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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 and 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 23,096,827 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Edmund Kemper is the 50th most popular extremist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 1,192nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,093rd in 2019) and the 16th 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 50 out of 283. Before him are Gudrun Ensslin, Madame de Brinvilliers, Timothy McVeigh, George Jung, Karl Denke, and Pavlik Morozov. After him are Butch Cassidy, Issei Sagawa, Friedrich Jeckeln, Aileen Wuornos, Sawney Bean, and Michel Fourniret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Edmund Kemper ranks 66. Before him are Bille August, Claude Jade, Svetlana Savitskaya, Lluís Llach, Jerzy Kukuczka, and William Gibson. After him are Edwige Fenech, Chris de Burgh, Radomir Antić, Alan Parsons, Maye Musk, and Steven Chu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Kemper ranks 1,192 out of 20,380. Before him are Donna Haraway (1944), Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861), Sissy Spacek (1949), George Papandreou (1952), George Stinney (1929), and Edward Emerson Barnard (1857). After him are Herbie Hancock (1940), Dwayne Johnson (1972), Little Richard (1932), Butch Cassidy (1866), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), and Sam Shepard (1943).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Edmund Kemper ranks 16. Before him are Albert Fish (1870), H. H. Holmes (1861), Jim Jones (1931), William Kemmler (1860), Timothy McVeigh (1968), and George Jung (1942). After him are Butch Cassidy (1866), Aileen Wuornos (1956), Dennis Rader (1945), Gary Ridgway (1949), Jordan Belfort (1962), and Frank Sheeran (1920).

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