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Interviewer: I don’t know if the story is true, but [it was said that] you beheaded one of your sister’s dolls and cut off the hands of the doll.

Kemper: It’s interesting you bring that up… Uh… I had a cap gun. It was by Mattel™, right? Fanner 50, it was a really fancy cap gun. I got it in New York City. I went there one summer with a cousin. And, when I came back, my sister was kinda jealous - my younger sister. For years, I never really put any value on what happened; tried to figure out, you know, beyond the obvious, what happened in this scenario. But she, I’ve since found… it plausible to believe, that when she was angry or jealous about something, she would fuel her attitude toward resolving something. She hated that cap gun, because it came between us as brother and sister. It was something I had that she didn’t have, uh that trip represented something she really wanted, and she didn’t get - I did. But very soon after getting back from that trip, she got in an argument with me; it was over something really petty. She got really outraged, she picked up that cap pistol and I said, “Don’t throw that!” And she threw it right at me. Wham! Hard! It hit the floor and my toe, and it hurt bad. Uh, but it broke the gun. The inner mechanism. It wouldn’t work after that. I picked it up, I found that out, it wouldn’t cock and pull the trigger anymore. And that really outraged me. So I said, “So you wanna play like that, huh?” So I go running into her room, she says, “What are you doing!? What are you doing!?” She’s shrieking and chasing me, right? So I run into her room, and I grab up her Barbie™ doll. It was the one fancy doll she had - the Barbie™ doll everybody has one, right? Uh… she had a pair of sewing scissors sitting there and a sewing machine, a sewing kit. I grabbed the scissors out. The head didn’t decapitate; it pops off. So I popped that off and said, ‘well that’s gonna go right back on, that’s no damage,’ so I took the scissors and I cut the hands off the doll, I said, “Here. Now you got a toy that doesn’t work too good; I got a toy that doesn’t work too good.” That was my attitude. It wasn’t quite just me going and de-, you know, dismembering her doll. Again, I think that’s a little bit… too quick an assignation. 

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