Kemper fled the area the next day, driving east until he reached Pueblo, Colorado, where on April 23 he made a call to the Santa Cruz police to confess his crimes. Kemper strangled Hallett shortly after she arrived and hid her body in a closet. As he had with his other victims, he then decapitated her and cut off her hands, but then also removed her larynx and put it down the garbage disposal.Īfter hiding his mother's body parts, Kemper called his mother’s, friend Sally Hallett and invited her over to the house. Kemper attacked his mother after she went to sleep, first striking her in the head with a hammer, and then cutting her throat with a knife.
On Good Friday, he went to his mother’s home, where the two had an unpleasant exchange. In April 1973, Kemper committed what would be his last two murders. In March, some of Thorpe’s and Liu’s remains were discovered by hikers near Highway 1 in San Mateo County. After the murders, Kemper decapitated his two victims and further dismembered the bodies, removed the bullets from their heads and disposed of their parts in different locations. Shortly after picking them up, he shot the two young women then drove past the campus security at the gates with the two mortally wounded women in his car. He drove to the university, where he offered a ride to two students, Rosalind Thorpe and Alice Liu. On February 5, 1973, Kemper used a campus parking sticker his mother had given him to facilitate a double-murder. He buried her head in his mother's backyard. Several parts were later discovered when they washed up onshore. He dismembered her corpse there the following day and threw the parts into the ocean. While his mother was out, Kemper went to her home and hid Schall’s body in his room. In January 1973, Kemper continued to act on his murderous impulses, picking up hitchhiker Cindy Schall, whom he shot and killed. She would meet the same fate as Pesce and Luchessa. Later that year, on September 14, 1972, Kemper picked up 15-year-old Aiko Koo, who had decided to hitchhike rather than wait for the bus to take her to a dance class. In the new car he bought with some of his settlement money, Kemper began storing the tools he thought he might need to fulfill his murderous desires, including a gun, a knife and handcuffs. He noticed a large number of young women hitchhiking in the area. Unable to work, Kemper turned his mind toward other pursuits.
His arm was badly injured, and he received a $15,000 settlement in the civil suit he filed against the car’s driver. The same year he began working for the highway department, Kemper was hit by a car while out on his motorcycle. Kemper even had a car that resembled a police cruiser. One gave him a training-school badge and handcuffs, while another let him borrow a gun, according to Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert K. Kemper had applied to become a state trooper, but he was rejected because of his size - he weighed around 300 pounds and was 6 feet 9 inches tall, which led to his nickname “Big Ed.” However, he did hang around some of the Santa Cruz police officers. Kemper was eventually sent to Atascadero State Hospital, a maximum-security facility for mentally ill convicts. He underwent a variety of tests, which determined that he had a very high IQ, but also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. For his crimes, Kemper was handed over to the California Youth Authority.
Later, Kemper would say that he shot his grandmother "to see what it felt like." He added that he had killed his grandfather so that the man wouldn't have to find out that his wife had been murdered. The 15-year-old shot his grandmother in the kitchen after an argument, and when his grandfather returned home, Kemper went outside and shot him by his car and then hid the body.Īfterward, he called his mother, who told him to call the police and tell them what happened. On August 27, 1964, Kemper finally turned his building rage on his grandparents. Before going to North Fork, he had already begun learning about firearms, but his grandparents took away his rifle after he killed several birds and other small animals. Kemper hated living on his grandparents' farm.
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