There are often early signs that a child will grow up to be a serial killer , and as a young boy Edmund Kemper III certainly exhibited several of them. He delighted in torturing and killing animals and, in an eerie foreshadowing of his later crimes, Kemper also performed strange rituals with his sister’s Barbie dolls that involved cutting off their heads and hands. The hulking Californian, who would grow to be 6’9” as an adult, also spent most of his childhood sleeping in the locked basement of