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Edmund Kemper /// Part 1 /// 261

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The Importance of a Good Childhood

Edmund Kemper shot his grandmother in the back three times as she sat at the kitchen table typing. Afterwards, he stabbed her three times with a kitchen knife. This is because he says that he didn't want her to suffer. He wanted to end it for her as quickly as possible. Not all serial killers had a horrible time growing up, a horrible childhood, but some of them did. It's more of a question of why and how.

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