Edwand Theodore Gein
1906-1984
Eds Childhood
Gein was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was very to himself and he spent hours obsessed with sexual fantasy and reading about female anatomy. Geins father was an alcoholic, his mother was very religious, and he had one older brother Henry. His mother ruled the house preaching about the sins of lost and carnal desire. She tried to teach Ed and Henry about sin, especially the evils of sex and women. She also abused them. His father died from alcoholism in 1940. Four years later after that his brother died from fighting a fire. His mother died a year after in 1945 from a stroke.
- His nickname was the butcher of Plainfield.
- He's a serial killer and grave robber
- He inspired the creation of films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- After his mothers death is when he started to rob graves
- He had practice necrophilia(sex with dead bodies) and experimented with human taxidermy.
- Killed two women
- He was a loner
Bernice Worden
On November 16, 1957 Gein went to a hardware store owned be Bernice. He was a regular costumer so she had no reason to fear him. The was a gun in the case and he took it out and shot her. He did this to use her to experiment with since he decided he needed fresher bodies.
Mary Hogan
On December 8, 1954 he shot Mary.
Gein would spend hours obsessed with sexual fantasy and reading about the female anatomy. Gus, another loner was a long time friend of Gein's. Gein told Gus about all the experiment's he did. They wanted to perform together but needed fresher bodies so they robbed bodies from a grave. This continued for 10 years. His obsessive fantasies desired him to turn himself into a women. He would construct item's out of the skin of the body that he could drape on himself such as a female mask and breast. He made a complete body sized female-like jump suit.
Searching the house, authorities found:
Four noses
Whole human bones and fragments
Nine masks of human skin
Bowls made from human skulls
Ten female heads with the tops sawed off
Human skin covering several chair seats
Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag
Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack
Nine vulvas in a shoe box
Skulls on his bedposts
Organs in the refrigerator
A pair of lips on a draw string for a windowshade
A belt made from human female nipples
A lampshade made from the skin from a human face
On November 21, 1957, Gein was arraigned on one count of first degree murder in Waushara County Court, where he entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Found mentally incompetent and thus unfit to stand trial, Gein was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane