Accused Murderer, Edmund Emil Kemper, Pleading Unknown

Edmund emil kemper has pleaded innocent to eight counts of murder and is scheduled for a jury trial october fifteenth. Defence attorney jim jackson asked the court to reserve his client's right to plead innocent by reason of insanity at a later date. Tom honeg followed kemper's proceedings too, and recalls writing about it at the time. He was just an interesting guy, really very talkative. You were so used to mull and going limp in the court room, and w kemper w seem to be under control the whole time that he was in custody, a very different beast, very different.