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where he had sex with the body before dissecting it in the bathtub. He removed the bullet from the girls head and buried the decapitated head in the garden. The remaining body parts were discarded in a ravine.
    On February 5, 1973, Edmund went hunting for victims after having a heated discussion with his mother. He encountered Rosalind Thorpe, 24, and Allison Liu, 23, at the UC Santa Cruz Campus. After getting in his car, Kemper shot and killed both girls with his .22 handgun. After wrapping the bodies in a blanket, he drove to his mother’s house again where he dismembered them while his mother was in the backyard tending to her garden. He had sex with their bodies and discarded them off a cliff.
    On April 20, 1973 (Good Friday), Kemper killed his mother with a hammer while she slept. He then cut off her head which he first used for oral sex before using it as a dart board. He put her vocal chords in the garbage disposal because he said 'she bitched and screamed at me for years'. He then invited his mother's friend Sally Hallett, 59, to come over to the house. Upon her arrival he strangled her to death and left the crime scene as it was, without cleaning anything up.
    Kemper left California and while driving through Colorado he heard about the murder of his mother and her friend on the radio. He called the police and confessed then he waited for a patrol car to come and arrest him.
    He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, however, in November 1973 he was convicted of eight counts of murder.

 
    - 3 - Stephen Arnold Ford

    Steve, 38, and his wife Kathleen, 37 had two children, Stephen 17 and Jennifer 15. They were a normal, average family. They lived on a quiet street in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada.
    Despite normal everyday family issues, their only big concern was Stephen. When he was 9 years old, he was assaulted by a babysitter and was quite traumatized. He received several years of treatment and counseling but to no avail. At age 10, he tried to commit suicide by slashing his wrists.
    Stephen became a rebellious teen. He would stay out late at night, sometimes using alcohol or drugs. He turned to petty crime, then to breaking and entering and finally armed robbery. He was out of control at 16. The tension mounted in the house, and the neighbours reported constant nightly screaming and fighting. Kathleen became depressed and began suffering from nightmares and migraines. Her doctor prescribed Valium to help calm her anxiety as well as anti-depressants. Steve was also stressed to the point he had developed heart problems and palpitations.
    At age17, Stephen attempted suicide again when he swallowed 62 of his mother's anti-depressants pills. A friend found Stephen and his suicide note and called an ambulance. He was revived but the doctors doubted his chances of a full recovery and thought he might remain in a coma or die. But, a week later he did recover fully and underwent extensive psychiatric treatment. Prior to being released from hospital, Steve and Kathleen sought additional advice from counselors and they attempted to instigate rules in the house. They sold their home and moved to Calgary hoping to start a new life, a new beginning for the family of four. But it seemed that his parents were afraid to enforce the rules in fear that he would retaliate or try to commit suicide again. Tough-love also didn't seem to work. Stephen quit school, started committing criminal acts again, and was diagnosed with an anti-social disorder.
    On August 1, 1989, Stephen’s sister, Jennifer was babysitting overnight for her cousin. Her dad was to pick her up at 9:30am the next morning.
    This same evening Stephen and a few friends watched “Bat 21” a violent Vietnam war movie on TV, while his parents slept upstairs. Stephen was drunk and in the mood to party. According to Stephen, their dog urinated on his foot and at that point, he lost control and became violent. He went out to the shed, picked up an axe and proceeded to his