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Once Upon A Crime

Breaking Down Kemper with Emerson Murray

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I break down the myths and realities of infamous serial killer, Edmund Emil Kemper, “The Co-Ed Killer”. My special guest is Emerson Murray, author of The Murder Capital of the World. You can find out more about Emerson and purchase the book at www.emersonmurray.com/murder-capital-of-the-world

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast details true crime cases.

0:03.0

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

0:07.0

It is not intended for children.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. As we end the year 2021, I'm sharing some very special episodes with you, as I want to do at the end of each year,

0:29.0

and that entails bringing on some very special guests to join me in talking about true crime cases.

0:34.0

This year as I was planning these episodes I noticed a similarity in the cases I chose.

0:39.0

They are all high profile cases where the perpetrator, or person suspected of being the perpetrator

0:45.2

becomes famous or infamous if you will.

0:48.2

Much has been said, written and erred about these cases with the standard narrative applied to each, including what happened, how it happened, and the motivation behind each crime.

0:58.0

But you who are regular listeners of once upon a crime know that I try and dig a little deeper to tell

1:04.3

the story behind the story of true crime cases. In each of the cases I'll be covering

1:09.0

this month there are details I felt had not been revealed, or at least questions that I still wanted answered.

1:16.0

So to help me do that, I've chosen guests who, like me, really wanted to dig into the details and discover the real story of these well-known true-crime cases.

1:26.1

The first case I'll be covering this month is that of infamous serial killer Edmund Kemper

1:30.7

the third.

1:32.3

Most I think might know him as the co-ed killer,

1:34.8

but if for some reason you're not familiar with this case,

1:37.6

I'll just give you a brief summary.

1:40.1

Edmund Emmel Kemper the 3rd was born on December 18th, 1948.

1:45.0

Side note, why are so many serial killers Sagittarius?

1:48.6

As a sadgy myself, this is very offensive to me.

1:51.9

He was born in Burbank, California to Clarnell Stagekeemper and Edmon

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