Meet Edmund Ed Kemper (Associated Press) When you’re 6’9’’, it’s hard to keep a low profile, and to this rather obvious fact, we may owe much of our insight into the mind of the serial killer. It must have occurred to Edmund Kemper, as he drove frantically eastward from the scene of his last two murders that the jig was most definitely up. His six previous murders had been so carefully planned and carried …showed first 75 words of 439 total…

…showed last 75 words of 439 total…own. He felt important and intelligent. He was relieved to be speaking openly of what he’d kept hidden for so long. And the police, recognizing all this, listened closely. Edmund talked and talked and talked, and when interrogators thought he couldn’t possibly give them anything else, he talked some more. Because he did talk, we know a lot about what motivates such a killer, what peculiar thoughts and fantasies occupy such a mind.