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Post-arrest Kemper case
>Upon his return to Santa Cruz, Edmund led investigators to the various disposal sites he had used and continued his seemingly endless confession.
>A series of witnesses was brought in to try to establish that Edmund was not responsible for his crimes, but the prosecutor undermined the testimony of each one.
>Prosecution witness, Dr. Joel Fort, did the most damage to Edmund's insanity defense, noting his previous manipulations of psychiatrists at Atascadero.
>He also elicited previously unknown information such as the cannibalism and sexual acts he had performed on the corpses of his victims.
>Edmund was not a paranoid schizophrenic, Fort said. He was obsessed with sex and violence, and he craved attention, going so far as to slash his own wrists with a ball point pen during the trial in an ostensible suicide attempt, but he was not insane.
>They deliberated for only five hours, and they found Edmund guilty of first-degree murder on all eight counts.
>After a short observation stint at Vacaville Medical Facility, he was sent to the maximum-security prison at Folsom for the rest of his life.
>He would then go on to influence the understanding of modern psychology in an immeasurable way, doing interviews with them and agents of the FBI.
