Ed
Kemper: “Well, I’m not an expert. I’m not an authority. I’m someone who has
been a murderer for almost 20 years.”
Interviewer:
“Can you say how many people might be doing crimes like you were doing?”
Kemper:
“It would be a guess, but it’s far more than 35. It isn’t that impossible in
this society. It happens.”
Interviewer:
“Are there more people?”
Kemper:
“They didn’t give up. He, she, didn’t give up. I did. I came in out of the
cold. And what I’m saying is there are some people who prefer it in the cold.”
Interviewer:
“What people see?”
Kemper:
“A nice guy.”
Interviewer:
“You were able to appear like an ordinary person, non-threatening, to…”
Kemper:
“I lived as an ordinary person most of my life. Even though I was living a
parallel and increasingly sick life. Other life.”
Source: Excerpt from documentary Murder: No Apparent Motive (1984)