People are deeply disturbed by a clip of Mindhunter killer Ed Kemper explaining why he murdered his own mum.
Watch below:
California-born Edmund Kemper is a serial killer who murdered eight people from May 1972 to April 1973, including a 15-year-old girl, his own mother and her best friend.
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Years earlier, Kemper was 15 years old when he killed his paternal grandparents.
Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, and dismemberment.
He would pick up female students who were hitchhiking and take them to isolated areas where he would shoot, stab, smother, or strangle them.
You might remember Kemper's character feature in the first season of Netflix' Mindhunter, played by Cameron Britton.
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The series, which lasted two seasons, was based on the 1995 true-crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker.
Kemper's trial took place in 1973, where he was deemed sane and guilty at the same time.
The killer requested the death penalty for his crimes, but capital punishment was suspended in California at the time.
He instead received eight life sentences and was incarcerated in the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
Kemper was once interviewed in 1981's The Killing of America documentary where he explains why he killed his mother.
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The clip has resurfaced on social media and viewers are deeply disturbed.
"I've wanted to kill my mother since I was eight years old and I'm not proud of that," he said.
"A month later I'm living with my grandparents in the mountains and ten months later I murdered them.
"It made it worse to be on top of a mountain.
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"I was literally on top of a mountain when it happened and I sensed everybody in the world just stopping what they were doing, turning around, saw what I did and are coming to get me.
"And I knew I was paranoid at that moment.
"I knew anybody that came up to there and gave me a funny look or a fishy eye or quizzical look, I'd have blown their brains out, thinking they were coming to get me."
"And if it would have been in a city I would have been a mass murderer at age 15," he added.
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"I would have killed until they'd have gunned me down.
"I wouldn't have been able to reason my way out of it.
"I was scared to death and I was violent.
"I felt when my back hit that wall, I was the rabbit that always ran, that always backed away, always burns his bridges.
"Suddenly there weren't anymore."
Commenting on the clip, one viewer wrote: "So he just wants to kill. Thats weird tbh."
"Unbelievable, he should be behind bars," another added.
"It seems he doesn't care," a third wrote.
Topics: Crime, True Crime, Documentaries
Anish Vij