
Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer
The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher
Dary Matera(Author)
Sterling (Publisher)
Published on 20. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4549-4315-0 (ISBN)
Description
The third title in our Conversations with a Killer series focuses on one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1970s, Ed Kemper, a key character in the hit Netflix seriesMindhunter.
If there ever was a human monster that walked this earth, it was the highly intelligent, psychotic, 6'9" killer Edward 'Big Ed' Kemper. As a troubled 15-year-old, Kemper shot and killed his grandparents. Eight years later, he went on an 11-month reign of terror slaughtering and dismembering six college co-eds in California, brutally killing his mother with a hammer, and breaking her best friend's neck. Kemper, 71, remains alive at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, more intimidating now than ever.
Masterful crime writer Dary Matera tells Kemper's full, shocking story, interweaving insights from the killer himself.
If there ever was a human monster that walked this earth, it was the highly intelligent, psychotic, 6'9" killer Edward 'Big Ed' Kemper. As a troubled 15-year-old, Kemper shot and killed his grandparents. Eight years later, he went on an 11-month reign of terror slaughtering and dismembering six college co-eds in California, brutally killing his mother with a hammer, and breaking her best friend's neck. Kemper, 71, remains alive at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, more intimidating now than ever.
Masterful crime writer Dary Matera tells Kemper's full, shocking story, interweaving insights from the killer himself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Union Square & Co.
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4549-4315-0 (9781454943150)
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07/2021
Union Square & Co.
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Dary Matera is the author of 14 books, including the bestsellerAre You Lonesome Tonightand Sterling'sCharles Manson: Conversations with a Killer, co-authored with Edward George. He's worked closely with the FBI on such previous books asQuitting the Mob,The FBI's Ten Most Wanted, andJohn Dillinger. His books have been featured on20/20,60 Minutes,48 Hours,Primetime Live,Nightline,Good Morning America,Inside Edition, andCBS This Morning, among others. They have been reviewed and featured inTheNew York Times,TheWall Street Journal,Los Angeles Times,Washington Post,Newsweek,Time,People,Life, and many additional publications. Matera has appeared in more than a dozen TV documentaries featuring his book subjects, and on the TV seriesAmerica: Fact or Fictionand William Shatner'sThe UnXplained.