Behavior
When Ed Kemper killed Mary Ann Pesce and Anita Luchessa he said, "It was overwhelming me. It was like drugs. It was like alcohol. A little isn't enough." He got this desire to kill which he said was taking over him. He got these unexplained urges to suddenly kill depending on his mood. As Ed states in the interview ,"I was raging inside, incredible energies. Positive and negative depending on a mood, that would trigger one or the other". In the same interview he was asked why he started picking people up and he responded with "Emotionally I was impotent. I was scared to death of feeling a male-female relationship. I knew absolutely nothing about that whole area. Even if just sitting down and talking, I need to be able to really communicate and ironically enough thats why I began picking people up".
As Kemper killed his mother he said that it was difficult trying to admit that it hurt him. He also said, "I cut off her head, and I humiliated her, of course. She was dead, because of the way she raised her son." Ed strongly felt that what he did was right but admitted that he wished to have stayed up that night he killed her and just talked. To him it was satisfying but he also knew that it was over for him, because the police would link him to the crime. He stated, "It was quick, sleep, the way I wanted it." Kemper had this hate-love relationship with his mother, but her death was personal. He had made sure no pain came to her.
As Kemper killed his mother he said that it was difficult trying to admit that it hurt him. He also said, "I cut off her head, and I humiliated her, of course. She was dead, because of the way she raised her son." Ed strongly felt that what he did was right but admitted that he wished to have stayed up that night he killed her and just talked. To him it was satisfying but he also knew that it was over for him, because the police would link him to the crime. He stated, "It was quick, sleep, the way I wanted it." Kemper had this hate-love relationship with his mother, but her death was personal. He had made sure no pain came to her.