Who was the most disturbed child you have ever seen?

Edmund Kemper

One of the youngest serial killers on record is Edmund Kemper, who killed 10 people, including his grandparents and mother, starting when he was 15 years old.

When Kemper was 15, he got into an argument with his grandma, grabbed a rifle, and shot her to death. He then shot his grandfather. Because Kemper was a literal child, he didn’t know what to do in this situation and called his mom, who told him to call the police. Kemper later explained his behavior by saying he “just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma,” which is a truly c-h-i-l-l-i-n-g admission. Kemper was soon diagnosed as a criminally insane paranoid schizophrenic and imprisoned in a hospital.

On top of that mess, Kemper’s childhood games weren’t at all normal. He played “electric chair” and “gas chamber” while everyone else was playing tag and red rover.

HE MURDERED HIS MOM and her best friend. Kemper killed Clarnell while she was sleeping, bludgeoning her with a hammer and slitting her throat. Beyond those already horrifying facts, additional details of what he did to her body are just too disturbing to recount, but it was sexual in nature.

After this, Kemper invited Clarnell’s best friend to dinner and then strangled her, spending the night with her body before turning himself in to the police. “The original purpose was gone,” he explained when asked why he called the cops. “It wasn’t serving any physical or real or emotional purpose. It was just a pure waste of time. Emotionally, I couldn’t handle it much longer. Toward the end there, I started feeling the folly of the whole damn thing, and at the point of near exhaustion, near collapse, I just said to hell with it and called it all off.”

SO, WHERE IS KEMPER NOW?

In jail and happy as a clam, apparently. Now 70, he has waived his right to parole multiple times, is considered a star inmate, and has willingly talked to psychologists like Douglas. In the documentary Murder: No Apparent Motive, he even implied that he wants other potential killers to get help. But obviously, none of this makes up for the fact that he violated and murdered women.