Who is Ed Kemper aka the Co-ed Killer in Mindhunter?

With Mindhunter returning to Netflix people are asking who is Ed Kemper aka the Co-ed Killer.

Here are 5 things you might not know about the giant serial killer -

1. Kemper is a giant at 6foot 9 and was teased about it at school and by his family including his elder sister who allegedly tried to push him in front of a train and also tried to drown him.

2. His mother Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper was an alcoholic drunk who despised her son. He later killed her.

3. When he was a child he already showed signs of being a serial killer. He would decapitate his sister's dolls, torture and kill animals and ask his sister to play an electric chair game where she'd pretend to electrocute him.

4. He's called the Co-ed Killer because most of his victims were young women students at co-educational establishments. He targeted them when they were hitchhiking and would drive them to secluded spots where he'd decapitate, dismember and violate them.

5. When he was 15 he murdered his grandparents and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and sent to a psychiatric hospital. Had he not been released at the age of 21 he wouldn't have gone on to murder his mother,  her friend and the six students.

6. At one stage he wanted to be a police officer, but he was rejected because of his huge size. He still made friends with cops by hanging out with them at a bar and was given the nickname Big Ed.

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Only in a parallel universe could Netflix kill The OA

Like every other fan of the wonderfully twisty, time travelling drama The OA I was  saddened to see the show being cancelled  after just two seasons by Netflix. 

The so-called champions of new shows and the amazing people who create them have cancelled a truly one of a kind show beloved by critics and fans in equal measure. And we are damn angry. 

What makes the cancellation such a bitter pill to swallow is that right now we need a show like The OA especially at a time when we've waved goodbye to another popular show with a stellar and diverse cast Orange is the New Black. 

Both shows are the perfect antidote to the big bad in the White House Donald Trump who tells people who were born in the USA to go back home (but would never dream of saying that to his non-US born wife because she's white). 

A man who is the pin up boy for the racist extremists like the racist coward who went on a shooting rampage in El Paso, a place that was apparently deliberately targeted because of its high Hispanic population. Or if you want to put it another way because it'd a high percentage of non-whites. 

A man who's cohorts seem to want to turn the land of the free into their own version of The Handmaid's Tale by cutting off women's rights to choose abortion. 

The OA has the kind of diverse cast that's under attack in the USA right now. The transgender community is represented by the wonderful Ian Alexander as Buck/Michelle Vu.

The Latino American community by gay boy genius French played brilliantly by Brandon Perea.

Disaffected youth by the extremely likeable Patrick Gibson who plays Steve. 

Phyllis Smith from The Office is handed the best role I've ever seen for a mature woman as Betty Broderick-Allen (or BBA for short).  The way she saves Steve from wayward teens camp (it looks more like parent sponsored kidnapping) still makes me smile. 

In the OA's world you can change the world and you don't do it with hate speech or bullets, you do it with love and some tai chi style movements. The way the gang stopped what would have been a mass school shooting was nothing short of genius. 

Maybe in another dimension The OA does still exist on Netflix and there's a season 3, then 4 and 5 on its way as was planned. I'll keep meeting my friends to do the movements just in case I can reunite Prairie and Homer once again. 

Until then The OA will continue to live in all of us privileged enough to watch it thanks to its amazing creators Brit Marling  and Zal Batmanglij.