Many of the serial killers I have heard of were active during the 60's - 70's.
So why did the 1960s and 1970s have so many serial killers?
Quick preview of the next piece, and of the serial killer I find perhaps the most interesting.
this isn’t hannibal related, but i smoked a fat doob and watched a documentary on edmund kemper and had to make this immediately thank you
How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks ?
My art, of course. Do not use without consent x3
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-Photos Of Edmund Kemper In Prison-
- Edmund in his office where he was in charge of scheduling other inmate’s appointments with the prison psychiatrist
- Edmund making one of his ceramic cups in his cell
[WARNING: Deeply Disturbing Content]
Most of his descriptions about his mother were limited at first to cutting out her larynx, the voice box that had for years berated him.
He tried and failed twice before successfully flushing her larynx down the garbage disposal. The rubbery tissue kept bouncing out as if her voice was still screaming at him.
Placing her severed head on the mantel, Ed elaborated on details of his last words with his mother. Each time he told the story, the details grew more grotesque.
First, he insisted, he had thrown darts at her face.
He later began a long, rambling monologue with her head, a talk that quickly grew into a last screaming argument in which she could not fight back. He ended it by drawing back his fist and smashing her in the nose, splattering blood and gore across the room.
Jackson returned to this scene again and again in seeking a clue for his insanity defense. After many denials and more tries at avoiding the question, Ed admitted sexually attacking his mother.
After he had decapitated her and undressed her body, he pulled her to the edge of the bed. He plunged his face downward, burying his mouth between her legs in one last frenzied attempt to force himself back inside her womb of death.
(Excerpt from: “Sacrifice Unto Me” by Don West)
At the age of 13, serial killer Edmund Kemper ran away from home to escape his abusive mother. Both his mother and his sisters would taunt him, beat him, humiliate him, and would lock him in cupboards. Young Kemper travelled all the way to California to live with his father, only to discover that he had remarried and made his stepson the object of his affection. Kemper, heartbroken, was sent back to his mother. This emotional and physical abuse continued right up until he killed her in 1973.
Gradations of Evil Scale
Killing in Self-Defense or Justified Homicide
Category 1. Justifiable homicide
Impulsive Murders in Persons without Psychopathic Features
Category 2. Jealous lovers, egocentric, immature people, committing crimes of passion
Category 3. Willing companions of killers, impulse-ridden; some antisocial trait
Category 4. Killing in self-defense, but extremely provocative toward the victim
Category 5. Traumatized, desperate persons who kill relatives or others, yet have remorse
Category 6. Impetuous, hotheaded murderers, yet without marked psychopathic traits
Persons with a Few or No Psychopathic Traits; Murders of a More Severe Type
Category 7. Highly narcissistic persons, some with a psychotic core, who murder loved ones
Category 8. Murders sparked by smoldering rage – resulting sometimes in mass murder
Psychopathic Features Marked; Murders Show Malice Aforethought
Category 9. Jealous lovers with strong psychopathic traits or full-blown psychopathy
Category 10. Killers of people “in the way” (including witnesses); extreme egocentricity
Category 11. Fully psychopathic killers of people “in the way”
Category 12. Power-hungry psychopaths who murder when “cornered“
Category 13. Inadequate, rageful psychopaths; some committing multiple murders
Category 14. Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic schemers
Spree or Multiple Murders; Psychopathy Is Apparent
Category 15. Psychopathic, cold-blooded, spree or multiple murderers
Category 16. Psychopathic persons committing multiple vicious acts (including murder)
Serial Killers, Torturers, Sadists
Category 17. Sexually perverse serial killers; killing is to hide evidence; no torture
Category 18. Torture-murderers, though the torture element is not prolonged
Category 19. Psychopaths driven to terrorism, subjugation, rape, etc. short of murder
Category 20. Torture-murderers but in persons with distinct psychosis (such as schizophrenia)
Category 21. Psychopaths committing extreme torture but not known to have killed
Category 22. Psychopathic torture-murderers with torture as their primary motive. The motive need not always be sexual
