Edmund Kemper

Also known as Co-ed killer, Edmund Emil Kemper III, Alice Helen "Allison" Liu, Ed Kemper

Edmund Emil Kemper III 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. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

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Born: 1876
Died: 1936
Works: 12

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The Story of English Literature
These twenty-five years
A book of Canadian prose and verse
Books and ideals
The laureateship

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1948-12-18

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5 total works indexed

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project
· 2013 · cited 8,392x
A simulation study of the number of events per variable in logistic regression analysis

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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. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

Found sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, Kemper requested the death penalty for his crimes. Capital punishment was suspended in California at the time, and he instead received eight concurrent life sentences. Since then, he has been incarcerated at California Medical Facility in Vacaville.