Introduction Family life was difficult for Edmund Jr. growing up, receiving little to no affection from his alcoholic mother because she feared it would “make him gay,” banishing him to the basement, and constantly belittling and berating his father his electrician job, which she argued was menial. Kemper’s father, Edmund Sr. rarely, if ever, attempted to refute his wife, Clarnell’s comments, and as a result, Edmund Jr. was left with little to no proper father figure in the home. At the age of 9, Kemper’s parents divorced and Ed moved to Montana with his mother and two sisters. He began to show signs of dark fantasies, cutting off the heads of dolls and playing games with his sisters that would reenact electric chair and gas chamber style executions,…show more content… Noticing a number of young, college-age women hitchhiking in the area surrounding the University of California campus where his mother worked, Kemper began picking them up and letting them go, although carrying everything he would need to kidnap and murder with him. For Kemper, these first few hitchhikers resembled trial runs for what would be his string of hitchhiking victims, first beginning his murder streak with Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa. After stabbing and killing both young women, he brought the bodies back to his apartment to remove the head and hands before having sexual intercourse with the corpses. After a successful first run, Kemper continued his streak, first killing Aiko Koo, who was hitchhiking to dance class in September 1972, and later, Cindy Schall, who was shot and killed in January, 1973. After dismembering Schall’s body, he buried her head in the backyard of his mother’s home and threw the rest of the body in pieces into the ocean. He then obtained a campus sticker for further access and then picked up Rosalind Thorpe and Alice Liu in early February,
