Ed Kemper Quotes

“bad home environment is not enough to cause paranoid schizophrenia, although it is important in juvenile delinquency and in psychopathic or sociopathic behavior.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“He does not suffer from hallucinations but selects his victims for the purpose of venting certain deeply rooted sexual and sadistic urges, such as the need to mutilate parts of the victim’s body to achieve sexual satisfaction.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“Lunde categorized Kemper as a “sadistic sociopathic killer” and noted that as hard as the medical profession tries, such killers can’t be treated and cured.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“I don’t want him out walking the streets; and in his most lucid moments, neither does he. But my personal feelings about him then, which I still hold, do point up an important consideration for anyone dealing with repeat violent offenders. Many of these guys are quite charming, highly articulate, and glib.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“Now you see them. Car pulls over. Now you don’t. Whoosh.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“He ached for people to “respect my athoratiiii.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“The second time he was tested, Ed’s score jumped to 145, higher than 99 percent of the population. Ed was not only evil: he was now a certified “Evil Genius,” a designation that pleased him to no end.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“I just wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma,” he famously intoned.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“Ed would later conclude that it’s better that some children and teenagers commit suicide or recklessly kill themselves before they grow up to do antisocial things. That something inside them knows the dark path they are headed down. They sense what evil behaviors would manifest in the future. He suggested that society shouldn’t mourn these lost children, but rather understand that what they did was for the best, for the greater good.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“I wanted to kill my mother since I was eight years old. I’m not proud of that.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“I taught women not to hitchhike.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher