I’ve spent a chunk of the day reading about Ed Kemper, an incarcerated serial murderer from California. Based on what I’ve read, I’ve concluded that Ed’s one seriously fucked up dude. Some highlights, quotes and factoids from a few sources:

“Kemper’s testimony in court revealed his desire to punish his mother did not end with the fatal hammer blow. He cut off his mother’s head, “put it on a shelf and screamed at it for an hour … threw darts at it,” and ultimately, “smashed her face in,” he recalled for the horrified court.” [link]

“As I’m sitting there with a severed head in my hand, talking to it, or looking at it, and I’m about to go crazy, literally I’m about to go completely… flywheel loose and just fall apart. I say, ‘Wow, this is insane!’ and then I told myself, ‘No it isn’t. You’re saying that…and that makes it not insane.’ I said, ‘I’m sane and I’m looking at severed…’ [unintelligible]…Vikings heroes talking to severed heads and taking them to parties. Old enemies in leather bags…part of our heritage.” [painfully transcribed from audio testimony]

“When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things: One part of me wants to take her home, be real nice and treat her right; the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick.” [link]

[The police, upon entering Kemper's home] “As [the policeman] entered, he smelled the putrid odor of decomposition. When he opened a closet and saw blood and hair, he secured the scene and called in the coroner and detectives. To their amazement, they found the two bodies, just as Kemper had described. Both had been decapitated, and Clarnell had been battered and apparently used for dart practice. Her tongue and larynx, Kemper had said, were chopped up, having been placed in the garbage disposal, which had spit them back out.” [link]

“[Kemper] drawled, ‘Oh, what is it like to have sex with a dead body? … What does it feel like to sit on your living room couch and look over and see two decapitated girls’ heads on the arm of the couch?’ (He interjected an unsolicited answer: ‘The first time, it makes you sick to your stomach.’)” [link]

“[Kemper] buried the girl’s head in the back yard ‘with her face turned toward my bedroom window and, sometimes at night, I talked to her, saying love things, the way you do to a girlfriend or wife.’” [link]

That dude is completely batshit-fucked. The fact that he liked to have sex with severed heads doesn’t help either.

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