Hey everybody welcome to cold case murder mini your daily dose of madness. I'm your host

Ryan Kraus guiding you into the darkness once again,

this time in the form of none other than Edmund Kemper, the co-ed killer. Now, the six foot nine

inch 250 pound maniac was ultimately responsible for a total of 10 murders,

which obviously included young women, given his nickname, but also his grandparents.

This happened when he was 15. And prior to that he'd been killing cats, even

removing one's head and putting it on top of a stake. So it's needless to say that this behavior should render him a life in an institution, or only release with very careful long-term supervision.

But what happens? At age 21, Kemper is freed from a Tascadero stayed prison, which might sound familiar because

Zodiac Prime Suspect, Arthur Lee Allen, not only spent time there in the aftermath of molestation charge, but was also

employed at the facility.

Though it isn't Kemper's later attacks that I want to focus on here.

I plan to cover him at some point in a full-length episode, but for now I want to take a quick

look at the profound physical manifestation of his mother's influence present in his crimes.

In fact, the killer's father, a proud World War II vet, once said

of his wife, Clarnell, that she affected him, quote, more than 396 days and nights of fighting on the front.

So Edmond didn't fare much better.

He was abused constantly and told he was stupid, to the extent he was shocked upon learning he had an IQ of 145 as an adult.

He had just not been properly educated, and was forced to sleep in the basement alone while his sister had her own bedroom up on the second floor.

Because he kept ascending to darkness, while his sister ascended to the light of the second floor,

the metaphorical implication of his sister's place in the family became heaven, while his was hell, and the first floor where his mother roamed was earth.

But as the abuse continued, and Edmond was afforded no love and affection by the woman at such a young age, he began to grow disdain for every word that came out of her mouth, and even every thought formed in her brain. She was so distant to him, yet

smothering him with negativity at every moment. And this formed a psychological basis for what later became the most disturbing aspect of his crimes.

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