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The Unfortunate Story of Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden was born on July 19, 1860 in Massachusetts. Her parents were Sarah and Andrew Borden. Her father grew up in a modest home. He struggled financially as a young man, but eventually prospered as a manufacturer of furniture and caskets. He would later become a property developer. He directed several textile mills and owned commercial properties as well. He eventually became president of the Union Savings Bank and director of the Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Co. At the time of his death, his net worth was around $300,000 (over 9 million dollars in today's money).
Despite being wealthy, Andrew was very frugal. The Borden's had no indoor plumbing even though it was common for wealthy people to have at this time.
Lizzie had an older sister named Emma. Both girls were very active in their church. Lizzie even taught at the local Sunday school.
Three years after the death of Lizzie's mother, Andrew married a woman named Abby. Lizzie often referred to her as "Mrs. Borden," as she wasn't too fond of Abby. She believed that Abby only married her father for his money. The Borden's had a live in maid named Bridget, who the family referred to as "Maggie." Bridget was a 25 year old Irish immigrant. She would later testify that Lizzie didn't spend a lot of time with her parents. A family argument in 1892 led to both sisters spending time away from home. The girls returned home one week before the murder of their parents.
Tension had been growing amongst the family for months. Lizzie was especially upset about her father giving away some of his property to Abby's family members. The sisters eventually used these occurrences to demand rental property of their own, which Andrew gave to them. The purchased the home from their father for $1. The eventually sold the property back to their father for $5,000 ( the equivalent of over $163,000 today). The night before the murders, Lizzie's uncle John Morse came to stay at the Borden residence for a few days to talk about business. A subject that could have led to tensions rising between the two men.
Before the murders, the Borden family had fallen ill all at the same time. It was speculated to be caused by eating mutton that had been left out for several days. Abby, however, speculated that they had been poisoned.
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-Lizzie Borden
Morse arrived on the night of August 3rd and spent the night in the Bordens' guest room. The family ate breakfast together the next morning. Then Andrew and Morse went into the sitting room to chat for almost an hour. Morse left the house afterwards to buy some oxen and visit his niece. He planned to return around lunch time. Andrew left for his morning walk at around 9 am.
Abby went upstairs to make the bed in the guest room between 9 am and 10:30 am. Abby then turned around to face her killer straight on. She was struck in the side of her head with a hatchet. This caused her to fall face down onto the ground. The fall caused many contusions on her face and nose. The killer then hit her 17 more times in the back of the head with the hatchet, killing her.
Andrew arrived back at home at around 10:30 am, but his key failed to unlock the front door. Bridget tried to open the door for him, but it was jammed. Bridget later testified to hearing Lizzie laugh from the second floor during this struggle to open the door. This is a significant detail, seeing as how Abby was already dead on the second floor by this time. Lizzie later said she wasn't on the second floor at all. She said that her father asked her where Abby was. Lizzie responded by saying that a messenger had given Abby a summons to visit one of her friends who was ill.
Andrew accepted this information and laid down on the sofa to take a nap. Bridget claimed to have gone upstairs to the third floor to take a nap. She said she was awoken at 11:10 am by Lizzie calling for her, that someone had killed her father.
Andrew was found slumped on the couch. He had been struck at least 10 times with a hatchet. One of his eyes was split completely into two pieces. It's believed that he was still asleep when he was attacked. He had been killed recently because his wounds were still bleeding at the time of discovery. A Dr. Bowen lived across the street from the Bordens. He came over and pronounced both man and wife dead. It's believed that Andrew was killed at around 11 am.
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-Andrew Borden
Lizzie gave contradictory statements to the police. She claimed to hearing a groan or scratching noise when she arrived home. A few hours later she told police that she didn't hear anything upon entering the house. Police asked about Abby's whereabouts when Lizzie recounted the story of her sick friend. Bridget proceeded to search for Abby to see if she had returned home unknowingly. That was when Abby was found lying on the floor upstairs.
Police believed that Lizzie was too calm and collected during interviews. However, they didn't check her person for bloodstains. Police roughly searching the Borden resident, but admitted to not doing a thorough search because Lizzie "wasn't feeling well." Police would be vastly criticized later for this.
In the Bordens' basement, police found: two hatchets, a hatchet with a broken handle, and two axes. It is believed that the broken hatchet was the murder weapon, as the break appeared to be fresh. None of the tools were removed from the home. The family (including the dead couple) were tested for poisoning. No poison was present. Lizzie attempted to buy hydrocyanic acid before the murders. She claimed it was to be used to clean her furs.
Two people stayed the night with Lizzie and Emma on the night after the murders, their friend Alice Russell and John Morse. Police camped out for the night outside of the Borden house. They claimed to have seen Lizzie and Alice enter the basement once and then to also have seen Lizzie return to the basement alone. Police then claimed to have seen Lizzie bent over a sink.
Morse attempted to leave the Borden house on August 5th, but had to be escorted back by the police due to being swarmed by a mob of people. Police did a more thorough search of the house on August 6th where they then removed the hatchet head. Lizzie was informed that she was a suspect in the crime later that night. Alice found Lizzie tearing up a dress in her kitchen on the morning of August 7th. She stated that she planned to burn the dress due to getting paint on it. It's unknown whether that dress was the dress she was wearing on the day of the murders or not.
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-Lizzie and Emma Borden
Lizzie's inquest hearing was on August 8. She was given several doses of morphine to calm her nerves, which could have affected her testimony. She acted very erratically. She refused to answer several questions, even when answering was in her best interest. She contradicted herself by giving varying accounts of what happened on the morning of the murders.
The district attorney didn't take it easy on Lizzie. She was arrested and jailed on August 11. The inquest testimony was eventually thrown out of court and ruled as inadmissible during her June 1893 trial. Many of Lizzie's friends and family remained on her side until they heard her testimony during the inquest trial. The inquest trial was talked about worldwide and even made an appearance in The Boston Globe. A grand jury began looking over evidence in Lizzie's case on November 7. She was later indicted on December 2.
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-Depiction of Lizzie Borden during her trial
Lizzie's trial began on June 5. On June 1, another axe murder took place in Fall River which very closely resembled the Borden murders. This was noted by the jury. However, a perpetrator was found guilty in that case. It was proven that he was nowhere near where the Bordens' were killed at the time of their murder.
A prominent point in the trial was the discovery of the hatchet head that was found in the basement. Prosecutors argued that the perpetrator removed the handle from the hatchet because it was covered in blood. Although there was no bloody clothes found at the scene, the point of Lizzie burning one of her dresses was brought up. The defense never attempted to challenge this point.
Lizzie's presence at the crime scene was also heavily disputed. Lizzie claimed that she was outside in the barn for "twenty minutes or possibly a half an hour" during the time of the murder. Lizzie called for Bridget to come downstairs at around 11:10 am to alert her of Andrew Borden's death. She then sent Bridget to fetch a doctor.
Both heads of the Bordens' were removed for their autopsies. Their skulls were admitted as evidence to the trial. Lizzie fainted upon seeing them. Evidence of Lizzie purchasing prussic acid from a local drug store was excluded from the trial. This was due to the judge finding the incident too remote in time to have a connection to the case.
The jury deliberated for and hour and a half before ruling to acquit Lizzie of any charges. When she left the courthouse she told a reporter that she was "the happiest woman in the world."
This trial is comparable to the O.J. Simpson trial as far as infamy goes. The Borden case is a landmark in publicity and public interest in historical American legal proceedings.
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-Jury that acquitted Lizzie Borden
After the trial Lizzie and Emma moved into a large house together. Lizzie began using the name "Lizbeth Borden." The girls inherited both Andrew and Abby Borden's estates.
Lizzie was ostracized by the people around her. She was later accused of shoplifting in 1897. In 1905 Emma moved away from Lizbeth after an argument. The sisters never saw each other again.
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-Lizbeth Borden in her later years
Lizbeth died of pneumonia on June 1, 1927. She was 66 years old. Very few people attended her funeral, and the services weren't published in the local newspaper. Oddly enough, Emma died nine days later from nephritis. Neither sister had ever married. They were buried side by side in a family cemetery plot.
Lizbeth was worth $250,000 at the time of her death. She owned a house, office buildings, shares in utilities, two cars, and a vast amount of jewelry. She left $30,000 to the Fall River Animal Rescue League and $500 for the care of her father's grave. She left $6,000 to a cousin and a close friend. Several other friends and family members received between $1,000 and $5,000.
Lizzie's life was immortalized in a jump rope rhyme: "Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty sacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty one."
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UNSOLVED But Not Forgotten: The Long Island Serial Killer
I decided to write about a case that’s always been heavy on my mind, and that hits close to home. Literally. Being born and raised in Long Island, New York, and not living far from where these tragedies took place, makes me really wish that we could solve this horrible mystery someday, and bring justice to all these victims, and closure to their loved ones. 
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The Long Island Serial Killer (LISK), also known as the Gilgo Beach Killer, the Manorville Butcher, and the Craigslist Ripper. Over the timespan of 26 years, an unidentified killer murdered between 10-18 people within the years of 1996 and 2011, before bodies just stopped showing up. It’s unclear if the killer is a man or a woman, but considering most of the victims are women who happened to be sex workers, it’s assumed the killer is a man. Police didn’t first start discovering bodies until December 11th, 2010, while searching for a missing woman named Shannan Gilbert. It was then when they found her remains, along with the remains of multiple other women all along the South Shore of both Suffolk and Nassau county. 
For a long time it was speculated that there were multiple killers dropping bodies around these areas, but on November 29th, 2011, police stated that they believe only one person is responsible for all of the murders, considering the common characteristics in which the remains were left, and forensic evidence related to the remains. Majority of the bodies were not found with all limbs intact, and their remains were often scattered in different areas, probably to make it harder for police to identify the victims. In June of 2011, police announced a $25,000 reward for anyone who can give them information leading to the arrest of Long Island serial murderers. As of 2023, all of the murders remain unsolved. 
There were very few suspects, but ultimately were found to be unrelated to the murders. Additionally, there was new evidence brought to light in January of 2020, an image of a belt that was found at one of the crime scenes. The belt was made of black leather, and had the letters “HM” or “WH” labeled on the belt. Police believe that the belt belonged to the killer, and wasn’t in the possession of any of the victims. Police decided against telling the public the evidentiary value of the item, and wouldn’t release where it was exactly found. They also stated that new scientific evidence was also being used in the investigation, along with launching a website called gilgonews.com, enabling the department to release news and receive tips regarding the case. 
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VICTIMS AND THE TIMELINE OF WHEN THEY WERE FOUND
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February 1st, 1982: Tina Foglia (19) *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED* 
Remains were found in three separate garbage bags next to the Southern State Parkway. The DNA of an unknown man was found on the bags.
April 20th, 1996: Fire Island Jane Doe
Two female legs wrapped in a plastic bag were found on the bayside shore of Fire Island. The victim's skull was later discovered on April 11th, 2011, west of Tobay Beach in Nassau county. The two sets of remains were linked by DNA. 
June 28th, 1997: Peaches
The dismembered torso of a woman was found in Hempstead Lake State Park. She was given the nickname Peaches due to a tattoo of a heart shaped peach on her left breast. 
In 2011, police found skeletal remains in a plastic bag, near Jones Beach State Park, and was identified as being the remains of Peaches. 
November 19th, 2000: Manorville Jane Doe
The torso of a woman was discovered by hitchhikers in the Long Island Pine Barrens in Manorville. The torso was found wrapped in garbage bags and were found in the woods near Halsey Manor Road. 
On April 4th, 2011, a skull, a pair of hands, and a right foot, were found in a plastic bag near Ocean Parkway on Gilgo Beach. They were linked by DNA to the Manorville Jane Doe.
In May of 2020, it was announced that the Manorville Jane Doe was actually a woman named Valerie Mack (24). 
November 23, 2000: *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
Hunters found the body of a white or Hispanic man in the woods off the eastbound side of the Long Island Expressway (LIE) near Exit 68 in North Shirley. The victim had black hair and was wearing blue-and-white striped GAP boxer shorts. His age was estimated to be between 30 and 45. He was 5'6" to 6 feet tall and weighed 130-150 pounds. A surgical staple was noted embedded in his chin. He had multiple traumatic injuries, including a crushed larynx, implying he was strangle
July 26th, 2011: Jessica Taylor (20)
A dismembered torso, missing it’s head and hands, were discovered in Manorville, with a tattoo on her back which was mutilated. Her identity was confirmed 7 months later after releasing images of the tattoo. 
On May 9, 2011, a skull, a pair of hands, and a forearm found on March 29 at Gilgo Beach were matched to Jessica Taylor
November 10th, 2003: *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
A badly decomposed body was found in Manorville, 400 yards south of the Long Island Expressway, near Toppings Path. A hunter discovered the body in a wooded area about three miles east of the woods where the bodies of Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack had been dumped. Autopsy results were inconclusive. The victim was Caucasian, 35 to 50 years old, about 5'6" and had died up to four months earlier. 
The victim was identified in 2015, but the family asked authorities not to release his name. The case remains an active homicide investigation.
March 3rd, 2007: Cherries *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
A suitcase containing the dismembered torso of an unidentified Hispanic or light-skinned African-American female washed up on a beach at Harbor Island Park in Mamaroneck. A few weeks later her legs washed up in different areas of Long Island. A stab wound was noted on the torso. She had a tattoo of two cherries on her right breast. Never identified, she is referred to as "Cherries" by investigators.
July 9th, 2007: Maureen Brainard-Barnes (25)
was last seen in her room at the Super 8 Hotel in midtown Manhattan. She had left her home in Norwich, CT to meet a client she had booked through Craigslist. She was reported missing on July 14, 2007. Maureen's body would be found December 13, 2010 next to Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. She had been strangled.
June 23rd, 2008: Tanya Rush (39) *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
She was last seen around 3 a.m. walking toward a subway station in Brooklyn. Her dismembered body was discovered on June 27, 2008 in Bellmore crammed inside a suitcase. 
July 12th, 2009: Melissa Barthelemy (24)
Melissa was last seen outside her apartment on Underhill Avenue in the Bronx. She had arranged for a $1,000 date with a client the next night somewhere on Long Island. After her disappearance, her sister received several phone calls from a man using Melissa's cell phone and claiming to be her killer.
Melissa's body was discovered December 11, 2010 beside Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. Her cause of death was strangulation.
May 1st, 2010: Shannan Gilbert (23) *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
She disappeared after leaving a client's house in Oak Beach. Shannan called 911 and claimed people were trying to kill her. She fled from the house and was last seen banging on doors of homes in the neighborhood while screaming for help. After 19 months of searching, her body was discovered December 13, 2011 in an Oak Beach marsh.
June 6th, 2010: Megan Waterman (22) 
She was last seen in Hauppauge, NY walking toward a nearby convenience store. She had been staying in a Holiday Inn Express in Hauppauge and was captured by a security camera walking out of the hotel at around 1:30 in the morning. Megan's body was discovered on December 13th, 2010, next to Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach. She had been strangled.
September 2nd, 2010: Amber Lynn Costello (27)
She was last seen by her roommate leaving her home in North Babylon to meet a client. The client had called three or four times and offered Amber $1,500 for her services. Police discovered Amber's body on December 13, 2010, beside Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. She had been strangled.
April 4th, 2011: Baby Doe
An unidentified female toddler referred to as "Baby Doe." She was found wrapped in a blanket with no apparent signs of trauma. She was later identified as being the daughter of Peaches, linked by DNA.
February 7th, 2012: *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
Skeletal remains are discovered in the woods in Manorville, off North Street and west of Wading River Road. The body was wrapped in bed sheets, a plastic bag, and duct tape. Police determined the victim was a male and estimated the body had been there at least five years.
January 23rd, 2013: *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
The skeletal remains of a woman were discovered in a garbage bag along the shore in Lattingtown, NY. The victim was wearing a 24-karat gold pink pendant, which may be a reference to "The Year of the Pig" in some Asian cultures.
March 16th, 2011: Natasha Jugo *NOT OFFICIALLY LINKED*
She was last seen leaving her home in Queens Village, NY. Her car was found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach the next day. Her wallet, ID, and some of her clothing were found in the sand. On June 24, 2013, Jugo's body washed up on Gilgo Beach about a mile from where her car was found in March.
WAS TINA FOGLIA THE FIRST VICTIM OF THE LISK? OR WAS HER CASE COMPLETELY UNRELATED?
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As you probably noticed, Tina Foglia (19) was the very first person on the victims list. However, her murder took place twelve years before the killing spree started. Many speculations went around regarding this theory, due to the manner of which her body was disposed of, and that it wasn’t too far away from where the bodies of the other victims were found. However, police stated that although it’s possible that the murder could be linked, it’s unlikely that it is, and they’re not pursuing it as an active route in their investigation. For a long time I assumed that the murder had to have been linked. I thought that maybe the killer had just started out, and was afraid of what happened and took a long break. Sort of like what Jeffrey Dahmer did after he killed his very first victim. Or perhaps he had killed other women, but their remains were just never found. However, after looking deeper into the evidence, I started to question my assumption. Primarily due to two reasons: Who she was as a person, and how her remains were discarded. 
The Long Island Serial Killer primarily targeted sex workers, and from our knowledge from her family and friends, Tina was not participating in sex work. She was just a very outgoing and energetic teenager who loved the music scene, and always went to concerts, especially at a big concert venue called Hammerheads. However, she was known to leave bars and clubs with strangers somewhat often, as she was a very trusting person who wanted to see the good in everyone. In regards to her remains, her remains were indeed dismembered, but they were all put into separate bags that were right next to each other, in the exact same area. The LISK clearly disposed of the victims' remains by discarding them all in different areas, most likely to refrain from their identities being discovered. The person who discarded Tina’s remains clearly didn’t care about her identity being discovered. 
Again, if this was the LISK, maybe since she was their first victim, he didn’t really think anything through properly, and again, could’ve been experimenting with their signature or MO. Police are still waiting for a match to come up in the database regarding the DNA that was left on the garbage bags. One last piece of information was that, according to Tina’s sister, she had met a man at Hammerheads who claimed to have been a doctor. She didn’t tell anyone his name, but said that she went on multiple dates with him. It’s possible that she could have gone home with this man, or someone else, but police think that whoever had killed her must’ve had a medical background due to the very precise way that she was dismembered. It was like they used a tool, such as a knife or some kind of medical instrument, opposed to a hatchet or an axe. Basically, it was done in such a way that a normal person most likely couldn’t have done it. Perhaps the man could’ve been a butcher. I’m hoping that one day Tina’s mystery will be solved, so her loved ones could finally get the closure that they deserve.
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The Murder of Kimberly Leach
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Kimberly Diane Leach was a 12-year-old schoolgirl, she was in the seventh grade. Kimberly, Kim to her friends, was described as a shy girl who worked hard at school.
On 8th February 1978, Kimberly was excited as her mother had said that afternoon she would take Kimberly shopping for a dress to wear to the upcoming Valentine’s ball. She arrived at school and ate doughnuts with her friend and went to her homeroom before leaving to go to her first class, PE. While in the homeroom Kimberly forgot her purse so went back to get it, she returned to the homeroom, picked up the purse and left, making her way back across campus- she never made it back to her lesson. Kimberly’s teacher assumed Kimberly had just gone to her second class and gave her books to her friend to put in her locker. Kimberly failed to show up at any of her classes that day, and her teachers grew worried and began searching for her. By 5pm when there was still no sign of Kimberly, the police were called.
Kimberly’s friends knew something was wrong immediately, they described how Kimberly never skipped class and was a shy girl who was unlikely to speak to strangers or go anywhere on her own. A witness had seen a girl walking towards a white van with a man he had assumed was her father, the man had brown hair and was clean-shaven and the girl matched Kimberly’s description down to the number on her sports jersey, the girl had looked unhappy but was not resisting. A schoolchild had also seen a slim man in his mid-thirties with brown hair standing near the school. Over 65 witnesses had seen this man in the vicinity of the school Kimberly attended.
In April 1978, about 2 months after Kimberly had gone missing her body was found in a pig shed wooded area, she had been raped and had lacerations to her neck.
Before Kimberly was found, Ted Bundy, a notorious serial killer and wanted fugitive was found when pulled over for a traffic violation. He had recently escaped from prison and was wanted for a string of recent murders of young women. Officers questioned him about Kimberly’s disappearance which he initially denied despite overwhelming evidence including fibres from the jacket he was wearing when arrested being found on her body.
In 1980, Bundy went on trial for the kidnap and murder of Kimberly Leach. He had previously been convicted for the murders of two sorority girls, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, in the infamous Chi Omega attacks. During the trial for Kimberly’s murder, Bundy acted as his own council and asked Carole Ann Boone to marry him. He was found guilty and Bundy received a third death sentence for the murder of Kimberly Leach. 
On 24th January 1989, Bundy was executed by electric chair at Florida State Prison. It is believed that Kimberly was his last victim.
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A tale that is just as much about humanity and society as it is about the depravity of a single serial killer in aristocratic France. Perfume, a unique and elusive tale takes place in 18th century France following the most unwanted and invisible orphan, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and his guile and single minded obsession with a single unifying belief: that all things in life can be explained and understood and manipulated or immortalized through the most unassuming of senses. Taking a simple genre of historical horror novels and making it into a much more pervasive narrative that clings to your skin and ebbs from the pores. What makes a person recognizable, distinguished, desirable, inhuman, detestable, guilty, innocent, invisible, or omnipotent?
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The Unfortunate Story of Edmund Kemper
Edmund Kemper III was born in Burbank, California on December 18, 1948. He was a middle child and the only son in his family. His parents' names were Clarnell and Edmund II. His father was a veteran and an electrician. Edmund's parents had a very tumultuous relationship. Edmund was a very large child, weighing 13 pounds at birth. He was ahead taller than other kids his age by the age of four. He also showed signs of antisocial behavior early on in his childhood. At 10 years old, it is known that Edmund buried a cat alive. Once he knew the cat was dead, he dug up the cat, decapitated it, and put its head on a spike. He admitted that lying to his parents about this incident gave him pleasure. He killed another cat at age 13 because he believed the cat liked his sister more than him. He kept pieces of this cat in his closet for a while until his mother found them.
These dark fantasies weren't the only one's Edmund would experience through the years. He often removed the heads and hands from his sister's dolls. When asked if Edmund would want to kiss his attractive teacher, he responded, "If I kiss her, I'd have to kill her first."
Edmund once snuck out of the house carrying his father's bayonet. He went to his teacher's house and proceeded to watch her through her windows. His favorite games to play as a child were "Gas Chamber" and "Electric Chair." He liked asking his sisters to pretend to kill him when they played. Edmund experienced two scary childhood traumas: being pushed in front of a train by his sister and being pushed into the deep end of the pool by his sister. He made is through both of these events virtually unharmed.
Edmund was very troubled by his parents' separation in 1957. While Edmund had a good relationship with his father, he didn't care for his mother very much. She was a neurotic, domineering alcoholic. She would frequently belittle, humiliate and abuse him. She often made him sleep in the locked basement because she was supposedly afraid of what he would do to his sisters. She often teased the 6'4 teen for being too tall. She refused to show him affection for fear that it would make him gay. Edmund described his mother as a "sick, angry woman" Many people believed Clarnell may have suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder.
At 14 years old, Edmund ran away from home to reunite with his father. He arrived to find his father had started a whole new family that didn't really include him. He stayed with his father for a short time before being sent to live with his grandparents. Edmund wasn't pleased with this living arrangement. He referred to his grandfather as "senile," and described his grandmother as "constantly emasculating" him and his grandfather.
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On August 27, 1964 Edmund got into an argument with his grandmother Matilda Kemper at the dinner table. In the midst of the argument, Edmund got up, retrieved a gun that belonged to his grandfather, and returned to the dinner table where he proceeded to shoot his grandmother in the head. He then shot her twice in the back. It's also been reported that she suffered from several stab wounds with a kitchen knife postmortem.
When Edmund's grandfather returned home after a trip to the grocery store, Edmund fatally shot him in the driveway. Edmund then called his mother asking for advice. She told him he needed to call the police. Edmund did so willingly, and awaited to be arrested. Edmund was quoted as saying that he, "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma." He admitted to killing his grandfather to spare him the sight of his dead wife.
Edmund's crimes were deemed incomprehensible for a 15 year old. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He was sent to Atascadero State Hospital which was a maximum security facility for mentally ill convicts.
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Doctors at Atascadero disagreed with Edmund's original diagnoses. He was rediagnosed with a "personality trait disturbance, passive aggressive type." Kemper's IQ was measured at 145.
Edmund was a model prisoner and was eventually trained to run psychiatric tests on other inmates. He was noted as taking pride in his work. Kemper also joined the Jaycees while institutionalized. However it was while he was running tests on sex offenders that he picked up tips for how to successfully kill people.
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Edmund was released on parole on his 21st birthday on December 18, 1969. This was against the recommendations of the prison psychiatrists. His mother agreed to take him in. She had remarried and divorced again by this time. It appeared as if Edmund had been rehabilitated. So much so, that his criminal record was expunged on November 29, 1972.
Edmund's parole required him to attend community college. He wanted to be a police officer, but was turned away due to his height which was 6'9 by this time. He was nicknamed "Big Ed." Although Edmund was rejected from the police academy, he remained friends with many of the officers.
Kemper found a job working with the California Highway Department, but his relationship with his mother was still suffering. Neighbors heard them arguing frequently. Edmund described these encounters with his mother as follows: "My mother and I started right in on horrendous battles, just horrible battles, violent and vicious. I've never been in such a vicious verbal battle with anyone. It would go to fists with a man, but this was my mother, and I couldn't stand the thought of my mother and I doing these things. She insisted on it and just over stupid thing. I remember one roof-raiser was over whether I should have my teeth cleaned."
Kemper eventually saved up enough money to move in with a friend, but his mother had a hard time with him leaving. She called him frequently and would drop by unannounced. Whenever Edmund struggled with money, he would temporarily move back into his mother's house. Edmund eventually met a girl at Santa Cruz beach. The two got engaged in March 1973. The engagement was called off after Edmund's second arrest. Her name was never released to the public.
Edmund was once greatly injured during a motorcycle accident. He was awarded $15,000 in a civil suit because of it. He used the money to buy a new car which he started using to pick up female hitchhikers. He started carrying suspicious items around in his car such as: plastic bags, knives, blankets, and handcuffs. He started out by picking the women up and then letting them go. He claimed to have picked up over 150 women before hurting anyone. He often referred to his homicidal urges as "little zappies."
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Edmund killed 8 people between May of 1972 and April of 1973. He would pick up female hitchhikers, take them to isolated places, murder them, and take their bodies home. He would then decapitate them, sexually assault the corpses, and dismember them. He claimed that the arguments with his mother are what drove him to look for victims. It's believed that these victims were just surrogates for Edmund's mother and the rage he had toward her.
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When all was said and done, Edmund was indicted on 8 counts of first degree murder on May 7, 1973. Edmund had given a detailed confession to the police, so he was advised by his attorney to enter a guilty by reason of insanity plea. He attempted suicide twice while in custody. His trial began on October 23, 1973.
Three different psychiatrists ruled that Edmund was legally sane. This is with keeping his juvenile records in consideration. Edmund admitted to one of them that he was a cannibal, but later recanted that part of his confession.
After deliberating a jury declared Edmund sane and guilty on all charges. This took place on November 8, 1973. He requested for "death by torture." Instead he received 7 years to life for each count to be served concurrently. He was sentenced to serve his time in a California medical facility.
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Edmund shared a prison cell block with several other notorious killers like Herbert Mullin and Charles Manson. He placed into the general population. He was once again considered to be a model prioner. He had many hobbies behind bars, like crafting, reading, and narrating audiobooks. He "retired" in 2015 after suffering from a stroke. He was then declared medically disabled.
Edmund gave many interviews that were eventually used in several different documentaries about his story. He was noted as being intelligent and insightful. When asked why he participated in interviews, Edmund replied, "There's somebody out there that is watching this and hasn't done that-- hasn't killed people, and wants to, and rages inside and struggles with that feeling, or is so sure they have it under control. They need to talk to somebody about it. Trust somebody enough to sit down and talk about something that isn't a crime. Doing it isn't just a crime, it's a horrible thing. It doesn't know then to quit and it can't be stopped easily one it starts."
Edmund was first eligible for parole in 1979, but was denied. He was also denied for the next three years. He waived his right to a hearing in 1985. When he was denied for parole in 1988 he said, "Society is not ready in any shape or form for me. I can't fault them for that." He was again denied for parole in 1991 and 1994. He waived his right to a hearing again in 1997 and 2002. He was denied again in 2007. He waived his right again in 2012, and was denied again in 2017. He won't be up for parole again until 2024.
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An original clean version of the greeting card the Zodiac Killer sent to Paul Avery at the Chronicle just sold recently on eBay for 13 bucks. This way, you can actually see how much stuff Zodiac actually put on/inside it.
Just to counter some misinformation, though: Unlike what the book and movie show, the letter was not delivered to Avery himself. It was recognized as likely being from Zodiac and intercepted before it could reach him. It also did NOT have a piece of victim Paul Stine's shirt inside.
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