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Kemper rejected by his father and raised by grandparents:
>During the Christmas holidays, Kemper Sr. took his son to visit his parents, who owned an isolated farm in North Fork, California
>For him, the farm came to seem like a prison or an old folks’ home and he felt bitterly betrayed when his father announced to him for the second time in less than three months that he was not going to return to Los Angeles at the end of the Christmas holidays.
>Clarnell had spoken to her ex-husband on the phone to tell him about the Siamese cat episode. She warned him:
>"This Guy is a really funny bird. And you’re taking a risk by leaving him with your parents. You may be surprised to wake up one morning to learn that they have been killed."
>He would then live with his grandparents on the 17-acre ranch in North Fork, California, where his grandmother allegedly "emasculated" him and his grandfather
>On the afternoon of August 27th, 1964, Edmund Emil Kemper III would have a heated argument over his habit of shooting birds; he shot his grandmother twice.
>When his 72 year old grandfather came home with groceries, he lifted his rifle up at him and shot him in the head, fearing his grandfather's reaction.
>In a panic, he then called his mother in wonder as to what he should do. He obeyed her demand to call the police, who arrested the calm giant at the front porch.
>When interrogated as to why he did what he did, he replied calmly: "I just wanted to see what it felt like to shoot Grandma."
