Edmund Kemper
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Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women, including his own mother, and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper
Mug shot taken on April 28, 1973
Mug shot of Kemper taken at Atascadero State Hospital in 1964
Mug shot of Kemper taken on November 9, 1973
Kemper in 2019
Ed Gein
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Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin,
Edmund Kemper
…conducted in April 2024 classified him as a "high risk" to reoffend. Kemper and fellow serial killers Ted Bundy, Gary M. Heidnik, Jerry Brudos, and Ed Gein were used as an inspiration for the character of Buffalo Bill in Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs. Like Kemper, Buffalo Bill fatally…
Gein, c. 1958
The 1930 US census with Gein, 13th name from the top, in Plainfield, Wisconsin
Gein's vandalized grave marker as it appeared in 1999 before thieves stole it