Mullin showed “no true remorse for these brutal murders,” Rosell argued. But he blamed his poor upbringing and said his parents and sister should be held responsible. Prosecutors said Mullin committed two other murders for which he never faced charges.Īt the time, District Attorney Jeff Rosell said that Mullin again admitted to the 13 killings during his parole hearing. Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer who murdered six college students before murdering his mother and her best friend from May 1972 to April 1973, following his parole for murdering his paternal grandparents. Mullin was serving two concurrent sentences of life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder from Santa Cruz County and nine terms of five years to life for second-degree murder from Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties.Īll were for killings he committed during a four-month period in late 1972 and early 1973. Mullin died Thursday evening at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton, corrections officials said, and the San Joaquin County medical examiner will determine his exact cause of death. Wesley Brownlee was arrested by Stockton police and named as a suspect in the serial killings of five men in that Central California city as well as a murder. Mullin's victims ranged in age from 4 to 73 and included a priest he killed in a confessional booth, according to the Santa Cruz County district attorney’s office. (AP) - A California inmate who confessed to killing 13 people in a matter of months during the early 1970s has died of natural causes at age 75, state prison officials said Friday.
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