A repeat serial killer who murdered eight women, including his mother and six college and high school students, decades ago was denied parole by a California hearing board after failing to show up for a hearing Tuesday.
Edmund Kemper, the 75-year-old hulking man nicknamed “The Coed Killer,” “The Coed Butcher” and “The Demon of Aptos,” will reportedly spend at least another seven years in prison after being convicted of murdering his mother, her friend and six other schoolgirls between the ages of 15 and 23 in Santa Cruz in the 1970s.
Kemper, who stood 6 feet 9 inches tall, not only killed his victims, but also brutally decapitated and dismembered them before eventually calling Colorado State Police and confessing to the crimes.
Santa Cruz County District Attorney Jeff Rosell on Tuesday asked the parole board to keep Kemper at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. According to the East Bay Times.
“We argued that he had virtually no treatment for many years,” Roselle told the outlet. “As far as serial killers go, he is one of the most depraved in the country.”
Prosecutors pointed out that Kemper had failed to show up to his own parole hearings.
“He’s basically ignoring this because he doesn’t care. He doesn’t respect this,” Roselle said. According to KSBW.
Kemper also killed his grandparents when he was 15. He shot his grandmother during a violent argument in the kitchen, then shot his grandfather when he returned home.
He was committed to a psychiatric hospital as a result of these murders, according to a report in the East Bay Times.
Kemper murdered women one by one between 1972 and 1973, after which he was taken into custody.
Attorneys who represented Kemper at his 2007 trial have previously said he was content to remain in prison.
“He feels that no one is going to release him and that’s his belief. He’s just happy and content to live out his life in prison,” his lawyer Scott Currie told the parole board at the time.
Kemper pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
His last parole hearing was in 2017. His next one is scheduled for 2031.
