
The Confession Nobody Believed: Ed Kemper, the Co-Ed Killer
He Had to Call Three Times: Ed Kemper and the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Murders
In April 1973, a six-foot-nine man stood in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado, and confessed eight murders to Santa Cruz police officers who knew him personally, and he had to call three times before they believed him. Why did the killer they had hunted for a year turn out to be the friendly giant who drank with detectives at the Jury Room? How did California parole a double murderer into the custody of the very mother his doctors had warned about, and then erase his juvenile record in the middle of his killing spree?
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