He learned from rapists in the hospital that it is "smarter" to kill women after you attack them, so there are no witnesses, a practice which Kemper did, indeed, adopt.ħ. Kemper later said that the skills he learned during this period of his life helped him fool doctors and encouraged him to kill.
Under the guidance of the psychiatrists working the hospital, Kemper was allowed to administrate psychological evaluations of other patients. He worked with other patients at Atascadero State Mental Hospital.ĭuring his time in the care of the mental hospital, Kemper had a pretty unusual job. since it may allow him more freedom as an adult to develop his potential, I would consider it reasonable to have a permanent expunction of his juvenile records." 4. It is my opinion that he has made a very excellent response to the years of treatment and rehabilitation and I would see no psychiatric reason to consider him to be of any danger to himself or to any member of society.
NETFLIX ED GEIN FREE
"If I were to see this patient without having any history available or getting any history from him, I would think that we're dealing with a very well adjusted young man who had initiative, intelligence and who was free of any psychiatric illnesses. This statement, written by his probation officer upon completion of this program, makes that painfully clear: When he was released at the age of 21, the professionals at the hospital declared him to be a perfect example of the benefits of rehabilitating youthful offenders. He fooled several of the mental health care professionals who treated him.įollowing the murder of his grandparents, a variety of tests led to his being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to Atascadero State Mental Hospital, a maximum security facility for mentally ill convicts. Unfortunately, she couldn't have been more wrong.ģ. He killed his own grandparents when he was a teenager.Īfter sending him to live with his father briefly in the hopes this would cure his behavior, his mother tried passing him on to live with his paternal grandparents in North Fork, CA, hoping they could be of more help to him. He showed signs of severe mental disturbance from an early age, when he would "cut off the heads of his sisters' dolls and even coerced the girls into playing a game he called 'gas chamber,' in which he had them blindfold him and lead him to a chair, where he pretended to writhe in agony until he 'died.' At ten he buried alive," and at 13, he killed another with a knife. His fascination with death began at a young age.Įdmund Emil Kemper III, born on December 18, 1948, had a contentious relationship with his alcoholic mother, Clarnell Strandberg, who moved him and his two sisters from Burbank, CA to Montana after she divorced his father in 1957.
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