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Ed Kemper Parole 'The Co-Ed Killer' is 'Still Dangerous' · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Edmund Kemper's sixth victim was Cynthia Anne Cindy Shawl, who was his fourth co
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  ed victim. On January eighth, nineteen seventy three, Cindy was hitchhiking to
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  go to class at Cabrillo College when Kemper picked her up and drove her to
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  the hills near Watsonville. There, he forced her into the trunk of his
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  car and shot her in the head with his newly acquired gun, causing her
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  instant death. Cindy Shawl was born on August fourth, nineteen fifty four,
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  in San Mateo County, California, and was eighteen years old when she died.
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  She is buried at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, San Mateo
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  County. Her parents were William Shawl and Suzanne Ottinger Shawl. It was one
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  of her friends, a young woman named Pamela, who reported Cindy missing to
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  the police when she didn't return home that night. She also alerted Cindy's family
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  in Marinthun kemper victim's manner of death. After ed Kemper was incarcerated for life
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  in nineteen seventy three, various crime publications released articles revisiting Kemper's case in the
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  late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties. These articles depicted Kemper as a serial
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  killer who used a power saw or a buzz saw to kill his victims,
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  which is far from the truth. However, further investigation revealed a connection to
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  the use of sows in Cindy Shawl's murder case. After discovering the different parts
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  of her body in various locations in and around Santa Cruz, police and a
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  pathologist concluded that she had been dismembered with a power saw. Ed Kemper primarily
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  used firearms, knives, and strangulation as his murder weapons. He fatally shot
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  both his paternal grandparents, Maude Matilda Hugh Uie Kemper and Edmund Emil Kemper Senior
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  on their ranch on August twenty seventh, nineteen sixty four, with a rifle
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  given to him by his grandfather. Kemper also stabbed his grandmother post mortem.
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  Mary Anne Peschi and Anita Lucesa were both murdered by Kemper on May seventh,
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  nineteen seventy two. Peschi was stabbed with a knife and strangled to death in
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  the back seat of Kemper's car. Lucesa was killed in the trunk of the
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  car in a similar manner. Aikoku was choked to death by Kemper on the
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  evening of September fourteenth, nineteen seventy two, right next to his car on
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  a secluded road. He also raped her while she was unconscious. Cindy Shawl
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  was fatally shot in the head by Kemper with a twenty two caliber pistol in
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  the trunk of his car on January seventh, nineteen seventy three. On February
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  fifth, nineteen seventy three, Kemper first fatally shot Rosalin Thorpe in the head
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  and then Alice lou with his pistol in his car while driving on the UCSC
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  campus. Kemper shot Loose several times, including twice in the head. In
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  the early hours on April twentieth, nineteen seventy three, Kemper snuck into his
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  mother klarnel Strandberg's bedroom to bludgeon her with a claw hammer and slit her throat
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  with a pen knife. On the evening of April twentieth, nineteen seventy three,
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  Kemper murdered his mother's best friend, Sally Hallett, by strangling her to
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  death with his arm in his mother's apartment. I'm allergic to being in prison.
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  Kemper and the individual who prefers to remain unnamed were acquaintances and colleagues at
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  the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Captured in the nineteen eighties. These images
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  depict a ceremony where Kemper is awarding his friend with an accolade and a certificate.
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  The man reminisced about his experiences with Ed Kemper. I have vivid recollections
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  of Ed. We collaborated closely for several years. He held a position of
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  authority overseeing a team that included myself and another individual I was responsible for recording
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  in the background. ED had a fixation on maximizing the number of hours worked,
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  which ultimately reduced the hourly wage. We were part of VI OFV Volunteers
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  of Vuckerville Blind Project, but ED, the other individual and I received a
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  nominal payment around thirty dollars per month. Ed's philosophy was that if you clocked
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  in one thousand hours in a month, your hourly earnings would be minimal.
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  Nevertheless, I found great satisfaction in my work there, so I didn't mind
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  spending extended hours at the facility. There was no supervision from staff, law
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  enforcement, or anyone else except for a few readers. In sound proof booths
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  had access to a high quality sound system, large speakers, and a vast
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  collection of cassettes. ED and I would blast music, engage in banter,
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  and work together. We had break rooms with comfortable couches where I would playfully
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  wrestle with his imposing figure. On one occasion, he had me pinned on
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  a couch folded in half, and despite his light hearted demeanor about his weight
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  and size, I could barely breathe. I remember gasping ED, you're going
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  to crush me, before he quickly got off me, realizing he could have
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  caused harm. This incident made me decline his offer to move in together,
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  as I couldn't fathom having three hundred and forty pounds of ED above me.
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  Overall, I genuinely liked him. He was remarkably amiable, articulate, and
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  respectful. I never witnessed any signs of his darker side. We even discussed
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  his past extensively, and he always remained composed and detached during the period spanning
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  from May nineteen seventy two to April nineteen seventy three, Kemper committed the murders
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  of seven women and a fifteen year old girl while residing in Santa Cruz