Once buried a kitten alive, dug it up again, decapitated it and put the head on a spike. Cruelty to cats didn't end there though; when he was a young lad he killed lots of local cats and dogs. One cat had the top of its head sliced off. It went into spasms, as its brain was exposed, and then Ed stabbed it to death. Oh, he burned it too, afterwards, just in case it wasn't dead enough.
In April 1973, Kemper battered his mother to death with a pick hammer while she slept. He performed a sexual indignity to her decapitated head before using it as a dartboard. He also cut out her vocal cords and put them in the garbage disposal, but the machine could not break the tough tissue down and regurgitated it back into the sink. "That seemed appropriate," Ed said after his arrest, "as much as she'd bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years." His murderous urges not yet satiated, he then invited his mother's best friend over and killed her too, by strangulation.
Maude Kemper August 27, 1964
Ed Emil Kemper August 27, 1964
Mary Anne Pisce May 5, 1972
Anita Luchese May 5, 1972
Aiko Koo September 14, 1972
Cindy Schall January 8, 1973
Rosalind Thorpe February 5, 1973
Alice Lui February 5, 1973
Clarnell Strandberg April 21, 1973
Sally Hallett April 21, 1973