“I came up behind her and crooked my arm around her neck, like this. I squeezed and just lifted her off the floor. She just hung there and, for a moment, I didn't realize she was dead….I had broken her neck and her head was just wobbling around with the bones of her neck disconnected in the skin sack of her neck.”

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Describing his final murder, that of Sally Hallett. Edmund Kemper Interview, Front Page Detective Magazine March 1974 by Marj von Beroldingen.

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