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Edmund Kemper Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“That seemed appropriate, as much as she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me for so many years.”
— Edmund Kemper, Edmund Kemper- Wikipedia
“I was really quite struck by her personality and her looks and there was just almost a reverence there….”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Personality, reverence
“I couldn't please her….It was like being in jail….I became a walking time bomb and I finally blew ...”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers
“Maybe they can study me and find out what makes people like me do the things they do.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Crime
“I look at the wreckage behind me, the dead people caused by my self-indulgence in fantasy life and then my self-indulgence in not doing something about it—getting help, or taking action against myself, even.”
— Edmund Kemper, Ed Kemper- Extended Interview 1991
Tagged: Serial Killers, Wreckage, Remorse, Self-Indulgence
“Alive, they were distant, not sharing with me. I was trying to establish a relationship and there was no relationship there...”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, distant, Relationship
“I killed my mother and her friend. And I killed those college girls. I killed six of them and I can show you where I hid the pieces of their bodies.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Confessions
“My mother was there. She was there to beat me, she was there to humiliate me, she was there to use me as an example of how inferior men are.”
— Edmund Kemper, Ed Kemper- Extended Interview 1991
Tagged: Serial Killers, Misandry, Bad Mothers
“I decided to mix the two and have a situation of rape and murder and no witnesses and no prosecution.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Rape, Murder
“When they were being killed, there wasn't anything going on in my mind except that they were going to be mine….That was the only way they could be mine.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Possession
“I may not be so much to look at myself, but I have always gone after pretty girls.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, looks, Pretty Girls
“One side of me says, 'Wow, what an attractive chick. I'd like to talk to her, date her.' The other side of me says, ‘I wonder how her head would look on a stick?’”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Decapitation
“I remember it was very exciting.….there was actually a sexual thrill.…It was kind of an exalted triumphant type thing, like taking the head of a deer or an elk or something would be to a hunter….I was the hunter and they were the victims.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Decapitation, Necrophilia
“The head trip fantasies were a bit like a trophy. You know, the head is where everything is at, the brain, eyes, mouth. That's the person. I remember being told as a kid, you cut off the head and the body dies. The body is nothing after the head is cut off ... well, that's not quite true, there's a lot left in the girl's body without the head.”
— Edmund Kemper, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Tagged: Serial Killers, Decapitation
“The original purpose was gone...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.”
— Edmund Kemper, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
Tagged: Serial Killers, Exhaustion, Collapse
“I was paroled to my mother, OK? What these experts don’t notice in the picture—i haven’t seen it in writing anywhere, it could be somewhere, um, that when I was fourteen years old I ran away from my mother. They mention that, OK. But if you look at that in the overall picture, why did I run away? I wanted to be with my father. That’s a very topical approach to it. I wanted to get away from my mother because I was dreaming, thinking, fantasizing murder. All day long. I couldn’t get it out of my head. She and I—I couldn’t battle with her, because I was very intimidated by her. She’s six feet tall, she weighs two and a quarter—225 pounds, she’s not a fat woman, she’s just this great big woman who I was terrified of. She had, uh, verbal capabilities you wouldn’t believe. I used to watch her field-strip grown men in emotional little contests. And when they’d get to the point where they wanted to smack her, then she’d start attacking them on beating women. ‘Oh, slap the woman around!,’ you know. And she’d toy with them on that and I’d watch these guys dance around the room having fits, knocking out windows, punch a hole in the door and then stomp off. And she could control people like that. I’m sitting there watching that in awe from one point of view and in terror from the other. I grew up with this stuff….I’m not trying to put on her what happened to the girls or to her. But I’m saying there was a lot of psychological involvement there.”
— Edmund Kemper, Ed Kemper- Extended Interview 1991
Tagged: Murder, Domestic Abuse, Serial Killers, manipulation
“I figured that if I killed him [Herbert Mullin] and then they sent me to the gas chamber, it would be a good solution to the problem. I know I'd never get a chance to, though, and I don't have any intention of killing him or anyone else....He was just a cold-blooded killer, running over a three-week period killing everybody he saw for no good reason. [pauses, laughs] I guess that's kind of hilarious, my sitting here so self-righteously talking, like that, after what I've done.”
— Edmund Kemper
Tagged: Serial Killers, Herbert Mullin, Gas Chamber
“There's somebody out there that is watching this and hasn't done that – hasn't killed people, and wants to, and rages inside and struggles with that feeling, or is so sure they have it under control. They need to talk to somebody about it. Trust somebody enough to sit down and talk about something that isn't a crime; thinking that way isn't a crime. Doing it isn't just a crime, it's a horrible thing, it doesn't know when to quit and it can't be stopped easily once it starts.”
— Edmund Kemper, Ed Kemper Interview- 1991 (extended)
Tagged: Serial Killers, Compulsion, Trust, Friendship
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