Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer. He committed the murder of ten people, including his paternal grandparents and mother. He regularly engaged in necrophilia and claimed to have consumed the flesh of at least one of his victims, but later retracted this confession.

Born in California, Kemper had a disturbed childhood. He moved to Montana with his abusive mother at a young age before returning to California, where he murdered his paternal grandparents when he was 15. He was subsequently diagnosed by court psychiatrists as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and sentenced to the Atascadero State Hospital as a criminally insane juvenile.

Released at the age of 21 after convincing psychiatrists he was rehabilitated, Kemper was regarded as non-threatening by his victims. He targeted young female hitchhikers during his killing spree, luring them into his vehicle and driving them to secluded areas where he would murder them before taking their corpses back to his home to be decapitated, dismembered and violated. He then murdered his mother and one of her friends before turning himself in to the authorities. Found sane and guilty at his trial in 1973, he requested the death penalty for his crimes. However, capital punishment was temporarily suspended in California and he instead received eight life sentences. Since then, Kemper has been incarcerated in the California Medical Facility.

Kemper is known for his large stature and high intelligence, standing 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) tall, weighing over 250 pounds (113 kg) and having a reported IQ of 145, features that left his victims with little chance to overcome him.

Hardcover 'Crime Classification Manual by John Douglas. This book was given as a gift to Kemper by Douglas himself. Douglas has notated and signed the book to Kemper dated 1991 on the first page. Kemper has notated and signed the book to a friend dated 1995 on the second page. Book has been keep in excellent condition. Pages are bookstore white. Dustcover is flawless.  Kemper has provided an original and true signed in full and dated certificate of authenticity detailing the book. Book measures 9.75H" X 6.5L" X 1.25W closed. COA measures 8.5" X 11". Recipients name on the COA has been obscured for privacy on the scan only and not the actual COA. Overall condition of all items herein A++.