Edmund Kemper, also known as the “Co-Ed Killer,” is an American serial killer who murdered 10 people in California. His first victims were his paternal grandparents, whom he fatally shot in 1964 when he was 15 years old. After spending some six years at a state hospital, Kemper was released. In 1972–73 he murdered six female hitchhikers and afterward dismembered their bodies and committed acts of necrophilia. Some believe his turbulent relationship with his mother, Clarnell Strandberg, played a role in the crimes. In April 1973 Kemper killed her while she slept. He then decapitated her and engaged in acts of mutilation and sexual abuse involving her head. He later invited one of her friends to the house and also killed her. Several days later Kemper turned himself in. At his trial, he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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