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With his bail set at $ 1,000,000, Bunyard has so far been charged with only two counts of murder, two counts of assault on police officers and two counts of kidnaping. But a collection of knives found in his Nob Hill apartment, plus a positive identification by one of the area's Oriental rape victims, has led police to believe that they have finally found the Nob Hill rapist...
...about the time Bunyard was on his rampage, a 6-ft. 9-in., 278-lb. giant named Edmund Emil Kemper III was having one of his frequent fights with his mother, an administrative assistant at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He ended it by hitting her on the head with a hammer and cutting off her head and right hand. He strangled her friend, another college employee, and stuffed the bodies into separate bedroom closets in his mother's Santa Cruz home. Then Kemper, 24, climbed into his car and drove east until he reached Pueblo, Colo...
Both Kemper and Bunyard had histories of severe mental disorder. At the age of 15, Kemper killed both of his grandparents after deciding he did not want to visit with them any longer. He then called his mother to tell her what he had done and calmly waited for the police -a grisly rehearsal of last week's murder and confession. After treatment in several mental hospitals, he was released by the California Youth Authority, though it is still not clear...
...unwanted child who was kicked out of kindergarten for being "incorrigible," Bunyard also came under the California Youth Authority early in life, but he graduated to more severe correctional institutions. That he should never have been released was once strongly implied by Bunyard himself. In 1967, as he walked out of the San Mateo honor camp, he told an officer: "I don't want to go out there. I feel like a puppy that you're putting on the freeway. I don't think I can make it out there." Eventually the puppy turned into a monster...
...psychopathic sprees of Kemper and Bunyard seem to pose a sharp rebuke to the state's correctional facilities. Opponents of Governor Ronald Reagan pointed out that he had sharply cut back funds for the state's mental institutions upon taking office. One of the few remaining such facilities in Northern California is scheduled to close down in 1975-and President Nixon is planning to phase out all federal money for the local mental health clinics that were to take the place of those hospitals. As Stanford University Psychiatrist Donald Lunde put it: "There is no place for these...