"If I were seeing this patient without any history available or without getting the history from him, I would think that we're dealing with a very well-adjusted young man who had initiative, intelligence, and who was free of any psychiatric illness. In effect, we are dealing with two different people when we talk of the fifteen year-old boy who committed the murder and the twenty-three year-old man we see before us now. It is my opinion that he has made a very excellent response to the years of treatment and rehabilitation and I would see no psychiatric reason to consider him to be of any danger to himself or to any member of society..."
"If he wanted to -- and at one point he suggested that he might -- he could have twisted our heads off and set them down on the table for the guard to find." --John Douglas, quoted from The Anatomy of Motive
"As Ed Kemper put it, he was in for life, so what more could they do to him if he killed one of us -- take away his desert?" --John Douglas, quoted from The Anatomy of Motive
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