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Edmund Kemper

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Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl, between May 1972 to April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Kemper has received more than 21,747,616 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Edmund Kemper is the 52nd most popular extremist (up from 65th in 2019), the 1,093rd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,324th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Extremist.

Edmund kemper is most famous for being a serial killer who murdered 10 people, including his mother and grandparents.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Edmund Kemper ranks 52 out of 209Before him are Fritz Haarmann, Pavlik Morozov, Madame de Brinvilliers, Abu Nidal, Butch Cassidy, and Patrizia Reggiani. After him are Gudrun Ensslin, Jordan Belfort, Friedrich Jeckeln, George Habash, Frank Sheeran, and Karl Denke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Edmund Kemper ranks 56Before him are Ian McEwan, Brian Eno, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Ian Paice, Powers Boothe, and Patrizia Reggiani. After him are Bille August, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, William Gibson, Rory Gallagher, and Svetlana Savitskaya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Kemper ranks 1,093 out of 18,182Before him are Muddy Waters (1913), Éamon de Valera (1882), Edmund Phelps (1933), Douglas Fairbanks (1883), Jonathan Demme (1944), and James Jones (1921). After him are Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Roger Zelazny (1937), Larry Page (1973), Bob Kahn (1938), and George Stinney (1929).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Edmund Kemper ranks 17Before him are Machine Gun Kelly (1895), H. H. Holmes (1861), William Kemmler (1860), George Jung (1942), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), and Butch Cassidy (1866). After him are Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Barry Seal (1939), Timothy McVeigh (1968), Dennis Rader (1945), and Henry Lee Lucas (1936).