IT assignment : Serial Killers Part 2 (my favorite)

This is DEFINITELY my FAVORITE serial killer of all time , Ed Gein .

Here's a video clip of "Leatherface , Ed Gein"

Edward Theodore,was an American murderer and body snatcher..

This is an exception case of serial killing as he only killed TWO person , whereas mostly , he steal corpses .

Searching the house, authorities found:

skin suit Ed made

• Four noses
• Whole human bones and fragments
• Nine masks of human skin
• Bowls made from human skulls
• Ten female heads with the tops sawn off
• Human skin covering several chair seats
• Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag
• Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack
• Nine vulvae in a shoe box
• A belt made from female human nipples
• Skulls on his bedposts
• A pair of lips on a draw string for a window-shade
• A lampshade made from the skin from a human face

an inspector giving advice to Ed Gein

the crime scene

human skin mask made by Ed

Mary Hogan's head in the paper bag

photo taken on the crime scene

Replica of the bowl Ed made from human skull.

His parents are extremely religious . His mother despised her husband but they did not divorce due to strong religious belief that against divorce.
The mother moved the family to Plainfield to prevent outsiders from influencing her sonS (Ed had a younger brother).
Ed can only leave the premises to go school . Except school , he spent most of his time doing chores in the family farm.
The mother , preached the sons the immorality of the world , evil of drinking , and claiming all women (except herself)are prostitute and are instruments of devils.
She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the bible , mostly verses dealing to death and murders , even divine retributions ( deity punishing human for their behaviours).

The mother punished the younger Gein whenever he tried to make friends.

Gein tried to make his mother happy, but she was rarely pleased with her boys; she often abused them, believing that they were destined to become failures like their father. During their teens and throughout their early adulthood, the boys remained detached from people outside of their farmstead, and so had only each other for company.

After the father's death . the Gein brothers took up odd jobs to cover their expenses.

Both brothers are considered reliable and honest among the residents of the community .

Ed gein babysat in the neighbourhood, He enjoyed babysitting, seeming to relate more easily to children than adults.

As he matured, Henry Gein(the younger brother) began to reject his mother's view of the world and worried about his brother's attachment to her. He spoke ill of her around his brother, who responded with shock and hurt.

Henry died of heart attack on 1944 after a fire happened in their farms.

Although some investigators claimed that Ed Gein killed him  , no evidence was found.

After his brother's death, Gein lived alone with his mother, who died on December 29, 1945, following a series of strokes. Gein was devastated by her death . She was his only friend , his only love , and now he's all alone .

Alone in the world...........

Gein remained on the farm, supporting himself with earnings from odd jobs. He boarded up rooms used by his mother, including the upstairs, downstairs parlor, and living room, leaving them untouched. He lived in a small room next to the kitchen.

he made as many as 40 nocturnal visits to three local graveyards to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a "daze-like" state. On about 30 of those visits, he said he came out of the daze while in the cemetery, left the grave in good order, and returned home empty handed.On the other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother.

Shortly after his mother's death, Gein decided he wanted a sex change and began to create a "woman suit" so he could pretend to be a female.

Gein denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining: "They smelled too bad"

A 16-year-old youth whose parents were friends of Gein and who attended ball games and movies with him reported that he was aware of the shrunken heads, which Gein had described as relics from the Philippines sent by a cousin who had served in World War II. Upon investigation by the police, these were determined to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from corpses and used as masks by Gein.

Found mentally incompetent and thus unfit to stand trial, Gein was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane .On July 26, 1984, Gein died of respiratory failure at the age of 77 in Stovall Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute.

 His grave site in the Plainfield cemetery was frequently vandalized over the years; souvenir seekers chipped off pieces of his gravestone before the bulk of it was stolen in 2000. The gravestone was recovered in June 2001 near Seattle and is now in a museum in Waushara County.