
Tragically, Kemper sought help from a school counselor multiple times. Taking a life also starts the long process of escalation most serial killers go through before taking a human life. It’s an early form of ‘victim selection’ and allows them to release pent up homicidal tension on a vulnerable creature. Mutilating animals is often a sign of budding serial killers.

At one point, he buried his family cat alive, dug it up, and placed its severed head on a stick. He was known to torture and brutally kill animals.

Even more alarming was Kemper’s relationship with animals. The game would end with Kemper pretending to die via electrocution brutally. Kemper would play the role of a death row inmate, while his sister was the executioner.

He invented a game he called “gas chamber” as a child that he’d play with his sister. Unsurprisingly, Edmund Kemper had an unhealthy fascination with death, even as a child.
