“I figured that if I killed him [Herbert Mullin] and then they sent me to the gas chamber, it would be a good solution to the problem. I know I'd never get a chance to, though, and I don't have any intention of killing him or anyone else....He was just a cold-blooded killer, running over a three-week period killing everybody he saw for no good reason. [pauses, laughs] I guess that's kind of hilarious, my sitting here so self-righteously talking, like that, after what I've done.”
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Kemper was locked up for years with serial killer Edmund Kemper. Edmund Kemper Interview, Front Page Detective Magazine March 1974 by Marj von Beroldingen
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