He Called the Cops From a Phone Booth — Then Named Every Body
April 23, 1973. A 6’9” man walks into a Colorado phone booth and asks Santa Cruz police for an officer he used to drink with. He says he killed his mother. Then he starts listing the others.
Edmund Kemper was 15 when he murdered his grandparents. Doctors released him. For eleven months he picked up hitchhikers on California campuses, took them home, and left Santa Cruz hunting a killer who was sitting in the cops’ own bar.
This episode of A True Crime Podcast with Alexander Lawson is the Co-Ed Killer case as it actually happened: the sealed juvenile file, the campus sticker on his car, the…
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