Kemper kept Schall's body hidden in a closet in his room overnight. When his mother left for work the next morning he had sex with Schall's corpse and removed the bullet before dismembering and decapitating it in his mother's bathtub. Kemper kept the severed head for several days before burying it in his mother's garden facing upward toward her bedroom – later remarking that his mother always wanted 'people to look up to her'.