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FBI agent Robert Ressler on Kemper's intimidation of interviewers for the sake of humouring himself:
>Twice before, I had ventured in the Vacaville prison in California to see and talk with him, the first time accompanied by John Conway, the second time by Conway and by my Quantico associate John Douglas, whom I was breaking in.
>During those sessions, we had gone quite deeply into his past, his motivations for murder, and the fantasies that were intertwined with those crimes.
>I was so pleased at the rapport I had reached with Kemper that I was emboldened to attempt a third session with him alone.
>It took place in a cell just off death row, the sort of place used for giving a last benediction to a man about to die in the gas chamber.
>After conversing with Kemper in this claustrophobic locked cell for four hours, dealing with matters that entail behavior at the extreme edge of depravity, I felt that we had reached the end of what there was to discuss, and I pushed the buzzer to summon the guard to come and let me out of the cell. No guard immediately appeared, so I continued on with the conversation.
>After another few minutes had passed, I pressed the buzzer a second time, but still got no response. Fifteen minutes after my first call, I made a third buzz, yet no guard came.
