Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 13, 1948 in Burbank, California. He was born from the union of Edmund E. Kemper Jr. and Clarnell Strandberg. After his parents divorced, Clarnell brought Kemper along with his two sisters to live up to his very high standards and violent ways. He mentally berated Kemper into sleeping in a windowless basement because he feared the harm he might cause to his sisters. In turn, this caused the hatred he had for her to harden and turn into hatred against all women. On many occasions Kemper broke the heads and hands of his sister's dolls and also made them play a game he called "The Gas Chamber" in which he was the victim to be executed (Fisher, 2003a). At the age of 10, Kemper began to show signs of real violence. He was sent to live with his father after his mother found the remains of their two pet cats in his closet, one decapitated and the other cut into pieces, from the use of a machete. Once in his father's care, he ran away and was then quickly shipped off to live with his paternal grandparents on a remote California ranch. At this point in Kemper's life he was a young teenager who stood six feet tall and weighed well over 200 pounds. Not only did he have to deal with strict rules and a dysfunctional lifestyle at home, Kemper also endured teasing and torment from peers at school. Most days he would sit and daydream about killing everyone in the world. Kemper later described himself as a “walking time bomb” (Ramsland, 2006a). Kemper felt that his grandmother treated him the same way as his mother, thus making it easy for him to transfer his anger onto her. On an August afternoon in 1963, Kemper shot his grandmother in the back of the head with a .22 caliber rifle and stabbed her repeatedly around the body. When his grandfather returned home, he also used the gun against him by shooting him as he exited his vehicle (Fisher, 2003b). This was the first murder of the future serial killer known as the "Co-ed Killer". After killing his grandparents, Kemper was convicted through the juvenile court system and sent to Atascadero, a maximum security hospital where he spent the rest of his life. childhood. For Ramsland (2006b) Kemper was released to his mother at age 21, despite his doctor's wishes.