But Fincher is surprisingly modest about accruing any of that acclaim. And he famously convinced Trent Reznor to score 2010’s The Social Network, resulting in Oscars for the Nine Inch Nails principal and collaborator Atticus Ross. House of Cards, another show Fincher executive produces for Netflix, has accumulated five Emmy nominations for composer Jeff Beal (who won this year).
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Set within the FBI’s elite Behavioral Sciences Unit, the show delves into the psyche of high-profile serial killers because, “How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don’t know how crazy thinks?” In other words, as sophisticated a study in depravity as audiences are likely to see outside of a theater showing a Fincher film, and he wanted the music to match.įincher’s facility with score has been validated with an Oscar, a Grammy and two noms for his past four films, which include Gone Girl, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Welcome to the world of David Fincher’s Mindhunter, a circa 1970s crime drama that debuts on Netflix this weekend. On May 7, Tony Orlando & Dawn is in the middle of a four-week ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “ Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” and Edmund Kemper is indicted on eight counts of murder in Santa Cruz, Calif. "Alive, they were distant, not sharing with me… When they were being killed, there wasn’t anything going on in my mind except that they were going to be mine… That was the only way they could be mine.The year is 1972. I got things to do!!!”Īt last, in Pueblo, Colorado, he pulled over to a roadside telephone booth, called the Santa Cruz police, and told them he was the 'CO-ed Killer.“ They did not believe him, and it took several similar calls before the Colorado police arrived to arrest him.Īt his trial, Kemper explained his motive in killing young women: “No need for her to suffer any more at the hands of this horrible ‘murderous Butcher.’ It was quick - asleep - the way I wanted it. Early the next morning, not knowing what he should do, he drove aimlessly eastward for many hours, having left a note for the police in his mother’s home: When she arrived and said, “Let’s sit down, I’m dead,” he took her at her word and strangled her, decapitated her, and drove off in her car. He then invited his mother’s close fried to a “surprise” meal. As a final touch, he cut out her larynx and fed it to the garbage disposal: “It seemed so appropriate,” he later confessed, “as much as she’d bitched and screamed and yelled at me over so many years.” The next morning he washed the blood from the bodies before dumping them in an isolated canyon nearby.Īt dawn on Easter Saturday Kemper killed his mother with an hammer, crushing her skull, and then cut off her head. When he arrived at his mother’s home she was there, and he was obliged to carry out the decapitations in the trunk of his car. In February 1973 he picked up two female hitchhikers on the campus of Santa Cruz’s Merrill College (where his mother was an administrator), and almost immediately shot both.
Kemper’s activities now began to accelerate. With a macabre sense of humour, he set the head facing his mother’s bedroom window: She had always said she wanted people “to look up to her”. When police discovered her dismembered body some days afterward, Kemper still had her head in a box in his closet later he buried it in his mother’s backyard. Another four months passed before Kemper’s next kill, a student at Cabrillo College. There he decapitated and dissected them, taking Polaroid photos of his actions, before burying the remains in the Santa Cruz Mountains - but he kept their heads for some time before disposing of them.įour months later, a 15-year-old Japanese student suffered a similar fate. Then, in May 1972, he held two co-eds from Fresno State College at gunpoint, took them into an isolated canyon and stabbed them to death, before carrying their bodies back home. He bought a car and roamed the highways, at first only giving lifts to young female hitchhikers. He was a giant figure, six feet nine inches tall and weighing nearly 300 pounds. Kemper, diagnosed with “personality trait disturbance, passive-aggressive type,” was committed to the care of Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane however, in 1969, at age 21, he was released into the custody of his mother - despite the objections of the state psychiatrists. At the age of 14, he was described my his mother as “a real weirdo.” He was sent to stay with his grandparents in their isolated California ranch, where he shot both of them in August 1964: “I just wondered how it would feel to kill grandma”. Death and execution fascinated him from an early age.
He grew up with two younger sisters in a family where his mother and father constantly fought, and eventually separated. Edmund Emil Kemper was born in December 1948, in Burbank, California.
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