Ed Kemper committed his first kills when he murdered his grandparents on Aug. 27, 1964 Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...

The popular Netflix series Mindhunter has generated renewed interest in Edmund Kemper III. Exactly who is Ed Kemper? He is a psychopathic serial killer and necrophile who was born on December 18, 1948 ...

After serving five years in a state hospital for the criminally insane, Kemper was released and convinced authorities to expunge his murder record He went on to kill eight more people, including his ...

Along with the likes of Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Kemper is one of the most depraved serial killers in history. Kemper — who stands at a towering 6 feet, 9 inches tall — killed ...