Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode include. Discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution Children under thirteen Ed Camper, felt isolated and incompetent detached from the people around him. He search for a place where he could feel powerful and troll he lived most of his life and his imaginary vicious world where he could live out his darkest and most deranged fantasies. He dreamed of raping women, killing women and dismay bring their courses, his rage, simmered egg, done by thoughts of his controlling a b You said mother, the longer Ed fixed did on vengeance. The more hatred towards his their consumed, his every thought he longed for her death and

wanted it to be at his own hands. Finally, when is twisted, daydreams became too hard to resist Ed campers, violent fantasies became Santa Cruz is horrific. Reality hi, I'm Gregg pulsing for park ass network. This is serial killers. Today we finish our deep dive into the life of Edmund Emil temper, the third also known as the co ed killer. I'm here with my co host, commit us Richardson high everyone. Many of you have been asking us how you can support the podcast if you enjoy the show one of the best way to help us is to leave a five star review wherever you listened to podcast. While you there

you can listen to previous episodes that serial killers, as well as par, casts other pod casts a new episode comes out every Monday. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram at PAR cast and on Twitter at Park Ass Network or in our website. Parkhurst Dotcom Ed Camper killed his first victims, his own grandparents at age. Fifteen. August 27th, one thousand nine hundred and sixty four. He later killed eight women between one thousand nine hundred and seventy two and one thousand nine hundred and seventy three Santa Cruz California killing and dismembering female hitchhikers. He became most famous. For killing his own mother and for the lengthy interviews that he did with FBI agents, Robert Wrestler and Johnny Douglas, which

made a significant role in developing the FBI's serial killer profiling system. Last week we covered Ed's childhood the beginning of his hatred, for it. Mother and the murders of his grandparents. When we left off Ed, was imprisoned in a task Darrow State Hospital. However, he used his genius iq to trick his psychiatrists into believing he had been cured at the age of twenty one s temper was released from prison on parole with his. Juvenile criminal records sealed this week will follow Ed's murderous path along the California roads to his final destination, murdering his own mother on December 18th, one thousand nine hundred and sixty nine at moved into his mother

in Santa Cruz. California and his mother Cornell actually manage to get along for a short while at enrolled in a local community college. In order to pursue a career in law enforcement. In the early months of nineteen, seventy ed was getting better grades in school than he ever had before. He worked hard to earn a job as a police officer. He craved structure, Andy still wanted to help and still that structure into the world after months of hard schoolwork at applied for enrollment into a police academy. They rejected adds application at initially thought that he might have been rejected for his criminal record. After all, any reasonable person would, not once someone who had committed a double homicide to have a badge and a gun, but that wasn't it instead as application.

Had been rejected on the basis of height, Ed, stood six feet. Nine inches tall four inches taller than the six five height limit, the Santa Cruz Department had for its officers. Ed had been marked for his hide all throughout his youth. He had turn allies, this bullying as rejection from his peers, and now he was rejected on the basis of height again for ed. This was deeply upsetting. The dust it's going to take over and psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note that It is not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she I've done a lot of research for the show. Everyone has been rejected at some point. And they ll likely remember how it feels to be told. Your not wanted. Neurosis just Naomi eyes in Burger Matthew De Liebermann and Kipling De Williams published a study. Titled does rejection, hurt and Furthermore, I study of social exclusion. This study took brain scans during its

and of social exclusion and found that activity in certain parts of the brain paralleled the activity of the brain when the person felt physical pain, they concluded that social rejection register's as physical pain in the case of Ed Camper. This pain serve as a twisted justification to hold onto his resentment and hatred for those around him and in need at felt crushed his only goal in life. The only thing he had ever wanted was now impossible everything. Mother said about his uselessness. Everything is classmates mocked about his height dealt true ed, withdrew further into his fantasy vicious world where he could extract bloody vengeance against all who had wronged him. He had become consumed with his hatred for his mother and longed to escape her all the psychological progress he had made in a task. Darrow was slipping away and said: quote mama

and I started writing on horrendous battles. Just horrible battles violent and vicious I've never been in such a vicious verbal battle with any one end quote However, it wasn't ready to act on that rage, yet he continued try, to live a normal life and got a job with the state of California Highway Department Working Road construction. Ironically, this was the same job. His grandfather had worked before he had retired in some strange twit did way ed felt like he was carrying on his grandfathers legacy enjoyed on the roads. His mouth Size was actually put to good use when it came to manual labor. He also find a way to get close to the law enforcement world after work, he became a regular at the jury room, a bar in Santa Cruz, that was across the street from the county court house because of its location, the barbarous free.

What did by police officers and use the charm. He had learned in a task darrow to ingratiate himself with the local police. He became a friend a new sense by pestering them about work. Every chance he got the cops soon. To enjoy his presence, they gave him the nickname, big, Ed and told all sorts of stories about their work, not real I think that Ed was absorbing all that info for later use, the job that he enjoyed and a bar that he liked to frequent ed worked for months without acting out. He got permission from us parole officer to live on his own Andy, moved out of his mother's home and into an Men with an unnamed friend his new apart was an enemy to California, and ninety Dr North of Santa Cruz at felt some freedom for the first time in his life, and he had plenty of free time when he wasn't working. He began looking for a girlfriend

but he had some difficulty meeting girls, his own age, a large part of his problems with women from Ed's low self esteem, but larger. Issue was the way he thought about. Women at once said quote I see a pretty girl walking down the street. I think two things one part of me wants to take her home, be real nice and treat her right. The other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick end quote. Naturally that would make getting to know woman difficult. However, according to add, he did manage to meet a sixteen year old student at Ter, lock, high school and the two struck up. A relationship The girls name is unknown, but she was just adds type blonde, petite, young and mature. Her immaturity led her to accept dead without asking about his path.

Except in said, had never expected to receive from a woman. S said that he loved the girl, but they never had sex because he viewed her almost relief Lastly, regardless the twenty one year, old, Ed Camper and the sixteen year old girl got along well enough that they actually got engaged bogged adds. Mother Cornell was disgusted that was dating someone so young. She began calling him and pestering him telling him to leave the girl alone, she even begun, showing up on its doorstep to relay her disapproval in person at couldn't. Take his mother's bereavement and he broke up with his fiancee when he called off the relationship. He asked his mother to introduce him to some women his own age, his mother, refused. She told us that he was too much like his father but he didn't deserve to meet any nice young women was.

Even more furious at his mother and desperately lonely. He retreated into his fantasy world where he began planning out intricate sadistic and sexual murders. He started pushing boundaries in real life and nineteen. Seventy one it was twenty two he began driving around the Santa Cruz area, looking to pick up female hitchhikers Ed's behaviour, follows a very similar pattern of escalation to those of other serial killers and cereal rapists, according to a study published in for Ec Science, international titled crime, scene and now says, and the escalation of violence of cereal, rape, cereal, rapists, often practices acting their victims before actually hurting a victim. This repeated practice behaviour builds to an inevitable snap when the criminal acts on their dark impulses and said that he admission began picking up young women to help him learn how to talk to them. Unfortunately,

learned how to gain their trust, get them into his car and trick them. He would purposefully take wrong turns to secluded areas, but pretend it was an accident as the big better and better at charming young women. He grew even closer to carrying out his sick fantasies. He built a start. I'll of murder tools and his trunk adding items one at a time. He collected plastic bags for suffocating victims, hunting, knives, blankets to catch their blood and handcuffs. He even rigged the insight handle of his passenger side door to keep it from opening from the inside. If a woman got in she was trapped. Eventually, Ed borrowed and nine millimeter pistol from a friend. He kept the pistol under his seat all, but guaranteeing that some day he would use it

some time in the early months of nineteen. Seventy two: when it was twenty three, he lost his job with the highway department. He hadn't been paying attention while working and would play hooky to search for hitchhikers after losing his job s new that he would soon run out of money. If he read. Out of money. He would have to move back in with his mother. The thought disgusted ed, but instead of finding another job to avert the crisis, he decided to create a crisis of his own on May seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seventy two after a particularly infuriating phone call with his mother and camper, decided that the next hitchhiker he picked up would be the first woman to visit Ed's vicious world only dad's first victim in just a moment hi, it's Gregson Vanessa and we have some great news for all of our incredible cults listeners as it. Thank you for your unwavering dedication and support. We

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worked at a university, so he wanted to kill a university student around four p m drove up to California State University in Fresno. He spotted to petite young women with their thumbs out looking for a ride. He asked them where they were headed and they told him they did a ride to Stanford University. He agreed to take them and they got in the car. They were both eighteen, Marianne, Pinochet, Anita Lukashka. They were college roommates who had just spent a few days visiting friends in the area and they had decided to hitchhike home in order to me people s quickly, learned that the two girls didn't know the area he took them all across the highway system, pulling looped loops to throw off their sense of direction as he drove he brainstormed secluded locations where he could take advantage of them as it ran through the rolodex of options. The girls surely talked with him about their lives. He told them. He worked for the division of highways and he showed them

radio transmitter that he kept in his car for the job. The girls cheaply suggested that he was an undercover cop which they believed might be the rule reason. He had a radio transmitter, Ed told them that he wasn't a cop, but they acted like they didn't believe him. He felt that their false belief that he was a cop helped them trust him. Instead of taking the women South to Stanford, he took them east to a small town called Livermore. The conversation between the three was pleasant and casual. To add pulled into our rural and secluded cul de SAC, Ed pulled the nine millimeter gone out from under a seat in point Marianne in the passenger seat, who reacted with surprisingly com composure. Anita was sitting in the back seat too terrified to move Ed claimed that he himself was also terrified. At that moment, this was the first time he had pushed himself to a point of no return

he had lived in a world of fantasy, and now he had pulled a very real, very dangerous gone on to vote by young women. There was no going back fantasies aside. If you wanted to avoid prison, he needed to kill me women. By repeatedly imagining the act of Murder Ed. Conditioned himself to commit murder without caring about the possible long term consequences of his actions. This actually has some similarity to the actions of repetitive drug users in a paper by neuroscientist and Twond. Bassorah Bashar proposes the theory that the drug users brain becomes so used to making the choice to take drugs that, at a certain point. The attics brain loses the ability to resist drugs. The attic physically loses the ability to consider long term consequences. Justice years of dreaming about murder, made it that much more likely that he would actually go through with murder.

Of course, as Victor Marianne didn't know about its lifelong desire to destroy when Ed pointed his gun at her, she immediately took on a tone of leadership and authority was shocked to see the change in her personnel He would assume that she was a naive, trusting person, Marianne to de escalate the situation. She cracked, a joke and tried to speak sympathetically with ad he told them that she was willing to talk through his problems. With him initially said, he felt a certain level of reverence toward Marianne. Her deep blue eyes made an impression. He said he was really quite struck by her personality and her looks, but the more she spoke them. He recognised what she was trying to do. Marianne attempts to connect and reason with add or ear Lee, reminiscent of psychiatry sessions. He had sat in on while at a task, Darrow Ed, remembered why King Cereal, rapists, discussing their motives with psychiatrist, and he remembered the

stories of victims who had managed to persuade their assailant not to harm them and said that half of him was impressed with Marion's competence and coolness and the situation and the other half was infuriated. That's you! trying to resist him and was sure that Marianne could have talked away out of the clutches of nine out of ten rapists, but it was not. To let Marianne control him, while Ed I genuinely believe that most rapists could be talk down. It is important for us to note here It is not necessarily the case. In fact, according to a nineteen eighty six article written by Robert Hazel Wood and Joseph Harpole, supervisory special agents in the behavioral science unit at the FBI, Academy quote different mode operate indifferent defenders and therefore, what might be successful

this waiting one type of assailant might in fact aggravate the situation with a different type of offender. End quote: in other words, you can never be sure what words are going to stop a rapist. If anything could stop them at all. At camper was certainly unwilling to be stopped. Won't different. Rapists react differently to attempts at discourage, them a nineteen. Ninety to study titled, fighting back women's resistance to rape, found that quote women who responded physical aggression, the offenders, violent physical attack, were more likely to avoid rape than were women who did not resist such force. End quote. According to this study responding, Sexual violence with violence can only help your chances of escape. Of course, Camper wasn't just looking to rape. These women

trying to kill them. Marianne made an admirable attempt to talk at down, but she ultimately failed. Ed pointed his gun and commanded that one of the girls get into the trunk. While himself, knew that he was going to kill these women. He wanted them to believe that he only going to rape them right up until the moment of their deaths. He told that he was going to drive them to his apartment, where they would then go inside. He hold them. He wanted one in the trunk, so we only had to keep his eyes on the woman in his passenger seat during the drive Marianne continued, her attempt to convince to let them go and had then I did that Anita was the more easily controlled at the two. He pointed the gun at her and commanded that she walked to the trunk. With him

Ed Handcuffed, Marion's arm and told her to attach herself to the seat belt. He stuck the gun in her face ass. She did so got out of the car and walked needed to his trunk. He grabbed a plastic bag, a knife had Anita climate side. He shut and needed in the trunk, then looked the car window to notice that Marianne had not actually latched. The handcuffs had begun to you let Marian for not listening to him. He weighed the gun in her face, saying things are going to go badly for her and her friend. If she didn't start following his orders, Marianne complied now convinced that it was beyond in the realm of reason, Ed reached out to grab Marion's arms and handcuff them behind her back ass? He reached he accidentally brushed his hands against one of her breasts. Ed says that he actually became in bed forest blushing and apologizing, saying whoops, I'm sorry even Ed was prized by his own reaction, even when he was

mapping and murdering women he didn't know how to act, really interact with them and decided he was going to be clever. With his first kill. He brought out the plastic bag and pulled it over Marion's head. He forced her face down against the car seat. Marianne still didn't realize it was going to kill her. She protested telling add that she couldn't breathe with the bag on her has once again and felt it necessary to hide is you'll intentions. He told Marianne that the bag was meant to muffle her voice and keep people from hearing her. If she screamed, he slid the bag over her head and got excited. He pulled out cloth rope from a bathroom to tie round Marion's neck and strangler. He tightened his grasp the rope but pulled too tight the rope snap Ed had failed at strangling Marianne with the rope when he hoped the bag was doing its job. He turned Marion's head only to find that

It shoot a hole in the bag allowing to breathe as forcefully as she could and told them that she'd been suffocating, she told him. If he didn't take the back off her head, she would die at was enraged by her resistance, as well as by his own incompetence. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a switchblade. He stabbed her repeatedly before slitting her throat, somewhat dazed by the experience, add new. He still had to kill the other girl. He walked to the trunk and prompted Open trying his best to keep his bloody hands can see old cowering Anita asked Ed what had happened with Marianne S, told Anita. Well, she was getting smart with me. He lowered his hands and Anita panicked at the sight of the blood. Ed tried to reassure her saying that he had only punched Marianne, giving her a bloody knows. Even after killing a woman, s still couldn't bear to have a need to know. He was a killer. He told us

did that she should get out of the trunk to help her friend as they need a climbed out of the trunk at grabbed. A very large hunting knife called the original Buffalo Skinner and began stabbing Anita said that she fought valiantly, but she never really stood a chance against the six foot, nine inches giant with a massive knife. Once Anita was dead and hid both bodies in his car EDGAR, in the car and drove away blood still on his hands after driving by several people who gave him odd, looks at managed to get the girls bodies back to his apartment, proceeded to define the bodies he grabbed his Polaroid camera and took pornographic photos of their corpses. What he did next was unthinkable. He decapitated them and proceeded to use their severed. Necks for sex ed was fixated with the idea of a woman

head without a body to him controlling ahead without the body meant he had full control of the woman herself in following interviews. He says he's not sure where that Britain Hitler fantasy started, but that a memory is dad. Cutting off the head of a pet chicken might have been an early contributor. One side was finished with the corpses: he butchered their bodies. This way it would be harder for police to identify them and then put each of their body parts and just separate plastic bags and scattered them across the back roads. The Loma prior to mounting ed later said that the memory of Mary, Ann and her blue eyes haunted him. She was the only person he claimed or feel any remorse for killing. He knew that she was a perpetual Reminder that if he had chosen a different path, a moral path, perhaps he could have met some, nice young lady and had his own children with deep blue eyes even went so far as to look at me,

Ryan's driver's license to find her home address then drove past her house. He imagined the life he could have led if he'd been born to different parents in a different town with different classmates. His life could have been so much better if he'd met her sooner but Fred, it was too late. The already killed Marianne, the only thing that could replace her memory or new victims will meet Ed campers next victim in just a few moments. Now back to the story. In August nineteen, seventy two two months after it had killed. Marianne Anita hikers stumbled across Marion's head. The police,

were able to identify Marianne via heard dental records. They organised a search for the rest of her body and any indication as to the whereabouts of Anita, but they were unable to find additional pieces of either woman. Unfortunately, police had no leads as to who had killed them. Add camper was simply to good at covering his tracks and remained free to kill for about four months. He was to hold back. His murderous urges, however, still unemployed as his resources dwindled and he came closer and closer to moving back in with his mother and fantasized about killing. Again, he soon got his chance just after dark on September 14th, one thousand nine hundred and seventy two twenty three year old, add camper spotted a young girl hitchhiking at a bus station. He stopped the car and asked her name. The girl was fifteen year old. I co coup she had missed,

thus to or dance practice and had no other way to get there. I co got into its car and they drove down the road making small talk to set her at ease. I code didn't suspect that anything was wrong with head until he pulled into the entrance of a dark and deserted forest. He then pulled a gun out from under his seat and had been thinking about his last kill. And what had gone wrong. He felt tat. He had lost control of the situation near the end, and this time he wanted his victim to trust him until the very last breath she took after I calls initial at assured her. She wasn't in any danger. He told her tat he was horribly depressed and that he had planned to kidnap her, kill her and then kill himself. However, he said that, after talking with Psycho, he had decided to spare her life. Now he just wanted someone to talk HU. During his last hours on earth, I echo was naturally suspicious, but Ed's charm slowly brought down her defences after I

Those initial panic she calm down and the two talked about Ed's fictional depression for a short time, confident that I co wouldn't want anywhere and got out of the car to get tape from his trunk. I Cosette calmly, in the passenger seat, waiting for a drive for home at closed the trunk and returned to the driver side door only to find that he had accidentally locked himself out. It was Ed's turned to panic

He had accidentally saved his victim from himself as I could have started the car and driven away at any moment he knocked on the window, hoping that he had successfully convinced I go that he wasn't a real threat. I call realized it was locked out. He was her kidnapper, but she believed that she had reached his troubled soul. She unlocked the car door, allowing it back into the car. This was a testament to how manipulative add could be one psycho unlocked the car door at attacked her and suffocated her until she fell unconscious. He raped. I co then strangled her. Ed loaded I closed body into his trunk and admired her corpse ass. He put it like a fisherman, admiring his catch, took Arcos corpse back to his apartment, or he dismembered her and had sex with her body. Much like as to prior victims. He scattered echoes body across

several deserted areas. Only a small number of her bones were ever found a new number twenty, ninth nineteen seventy to one month after when I go and met with his court ordered psychiatrist according to his parole requirements. After a lengthy discussion, the psychiatrist deemed Ed officially cured saying quote. If I were to see this patient without having any history available or getting any history from him, I would think that dealing with a very well adjusted young man who had initiative intelligence and who was free of any psychiatric illnesses and quote at the psychiatrist, urging Ed campers juvenile criminal record was expunged bestow. Believe dead. Camper would never kill again, but he was already dreaming of his next opportunity to murder.

Sometime in December, one thousand nine hundred and seventy two. When Ed was twenty, four financial pressure forced had to move back into his mother's home. He purchased a twenty two caliber pistol and went trolling for his next victim. On January, seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seventy three ed drove around the campus of Cabrillo College, a community college local to the area he spotted a hitchhiker and Her a ride. The hitchhikers name was Cindy shawl. She was eighteen years old, petite and pretty exactly Ed campers type. He followed, as usual, retain driving his victim in circles, while luring her into a false sense of security. With charming conversation, he drove Cindy to a secluded area, pulled his twenty two calibre pistol out from under a seat and shot Cindy in the head Cindy

died instantly, but Ed wasn't done with her. He stopped her body in his trunk, then drove home when his mother fell asleep. He brought Cindy's body into the house and hid her in his closet. He waited for his mother to leave for work the next day before he retrieved Cindy's body at had sex with Cindy's corpse, then decapitated and dismembered her. He disposed of Cindy's body parts in the Pacific Ocean just along the coast, but he kept her head over the next several days. Ed had sex with Cindy's head several times when he was done with it. He played his own version of a sick joke. He buried Cindy his head in his back yard, with her face looking up towards his mother's bedroom. This made him laugh because he knew that his mother always wanted people to look up to her even after killing six completely unrelated people. His mother was still the true target of his anger

The police retrieved most have Cindy's body from the ocean in less than twenty four hours they managed to peace. Her back together and by analyzing corpse finally decided that a pattern was emerging. Female hitchhikers were being dismembered, their body parts scattered to the wind. The police finally realised a serial killer was roaming the streets. Unfortunately, they had absolutely no leads to pursue the temper had eliminated all evidence connecting him to the crimes the unidentified serial killer was given the nicknames, the co aid killer and the co Ed butcher, because almost all of his victims were college students and watch the news. Is it spread

and colleges warned their students to stop hitchhiking. However, many of them didn't listen for the next few months and continued to pick up hitchhikers waiting for his opportunity to strike again. He remembered several the women he picked up talking to him about the serial killer, asking him who he thought the killer was Ed said that any time a woman brought up the cereal killings, they got a free ride. He didn't explain why he would let these women go. He only said that he couldn't touch that with a ten foot pole, it's possible that add, was dealing with some level of subconscious. Shame about his behaviour according to a study published in the Journal of Treatment and prevention, titled the roles of shame and guilt in hyper sexual behaviour, shame and guilt quote, have contrasting complimentary relationships related to the maintenance of hyper sexual behaviour and the motivation to change unwanted practices. End quote,

Julie when another person brought up ads actions. He felt somewhat full of shame that prevented him from acting out his darkest impulses. This would also expect why, during his actual murders, he couldn't stand it when his victim suspected, he was trying to kill them before he actually do of course, whatever ashamed at may have felt it didn't stop him from killing completely, and the Bay area grew ever more fearful of the colored killer, the University of California, Santa Cruz advised students to only hitchhiking cars that possessed official university parking stickers. Unfortunately, car now worked at you see I see and she had purchased at a parking sticker in case she ever needed to use his car to go to work on February, fifth, nineteen, seventy three ed and Coronel got into a particularly loud and ugly argument. Ed was furious any day.

I need to vent his anger towards his mother by killing once again drove to the you see, I see campus or he picked up to more hitchhikers twenty three year old, Rosalind Thorpe and twenty year old, Alison Lou. They were both college students at the university and adds parking sticker effectively trick them and to think He was a safe ride. Ed was so blood, thirsty and so angry at his mother that he simply couldn't wait to kill these two women. With it even stopping the car. He pulled out his twenty two caliber pistol. Shop Rosalind in the head at point. Blank range then opened fire on Alison in the back seat Roslin, died immediately and Alice

and was mortally wounded at pulled the car over shot Alison once more then hid the women's bodies in his trunk ed felt both invisible and invincible. He decided to flaunt his killing prowess by driving to his mother's home, opening the trunk and cap. Attaining the corpses right on the street. He said of his mother or his neighbors had looked out the window. He would have been caught right then, and there, unfortunately, nobody noticed instead of being caught and simply shot the trunk and left the bodies. Until morning when his mother left for work, he brought in Alice's body and Rosalind head, he removed the bullets from both had sex with each and dismembered them for disposal. He discarded the bullets, so they couldn't be traced to his gun and he said muttered their body parts along the countryside near Santa Cruz. One week later, several of the body parts were found, but once again,

and there was no evidence linking Ed camper to the crime. The news was filled with speculation about the Kohen killer, and the area became all the more fearful because of it and enjoyed the fact police were nowhere near capturing him, which made him feel powerful and manly Wildwood was boosting Z go by killing innocence. Another serial killer named Herbert Molin was also active in Santa Cruz area. Herbert Molin was an actual skits, a frantic who killed thirteen people at the behest of voices that he was hearing in his head. The combined killings of Ed and Herbert earned Santa Cruz them a calm down it'll murder, capital of the world, however Ed campers reign of terror was nearing its end through March April nineteen. Seventy three eggs slowly realised that he had gotten enough practice, killing that he could finally kill his real target. Fifty to Europe,

Coronel, strand Burg, his own mother S, told the story of cemented his resolve to kill her in an interview. Camper said quote: I knew week before she died, I was gonna, kill her and she went out to a party she got. Sauced came home, went to sleep. I was woken up by that I came out. I walked up to her bed she's, laying their reading a paper back as many thousands of nights before and she said oh Suppose you gonna wanna, sit up all night and talk now and I looked at her and I said now. I said night, and I knew I was going to kill her and quote on April 20th, one thousand nine hundred and seventy three twenty four year old and grab the claw hammer and a knife he waited until his mother's house. Asleep. Then he went back into her room, slit her throat and bludgeoned to death,

After years of fantasizing about killing his mother simply taking her love It was not enough to satisfy Ed's rage. He proceeded to commit several more depraved act. That all symbolized some aspect of his anger towards her and said that he did this to humiliate his mother and shame her memory ass, much ass, he could and show was mother exactly how much he hated her. Lastly, he destroyed her vocal cords. Ed said this was his final attempt to try Lee shut her up. He had listened to her nagging for his entire life, so he tried to destroy

her very ability to speak and hid. Her remains in the closet and did not want to go to prison and he knew people would come looking for his mother. He decided he would skipped town, perhaps even flee the country, but he needed to give himself as much time to flee as possible. He came up with what he thought was a clever plan to avoid suspicion, Agnew that of his mother failed to come into work. People would immediately look for her, but if both his mother and her best and failed to show up to their respective jobs. Their employers would simply assume that the two had gone on a weekend trip together. Cornell and her best friend, fifty nine year old, Sarah how it had been to go on impromptu vacations every once in a while. It would be strange for them to be absent from work, but not unprecedented. Of course. In order for any plan to succeed

or a hell, it would have to go missing along with his mother, called Sarah and asked if she wanted to help him through a surprise party for his mother. It would be a simple night just him Sarah and his mother, watching a movie together. Sarah took every chance she could to hang out with clear now and she thought surprising. Cornell with a movie was a wonderful idea, of course, three surprise wasn't for Clar. Now, at all, when Sarah arrived at home. He invited herein then lulled her into a false sense of security. Then he strangled her ebb, decapitated, Sarah's corpse and spent the night with her. Body he hid Cornell answer as bodies in a closet and clean the apartment took all the money mobile to amend the keys to Sarah's car. He drove as fast as he could out of town Heading east across the United States.

Over the next three days, Ed Group paranoid that the police were on his trail. He avoided major highways sticking to back roads to lessen his chance of being spotted. He checked newspapers at every gas station stop dad looking for news about his mother's murder, no news had come out. Nobody had found your body ed's, mind began to spiral into chaos. At any moment, her body could be found, and any moment he could become. One of most wanted people in America constantly on the run given that he was six feet. Nine inches tall, he stood anywhere. He went his paranoia became overwhelming, and he decided to put an end to all the running before the chase even began when on REACH Pueblo Colorado, he pulled up to a pay phone and call the Santa Cruz Police Department. He told the officer who answered that he had killed his mother and that they could find your corpse in the closet, the officer who picked

the phone recognised ed's voice, the two had been drinking bodies at the jury, room bar when Ed confessed, the officer thought I was joking and hung up the phone called again and ask to speak with a different officer. He confessed once more. The police department still didn't believe that I was telling the truth, but this time an officer state on the phone while other off. Hers searched colonels house, the police were shocked at the sight of cartels and Sarah's dismembered corpses hold them. He was in Pueblo, and Santa Cruz police officer stayed on the phone with ad, while Ed waited patiently to be arrested when the poor boy or police department arrived at, went with them willingly during the car ride to the police station, he confessed to the other six murders that had earned him. The nickname, the poet

the police were stunned. They simply couldn't understand why such a heinous man would turn himself in and told them tat. He had to stop himself. He said quote the original purpose: gone. It wasn't serving any physical or real or emotional purpose. It was just pure waste of time emotionally I couldn't handle it much longer toward the end there. I started feeling the Molly of the whole. Damn thing at the point of near exhaustion near collapse just said to Hell with it and called it all off. End quote its confession, likely held some social value as well. A study published in the Journal of Personality, titled, public confession and forgiveness, tested how people reacted to different scenarios while playing games in why experiment one test subject was told to cheat and then later confessed to cheating that person's confession.

Quote, found to have strong beneficial effects, particularly when given without a prior accusation and in big you as causal situations and quote. If a person confessed to cheating People were more willing to continue playing with the self confessed cheater. The confession also increased other players, positive perceptions of the cheaters character and personality tempers crimes could hardly be considered a game, but he confessed before anybody. Even new, a crime has been committed. People tend to look more fondly on those who confess even the key

cereal murderers. It explains why the cops initially thought he was joking. Of course, when the truth was revealed, the Pueblo Police Department sent out the word. The Kohen killer had finally been caught at story, swept the nation and when I finally went to trial everybody tuned into here, the verdict during the court proceedings and got a hold of some razor blades and attempted to puncture artery and his wrist. He was caught and saved from suicide, then only a few days later at attempted the same method of suicide. Again, his jail guards managed to find him for he bled out and Ed was kept alive. When reporters asked why it had attempted suicide, he claimed to be suffering from emotional distress after killing his mother s later said, his suicide attempts were the.

Result of anti psychotic. The court had prescribed him on November eight nineteen, seventy three Ed camper was convicted of eight council first degree murder. He was given multiple sentences of life in prison instead of life in prison, at insisted that he began when the death penalty, however, California, had put a moratorium on the death penalty and ed was kept alive once more. A return to a task Euro and suicidal urges gradually went away when it became clear to us that he was going to spend the rest of his life behind bars. He settled into his role as a prisoner and began to build as much of a life for himself ass. He could add, looked for any opportunity to keep himself busy

one of his favorite prison activities was Bonn tearing for a charity called the blind project were ed and other prisoners recorded books on tape for the blind and became a prolific reader narrating several hundred books on tape over the course of several decades, some of the titles he narrated included e B whites, the trumpet at the Swan God Emperor of doom by Frank Herbert and a novelist asian of the original star wars, Trilogy Ed, also narrated an audio book version of flowers, the attic by Vc Andrews. This book must have been a personal favorite of ads due to its themes of incest and child abuse from a matriarchal figure perform well at any task. The prison gave him. He took pride in his work

and his reputation as a talkative self aware model prisoner, spread. He soon drew the attention of two men named brought it Ressler and Johnny Douglas John and Robert were special agents in the FBI's behavioral science unit. John E Douglas became the first FBI agents to develop the idea of psychological profiling for criminals. He can't did it in the late nineteenth seventies and the trio began a series of long form interviews. Most of what we know about camper came from those interviews. They were personal and extremely in depth. Ed was an open book and it appeared to John and Robert that he didn't just want to talk about his past. He needs Two after thorough fact, checking John and Robert were also surprised that most of what had told them about his life was truthful. They had entered

other serial killers. Before and most of the killers they had spoken with had a difficult time describing their pasts or telling the truth at all. John and Robert also took notice of beds genius, I Q S, intelligence seem to have led ads, sexual level of introspection? Two giant Robert S seemed to have cracked most of his own psychological code. Ed's self described. Motives for murder, were unusually insightful and exceptionally helpful. When John and I ran into killers who didn't possess the intellect necessary to understand themselves. John and Robert Wade. Well to use Ed psychological profile to dive deeper into what made them tick s, mind and open course became, sort of a Rosetta stone for the psychology of cereal killing and John and Robert put it to great use. These interviews with good Camper were so influential in the FBI's later methods of criminal profiling got the interviews became immortalized.

Part of pop culture. The most recent example of being Netflix is two thousand seventeen tv show titled mind Hunter based on Johns book by the same name and Roberts book. Whoever fights, monsters, a ed. Camper is still alive and imprisoned in a task. A narrow. The seventy year old serial killer says he's happy with his life behind bars. He has waived his right to a parole hearing every year, since one thousand nine hundred and eighty five convinced nobody would let him out of prison anyway Nor should they, while it has managed to build a reputation as one of the friendliest prisoners in a task at harrow. He is, add on multiple occasions that if he were ever released, he would likely go right back to raping kid being an dismembering women, the Kohen killer. Maybe

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