Ed Gein

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Introduction

This paper is based on the life of Ed Gein. He was an unusual character, born on a farm, and raised by a religious crazy, domineering mother. In the space of a few years his entire family passed away and he was left to take care of his farm all by himself. In the next few years he became a grave robber, a necrophiliac, a cannibal, and also took up arts and crafts in body parts. He is known as one of the weirdest serial killers of the twentieth century. He also inspired movies like Psycho, Silence of The Lambs, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Profile

Name - Edward 'Ed' Gein.

AKA - The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The

Plainfield Ghoul.

DOB/DOD - 1906 - 26 July 1984.

Mother 'Augusta 1878-1945', Father 'George 1873-1940', Brother 'Henry 1901-44'.

Residence(at Time of Murders) - 160-Acre Farm Seven Miles Outside Plainfield,

Wisconsin. USA.

Murder Type/Practices - Serial Killer / Graverobbery, Necrophilia, Cannibalism,

Sadism, Death Fetishism.

Method/Weapons Used - Shooting / .22, .32.

Organization - Mixed.

Mobility - Stable.

Victim Vicinity - Plainfield, Wisconsin.

Murder Time Span - 1954 - 1957.

Victim Type - Old Women.

Victims - Mary Hogan (Died 8 Dec 1954), Bernice Worden (Died 16 Nov 1957)

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Before the Events

Ed Gein and his brother Henry were raised by his religious crazed mother. She was a

very domineering woman, and discouraged her sons from women. They lived on a

160-acre farm seven miles outside of Plainfield, Wisconsin. The boys were always busy

with farm work. His alcoholic father died in 1940 and a few years later his brother Henry

died in 1944, trapped while fighting a forest fire. Shortly after his mother suffered a

stroke and in 1945 she suffered another one which she never recovered from and left Ed

alone.

It was then that he decided to close off the upstairs of his farm home, the parlour, and

his mother’s bedroom by boarding it off and set up his own quarters in the remaining

bedroom, kitchen and shed of the big house. He stopped working the farm because of a

government soil-conservation program. They offered him a subsidy, which he

augmented by his work as a handyman in the area.

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Robbing Graves

In his spare time Ed read books on human anatomy and Nazi concentration camp experiments. He was quite interested by it all, especially the female anatomy. Alone in his farm house he thought about sex , until one day he read in the local paper of a woman that had been buried that day. He went to an old friend by the name