- Piquai Souban
- Mar 21, 2007
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I am watching this after binging the “heavy hitter” / serial killer episodes of Last Podcast On The Left, and I highly recommend listening to the episodes associated with the killers who factor into the show.
Their research gives you a reasonably deep dive into a lot of the brief character/historical notes referenced for dudes like Kemper.
Piquai Souban fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Oct 16, 2017
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- Piquai Souban
- Mar 21, 2007
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Manque du respect: toujours.
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Watching Holt makes me wish he was audiobook narrator. His voice is fantastic.
Another guy who narrates audio books? Edmund Kemper!
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-29/news/mn-2252_1_blind-couple
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- Piquai Souban
- Mar 21, 2007
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Manque du respect: toujours.
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holy poo poo
I should have drawn a bit more attention to that, because it's insane and amazing and weirdly fits with what we see of Kemper:
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For 27 years prisoners at Vacaville have been recording books--best sellers, textbooks, mysteries, science fiction, Westerns, children's books and cookbooks--on tape for blind men, women and children all over America.
It is the oldest and largest projects of its kind in the nation.
"Their visit here is so special for us. We get letters of thanks from our blind patrons, but they never come inside the prison to meet us," said Edmund E. Kemper III, 38, the inmate who runs the program.
Kemper, a confessed mass murderer, has read onto tape cassettes more books for the blind than any other prisoner. He has spent more than 5,000 hours in a booth before a microphone in the last 10 years and has more than four million feet of tape and several hundred books to his credit.
Two large trophies saluting Kemper for his dedication to the program, presented by supporters outside the prison, are on display in the Volunteers prison office, which has eight recording booths, two monitor booths and a battery of sophisticated tape duplication equipment.
"I can't begin to tell you what this has meant to me, to be able to do something constructive for someone else, to be appreciated by so many people, the good feeling it gives me after what I have done," said the 6-foot, 9-inch prisoner.
Kemper is serving a life sentence for his 1973 conviction on eight counts of murder in a case that drew national attention. Kemper murdered and dismembered his mother, her best friend and six Santa Cruz-area women. He had previously been confined for five years at Atascadero State Hospital after he confessed to killing his grandparents when he was 15. He had been released from Atascadero when psychiatrists concluded that he was no longer dangerous.
Gardiner and Eames have corresponded with Kemper and the other prisoners for some time, but this was their first face-to-face meeting. The blind couple said it was an opportunity for "meeting the voices" that have entertained and enlightened them through the medium of recorded books.
Their prison friends asked them what it is like to be blind, how they function, how the public reacts to their handicap. The blind couple wanted to know what life is like for the inmates, how they would improve the prison system, what they think of the death penalty.
Eames, a strong advocate of the death penalty, expressed surprise when some of the men agreed with him.
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