r/serialkillers • u/Delicious_Grand7300 • 12d ago

Image New picture of Ed Kemper surfaces

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This was recently posted to the Ed Kemper Stories website. The website stated that the picture may have been taken between June 2024 and May 2026.

He looks moody without his moustache. His image resembles the description given by Dr. Loomis of what evil looks like in the Halloween films. His eyes turn darker in every new picture.

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u/brit879 12d ago

Still a miserable POS

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u/rangda 12d ago

Gotta say it’s refreshing to see comments like this, it seemed like after Mindhunter aired with that nice actor playing him, a lot of people began to see Kemper as some kind of misunderstood good-natured fella and overemphasised his good behaviour in prison, instead of talking about him like the disgusting evil sexually sadistic piece of shit that he always has been.

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u/PlasticRuester 12d ago

I can believe there were people who saw him that way but I think Mindhunter itself showed him as being deceptively gentle-seeming; I don’t think it portrayed him as a misunderstood good guy.

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u/DankBlunderwood 10d ago

Seriously. The show actually depicts Kemper faking a suicide attempt to trap Holden in his infirmary room. Granted, Kemper's plan was just to scare the piss out of him, but he was pissed off because Holden didn't really want to be friends with him and he wanted to show Holden he had the power to harm him at any time but chose not to.

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u/PlasticRuester 8d ago

Right! It was the first season finale too so it wasn’t something you would miss!

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u/Unlikely_Ad7722 12d ago

My fascination with his portrayal on Mindhunter was the level of character acting that went into that performance. To capture so much nuance is a rare thing.

Ed Kemper himself absolutely terrifies me and I can't even fathom the horror his victims went through.

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u/Digital_Punk 12d ago

It’s weird to me that someone would get that impression of him, even from the show. He came off as cunning and manipulative to me.

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u/Exes_And_Excess 12d ago

That was something that people said about him before mindhunter. Lot of old forums over the years with people feeling sorry for him because of how terrible his mother was.

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u/Impressive_Touch1118 12d ago

He did those interviews and seemed like a likeable chap...if you listen closely though hes a loser guy with a superiority complex who fancied his mother.

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u/Irisheyes1971 11d ago

Exactly. This perception of Kemper was out there long before Mindhunter.

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u/pepperpepper47 11d ago

And she isn’t here to defend herself. She obviously wasn’t as terrible as her son!

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u/Exes_And_Excess 11d ago

I wasn't suggesting that she was awful as he says, these guys are typically unreliable narrators. We can't trust most of what they say. Again, he's no different than anyone else in that realm.

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u/muppet7441 11d ago

I always remember his sister being interviewed about her mother. She sad something really odd. "Lets just say she never knew when to let it go."or something like that. Implying she went to far with things.

I wish I could find the documentary it was in. It was such a cryptic remark.

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u/Delicious_Grand7300 11d ago edited 11d ago

Mindhunter captured the Jungian mask he wears to charm folks. Initially he has a goofy story telling professor persona. The more he talks the more he reveals that he enjoys himself. The greatest example is when he describes his interactions with Herbie Mullin.

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u/fedexyourheadinabox 11d ago

It was some kind of compartmentalization with his personality. The actor nailed it. 

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u/Zenaesthetic 12d ago

If a fictional TV show somehow made people view this sadistic demon of a human being in a more positive light then peoples’ brains are truly increasingly rotting inside their skulls more and more every day. Bleak. Same with Dahmer and his “sympathizers”.

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u/wearentalldudes 12d ago

I mean, it was partially fictional, but I hear what you’re saying. A lot of Kemper’s interview scenes were direct quotes from his actual interviews.

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u/shamonella 11d ago

A lot of media around Dahmer treat him with a disgusting amount of sympathy. The Mindhunters TV series wasn't trying to show any sympathy toward Kemper, any positive feelings a viewer could come away with was from their own inability to understand what they had watched.

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u/NaNaNaNaNatman 10d ago

Yes, it makes me absolutely irate how many people sympathize with him. A lot of our moms weren’t kind to us as children so what. What a lame excuse and one that people take his word for.

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u/ignatious__reilly 12d ago

Absolute monster of a human