Ed Kemper

The verdict

Both factors maxed. Articulate, self-narrativizing, and entirely documented in his own words across decades of recorded interviews. Convicted and deceased: the safest possible teaching case, and the practical ceiling of the instrument. Same Factor 1 machinery you will recognise in figures the world adores. The only difference is what he did with it.

Sources

• Recorded prison interviews (multiple, 1980s)

Re-score history

Scored once. The history will grow here as the read is revisited.