Many of you may know Ed Gein from his influence on the characters from Texas Chainsaw Massacre as “leatherface”, American Horror Story as “Dr. Thredson”/“Bloody Face”, Psycho as “Norman Bates”, The Silence of the Lambs as “James Gumb”. But, This certain serial killer is much more than how he is portrayed in these films. He was even a furniture entrepreneur of sorts among other things.
Ed was born on August 27,1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He endured a fairly secluded childhood. This is due to his mother being overly religious. She moved their family out to a farm nearly a quarter of a mile from the neighbors. She would often preach to her two sons about the immorality of the outside world. She often verbally abused them telling them they would be failures like their drunken father. She would poison their minds farther by tainting their view on women and making them believe they were all prostitutes and instruments of the devil.
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There are many rumors that he was making himself a “woman suit”. He would cut off the genitalia of the body and where them to know what it was like.
Even though he is know as a serial killer, he was only proven to have killed 2 people, Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden. Both of these women lived in Plainfield, wisconsin and were both local store owners. Both were in their mid to late 50’s and shot in the head. These kills were nearly 2 years apart.
Ed was never charged with the murder of Mary Hogan. He was only discovered when Bernices’ son reported seeing Gein the night before she went missing asking about antifreeze. When police raided his home while he wasn’t home, the found the heads of MAry and Bernice in bags in his shed. They also found the body of Bernice hanging from the ceiling with her chest dressed out. It is also reported that her insides looked as though they may have been
Upon looking around the rest of the house, the police found whole human bones and fragments. Part of Edward Gein’s “art” collection included a wastebasket and chair seats composed of human flesh, skulls on bedposts, a corset constructed with a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist, leggings made from human leg skin, and masks created from the skin of female heads. On November 21, 1957, Gein was arraigned on one count of first-degree murder in Waushara County Court, where he pled not guilty by reason of insanity. Found mentally incompetent and thus unfit for trial, Gein was sent to a central state hospital that was strictly housed for the criminally insane. In 1968, doctors determined Gein was mentally able to confer with counsel and participate in his defense. On November 14, 1968, Gein was found guilty of first-degree murder by Judge Robert H. Gollmar. Soon, a second trial dealt with Gein's sanity. After testimony by doctors for the prosecution and defense, Gollmar ruled Gein "not guilty by reason of insanity" and ordered him to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Gein spent the rest of his life in a mental
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He went to an old friend by the name of Gus, who was a loner and odd as well. Gus was Ed’s trusted friend, he agreed to assist in digging up the body for “medical experiments”. His first corpse was less than 12 feet away from his mother’s grave.
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