Quoted By:
Kemper's next murders and murder of mother:
>On the night of February 5, 1973, Edmund and Clarnell had a monumental argument, and Edmund stormed out of the apartment, keyed up and ready to strike.
>He picked up Rosalind Thorpe first and engaged her in conversation. In a short while, he stopped for another hitchhiker, Alice Liu.
>This time, he didn't even bother to stop the car, pulling out his gun and shooting both as he drove out of town. He then dismembered and disposed of the bodies.
>Edmund reasoned in his frantic desperation for resolution, that there would be no ceasing to the murders unless he had murdered his mother.
>He waited with a clawhammer in his hand all night, anxiously waiting for the arrival of his mother from a party
>She returned to the duplex, reading a book, as Ed walked into the room dead-eyed with the clawhammer hidden behind his back.
>And she says, "Oh I suppose you're gonna want to sit up all night and talk now!" Shit. And I looked down at her and I said "No, good night."
>He bludgeoned her with the clawhammer, decapitated her, performed necrophilic acts and ripped out her vocal cords to shove it into the garbage disposal.
>The garbage disposal spat out the vocal cords of the woman, which seemed appropriate for her "bitching" to Kemper. He then called up and strangled her best friend.
>He drove as far as he could before eloping and phoning the Santa Cruz police in Colorado, who thought "Big Ed" was playing some sort of sick joke.
>They drove to the phone booth, where he waited calmly and patiently in a tumultous peace knowing the gravity of what he had done.
