But if you turn around and face the front, everybody relaxes." - Holden Ford They're uncomfortable for reasons they can't even articulate. "You get onto a crowded elevator, and you face the opposite direction, the back of the elevator, and everybody freaks out. "Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse, I'll give you that." - Bill Tench "You see, Bill, I knew a week before she died I was gonna kill her." - Edmund Kemper In other words, by extrapolation, are criminals born or are they formed?" - Leo Buchanan "Personality and character far outweigh the presence of psychotic or defective diagnoses. How could you possibly get that from an ordinary police report?" - Wendy Carr The lust for control, the feeling of arousal, the decision to rape the severed head of your victim, to humiliate her corpse. "Imagine, like truly imagine what it takes to bludgeon someone to death. He is 72 years old and his earliest possible release date is listed as 2180."In reality, when you stab somebody, they lose blood pressure and they leak to death, very slowly." - Edmund Kemper Rader is still alive and being held in El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas. Rader was also obsessed with knots and bondage, and would bind his victims and then suffocate or strangle them. This was teased in the "Mindhunter" scene with him tying knots over and over while watching TV. He sent taunting letters and clues to police over the years, which is why "Mindhunter" showed the character cryptically mailing a letter at the start of one episode. He killed 10 people over the course of 20 years while living in the Wichita area of Kansas before he was arrested and convicted in 2005. Rader really was an ADT employee, just like the show's character.
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The series hasn't named him yet, but the clues all point to this being the BTK (which stands for "bind, torture, kill") killer. On the first season of "Mindhunter," Rader is shown in a brief scene at the start of each episode. Kemper is still alive and incarcerated in California. He also killed two cats (one of which he dismembered) when he was a young boy, and also had two near-death experiences at the hands of one of his sisters. The show goes into Kemper's childhood and abusive mother, but leaves out a couple details from his past. His victims were killed using various methods - shooting, stabbing, or choking - but Kemper confessed to practicing necrophilia with eight of the victim's corpses after separating their heads from the body. Kemper kidnapped and murdered six young women, all students, in the Santa Cruz area in addition to killing his mother and her friend. After being incarcerated for those murders and released at 21, Kemper continued to kill. He confessed to killing his paternal grandparents at age 15. Kemper, who was six-foot-nine and weighed 280 pounds, was found guilty of 10 total counts of murder between 19. Kemper is the first accused murderer Special Agent Holden, who's played by Jonathan Groff, interviews on the show. While the show doesn't go into much detail, all the information presented about Kemper stays true to the real story behind the "Co-Ed Killer."
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Ed Kemper was a real serial killer in Santa Cruz known as the "Co-Ed Killer."