Warning: Spoilers ahead for the first season of "Mindhunter."
Netflix's new true-crime centric thriller series "Mindhunter" was inspired by the true story of how the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit began studying psychopaths and serial killers in the late 1970s. While the names of the special agents involved were changed, several of the convicted murderers they interview are pulled straight from history.
Keep reading for a look at the five major criminals featured in the show to see how their fictional versions stack up to the real people.
Warning: The below article contains descriptions of graphic violence.
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Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer," was found guilty of ten counts of murder, as well as dismemberment and necrophilia.
Kemper is the first accused murderer Special Agent Holden, who's played by Jonathan Groff, interviews on the show. While the show doesn't go into much detail, all the information presented about Kemper stays true to the real story behind the "Co-Ed Killer."
Kemper, who was six-foot-nine and weighed 280 pounds, was found guilty of 10 total counts of murder between 1964 and 1973. He confessed to killing his paternal grandparents at age 15. After being incarcerated for those murders and released at 21, Kemper continued to kill.
Kemper kidnapped and murdered six young women, all students, in the Santa Cruz area in addition to killing his mother and her friend.
His victims were killed using various methods — shooting, stabbing, or choking — but Kemper confessed to practicing necrophilia with eight of the victim's corpses after separating their heads from the body.
The show goes into Kemper's childhood and abusive mother, but leaves out a couple details from his past. He also killed two cats (one of which he dismembered) when he was a young boy, and also had two near-death experiences at the hands of one of his sisters.
Kemper is still alive and incarcerated in California.
Monte Rissell raped 12 women and murdered five before he was arrested at age 19 and sent to a correctional facility.
Though "Mindhunter" goes into detail about Rissell's victims, identifying the first as a prostitute, there isn't as much about him on public record as is the case with the other killers interviewed.
According to reporting from the Washington Post, Rissell raped and killed five women over a nine month period in the fall of 1976 before he was arrested and charged. He was 18 at the time, and had already been convicted of robbery and rape once before at age 16.
Rissell was eligible for parole beginning in 1995, but is still currently imprisoned at the Pocahontas State Correctional Center in Virginia. He is 59 years old.
Jerry Brudos strangled four women in the 1960s. He was known as the "Lust Killer" or the "Salem shoe-fetish killer."
As "Mindhunter" reveals, Brudos developed a fetish with women's shoes at a very young age. He was incarcerated for nine months at age 17 for sexually assaulting a woman, but was released after evaluations concluded he was not psychotic.
Between 1968 and 1969, when Brudos was 28, he allegedly killed at least five women. Each of his victims were strangers, all young women, who he would bring to his private garage and assault. He dismembered several of the bodies, and dressed them in high heels or other clothing.
Brudos allegedly had sex with at least one of the corpses before disposing of it. He also amputated the breasts of two victims and made molds from the body parts to keep as trophies.
Brudos initially confessed to the murders, but recanted the confession. He was convicted for three of the murders and imprisoned at the Oregon Department of Corrections from 1969 until he died of liver cancer in 2006.
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