Dary Matera > Quotes

“I taught women not to hitchhike.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“He ached for people to “respect my athoratiiii.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“I wanted to kill my mother since I was eight years old. I’m not proud of that.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“The second time he was tested, Ed’s score jumped to 145, higher than 99 percent of the population. Ed was not only evil: he was now a certified “Evil Genius,” a designation that pleased him to no end.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“I just wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma,” he famously intoned.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“Now you see them. Car pulls over. Now you don’t. Whoosh.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher

“Ed would later conclude that it’s better that some children and teenagers commit suicide or recklessly kill themselves before they grow up to do antisocial things. That something inside them knows the dark path they are headed down. They sense what evil behaviors would manifest in the future. He suggested that society shouldn’t mourn these lost children, but rather understand that what they did was for the best, for the greater good.”
― Dary Matera, Ed Kemper: Conversations with a Killer: The Shocking True Story of the Co-Ed Butcher