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Apr 2021
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175: Serial Killer: Oxygen's "Kemper on ...

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You guys, please don't let your Wikipedia page start the way this guy's does: "serial killer, serial rapist, cambial, and necrophile..." YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKES. As a teenager, Kemper killed his grandparents, was sent to a mental hospital WHERE HE WAS RELEASED ON GOOD BEHAVIOR 6 YEARS LATER. He would go on to kill 8 more people--including 6 young women and his own mother. But when he was caught, he agreed to spill alllllllllllllllll the tea about how and why he became a killer in a formal sit-down interview. And so of course they  made a documentary about it.

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