Edmund Kemper: A Journey into a Dark Mind

Looking into the mind and life of necrophilic serial killer, Edmund Kemper, is a dark journey that would make the most passive readers uneasy. Kemper's childhood, and his mother in particular, played a tremendous role in molding him into the monster that he would later become (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995, p. 104-105, 108-109). "...Kemper is an example of someone not born a serial killer but manufactured as one" (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995, p. 109). Known as …showed first 75 words of 1614 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1614 total…has also demonstrated his desire to understand his mind as well as his crimes. Noted FBI criminal profiler, John Douglas, said of Kemper: "Of all the serial killers... [Kemper is] probably the one [who is most interesting and intriguing to] me [,] with the combination of his intellect, sheer physical presence, the brutality of his crimes, and the apparently genuine insight into their cause and effect and his own twisted psyche" (Douglas & Olshaker, 1998, p. 31).