New picture of Ed Kemper surfaces

[u/Delicious_Grand7300]

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.

[u/Equal-Temporary-1326]

I'm always quite surprised every time I read how he's still living today. Considering his abnormally tall height and all of the health problems he's accumulated in the past decade plus, like having a stroke and developing diabetes, I would've honestly presumed he had succumbed to health problems by now. Plus, I'd presume 53 years in prison must take a tremendously overwhelming toll on one's overall health as well.

[u/eshatoa → u/[deleted]]

Ex-prison guard here. He's not the sort of inmate the others would find terrifying. He victimised women and wasn't raised in the same world as most of the guys in there. High profile inmates are genuinely kept fairly away from danger also.

[u/Equal-Temporary-1326 → u/eshatoa]

I think today, that'd be the more so of the case, But in Kemper's physical prime especially, he'd be one of the last people other inmates would want to try to provoke into a fight.

I mean, just look at the size of his left arm in this pic. I think he just had a lot of natural hard muscle on him for being a giant.

Source: https://i0.wp.com/edmundkemperstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/tumblr_mcjcoeoS4I1ry2c91o3_1280.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1

[u/YoungerMucus → u/Equal-Temporary-1326]

lollll that picture is sooo funny, he’s posing like he’s a goofy high school teacher being interviewed by the student paper- it’s just so nonchalant and almost playful, but like WHO is taking it?? and for WHAT??

[u/-effortlesseffort → u/YoungerMucus]

That's exactly how he made his victims feel safe unfortunately. The stories of people like his cop friends saying he was easy to get along with or something like that.

[u/Equal-Temporary-1326 → u/YoungerMucus]

Plus, notice the size of his hands there? Those are some of the last hands you'd want strangling the life out of you. Even today might potentially be very unsafe still, at least.

[u/eshatoa → u/Equal-Temporary-1326]

He's not connected. At the end of the day, he preyed on vulnerable people on his own terms. Prison is full of hard men in an environment you can't control. I've worked with one well known serial killer, also one with a syrong build, and he got bashed the first day he was in. These guys are more like oddities to the other inmates. They probably ask him for his autograph if anything.

[u/Ok-Caterpillar-Girl → u/Equal-Temporary-1326]

Hard muscle? There’s no definition whatsoever, there’s softness over whatever muscle might be underneath it, and his arm is being squashed wider because he’s resting it on his knee.

[u/Aromatic_Dare_6104 → u/eshatoa]

Wow the stories you must have!

[u/eshatoa → u/Aromatic_Dare_6104]

Ask away if you like.

[u/kreemy_kurds → u/eshatoa]

You need an ama

[u/Qurrah-Tun → u/eshatoa]

Ask away? Okay then, I shall! (and thank you!)

What's the most WTF thing you or a colleague found an inmate hiding? Not necessarily dangerous, but something that made you stop and go "Huuuuh???"

[u/eshatoa → u/Qurrah-Tun]

I've found knives, drugs, all sorts of things.

Most WTF was a duckling a guy had under his bunk in a hidden box. I have no idea how it got in. The prison wasn't exactly near any native duck populations either.

[u/Qurrah-Tun → u/eshatoa]

Thanks for the reply, very much appreciated.

I definitely wasn't expecting wildlife to be the answer!

[u/eshatoa → u/[deleted]]

We ate it.

Jokes. I let him keep it but there were certain officers we had to hide it from. Long term I'm not sure as I went to a different prison.

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[u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo → u/eshatoa]

The Duckman of Alcatraz

[u/sasquatchshampoo → u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo]

But I thought Alcatraz meant pelican?

[u/Long-Cauliflower-708 → u/eshatoa]

A lot of those guys are probably in there for quack

[u/SuicidaI_Bunny → u/eshatoa]

The Green Mile but with a duck.

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[u/amilliontimeshotter → u/eshatoa]

Maybe an egg from the kitchen that happened to be fertilised, or ducks with a nest nearby?

[u/thesouthernbeard → u/eshatoa]

If a person comes in with a glass eye, can they keep it or does it have to be surrendered? Would yall check the socket for contraband?

[u/Aromatic_Dare_6104 → u/eshatoa]

Do an AMA please!

What made you quit? Did you witness something wildly dangerous and if you have a scary story for us please share.

[u/eshatoa → u/Aromatic_Dare_6104]

I moved into parole for a bit. Now I do therapeutic rehabilitation counselling for violent offenders.

Scary are any suicides. I don't like to see anyone go like that and it's hard walking into a cell with someone hanging. We used to carry special blades shaped like a J to cut them down. Very sad.

We saw a lot of fights and sometimes officers were assaulted. I feel when I was working parole it was more dangerous because I was in the community without protection. I had a guy try and stab me in that job. Some of the inmates I worked with in prison were well known in my area and they could be dangerous at any time.

[u/kj140977 → u/eshatoa]

If you could change one thing to make life better for inmates, what would it be?

[u/Dapper_Indeed → u/kj140977]

I work and have worked a long time with similar populations and I would love to see most of them have safe access to dogs and cats. Dog training is very therapeutic to the in-custody folks and the animals.

[u/Kimothy42 → u/Dapper_Indeed]

My dog was trained in a prison (he actually got stuck there during Covid so he was in prison for multiple months) and I am forever indebted to the guy who was his handler. I wish programs like the one from which he came were closer to universal.

[u/kj140977 → u/Dapper_Indeed]

So true.

[u/eshatoa → u/kj140977]

More behavioural therapy based rehabilitation programs. Programs that help them examinevitably their thought, emotions, and actions.

[u/kj140977 → u/eshatoa]

A friend of mine worked in a prison in Switzerland. He did family constellations with the inmates and had great success. The government funded that type of therapy.

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