Hearted Youtube comments on Crime & Psychiatry (@crimeandpsychiatry) channel.
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I have watched many interviews with serial killers Bundy, Berkowitz, Dahmer, Gacy, Ridgway, Russell to just name a few, but Kemper is the only one I actually believe wanted to stop. It’s easy for this psychiatrist or whoever is interviewing him to sit there and pass judgment on whether Kempers emotions about his own mother were genuine. Well let’s see, he cut his mothers head off and violated it. That’s ALOT of anger and hatred. In fact a lot of these serial killers have had issues with their mothers, but the one thing about Kemper is I believe him, I believe he wanted to stop, and the only way to stop the killing was to kill his mother. If he really wanted to continue to kill, he wouldn’t of turned himself in. Back then, things were very different, today there is all kinds of ways to get caught, camera surveillance, security, DNA, back then he could’ve just jumped in his car and took off, disappeared somewhere. It is very creepy though that many of these killers are very charismatic, seem kind and easy to talk too, which is why their victims trusted too easily. It’s very sad. Not for nothing but Kemper is not a stupid man, In fact, I think he’s got a very high IQ. I don’t think Kemper every thought he was going to get out of prison, he knows he’s a serial killer, and the fact that this therapist or whoever he is keeps saying Kemper is manipulating him, and he’s using this interview to get out on parole, then why are you interviewing him? Either you’re interviewing him to find out why he did what he did, But then anything he said you’re doubting and claim he’s trying to manipulate you so he could use this interview to get out on parole.
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I worked at California Medical Facility in Vacaville for a little over 20 years (1990-1999, 2002-2015), and I saw Kemper most days of the week. He would typically stand near the main sallyport that gave access to the mainline. He had a small cart which carried a small stack of newspapers that he would distribute throughout the institution. Our medical records department handled the inmates' requests for copies from their medical records. Kemper never, to my recollection, requested copies of his records. (I saw an old volume of Charles Manson's records once; it contained a letter from Squeaky Fromme, requesting that she be allowed to write to Manson. I doubt it was ever allowed.)
I only have one good Kemper story to relate. We used to keep death record and overflow volumes of medical records (before the electronic record) in the basement, and I'd periodically send my staff--who were primarily women--down to file charts or pull whichever charts were needed. There was an elevator to the basement, but the elevator had to be keyed down to the basement by the correctional officer who was stationed nearby. The CO made sure that the elevator had no inmates in it if it was going to the basement. Once, two of my female staff members were in the basement, and they had called the 2nd floor officer to key the elevator to the basement while they awaited its arrival. When the elevator doors opened in the basement, there stood Edmund Emil Kemper III, about five feet from two women--in a basement! Fortunately, he quickly pushed the button that closed the door and the elevator returned to the 2nd floor. A close call.
The word in the institution was that Kemper was a model inmate. He never received any sort of disciplinary action that I was aware of. He read for The Blind Project (i.e., books on tape) and taught other inmates how to do it successfully. By the time I retired from the prison next door (California State Prison-Solano) in 2020, I heard that Kemper was more or less wheelchair-bound and had significant medical problems.
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