If ever a human monster walked this earth, it would be Edward "Big Ed" Kemper: sa six-foot-nine-inch tall, 280-pound psychotic killer and necrophiliac with an IQ of 145. As a troubled fifteen-year-old in 1964, Kemper shot and killed his grandparents. After six years of therapy he was deemed cured and set free; nine years later he went on an eleven-month reign of terror beheading, dismembering, and raping six college co-eds in California. He finished his spree by brutally killing his mother and her best friend. Today, at 72, Kemper remains at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville-which was home to other infamous killers such as Charles Manson and Juan Corona-where he is serving eight concurrent life sentences. After decades of imprisonment, the hulking killer is now even more intimidating than he was almost fifty years ago, when he portrayed himself to his innocent victims as an affable, gentle giant. In these pages, masterful crime-writer Dary Matera tells Kemper's shocking story in fascinating detail, interweaving insights from the killer himself. Book jacket.