The State - News from June 16, 1988

Edmund Kemper III--convicted of killing and beheading eight women, including his mother--was denied parole from prison for the sixth time. A three-member Board of Prison Terms panel cited the “extraordinary degree of violence” in deciding that the 6-foot, 9-inch former construction worker should remain in custody at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville for at least three more years. Kemper, 39, was convicted in 1973 of murdering his mother, her best friend and six female hitchhikers in a year-long series of murders in the Santa Cruz area, saying he was driven by sexual fantasies.