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>Edmund was a square. All around him hippies sported long hair and flouted authority while he, with his short hair and neat mustache, wished fervently to be a law enforcement officer.
>His hopes were dashed. In addition to minimum height requirements both the local and state police had maximum height limits.
>Edmund was too tall to be a cop. To assuage his disappointment, he bought a motorcycle. With it, he could at least feel like a cop.
>Meanwhile, he did very well in his studies, and after three months, he was paroled for another eighteen months.
>His doctors at Atascadero had recommended strongly that he not be returned to his mother, who had relocated to Santa Cruz, California. Against their advice, the Youth Authority sent him straight to her.
>Edmund and his mother would be known to have violent and disturbing conflicts by many of the neighbours within the Aptos duplex they lived in.
>Kemper would often retreat to the Jury Room, a local bar in which he'd engage in conversation with former police academy acquaintances. The police knew him as "Big Ed."
>He worked menial jobs until he found a job as a labourer in the Division of Highways, eventually buying a Ford Galaxy after breaking his arm in an accident
>This is when Edmund developed plans of murder, filling his car with plastic bags, knives, guns as he picked up both male and female hitchhikers.
>It took a while, more than a year of picking up girls and letting them go, but on May 7, 1972, Edmund's moment finally came.
