Edmund Kemper: The Killer Who Saved His Worst Crime For His Own Mom | Born To Kill | Absolute Crime

Serial killer Edmund Kemper claimed the lives of female students (earning the moniker of Co-ed Butcher) before finally targeting his abusive mother and confessing.
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[@ladyhonor822]

I'm addicted to the show... If that's wrong I don't want to be right❤. RN CCRN PHILADELPHIA USA 🇺🇲🏥🫀🫁🙏🙏🙏🕊️

[@rosannocallaghan9890]

Only watched this tonight I think all the work he did to solve all the crimes for the bsu bk then only for him their wouldn't be a bsu he is as much a victim as his victims because of his scumbag mother she did that to him and to hear these people talk as if they solved these crimes ye hadn't a clue ED gave him self up to ye ❤❤

[@TMAevans]

No, I really hate these as they portray the ruthless killers as heroes 😤A very dangerous evil message to send out to the mentally challenged world you would think😵‍💫 Yet the "Experts" with letters after their name🙄 you think would know better🤷 Yet here we are still. 🤦 what has changed?😥 now in 2024 😮.

[@robertafierro5592]

I had an extremely vicious mother. I know for a fact the treatment he received at such a young age, had EVERYTHING to do with his crimes..when you beat a kid out of rage and frustration because of Marital Strife, that kid will be damaged..

[@andrewmilton2170]

Also I thought he was in a mental hospital at 15 and probably read all those stores from the other mental hospital patients. An not to mention the outher rapists the hospital probably groomed Kemper or hyper fantasized on his fantasy for 5 years then they just let him out

[@ji8698]

Absolutely I’m an adult and I’m scared of going to the basement alone and she locked a child in a basement for years at night what a nightmare that must’ve made him who he is I’m not justifying for his actions but he had a very bad mom

[@77MeOnlyMe77]

Absolutely true. I know.

[@Fuckyourfeelins.45]

I agree. Yet my mother is sitting next to me. She's inexplicable.

[@penelope-oe2vr]

Absolutely 💯 fact!

[@lisbethlarsen6427]

The best proof that people who harm animals, should be reacted harshly to from the very start!

[@DanChad-er9lh]

Strange how some serial killers treat animals kindly but kill their own kind

[@SM-McKraken]

From what I've read and watched about Kemper, he saved the worst for his mother because she was a mean, condescending woman who belittled and demeaned him his whole childhood. He started kiling women as a release for the fury and anger he held towards her. Despite his size, he was still scared of her, so he took his murderous rage out on other women. Eventually she pushed too far and he snapped and took out all his angst on the very person that caused it, which is why he beheaded her and then copulated with her head (mouth), to demean her for demeaning him verbally, his entire life. And once he killed the source of his anger, he realized he didn't want to kill anymore and to make sure he didn't, he turned himself in. He's such an oddity in that it is extremely rare for a serial killer to just turn himself in. Plus he's highly intelligent and has been very helpful to the FBI in establishing suspect profiling as well as helping psychologists to understand serial killers more.

[@JMatthew131]

Handed himself in. Like he wasn’t going to be the number 1 suspect for the killing of his mother after killing his grandparents. That’s just a control thing he never really wanted to stop killing he just knew it would be best for him to just hand himself in.

[@crystalshaw8744]

​@@JMatthew131Interesting...

[@franklinholt8054]

He killed his mom's friend AFTER his mom, so NO, he didn't stop after his mom! He's very smart but that little bit of info let's you know he's probably completely FOS!!!

[@lorettasearcy1471]

Only the Unabomber is smarter than Kemper.

[@JessBlake2]

@SM-McKracken, Why do you so easily believe what he says about his mother???? Why would you so readily accept that someone so sick he boinks dead faces, is telling the truth about a woman he killed. Holy eff! I bet her life was horrible raising a giant extremely mentally ill violent child with no support and people blaming her!

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Kemper is still alive in the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. He was denied parole in 2017 and is up for it again in 2024. He's now 76 years old. He had a stroke in 2015 which left him partially paralysed.

[@canadianbacon8220]

let him out in California or newyork

[@Icedmorgans]

Born in 1948 ,makes him 74.

[@jamesellis701]

@@canadianbacon8220 drop him off on the subway

[@kerstinklenovsky239]

Surely Kemper has disqualified himself from ever being eligible for parole!

[@lennarthagen3638]

Thats so sad about the stroke.

[@mariannet29]

He so hated his mother that in all the women he killed he didn't see "them" he saw his mother and he was "killing her" not them.

[@KimberlyBishh]

That's what the surviving party says ...

[@tonymontana897]

The 70's was the golden era for serial killers. Just imagine. No DNA technology, no surveilance cameras, no mobile phones etc... You couldn't get away with much these days. Kemper was one of many terrifying figures. A very large man with incredible strength. Those women stood no chance.

[@GrizzlyDaddams]

Or, they'll just get more sophisticated.

[@markbrisec3972]

Yap, definitely a serial killer bonanza period... Today serial killers are passe, so yesterday.. You have to plan, seek your victims, kill them, dispose of the body.. Too much work. That was the "greatest generation's" thing. Today people are too lazy to be a serial killer.. It's much easier to become a spree killer. You get yourself the 2nd Amendment protected assault rifle, find a place with lots of people, like a school, a mall or a church for example, and you just start shooting randomly and occasionally change a magazine when you run out of bullets..... Mass shooter - a serial killer for the 21 st century...

[@JessDimosBennett_]

@@markbrisec3972 I agree only thing is the mass/spree shooters never seem to get away with it for long. 70’s serial killers could do so for decades. But amazing explanation - I never thought of the spree killers as the modern day version. 👏🏼

[@D..S..]

@@markbrisec3972 exactly

[@carpangler6172]

@@markbrisec3972 or today's serial killers are good at not being caught.

[@pablosilva6988]

Moral of the story Don't be a bad parent.

[@showconcernforothers]

❤

[@alexander8688]

Not when your kid is 6 ft 7 300 pounds . If your a parent and even not morally inclined to not abuse your kid, then if you have half a brain you should be pragmatically against abusing him when he's that size. His mother was both cruel AND stupid.

[@pablosilva6988]

@@alexander8688 she deserved to get whacked. The other eight victims, noo way.

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

​@@alexander8688Yup, lol !

[@Sharkenite]

Facts.

[@bryanlund2730]

A sociopath it would appear so. But Ed did eventually turn himself in so he would be prevented to murder again. This in itself is not a typical act of a person with no conscience.

[@kringle-jelly]

Some criminals want the ease of being taken care of by the system eventually. Point being, he can say anything to appear a certain way, but his MO is killing. Zero conscience.

[@jackivan7632]

even as a 200lb 6'6" myself, it must be really scary if this giant stands over me trying to kill me. Cant imagine what a 5'6" woman would feel like in that situation...

[@Romulan2469]

Agreed, this guy was a monster of the worst kind. He should have been put to death. The fact that he is still alive today is an absolute disgrace, a slap in the face to all the victims and their families.

[@LCx829]

I’m 5’4”, 120lbs. I’d be scared.

[@jodiefindlay382]

Awful poor girls 😢 that's exactly what I think he's huge 😢 I don't think they realised as he was sitting down in the car.

[@daliborhabijanec1694]

I have watched many documentaries about serial killers and there is nothing more stupid to me than the question of whether he was 'born to kill'.

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Crazy that his mom even took him back after he got out for the double murder! No way!

[@KimberlyBishh]

Yeah he killed her parents! She had love for him, he didn't.

[@DiamondCake2]

@@KimberlyBishhHe didn’t, he killed his paternal grandparents, meaning his father’s parents not his mother’s.

[@91rummy]

His mother is also crazy

[@erickay1158]

How many times are they going to mention he’s 6’9”? Lol Ok!!!!! 😂

[@ellajones9844]

Are you listening at all? His mother tortured him for years, after he murdered his mother his anger was gone he said ..the male acquaintances really liked him ..thanks mom

[@Cat_Woods]

My mom used to say, "I don't even know why they put the killers on trial. They should just put the mothers in jail." Which, if you can't pick it up, was sarcasm. A lot of people have verbally and emotionally abusive parents. Doesn't make it okay to go murdering people.

[@JessBlake2]

@ellajones9844, are you using your critical thinking skills at all? Do you think people with this level of disturbance don't know that rubberneckers are gullible and will easily buy into any epic story???? You swallowed his story hook, line, and sinker without a single thought to what hell it might have been for the ONLY person who has had to be close to him and try to care for him with likely no support and probably totally isolated because of her son's bizarre behavior. Just what do you think you would do better with an adult psychopathic child 24/7? Since you trust his word so much, perhaps you should ask him for financial or parenting advice.

[@JessBlake2]

@@Cat_Woods , well, if that's what your mom said, she obviously didn't know anything about mental illness and was happy to join in on misogynistic ignorance.

[@ellajones9844]

@@JessBlake2 🙄

[@jamesbach3535]

A lot of us had shitty childhoods we don’t start killing prople

[@kateturner1849]

You just happened to survive. Not everyone can cope like you did. This man could have been an asset to society - just like Charles Manson and many others. We need licenses for everything - we should need a license to breed 😡 As for child welfare - they should be be strictly monitored. I have yet to find any worthy ones. They destroy more than we will ever know 😡 I'm a mother of a daughter - I cannot even think of the pain of the pain these parents of these girls suffer which will never, ever, ever fade or vanish. Unless and until some control is exercised over serial breeders and abusers, nothing will change. In my Shithole, crime soaked country we pay people to breed for money, just like the USA. They don't want kids, they want free money. Until people are made responsible for their choices, killers like these will continue to permeate the earth. I know many like you who survived their childhoods - but I also know many who didn't. 🤷‍♀️😔. I bet you're a good parent too ❤️

[@carpangler6172]

@@kateturner1849 no need to defend a murderer

[@stephenclemence5856]

@@kateturner1849 License to breed is a really stupid idea. Two teenagers in the back seat of a car, do you have your license to breed with you ? Um, no, well then let's stop right here....LOL

[@steveo4991]

Irrelevant.

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@stephenclemence5856 "License to breed" It only makes sense for a doctor to fix a male at birth, then later in life when he's shown that he's ready to have children, have a doctor reverse the procedure. Call me nuts, but I don't care. People be having kids waaaay to early in life.

[@TheKnitch]

Mindhunters did an excellent episode about Kemper.

[@DMarieCraftyCorner]

Yeah that was an awesome show. I wish they didn’t cancel it

[@Olga-jm5xf]

@@DMarieCraftyCorner Just read that a 3rd season is coming up in 2023, fingers crossed!

[@flamingodoodles627]

If by excellent you mean getting not only his vernacular and mannerisms wrong but the facial expressions as well yes

[@whyohwhy9679]

@@DMarieCraftyCorner Covid also delayed the next season, then the actors, etc. had scheduling issues with other projects, so it probably isn't coming back. That's too bad - it is a great show.

[@judykoeppelswas8231]

Mindhunters the book is even better!

[@hightimecrime]

The 70's serial killers are somewhat fascinating in a certain sense... Thanks for the interesting upload.

[@ehsandarwish6826]

WTF was wrong with 70's😅😅

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

​@@ehsandarwish6826The 70's were a great time, because rents and food was so cheap, and you could buy a house easily. The 80's changed all that for the worse.

[@robertafierro5592]

As a slightly built woman, I can't imagine what it would be like to fight a huge monster such as Kemper. It's frightening when I imagine it.

[@Mortheous]

That's what guns are for here in the USA, for women & smaller men like myself to protect one's self.

[@yea9725]

@@Mortheous yea but the 7 foot tall serial killer also had a pistol under his driver's seat so I dunno what you'd do lol

[@dangerous8333]

​@@yea9725 Uh, have a gun fight? What would you do if you didn't have though.

[@Mortheous]

@@yea9725 still pistol vs pistol is even, at that point it then comes to reaction time of the people so height doesn't factor in.

[@TaurusMoon-hu3pd]

​@@Mortheous5'1" but I'm a hell of a good shot😁

[@viviandarkbloom100]

There is an old saying....."If it's not one thing, it's your Mother." But Edmund was undoubtedly an odd boy to begin with.

[@deidraleonard8381]

HA!

[@wesleyalan9179]

Haha!😄

[@meredithisme3752]

John Douglas pointed that out

[@Romulan2469]

I really have no idea why he wasn't executed. Makes no sense at all to me.

[@susanrobinson910]

For as evil as he is, I think that he is an invaluable asset to the police. He would talk and talk to law enforcement about what he did and how he did it. Sometimes, even WHY he did it which was incredibly important at the time. It may be a stretch to say this, but I believe he is responsible for a lot of the behavioral knowledge that we currently know about what makes a killer do what they do…

[@ericacontreras5081]

I totally agree 100%

[@josi4251]

Incarcerated serial killers who will talk honestly to cops and psychiatrists are virtually always helpful. Ted Bundy, for example, was instrumental in giving detectives knowledge which helped catch the Green River Killer (Gary Ridgeway). Of course Ted, ever the pervert, wanted to see crime scene photos. He didn't always get them, so he would pout and clam up. But he was a complete psychopath and deviant, so it figures.

[@complimentary_voucher]

They talk a pile of shit, though. I don't think he has any more insight into his own motivations than anyone else and just spouts the canned low-grade psychobabble he learned in the facilities he's basically spent his whole life in. It sounds impressive to laypeople but it's really just a farrago of half-understood concepts. Then again, most psychology doesn't pass any meaningful method standard anyway.

[@FaceFcuk]

​@@complimentary_voucherHILARIOUS 😂 he had a IQ of Einstein he was a genius 😂

[@thevocalcrone]

@@FaceFcuk that doesn't mean he has insight or that he wouldn't talk rubbish. I suspect that if he is SO intelligent, it helps his case to blame his dead mother for why he was such an evil person. He didn't kill ten people - he killed 12 innocent people. Also psychopaths don't feel guilt so there's something not ringing true in his story that he told the police and his motivation for turning himself in.

[@robertafierro5592]

The strange thing about Kemper is that he was so willing to admit to all these details, as if he were proud...

[@Gravijahz]

I don't like the glamorizing of serial killers, but I think he is a unique case in terms of the insight it can give us into these heinous crimes. From what I remember, he was super open about these uncontrollable urges that pushed him into more and more extreme crimes. He was aware that it was wrong, but the urges were not something he could control. He talked about wanting to be open about these things to spread awareness and in hopes of stopping others from doing what he did. Whether you believe he is sincere or not is a different story, but generally, human beings are really complicated creatures. Serial killers are just as human as anyone else, and can be decent or even good people in 99% of the rest of life. But they are still serial killers in the end. Having said that, it makes us feel better to feel like we can separate serial killers as "other" and "inhuman", but they are still people. I think society coming to terms with that would be helpful. To think serial killers are these abnormal, standout people, allows us to ignore reality, and in ignoring reality, we overlook them.

[@wolfe6220]

​@@Gravijahz Until Ed talked with the FBI, they didn't put together that animal torture was a likely component of becoming a serial killer. Ironic that his information probably caused more serial killers to be caught.

[@blackhawk_Enochserpent]

@@Gravijahz Self-righteous despise serial killers. Because it reminds them of how worthless their illusive reason is. Christanity, Patriots or Nazism. All is made on an excuse. They kill, but they feel so jealous of them. So jealous of how they do it for meaningless. That someone didn't need a reason to be made up.

[@JeffTheHokie]

Pee Wee Gaskins was even worse. From prison he published his autobiography proudly bragging about the tortures, live mutilations, rapes ans murders of random strangers, the youngest of which was 2.

[@ambercrombie789]

He wasn't proud. You've never struggled with C-PTSD.

[@rajnimalhotra9297]

A documentary presented so very well and carved so carefully that no one blamed nor hated and made to think parenting is very difficult roll to play.bravo keep it up the excellent work

[@lauracappucci7675]

His mother sounded cold and abusive. Dad abandoned and rejected him. Not typical parents.

[@susanalexander6721]

Locking your small boy in a dark rat infested basement every night? No excuse for this serial killer, but that certainly didn't help with his developing mental state. If your child has problems you get them help. I have a son. Unthinkable.

[@fibonacciCache]

8:30 When he got out of the car, he got out of the car, and he got out of the car, and he got out of the car.

[@lemorab1]

I remember when he confessed to all this. Aiko Koo lived next door to my friends on Hearst St. in Berkeley. She was the only child of parents who had her later in life, and she was the light of their lives. It's too bad he didn't just kill his mother in the first place. I see all these other murders as Kemper's working himself up to the main crime he wanted to do. Once he did that, there was no need to keep acting out his hatred of her on the bodies of other people. She was a monster who raised a monster. I wonder how his sisters feel about all this?

[@applesauce1269]

Aiko was raised by a single mother

[@lemorab1]

@@applesauce1269 I was staying with my friends Susan and J.P. at the time Kemper confessed. Aiko's family was next door to us. I thought I remembered the Chronicle saying she was raised by two parents, and I remember Sue and J.P. saying the same thing. Maybe those initial reports got it wrong.

[@applesauce1269]

@@lemorab1 maybe your thinking of Alice liu ? I think she was only child as well

[@lemorab1]

@@applesauce1269 No, I have no idea who Alice Liu was. I only heard of Kemper's other young, female victims here in this video, for the first time yesterday. Aiko Koo definitely lived on Hearst St. in Berkeley, next door to my friends.

[@bonjovirocks24]

His Mother OBVIOUSLY had a reason to fear for her daughters!!! Wtf?!?

[@LauPalomas]

I saw a lot of docs about Ed K. There's a 2008 movie about him. He was 2.06 m. No girl or men stood a chance to him. And imagine him with rage. Born to kill is a great show and the intro and ending song just gives you chills.. this master pice song is "made" for serial killers, true crime.

[@marydungan6748]

That picture they show of him clean shaven-He looks so sad. I always kind of feel sad for people like this because they were made monsters because of their parents.

[@KimberlyBishh]

He's the bad guy, remember ??

[@jknga5869]

Nobody was made a monster by their parents.

[@George_uh_Glass]

Agree. You must be an empath ❤

[@marydungan6748]

@jknga5869 , That's not true. You see it all the time in people who are serial killers and molesters. Just look at that Nickelodeon mess and the actor Drake Bell. He was sexually abused for years by one of the adults on his show. And he grew up to also be an abuser. Yes, it can be overcome, but they're not like that naturally. They are like that because of the experiences they have had and parents are a part of that. I have worked in high school for 22 years, so I know what happens to kids with crappy parents. You need to get a soul and a heart.

[@marydungan6748]

@KimberlyBishh Yes, he's the bad guy, but that doesn't make him not a victim as well. I've worked in Las Vegas high school for 22 years, and I see what happens to kids who have no parents or bad parents. I worked 17 years as campus security, so I dealt with most of them. One kid who was always getting kicked out of school and being passed back and forth between homes. He ended up several years later, murdering an 18-year-old in a convenience store robbery. I myself have seen a bit of what these people experience. God says we must forgive. I have the empathy to feel for what they went through and pray that they become a better person afterward.

[@kevwoods6827]

Kills his grandparents and is allowed to return to a normal life. American police and law enforcement have a lot to answer in the cases of all serial killers in the 60,s 70,s and 80,s . How many lives could of been saved?

[@FuglyStick]

If it makes you feel any better, lots of innocent people have been incarcerated or executed as well.

[@kerenhumphreys43]

Exactly. And they let him out so soon after killing his grandparents. Rediculous! He should have had life imprisonment in the psychiatric unit after killing his grandparents.

[@tamekocoltrane1799]

They basically let this man out to kill all those people 😢

[@user-lx9jm1wo3h]

His mother really destroyed his confidence. Imagine if this guy got into sports, and had friends? He could have gotten laid over and over without having to do any of this.

[@KimberlyBishh]

Were you there ?

[@user-lx9jm1wo3h]

@@KimberlyBishh Yeah, I time traveled and I was there.

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

His mother was the real monster!

[@Fi88442]

Yes she was

[@samanthahunter1759]

I obviously don't condone his actions but i do feel for the child Edmund. The more true crime i watch the more i have learnt that you can hate the crimes but still have empathy for the horrendous childhoods they often had to endure. That said we are all responsible for our actions if only he had sought therapy rather than go on a rape murder spree

[@ryanandersen991]

Agreed

[@bassfishingwiththeantichri2921]

That coffee mug was an intricate, beautiful, mess.

[@marymarmande8446]

When i was young in the 70s i stopped and picked up a hitchhiker and the guy was so angry for stopping to pick up a stranger. He told me he was going offshore to work ( that's what i thought because of the bag he had my brother had the same. I listen to him and never did that again. Young people have no clue about what's out there so please talk to your grandchildren or children

[@razony]

Great advice. Tell your children to NEVER pick up hitchhikers.

[@Jade_holloway]

I don't understand, which guy was angry? the hitchiker you picked up? was he angry at you for stopping to pick him up?

[@razony]

@@Jade_holloway Yeah. That don't make sense.

[@joemomma1968]

k......thanks a bunch

[@lbc5402]

No soap radio?

[@kimipatton5970]

It's a shame his mother messed him up, he was so smart and friendly. He could have done great things

[@KimberlyBishh]

Smart and friendly... That's what all those girls must have thought.

[@nellie2198]

Locking ur child in the basement, is just plain cruel.

[@gingerr9004]

Wow… ok. There’s so much to unpack there…. The cup is actually a really nice piece of art. It’s funky and conceptual, it shows such a complex character and a depth of pain that is clearly too much for words. I am disgusted and yet almost feel sorry for the man. How weird. What a crazy documentary-you managed to humanize a monster while not forgiving him for his actions. Some things are unforgivable, even if there is an explanation.

[@duro845]

Not gonna lie watched big Ed's interview very likable guy he'd definitely b a good friend. Now I'm looking at my inner circle side ways

[@robertafierro5592]

His Mother did this to him. Also his size had something to do with his mother hitting him all the time. She saw she couldn't beat him down anymore, she started to lose her power!

[@dougbrowne9890]

He was killing his mother with every girl he killed. smh

[@robertafierro5592]

Cats are a Female Symbol? I never heard that before..I think a dog would have given young Kemper more of a problem

[@George_uh_Glass]

You’ve never heard that before? Yeah, they are a female symbol 🙂

[@cindybrock1705]

His mother was a drunk who belittled him all his life, she acted like she hated him, why would she let him live with her after he murdered her parents? He had to feel something he turned himself in, after he got rid of her it seemed like he was done but he also called her friend over & murdered her after his mother, he was full of rage & Ed was a great manipulator

[@mewe1023]

yeah, Women dont make mistakes.

[@ileanagraells1433]

I have never heard anything so sick in my life, for him to be apologetic and sorry in recognizing that he is a monster he was not crazy he knew exactly what he was doing. I do believe that people are born to kill they have to be a certain something in a person to be that vicious cruel And crazy people don’t become that way people are that way they carry that in them

[@waltermorris5786]

No they are Not born that way...they choose evil over righteousness cause they enjoy being evil

[@cynthiaayers7696]

All humans walk on thin ice.

[@TaurusMoon-hu3pd]

​@@waltermorris5786I disagree. Some of us are born more intelligent than others, some with natural athletic ability, some with disabilities, or autism, some introverted/extroverted, etc. If the "nature" theory were the only cause, all siblings in a family would be 100% the same people.

[@TaurusMoon-hu3pd]

​@@cynthiaayers7696agreed

[@thomasmcclenan1776]

THIS MAN DUE TO THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HIM JUST SNAPPED BACK AT EVERYONE WITHOUT REGARDS

[@johncochran4190]

"I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden" is a song. Give it a listen and tell me it doesnt give you chills.

[@George_uh_Glass]

Lynn Anderson. I looked it up. Gonna listen.

[@margretsims1322]

This is the most horrrible story I have heard on youtube.........RIP to all the victims!

[@chrissibersky4617]

He also played bass for CCR.

[@Walczyk]

43:37 oh my god that cup is so incredible and well done

[@futurecorpse7739]

saved the worst murder for his mother? was it less horrible when he murdered students with their whole lives ahead of them and dreams of the future. change the title and diminish none of his victims

[@D..S..]

Wow I lived in Santa Cruz and never heard of this guy until today

[@meowmom3296]

it's a 50 year old story lol

[@razony]

ALL level 2 and 3 sex offenders need to be chipped. Humanity knows to much about sexual predators to NOT keep track of them at all times. Humanity keeps forgetting from its past mistakes! Chip these predators!

[@kael4921]

Why spend money to chip someone when we are already chipped by the computer in our pockets?

[@razony]

@@kael4921 Because this chip you can't throw away, turn off or even know it's there. One can't hide, no matter. And this is only the beginning...

[@livingitup9647]

I like this idea. Certainly SOMETHING needs to be done about the extraordinary number of se***al predators on the planet -- especially the pedos . They seldom get long sentences -- if they're ever caught -- and become repeat offenders until, by some miracle, they're prosecuted and finally kept locked up for life. The LEAST we could do is to chip and monitor their movements. But, of course, that requires state and federal funding to actually monitor these dangerous people... and that leaves too many possibilities for failures to follow through.

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@razony 👍

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@kael4921 Dumb question you asked, eah?

[@veronicafernandez7211]

Why was he released to begin with! Incredible.

[@Soul_Flow_]

He did his time

[@ninalee8705]

Exactly

[@ramyo9806]

Lifes not fair

[@Charley.Farley]

Juvenile. That, and he was an intelligent guy, he knew how to manipulative those around him. As shown by sitting right under the police’s noses, and they were surprised to find out it was “big cuddly Ed”

[@flipnotrab]

@@Charley.Farley More than intelligent. 150 to 180 IQ depending on who’s tests you believe. He’s also helped 100’s of inmates over his decades of incarceration.

[@albertagirl7867]

What if he was shown LOVE as a child? Discipline, not beaten! Who knows right?

[@chrisskinner6291]

Love has Nothing 2 do with this anger this pile showed but it was being done by design.

[@will-i-am386]

let's keep the blame on the one we know is at fault. By your logic there should be hundreds of millions of serial killers from lack of love and care.

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@will-i-am386 Right?

[@thinkingaboutnothing1982]

Nature or nurture.

[@slobodangrasic5649]

He would be the same.

[@Soul_Flow_]

He was a fascinating guy, very smart and charismatic

[@willfranceschi4749]

Not much "fascinating"about a monster that murders his mom and has sex with his mom's decapitated head.

[@giochiamoininglese9894]

And terribly sick in the head, depraved and evil unfortunately 😢

[@slobodangrasic5649]

And you are sicko.

[@The_welder_]

Bit of a temper though....

[@susanrobinson910]

That’s how we was able to kill people so easily!

[@dtanaka869-d]

40:53 Directly after that quote, I got a 4th of July Dodge ad that said "celebrate freedom."

[@user-sw6iw6tp3x]

Love this original theme song playing out through the video

[@geraldbarreno535]

Omg how hell u can have sex dead body even with no head is mind blowing..to do this u really have to be no human ....poor girls I can't imagine the pain before they died ..omg .

[@martinkirugi254]

How evil can people be?

[@janwilliams1781]

Never ask that!

[@MillerGenuineDraft1980]

As Evil as possible unfortunately

[@whoarewe7515]

Come found out.

[@ninalee8705]

He shoulda neva got out after he killed his grand parents

[@sheilahorton5189]

What bugs me about the explanations given for why Kemper killed all these women, his grandparents, and mother, all rely upon his mother having him sleep in the basement for fear he would rape his own sisters. I think her concerns were valid. Clearly she picked up on pathology. I get that she berated and belittled him. But we don't know what things really were like in his home and how he behaved when home. There are plenty of people who have harsh mothers who would never rape and kill women. I really dislike how they give this guy an out.

[@kenyattaclay7666]

We actually do know what his home life was like. At first I had doubts about his story & wondered if he was embellishing it but there are interviews with one of his sisters & she basically confirmed everything he was saying. There were also interviews with other family members & people who knew the family & while some said they didn’t notice anything others said the mom was everything he said she was.

[@MLGPRO-dx8fg]

Believe it or not, not all people are born to do evil things. Being beaten and locked in a basement and labeled a potential rapist when you're just a kid can do incredible damage. It isn't an "out". If it were all about misogyny and shit, then he probably would've started with his mom.

[@hensonlaura]

Clearly, many things can be true at once.

[@jellyfishfields5657]

If youre taught from a young age that you will sexually abuse females and you should be locked up - you will eventually believe this and finally act upon it as well. He may have been inclined - but the constant barrage from his mother telling him hes a predator pushed him further to that direction. Had the mother actually been a mother not a monster he may never have had these issues come out the way they did..

[@ryanandersen991]

Ahh The Classic Combo, broken home, divorced father, cold dark distant mother, constant hatred, physical abuse, emotional abuse and discipline by women, violent and sexual fantasies pre adolesence, intrusive thoughts, extreme anxiety of interaction with women in social situations, urges to finally let loose and take control. Now I draw the fuckin line at hurting animals, that shit infuriates me, buuuut I was a bed wetter, he wasnt, so I guess we're even 💁‍♂️

[@Wonderwhoopin]

Well damn, He set the bar high

[@rickcorley2592]

Be nice to your children. Period.

[@chadczternastek]

So glad this channel came up in my feed. Good channel so far and looking forward to watching what else there is. (Just want to express my gratitude for the way KZbin has evolved as far as how just about anyone can get a gathering of subscribers if they do it well. I've found so many good channels, better than most of the shit on cable, and some have less than a few thousand subs. Good job, love well presented, well done content )

[@chantellegattrell7073]

Seen Ed cry because his mom said I suppose you want to talk all night she was evil

[@josephhubisz8610]

The greatest time to be a nutter. 1600 patients and 10 shrinks

[@raynekimi2755]

Why put people on death row in a death penalty state, if the person ends up serving a life sentence on death row?

[@scentlessapprentice88]

Because every state is different concerning crimes eligible for capital punishment. California has a jaded past with it. Previous to the early seventies, California was implementing the death penalty. Right after the infamous Manson trials, the state of California introduced a moretoreum on the death penalty, indefinitely. Now, they are back to implementing it again after it was lifted. Scott Peterson is a prime example. California has not executed anyone in a hot minute though, even though it's a viable option. It's complicated. Right now, many death penalty states are having issues due to the chemicals needed to implement it, and not being able to get them, and then costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per person. As far as people who received the death penalty before California suspended it the first time, they were commuted to life without parole. So they got lucky.

[@scentlessapprentice88]

But yeah, I get it. Weird. The appeals in appellate can get someone an extra decade plus of extra time alive. Once you run out of appeals and motions to file with appellate, then you're proverbial clock starts counting down, however, if you're on death row today in California, I'd say you're probably not going to be executed anytime soon, so yeah, ridiculous.

[@Jeff-on3rl]

A head can't be decapitated, unless it has a head of its own.. the body is decapitated when the head is removed.. the head is then a severed head..

[@scottcastro9383]

Thanks. I was very confused…

[@kiryuchan860]

Off Jeff goes ranting about severed heads again.

[@HandyMan657]

Yeah, and a lot of guys like Kemper become the police. SO there's that.

[@einienj3281]

Damn Ed..

[@philipinchina]

This was not the behaviour of a gentleman.

[@theclown2393]

Nor was his mother a perfect example of a lady. Ed behavior and what lead up to his mad killing spree stems back to his mother and how she treated him. He hated women with a passion.

[@nitram4611]

So whose story is true. Ed said they had gone into his house for the gun. Cops said they just got it outside and went on their way?

[@lifeOFzeff]

My mom treated me like I had no value either.

[@George_uh_Glass]

I’m sorry ❤

[@kateturner1849]

So sad for the girls he killed. 😔 My condolences. I'm also sad for him - he was raised to kill. Killing his parents - I cannot feel sympathy for them - they created him and child welfare, as always, didn't listen to advice and, as usual, failed a child miserably. This man could have been a wonderful human being, but he was made who he was. It's a story like millions of others. People really should require a license to breed 😡😡

[@paulabunn4985]

AGREED

[@bonjovirocks24]

Wtf?!?! Are you a serial killer?????

[@Blueknight1960]

He didn't kill his parents. He killed his grandparents and mother.

[@Sharkenite]

​@@Blueknight1960He did kill his mother.

[@randyrenner7643]

"he was made who he was"? Did you watch the video? Who he was was already forming at age 10.

[@Marc816]

Big Ed's mother f_______ him all up.

[@George_uh_Glass]

He left his mother, in Burbank, to head to Los Angeles. But that’s like a 5 minute drive lol

[@jdolby513]

This video is the same content repeated twice ... good thing ive watched several documentaries about this guy

[@terra.christina933]

The feeling people get is the same one you get when your being stalked by a mountain lion… they just don’t know it yet.

[@caroletraynor8763]

He basically just doesn't like women.

[@George_uh_Glass]

For a legitimate reason, his mother

[@mariadefatima6469]

No excuses pls a lot of people they had bad life and dont kill because they know whats hurt

[@joeswampdawghenry]

Cops drinking beers with this demon......

[@iwantthe80sback59]

Kemper LOVES to hear the sound of his own voice. I think it was in the Mindhunter episode. And he was getting off reliving all his kills. Sick fcuk.

[@bruggeman672]

@IWantThe'80'sBack how does the fictional depiction of a real person in any way factor into the personality of the real person the depiction is portraying?

[@kateturner1849]

He was created to kill 😡 People should require a license to breed. So much suffering for innocents because of rotten breeders who make kids and destroy them. As for child welfare - yet another couldn't care rotten system. We create monsters - no one is born evil. It IS environmental. Charles Manson - same thing.

[@midwest1389]

How many serial killers are watching this??

[@vera98021]

He killed his grandparents at age 15. His mother sent him there claiming she couldn't cope with him. All the killings were a preparation for final kill, his mother. She invited a lady friend over to her house, he killed them both, cut his mother's vocal cords out and dumped them in the garbage disposal (under the sink), as he did this, he said ' I will never hear your voice again' !!

[@duvessa2003]

At least the poor, young women were not alive for the sexual assault.

[@belindaloux8354]

My sister's son, pulled the back legs apart of a cat and broke it's hip. I later caught him trying to smother his new born sister, he hit my sister in the back of her head with a hammer and she had to have brain surgery. But SHE SAYS NOHING IS WRONG WITH HIM! He's grown now, He's the next Ted Bundy, He looks just like him!!!

[@hensonlaura]

Damn. Hide & watch, folks.

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

Belinda, I hop your local police department knows about him, and he ought to be in a residential facility for juveniles right now ! Don't wait for him to become Ted Bundy !

[@belindaloux8354]

@@JulieSevelson-nb9nj he's in his 40s now but, still very strange

[@cherihayward350]

😮😢

[@Fi88442]

​@belindaloux8354 Ye lot could have gotten help for him as a child. You just like the attention you get by talking about him.

[@markthomas3730]

PLEASE REMIND US OF HOW TALL HE WAS...

[@janwilliams1781]

6 foot 9

[@wesleyalan9179]

9ft' 6"

[@The_welder_]

6ft and a peanut

[@whoarewe7515]

Lying down he was 5ft 5.

[@pollyannapositive9192]

I have been in Santa Cruz before one time. That place looks spooky 😢😮to me

[@sparknessisspreading1758]

Does anybody know how tall he was?

[@philipr1567]

6ft9ins.

[@nigecheshire9854]

3ft 2

[@heatherhillman1]

This guy, much more than any other serial killer, I feel compassion for. I guess because he reminds me of someone so strongly. A person I have a great deal of compassion for, while maintaining a safe distance.

[@mariatorres5563]

Heather so you know my dad too!!

[@williamwilliams7565]

Lol

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

Well, if this true- watch him carefully then, and if you think he'll do something bad, tell the police. If it's an under age kid, you owe it to them and society to turn the parents in, if they are abusive.

[@jonathanholmhansen2106]

Its so clear that a lot of people that are in these comments really dont have any experience with mental illness. I myself have been in some really dark places in my life. Eventually i started to think and have my mind placed into a VERY dark and morbid place. I just didnt have the guts to actually do it. Kemper here was pushed into doing this. Does it validate his action, no! Did it make him more innocent, ofc not! But the mental part of all this does play a big part of what happened, happened

[@lorettasearcy1471]

Wish I could remember the name of the movie that was made about him.

[@George_uh_Glass]

We can Google it 🙂

[@lorettasearcy1471]

@@George_uh_Glass I think it's called the co ed killer?

[@ronniejaye1]

He'd be eager to talk to anyone who'd listen. That's all he wanted his whole rejected and lonely life. The system and parents definitely failed him and created him . This doesn't happen naturally. He's not alone in his guilt , although nobody ever takes credit . The assessments of the (professionals) are so simple. No wonder he was only caught by turning himself in. Poor ...

[@tamminichols2417]

Ed just needed a hug 🤗

[@sahmyaj344]

yeah fr tho never getting hugged or loved by yur mom even as a baby it shapes yu whole mind 🤯

[@pippaneil4632]

Plenty of people don't get hugs As children and suffer much worse. And don't go on to kill anyone.

[@scottcastro9383]

That’s what Ed wants you to believe.

[@steveo4991]

@@pippaneil4632 It’s almost like we’re all different isn’t it?

[@storm2000808]

You hug him and I'll film it 😁

[@dianebays5484]

If he lived with his mother, how was he getting away with decapitation them at his house? I'm sure that was pretty messy. I dont understand.

[@wesleyalan9179]

It was very thought out and methodical

[@user-jg8ef8oe2q]

What a twisted pos this dude was.....RIP to all those innocent victims....😢

[@user-fk2qv5rf6m]

I get so tired of people crying about how their parents were mine wasn't good but I'm not a killer it's called changing your life I was born again in 1978 and my life changed

[@DougBull-jo9vc]

Being as big as he was must of been so much more intimidating.almost 7 feet

[@robertafierro5592]

The music in the very beginning...truy scary..

[@dean4817]

You can see the effect it had on the police.will be with them forever..live well men U are our heroes

[@demi12342002]

7 foot monsters i will never get in the same car let alone a hummer. Especially as a 5 foot female