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Ed Kemper Was Released From a Forensic Hospital After Killing His Grandparents and Went on to Murder 8 More People
Ed Kemper Was Released From a Forensic Hospital After Killing His Grandparents and Went on to Murder 8 More People

Serial killer Edmund Kemper, later known as the 'Co-Ed Killer,' was released on parole from Atascadero State Hospital when he was 21 after shooting and killing his grandparents when he was 15. Why did psychiatrists allow him to go free?
Ann Wolbert Burgess on Learning from Serial Killers While Working With 'Mindhunters'
Ann Wolbert Burgess on Learning from Serial Killers While Working With 'Mindhunters'

Ann Wolbert Burgess tells A&E True Crime about how her expertise in victimology aided the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in their mission to capture rapists and serial killers in the 1970s and '80s.
The Rise and Fall of American Serial Killers
The Rise and Fall of American Serial Killers

Investigative historian Peter Vronsky explains how Edmund Kemper, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and others reached celebrity status during the 'Golden Age' of American serial killing.
Edmund Kemper: Why Would a Serial Killer Help the FBI Understand Other Serial Killers?
Edmund Kemper: Why Would a Serial Killer Help the FBI Understand Other Serial Killers?

Bryanna Fox, Ph.D, former FBI agent and researcher at the bureau's Behavioral Science Unit, talks to A&E True Crime about whether convicted serial killers are the key to catching active serial killers.
The Murderers of 'Mindhunter': What's True, What's Not?
The Murderers of 'Mindhunter': What's True, What's Not?

A&E True Crime spoke to a psychologist and a criminal profiler about the serial killers featured on Mindhunter, and asked them what the show got right when it comes to their impulses and motives.

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