real life murderers versus the cast
Edmund Kemper was a recurring 'character' in series 1 of Mindhunter - and actor Cameron Britton is back playing the real life murderer in the second series, too.
Kemper talks in the series about his damaged relationship with his mother and grandmother - and his subsequent crimes evidence that. In 1964, at the age of just 15, Kemper shot his grandmother, Maude Matilda Hughey Kemper, after the two had an argument. Shortly afterwards, when his grandfather returned home from doing the shopping, Kemper killed him with a rifle in the driveway. He murdered his grandad because, that way, he 'would not have to find out that his wife was dead'.
The teenager was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, and Kemper was sent to the California Youth Authority. There, however, psychiatrists disagreed with the young killer's initial diagnosis, and re-assessed him as having a personality trait disorder. Kemper displayed the perfect prisoner behaviour, and managed to endear himself enough to be awarded parole. He was released from prison on his 21st birthday, on December 18, 1969.
Kemper - by this time, a 6ft 9, 21 stone man - didn't kill again for another three years. But by 1972, he began another murdering spree. He murdered 18-year-old hitchhiking students, Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Mary Luchessa, in May 1972, and over the next 9 months killed four more young women. Kemper's string of murders came to an end when he ended up murdering his own mother, Clarnell Strandberg, and her friend Sally Hallett.
Kemper decapitated his mother and proceeded to do unthinkable things to her body. Years later, describing why he'd attempted to cut out his mother's vocal cords after her death, Kemper said: "That seemed appropriate - as much as she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years."
Edmund Kemper turned himself into the police following those last murders, and even requested the death sentence. Instead, after he was found to be legally sane and guilty of eight further murders, he was sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences. Kemper is now 70, and is still serving his prison time in the California Medical Facility.
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