Insane is a broad definition. Society is not natural, being cruel is natural. So who is to say who is insane. I could be classified insane but would never hit an innocent people, and yet so many "normal people" commit cruel and violent acts... and im pissed that mental health is associated with these people, we maybe sick but that doesnt make us killers or bad persons.
He talks as if he is the victim all the time to win sympathy. Like when speaking about him slaughtering a young woman with a knife, hge starts talking about losing his keys instead .. I mean lol
Shit ton of people praising him for his 'intelligence' and his ability to realise that his actions were horrible. The only thing he is smart at is making a shit ton of people believe that he is some sort of a super intelligent criminal. Trolling at its very best. He loved murdering people. There is a reason why he said it like it's an occupation, he loved it.
Centrist Philosopher before they were killers they were all victims. 😞 it’s terrifying how rational, normal people can turn to these terrible events because of their unresolved trauma.
As I am obsessed with serial killers I am totally surprised by his interview. He is the most self-aware above all other serial killers. That's horrific
It's also important to remember that Ed Kemper is a classical example of the clinical psychopath, so he's very adept at learning psychological profiles and saying what the professionals say. That doesn't mean he's just mimicking them, he understands perfectly well, but psychopaths have a tendency to always know how to say what people want to hear, and Ed knew people wanted to hear what was in his head, so, naturally, he absorbed everything every psychologist worth their salt said about him.
I am happy that somebody said it this is horrific I feel just destroyed by his stories talking about taking lives of young women....... It's just beyond.....
I think this was the main reason he turned himself in. He just wanted to be able to openly talk about his mother, his frustrations, his life, the killings. The truth.
@Book Ghost Writer Karen S. Cole no offense but no one asked or cares. You have soooo many comments on this video and others pretty much bragging about your life. All due respect it’s very cool but just opening up a conversation with comments about your books or writers, or replying to comments and making it about yourself is very rude. Be humble and wait for someone to ask
The police never believe people. There was a lady that got free from the yourkshire ripper and told the police he had a heavy yourkshire accent. They didn't believe her. Years later it was true.
@UNIVERSAL COMPUTER not always as they embellish stories. But the documentary I saw that introduced the woman who got away. Said this as well so who knows.
Oddballkane because hundreds come out with “stories” when something is popular. Ed just wanted attention and he was so normal to the police, even hanging out with officers.
Oddballkane I mean, he hung around the police because he wanted to become a police officer himself, that obviously never happened but could you imagine if he was able to? Scary to think about.
I listen to this guy and he doesn't terrify me. Which is terrifying. The things he's talking about are horrifying for sure, but the way he talks, his mannerism, intelligence, and even the respect he has for his interviewer are fascinating. I think that's why he was so successful. No one would even bat and eye to him, let alone suspect him. He was truly invisible. Hell, even now there's part of me that don't want to believe he's capable of all of these things.
He's no different to a highly trained soldier, sent on killing missions by his government, he chooses to kill, therefore he must enjoy it to some degree....so what's the difference?.
Fortunately all uber calls and orders are digitally recorded and all drivers must give their information to work. If there were an "uber killer" it wouldn't take long to identify him.
@@liviaramirez462 Its not Brittons fault, but I think that the scriptwriters fucked it up by going to the serial killer cliche of an obviously creepy maniac instead of going for the truly mesmerizing route of how some serial killers (Dahmer, Kemper and many others) are, which is perfectly unnoticable on the surface.
Yeah honestly I find the Mindhunter Ed Kemper like five times as creepy as the actual Ed Kemper. Something to do with the actor’s voice...I just find it bone-chilling
Thats the exact reason why these people are so dangerous, they look completely harmless,but so just that you know Ed Kemper is more than 2 m tall you cant really see that on the video tho.
I find him interesting in a "I'd like to know as much as possible about these kinds of people so I know what to look for in case I ever run into one" kind of way, but I don't enjoy hearing about his acts. In fact, it's more terrifying than any horror movie, because this is reality. It's not some creepy monster living in a basement, it's a real, live, breathing human being who exists in the real world, and there are a lot more people like him walking around than we're aware of. Most of them manage to stay hidden in society because they don't act out on their insane impulses, but a few can't help themselves. I've had run-ins with a few people that would probably be capable of murdering innocent people as a coping mechanism for their own problems, but are too smart to actually do it. And they, too seem like completely normal people to everyone else besides those that have seen their true colours.
The difference between Ed Kemper and Charles Manson, for example, is the complete openness. Manson puts on a mad dog act to hide from himself whereas Kemper seems completely at peace with his own inhumanity.
@Aida its funny how the government is ok with putting away people for life for 'brainwashing' but also act as if its impossibility that the media is doing it to the masses.
Wow this guy is very articulated and calm, but at the same time he tells his horrifying stories of killing without blinking or remorse. What a twisted mind. Human brains are so complex.
Andrej Antanasov he did turn himself in, so it seem like he had some kind of concern for others and wanted to stop himself killing. I understand your points though, it's hard to imagine a serial killer who isn't a sociopath or psychopath. In Kemper's case he may be a sociopath, not a psychopath, in other words his issues with his mother and in dealing with the opposite sex may have caused him to become violently antisocial.
Reza that puts him well into the 90th percentile of the population. I had a psych teacher, who was a very well respected psychologist, who said that an IQ difference of only 10 points can make any deep communication between people almost impossible. In Kempers case he would have had like a 20+ point difference on most people he ran into in normal everyday life.
“The darkest souls are not those which choose to exist within the hell of the abyss, but those which chose to break free from the abyss, and move silently among us.” -Dr. Samual Loomis
I think maybe it was a bizarre concept of honor. His father was abusive to his mother, I think...and he wanted to love her...and wanted to love women...it's contradictory, yes, but he's severely mentally ill remember. It's disrespect and disgusting for a man to hit a woman...that may have been it in his sick mind.
Brandon Wainscott Yeah, IG Profile said before, Kempers dad was timid and was constantly being abused by his wife until he eventually left. Kempers mom then put all her anger on Kemper. She treated her daughters very well, but would lock Ed in the basement instead of letting him sleep in his own room.
He wasn't that accurate, he actually tried to make Kemper seem a lot more robotic, but Kemper was far from that if you actually pay attention to any of his interviews. He was only accurate in the things he said, and the timing, not the emotion.
Damn he's very articulate and well spoken. It's like he's analyzing somebody's else crimes and mindset but at the same time he's talking about himself. It's scary yet helpful to understand these murders.
He wouldn't have been able to cover up the murders of his mother and her friend. It wasn't altruism that made him turn himself in. He knew it was either he turned himself in, or they caught him, and a narcissist's need for control over a situation made him turn himself in rather than be caught.
@@52-hertz He's working. It's nothing but manipulation. He's trying to appeal to the empathy and compassion in the interviewer. It's the only way to achieve power or control over others now that he's been caught. And given that you're contemplating whether or not he could be a narcissist because of that, it worked on you as well. That's just how good he is at his craft.
I am literally scared by how accurate they portrayed Kemper in Mindhunter, the voice, hints of light accent, the way he tells a story in high coherent language with much details.. amazing casting
@@inessa5923 we did. I found the actor to have a somewhat "dopey" drawl. The real Ed speaks very clearly and in an intelligent way that matches his genius IQ.
Kemper is unusually self aware for a serial killer and about as remorseful as these types of personality can get. he's one of the few that admits he doesn't belong in society and doesn't want to go back there.
Most psychopaths are VERY self aware. Their are so extremely self aware that they are narcissists. These psychopaths should be executed on the spot and we need to stop wasting tax payer money. Get them out of the gene pool
Promotionit ''wasting taxpayer money''. Do you know how much it costs to execute someone ? The State of Florida spent 7 millions to carry out Ted Bundy's execution. Some counties can't even afford it...
Rayotte see, we don't have to spend that much. Honestly we could just send them to death, slit their necks and let them bleed out. People have too much sympathy for killers and rapists. We don't need to spend money to kill people. We just need to start killing them.
Mystery Me I think the death penalty can totally be justified (and even needed) on some cases. But it's more complicated than that (1 in 25 sentenced to death is innocent; what about juveniles ? Mentally ill ?) So in theory the death penalty makes a lot of sense but in practice, it's quite complex.
The most chilling part of this interview : " To be walking up the stairs with a camera bag that belonged to a young woman that had her severed head in it. … Walking up to my apartment past a happy, young couple coming down the stairs who nodded and smiled at me as they went by. … And they’re going out on a date, where I’d love to be going, and I’m aware of both of these realities, and the distance between those two was so dramatic, so amazing, so violent[.]”
@Gowri Shankar U.V When he had a severed head in a bag to have sex with later and watched a happy couple go by him on the stairs smiling, he realized his relationship to women was 'unhealthy', shall we say. Very understandable realization.
He violently killed two teenage girls and locked their bodies in the trunk of his car, and he only panicked when he thought he'd locked the keys in there with them. Huh.
burymeinpink it's interesting the difference in the serial killers , after Ted Bundy according to him in the beginning he would always go into a state of panic and become ill after killing but I guess eventually it wore off
I listened to a podcast about him a while back. His intelligence and rationality make him appear really friendly actually. He apparently also does great in all his prison activities, volunteers for reading audiobooks for cancer patients and all. But then again when you listen to what he did with his victims, behead them and use their heads for sexual activity... it’s really sickening. But overall I believe that, if he had received a little bit of guidance towards the right path, he could’ve had an amazing life... it was more about his hatred towards his mother than anything else. He even turned himself in after killing her and her best friend because he didn’t see the point in continuing his crimes after that.
What buffles me the most is how he being so intelligent can literally knock up women and rape their face as an equivalent of "shut up mommy am I now a big boy or what?" - in totalitarian rises on a state level its also the more intellectual sphere that usually supports it so, the "emotionally evil und unrational" and, from the outside, obviously obnoxious thing to do ... A friend of mine who`se quite intelligent too, in his psychosis state (also dissociative personality etc.) would say - he thinks that emotion is actually the most firm thing in a human. He said that thats the metaphor of jesus walking on the water - water stands for emotion and it shows that emotion is more solid than we think and that It governs our behaviour, over intellect. Possibly. And it certainly is a dichotomy and paradox than can co-exist in many forms and shapes.
I justo finishef it 2 minutes ago and that final scene gave me the creeeeeps, I wanted to see if he was even real and jeez, it's like hearing the same person! Nailed the voice perfectly!
David Fincher is an amazing director. The interviews with the actor portraying ed on mindhunters is spot on. The body language, mannerisms, stance, look and voice are chillingly accurate.
Mindhunter is based n a book written by the officer who created the criminal psychological profiling and spent thousand of hours talking with kuemper and others. They know what they are doing
@@jimmysikes697 I agree. If he were a true narcissist, he'd never have turned himself in. A narcissist is almost impossible to "fix" because they don't believe there is anything wrong with them. Watching the real Kemper interviews and Mindhunter , it almost brings to mind Clarice Starling's line in SotL. "They don't have a word for what he is. "
J Sikes Every psychopath/sociopath are narcissistic. Noticing how he loves hearing himself talk? Me me me. Hes also so convincing, talks about decapitated heads like it were nothing to it, slick as fuck. A fascinating dude though, Big Ed. Makes u forget the morbid stuff hes done 👀
Johan Schöld Ek spot on! Also if we really listen and believe what this turd is saying, the mystique will disappear! I believe he is right. It is easy to do and get away with crime, if one is not connected to the victim. So often people hold damaged individuals, like this, up to be a Genius of some sort! The culture of celebrity gets fed. There are many dangerous people around, who most of the time fit in with others. Once they learn, like this bozo, that they can get away with stuff and become a “celebrity” the real ride begins.
Imperium Europa HOLY FUCK, DUUUUUUDE! Ian Brady is one of the sickest fucks ever to walk the face of the northern hemisphere! The mind games he played with little Keith’s mother is sickening. What him and this Hindley Bitch did is sickening beyond belief! Being proud of owning a first class edition of this nasty cunts book makes you a fucking disgrace. Sick Fuck
Caroline Rowland Idiots with a weak moral compass often try and understand serial killers- I think it’s a form of sexual attraction if I’m honest, exactly the type of person the serial killer will attack!
@@geraldrooney5677 I completely disagree with that statement. Wanting to understand someone's thought process is not an indication of a weak moral compass. It's a natural, albeit maybe morbid, curiosity.
He's way too honest to having been a politician. He could have gotten away with it but brought his a$$ to the police station to stop this behavior he couldn't stop by himself. Politicians are meant to get away with murder and not even look guilty about it and lie.
The scariest part of all of this to me, it’s Kemper, in spite of his height and strength, doesn’t look threatening. Something in his demeanour almost reassures you, he’s harmless. Which is why I can understand why people wouldn’t see him as a killer until it was too late and obvious there’s something seriously wrong with him. Other serial killers, have something in them that makes you feel uncomfortable almost from the start.
The glasses and the moustache gives him an intellectual vibe. He's also chubby, I personally whenever I see a tall chubby guy I don't feel intimidated at all and all I want to do is to hug the guy even though I'm very petite.
''When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right ... and the other part of me wonders...what her head would look like on a stick" - Edmund Kemper.
I'd guess that it would be almost all of them. My belief is that people aren't born evil, but are created through their upbringing and life experiences and their horrible activities are some sort of perverse coping mechanism.
The line is amazingly fine. Because Ed Kemper is human. You see, there is nothing between to be human and not to be, like imaginge that you were a tree and could observe humans, in what way would that be?. The best part is when you realise that this darkness lives inside all of us, so you can learn true roots of evil to know how to be good.
Tom Dwan He alluded to it in the interview, being interviewed by a man with motives against porn. Toward the end of the interview he mentions several times how little Ted Bundys can be avoided if "violent" porn ceased. It's a form of control. These maniacs are narcissistic, and any interviews they offer are to feed that ego.
He wasn't very successful at what he did do tho. He'd definitely not win an award for serial killer of the year. Maybe tallest serial killer award, that's about it.
I know right, it's scary how intelligent and charismatic this guy is, knowing everything he did. he's just so likeable & could've had a totally better outcome in life.
@@majormajor7925 He got away with murder and was even friends with the police while the murders occurred. They used to talk to him about the killings happening around Santa Cruz. If he wasn't successful who is.
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That's the thing many movies get wrong. Killers in movie are usually so over exaggerated whereas in real life, like this guy, they blend in so well you wouldn't even know how fucked up they were unless you were one of their victims.
It amazes me how many people are quick to defend Kemper but point fingers at his mother. Please remember that an intelligent sociopath like Kemper can make you perceive him in a way that he wants you to, and in a way that comes across as sincere. I'm not saying his mother wasn't a nasty piece of work, i mean i still harbour animosity and other feelings towards mine. However this is the 'man' that killed his own grandparents at 15yo to "see what it felt like". .killed his own mothers parents and she still stood by him (mine wouldn't have) so please remember that he was always deranged and its not fair to point fingers at his mother when she is not here to defend herself.
He did not kill his mothers parents. He killed his paternal grandparents. He doesn't blame his mother at all. He understands that he himself made his ultimate decisions to kill and unlike most serial killers, he wanted to stop but couldn't so he turned himself in. What other serial killer do you know that has done that without playing a taunting game with law enforcement. Example, BTK.
Niese Rivera Ok thanks for educating me, but it's very easy to assume that he would have also killed his paternal grand parents like he did his paternal mother. I don't blame him for being deranged unfortunately we don't choose the way we are. However just because he handed himself in, and perhaps appears 'less' evil than most serial killers should we give him a medal? Had one of his victims been a sister, daughter, mother of yours would you still speak as defensively of him.. Hey, this guy fucked his mothers decapitated head but you know what i might even buy him a few pints.
***** i'm with you man, and we have to remember that he befriended the psychiatrists when he was arrested for the double murder at 15. Sources say that he convinced them to release him early and that he was rehabilitated and posed no further threat. The kid with an iq shy of 140 at 15yo and not even trained psychiatrists could see through his facade. The end result being as we now know, he just went on to kill again.
Psychos and sociopaths never take responsibility for their actions. So regardless of his mother's character it's natural for him to pin the blame on others. They are also narcissists and like to make it all about them. And they are master manipulators that take pleasure from fooling the idiots they see in front of them. People are just objects to be played with for their own satisfaction and beneath them. Everything that comes out of their mouths is glib bullshit so they can't be trusted on what they say, only on how they act.
Topsoil Depletion Awareness (closing the loop) just pay attention To the back story of these serial killers....they all have abusive/weak mothers and absent/abusive fathers
I don't imagine anyone would disagree with that. In fact, FBI profilers have said that, while every serial killer shares a common abnormality in their brain scans and medical diagnosis, Kemper may be the only serial killer on record whom they believe was created by his environment and upbringing, by circumstance rather than an inate abnormality. That makes his case even more tragic, I feel.
@@milkyoni No he didn't. Kemper in the show comes across as intelligent, articulate, incredibly frightening. All the qualities that made him such a famous killer.
The sad thing is that this man is actually highly gifted he has a genius level iq sadly he didn’t use it for helping people he killed instead and btw that really explains how he was a close friend with police while he was killing people
@Kartikey Gupta no I meant that it’s sad he took that way he really could just be a helpful human in society but instead he went into doing his disgusting crimes he deserves what he got I was annoyed that he did his crimes instead of being a really helpful guy with a high iq he had a really close iq level to Einstein’s so yeah
Na verdade, depois de se entregar ele ajudou o fbi a melhorar suas investigações e até o entendimento sobre como os serial killers conseguem agir sem serem pegos. E depois dissoo FBI conseguiu pegar vários outros serial killers.
@different pov no ted Bundy's father was his own grandfather. They hid from him tht the girl he used to consider her sister was her mother.his grandfather (Ted's biological father) was abusive,alcoholic and used to beat his grandmother n beat their family dog. Her grandmother used to recieve ECT for her depression.
He's a great presenter. No "um..." or "well..." fillers. Very confident and concise sentence structures. I bet he's read "How to win friends and influence people".
1:16 looks like he cant hold back his smile before he said '...awful this got..'. 6:12 & 9:28 look at it at .50speed. Even in normal speed you can see how his face lights up when talking about killing. He tries to contain himself right away. Y'all ever heard of micro expression?
Being humans, the 'human minds are so complex' that even the medical professionals do not understand them fully, like the psychiatrist Nadal Hasan killed dozens of soldiers in 2009 at where he worked because he was radicalized by terrorists. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TJOptN8aDe0.html
@PhoenixJGrey lol you are an idiot if you think he didn't get off on it. Please watch something more than just mindhunter to get your facts. This guy has said multiple times that when he looks at a beautiful woman, the first thing he pictures is what they would look like with their heads cut off. He also said he went to a magic show as a child (around 9 I believe) and saw where they were doing a magic trick that involved pretending to cut off a pretty woman's head & hands. He said that was the first time he'd witnessed or thought about such a thing and he was getting excited and sexually aroused watching it.
@PhoenixJGrey lol you fools really fall for the sexist justifications these utter pseudo intellectuals provide in these interviews. They are attention seeking dickwads and they are sexual sadists. They will tell you how they did this because women weren't nice to them. They will also blame their victims saying how they wanted it. I mean this boring justification is so common, it isn't even shocking anymore.
TonyDracon everything is always stuck on dahmer and manson...and manson never himself actually killed anyone. And, there are so many more crazy killers we read and see every year with worse. But, they take the crown. The man on the moon, is still better than the man on mars, cuz he was first.
" 3 times I should have been busted but I wasn't. Coz 3 different individuals got scared and look the other way and minded thier own business " This is sad
I truly appreciate his willingness to allow us into the mind of a serial killer, to own and admit his guilt. This insight and raw honesty will help law enforcement solve many, many crimes.
She judged me not to be that guy. I didn't look like him. That says so much about our ignorance and subconscious denial of evil. For a serial killer, it may just be offensive.
This is why Ted bundy and jeffrey dahmer where able to do what they want. Ted bundy used a cast on his arm to get a girl to feel sorry for him. Jeffery dahmer. He was a blond man who looked like any regular person. I guess evil never looks like that way you expect.
9:55 this is the scariest part of this interview. His monotone voice and expression instantly change when revisiting a thought from his childhood. The part where his mom says he has to eat the chickens of which his father has just cut their heads off of. He laughs, kind of smirks to himself the his face goes back to normal as if it never happened. Glimpse of humanity.
@@ladofthedamned7796 people obviously DO have different "sides" in some sense. However, for that very reason it's wrong to assume every little behavior Kemper make is pure psychopathy and malicious manipulation. Believe it or not, normal people (capable of empathy and remorse) can and have become serial killers. Conversely, psychopaths have almost certainly done good things for people and society at various times. Life is complex.
I'm not saying admiring this guy is normal or acceptable - it is not. But I don't see reasons of all the fuss because someone believes he is attractive or handsome. The men that say women that are attracted to Kemper are sick, are huge hyppocrites. I have seen men reducing women to their physical appearance infinite times, in every possible situation. If the killer were a pretty, blonde, perfect bodied woman (which hardly ever is the case) all you'd see in the comment section would be men commenting "I'd nail her" or "I'd tap that". So just relax and stop being judgmental hyppocrites.
Interesting stuff. In the beginning when they talk about active killers out there. 1984 Jeffrey Dahmer at this time in the interview he is free and roaming around. Eerie thoughts. Who else is out there?
His conversations with FBI Agents R Ressler and J MacDonald were so revealing and instrumental in the development of the BAU! I was able to interview Me Ressler for one of my research papers in my.psych college course. Kemper was a large part of our conversation. Kemper truly is the live embodiment of "don't judge a book by its cover".
He’s clearly intelligent and could have eluded the law for longer and yet turned himself in. Why? Partly, I think , because wanted to be seen and no longer invisible. And perhaps, also, to stop. He’s an enigma.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j8IfslxOmF0.html when you see this you realize who the real is, the expression, the movements, the naturalness anyway the actor did a good job as far as confusing me 😜
What should freak everyone out is that he can be any of us. You can hear the emotion in his voice, he isn't emotionless. He's human. Maybe we aren't all as intelligent as he is, but the way he speaks reminds me of how I speak.
There's not a lot of eye movement. "Dead eyes" are a common sign of psychopathy. When I asked my wife if there was any emotion in my eyes, she literally said "not often, they sort of have a dead, lifeless quality about them." D:>
@@andrewwabik5125 "Dead eyes" are also a common sign of sleep deprivation, drug use, poor eyesight, ADD, Asperger's, apathy, etc. Some people are simply less expressive than others. I highly doubt that you're a psychopath.
@@inessa5923 I have at least one or two of those at any moment. I don't think I'm a psychopath, either. But having been tested, seen shrinks, and communicated with people...I would say I have more of it in me than most. The thing is, within a certain context, it can be useful. Maybe had he not had all of the horrific experiences he did growing up, and maybe if his mother wasn't as awful towards him, he could have done more good.
One of the most viscerally disquieting things about watching Ed Kemper speak is the very brief microexpressions of joy he flashes almost every time he talks about murder, but literally every time he talks about himself murdering someone. His eyes totally light up and he smiles, genuinely, with his eyes, and it only lasts a fifth of a second or less, but it's very much there. Watch closely and you may see it as well. What that chilling unconscious expression of joy and elation says is that this is a man who 'genuinely adores' his personal brand of killing. The realization then quickly sets in that this isn't a TV/movie character you're watching- this is a man who, if he were capable of love, would actually be literally in love with murder.
Definitely noticed the micro expression when he was talking about severing their heads in front of his mothers. It's almost like a half smile, brief but noticeable.
This is my area, and yes, I saw all the same things. His glee and incredibly obvious narcissism give away the moments he attempted to fully control his expressions.
