🚀 go-pugleaf

OPAC wrote:
> 
> Does anybody remember this 6-foot-9 brute who terrorized UC-
> Santa Cruz in the early 1970's, dismembering 6 female hitchers
> (I think)?  Among his many homicidal feats were offing his
> own grandparents when he was a kid.  He was paroled by the
> trusting California youth-correctional system of his day, back
> to his mother's custody.
> 
> She was a typical mother of a serial killer.  Fearing that the
> young Edmund would molest his sisters, she confined him to a
> makeshift cellar bedroom.  A little harsh, for a poor misunderstood
> guy who had dismembered 2 pet cats and begun playing a death-ritual
> game with his sister.
> 
> But all that was before his release for double homicide.  He began
> picking up and killing trusting women and girls--Santa Cruz was
> a  "hip"  and  "groovy"  place, but he dispelled that aura fast.
> You can assess the merit of psychotherapists by the fact that he
> went to one appointment with a victim's head in the trunk of his car.
> Eventually he got to the root of his problem by killing and beheading
> his mother.  Then he called her friend to the house and murdered her
> too.
> 
> As it was, he was still suspected by nobody.  He didn't get arrested
> until he drove east and made a confessional phone call from Colorado.
> Today, our hero sits in the Vacaville prison, unlikely to be paroled.
> Too bad the likes of recalled Chief Justice Rose Bird and the
> army of gullible psychotherapists and social workers have fallen into
> such disfavor.  They would have given him another chance.
> 
> Hail Edmund!