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head, face, torso and arms. The fractures and bruises on his arms indicated that he tried to defend himself from the aluminum bat.
    The prosecution again announced that if the boys admitted to first-degree murder they would receive life in prison and not the death penalty. Both declined as their lawyers again thought they would be tried as juveniles. But as time went by, it was evident that if the lawyers continued to press for a juvenile trial, they would likely lose and then their strategy would be revealed to the prosecution.
    So on December 7, Bryan ended the possibility of a trial by admitting to killing his mother. A week later, David also admitted his guilt and told the judge that he had taken part in the killing of his father and brother. Both were sentenced to life in prison. Nelson “Benny” Birdwell was only convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Dennis Freeman and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
     

 
    - 2 -  Edmund Kemper

    AKA The Co-ed Killer
     
    Edmund “Big Ed” Kemper III stands 6' 9” and weighs in at over 300 pounds and was an active serial killer in the early 1970's in California. At the age of 15 years old, he murdered his grandparents. He would later go on to kill six female hitchhikers as well as his mother and her friend.
    At an early age, Kemper exhibited sociopathic behavior including playing with his sister's dolls, stabbing cats, and weird sexual rituals. His mother was an alcoholic and would verbally abuse him. She would also make him sleep in the basement in fear that he would rape his little sister. Unlike his mother, Edmund had a close relationship with his father so when they divorced he was devastated and blamed his mother.
    In 1963, Edmund, 15, ran away from home and searched for his father in Van Nuys only to find out that his father had remarried and had another son. His father sent him back to his mother who in turn sent him to live with his grandparents, Edmund and Maude Kemper, in Montana. Considering the rejections from his parents it is not surprising that he never had a good relationship with them.
    On August 27, 1964, Edmund and his grandmother got into an argument and he fatally shot her in the head. Then he stabbed her repeatedly. He waited until his grandfather returned from the grocery store and also killed him with a gun. Edmund called his mother and she encouraged him to call the police and turn himself in, which he did.
    He was committed to a state hospital where he stayed for almost five years before being released to his mother's care. He later convinced psychologists that he was mentally recovered and thus had his juvenile records sealed. In 1972, Kemper started his serial killings.
    Kemper was driving in Berkeley on May 7, 1972 when he picked up hitchhikers Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa, students from Fresno State. He drove to a secluded wooded area near Alameda where he smothered Pesce and then stabbed both her and Anita to death. He carried their corpses to his apartment in the trunk of his car. In the apartment, he dismembered both bodies, took pictures of the body parts and even had oral sex with Mary Ann's decapitated head. He then disposed of the body parts in a ravine.
    September 14, 1972, Aiko Koo, 15, was waiting for a bus when she decided to hitchhike instead. Kemper drove up, pointed a gun at her to get in the car and then proceeded to strangle her. This time he took her body back to his mother’s house where he raped and dissected her body.
    After dismembering Aiko, he buried the head in his mother's flower garden as a joke. He later said that his mother 'always wanted people looking up to her'. The remaining body parts were buried in his mother's backyard.
    Kemper was driving around Cabrillo College Campus on the night of January 7, 1973 when he picked up Cindy Schall, 19, and drove her to a wooded area where he killed her with a .22 caliber handgun. Again, he brought the body home in his trunk to his mother's house