This built up Kemper’s hate for women and because Kemper was revealed to this violence, it allowed Kemper to learn and pick up the brutality. Kemper’s family never showed any form of love towards Kemper, being the reason Kemper did know how to show affection and have sympathy towards others. Kemper’s parents divorced when Kemper was young and this also had an effect on Kemper (Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer). Kemper did not have both parents or anyone else besides his abusive mother to watch after him. From all of the abuse that was shown towards Kemper, it influenced his life by allowing him to think that abuse is …show more content…
Kemper also explains in the interview how he approached the hitchhikers before he killed them. Kemper said he would approach the women calmly and would look at his watch rather than looking like he wanted to pick them up so that he did not look suspicious (Ed Kemper Interview - 1991). Kemper made it appear that he had better things to do than pick up the women, this gave them the idea that Kemper had somewhere to be and that he was a normal man. Kemper also explains another one of his methods to persuade women into his cat. He would chat with the women to the point where they did not find Kemper suspicious at all (Ed Kemper Interview - 1991). This shows that Kemper was able to develop a technique to gain the victim's’ trust and then used this technique every time to lure his victims into the car. As much as Kemper hated women, Kemper was very good with his way of words and actions to reel them into his