interviews helped the FBI build the foundations of criminal profiling, which is why he haunts works like Mindhunter. My take is that the real lesson sits earlier in the story, with an isolated, abused child whose warning signs went unanswered. If studying such cases helps society catch those signals sooner, the study has a purpose. Curiosity alone does not.

Overview

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women, including his own mother, and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Edmund Kemper
Name (Japanese): エドモンド・ケンパー
Reading: えどもんど・けんぱー
Born: December 18, 1948 (age 77)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Rat
Origin: Burbank, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: 2 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: serial killer / prisoner / rapist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Cabrillo College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC

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