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 …

…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).