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A profile of Ed Gein, the killer and body-snatcher who came to be known as the ‘Butcher of Plainfield’, and whose story is thought to have inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.The Silence of the Lambs . All three of these groundbreaking films have drawn inspiration from the real story of Ed Gein, the notorious serial killer and grave robber who stalked the frozen fields of rural Wisconsin in the 1950s.
His gruesome crimes have haunted Hollywood for decades.
In November 1957,police in the small town of Plainfield , Wisconsin wew were searching for a missing woman named Bernice Worden.
They were about to make one one of the most gruesome discoveries in US criminal history.
One of them turned on his flashlight and beamed around and saw this object that was hanging from the rafters,which at first they thought was some kind of guttet deer,they realize to their incredible horror that it was a woman’s corps that was hanging by its heels.
The twisted killer was quiet loner Ed Gein.
Hidden insied the 51 year old’s rural farmhouse was a ghouslish treasure trove of humans remains.
there was a lampshade made of human skin, they found the remains of 12 human heads,gloves made out of the skin from a corpse’s finger.
You think of this happening now, it’d still be shocking,but back then , in a small tiny rural community,it was breathtaking.
America had woken up inside the nightmare of Ed Gein,one of the world’s evil killers….
The gruesome crimes of Ed Gein horrified 50s America,when his rural home was searched on the 16th of November,1957,the police uncovered a gothic house of horrors.
As well as the remains of two missing local wome, they found an array of human bones , skulls , and skin that had been fashioned into furniture and clothing.
The town of Plainfield was in complete shock.
The story of this twisted killer begins over a century ago.
Ed Gein was born in LA Cross county , Wisconsin, on the 27th of August 1906, by the time he was eight years old,his parents moved Ed and his older brother to Plainfield .
The Gein family moved partly because the mother of the family ,the matriarch, Augusta, had decided that La Crosse was kind of Sodom and Gomorrah – like hellhole,and she didn’t want her children to be corrupted by the immoral influences of the big city.
Nedless to say ,La Cross was not a particularly big city,but they moved to a remote farmhouse about six miles west of you wouldn’t necessarily say downtown Plainfield because there was no uptown Plainfield,it’s not the largest city in the state of Wisconsin .
Plainfield was a very remote , isolated,featureless little village,a state guidebook at the time described it as totally nondescript.
The population was very small, never more in its history, than seven or 800 people,probably the entire population of the village could’ve fit into a New York city apartment building.
The Gein’s 150 -acre farm was located on the corner of Archer and 2nd Avenue
Ed rarely got to leave the property and socialize with other children,his mother is avery domineering character indeed, she is a devout christian, and she hasa very extreme ideas about sin and about morality.
And she drums into her sons that they’re not to socialize with anybody outside of the family because all of the people around them in the local town are sinners, they’re evil, all the women are whores.
And so she creates this very insular family environment where they’re quite isolated from the rest of the community and that has a really significant impact on them.
Gein seemed to have been very friendless,whenever he would make som kind of friend on those rare occasions,when he would try to make aschool friend and brign home a school friend.
The mother would immediately find some reason to disapprove of the other child and forbid Ed from ever briging him home, so he grew up agan in a state of complete social isolation.
And Gein’s relationship with his father was also far from perfect.
The father , George ,was an alcoholic,he appeared to have meen somewhat free in his use of physical punishment but mostly, the picture that emerges of George is of a hapless individual who was, as all three male members of the family were,under the thumb of his wife and ,again,who is regarded as much as anything else as a sort of obstacle or impediment to the household.
Ed entered adolescence, his life became even more insular.
He dropped out of school when he was around about 12 or 13 to work on the family’s farm, and he was considered to be a bit of an oddball.
He was quite a loner and he enjoyed quite solitary pursuits, so he really quite like reading and was quite a profilic reader.
So, he was somebody who didn’t really fit in but worked incredibly hard to keep the family farm going.
On April 1st,1940, Ed’s father George died of heart g failure ,leaving 33 year old Ed,his brother Henry and Augusta alone on th family farm.
Ed’s older brother Henry seemed to have freed himself a little more emotionally and psychologically from Augusta’s dominance and even apparently , on a couple of occasions, expressed some criticism of their mother and the hold she she was exterting over both of them.
So Ed , who , at least on a conscious level, whorshiped his mother and saw her as a kind of goddess who would do no wrong, appears to havbe been both a little shocked that Henry would find any cause to criticize Augusta, and possibly built up some kind of animosity toward henry for that attitude.
Ed became a handyman,doing odd jobs around Plainfield to help with living expenses on the farm.
He was always a friendly pereson ,quiet ,friendly,usually had a joke to tell, he always had time to say hello and ask after how you were, a personm who you would never suspect of anything other then being a decent person.
May 1944
Deat would hit the Gein family once again, but this time in more suspicious circumstances,after a brush fire on their farm land got out of control.
Ed and Henry were out there trying to put out the fire, and they got separated and Ed could not locate Henry, and he went and got help.
But then after getting this help, he led the other people directly to where Henry’s body lay, and there were some mysterious bruises on Henry’s head.
The official verdict of the medical examiner was that Henry had died of a heart attack while fighting this fire and had injured his head when he fell and hit a rock,but afterwards , when Gein’s crimes were uncovered , there was a lot of talk that perhaps Henry had been a victim of Ed’s,that Ed , in fact, had killed Henry partly because of Henry’s criticism of Augusta.
The impact upon their mother Augusta was phenomenal, she really broke down about Henry’s death, and she had a stroke.
But of course ,byt then, the psychic bond between Augusta and Ed was so incredibly intense already, Evidence seems to suggest that with the other two men out of the way, Ed reveled in having his mommy alone to himself.
But Gein’s mother never really recovered from her stroke,and their time alone only lasted for 19 months.
Ed nursed her very,very diligently,he even apparently would get into bed with her on occasion and strker her and comfort her ,and then she seemed to recover,but then she suffered another ,this time fatal stroke.
Augusta Gein died on December the 29th, 1945, 39 year old Ed was completely devestated.
Cause his mother was so domineering,she might have stnt his development and he almost got stuck at a kind of teenage adolescent phase in his life.
Looking at how he bhaved at the funeral ,he was in his 30,s at this time, and he was reported to be wailing like a smal lchild, so, he hasn’t got that kind of emotional control that’s associated with 30-something men.
The death of his mother left him completely siolated, living in this increasing ramshackle dilapidated farmhouse that he ceased to take careof whatsever.
Augusta was his only human contact, so it was at that point that Gen embarked on these various outrages that would ultimately make him this notorious figure in American crime
Alone and isolated from the rest of society,Gein spiraled out of control,over the next 12 years ,he became obsessed with recreating the world he’d shared with his mother,it would lead him to a series of dark and disturbing crimes that would eventually culminate in murder.
Neighbors saw him as an odd , very meek, somewhat simple-minded person but one who is always willing to pitch in when some farm work needed to be done or some chore needed to be run for them.
But they , of course, had no sense of the life that he was pursuing inside that incredibly creepy, dismal world of his own farm.
It was a world at 51 year old Gein had managed to keep hidden away until the winter of 1957.
November 16th ,1957,was the first day of deer hunting season that year, and it was a day when ,basically ,the entire male population of the town would have been out in the woods hunting deer, as Ed knew.
Ed drove into town to the worden, the hardware store was owned by a women named Bernice Worden, she and her family ran the hardware store for many years, almost everybody in the community knew mrs Worden.
Ed had been hanging around the store for a couple of weeks previously,he developed something of an obsession with Bernice Worden.
He would takl to her, he would ask her out,and it was quite clear that she really wasn’t that interested in him, Ed came in , asked to buy halfa gallon of antifreeze,which Bernice Worden poured out for him and wrote out a receipt.
He went back ot to his truck and came back inside and asked her to see a rifle that was in the window,when Bernice Worden turned her back to him, he shot her in the back of the head and then loaded her coprse in his truck and then loaded her corps in his truck and drove back to his farm.
Gein had murdered the 58 year old women in broad daylight.
Iit was deer season so,so dear season is like a ghost dollar out here, everybody,in those days, especially, everybody was out hunting, and she wasn’t even missed for som hours,and then when someone reported that she wasn’t at the store,well , that was her son , of course.
Later that day ,Frank Worden returned from the woods and found the store empty,his mother wasn’t there, he was very perplexed by that.
Then he saw a trail of blood across the floor of the hardware store and not only realized that some foul play had occurred but immediately suspected Ed Gein because Gein had been bothering his mother for the past few weeks.
And there was one piece of evidence that confirmed Frank Worden’s suspicions to the police.
When they went to search the place, they found the receipt for the antifreeze that was in Ed’s name, and they just worked backwards saying that he was probably the last person to see her alive .
But they didn’t suspect that he weas as deranged as he was…
One set of lawmen went out in search of Gein, they found him having dinner at a neighbor’s house, and they arrested him, and the another set of lawmen went out to Gein’s farmhouse.
And that’s where they made these discoveries, that really sent shock waves around the world.
On a dark winter’s night, officers from the Plainfield police departement began to search the Gein farm for Bernice Worden.
They couldn’t get into the house, so they went around back and entered into what was called the summer kitchen, which was a little shed outside.
This property didn’t have any electricity, so they were pretty much fumbling around in the dark with flashlights, they wasn’t expecting to find what they did find there.
One of them turned on his flashlight and beamed it around and saw this object that was hanging from the rafters,which , at first ,they thought was some kind of gutted deer, allthough it did lool like a deer, they realized to their incedible horror that it was a woman’s corpse that was hanging by it heels and been completely gutted.
She’d been strung up , essentially, and she was slit from her sternum to her pelvis, so , she’d essentially been butcheredby Ed ,it really was the most grotesque thing that these officers had ever come acrosse.
And they realized they had found the body of Bernice Worden, and of course, both of them just stumbled out in horror and womited at the sight of this thing.
When the news spread across the town,the residents of Plainfield were in completely shock.
After finding the butchered body of Bernice Worden in a shed at Ed Gein’s farm,the police officers move their search into the main house.
He bought it up some areas of the family’s home to maintain the rooms as his mother had left them , and in other parts of the property, he just started horading things, you would have trash and rubbish build up, and it really became a complete hovel.
He had reversed the normal process of the trash disposal, and instead of taking all his garbage to the dump, would go to the dump and bring it into his house, it was just this incredible chaos of trash and gargabe.
But it was more than just household waste, amid all that wreckage , they discovered these incomprehensible, unspeakably awful objects that had been fashioned out of human body parts.
There were chairs that were upholstered in human flesh,there was a lap,shade made of human skin,they found the remains of 12 humans heads,gloves made out of the skin from a corpse’s fingers.
There was a jar containing human noses, there was a box full of female genitalia, some of which had been paitned and tied with ribbons.
There was a belt fashioned out of female nipples, there was a shade pole made of human lips,they found all types of things that belonged to people that were no longer people, and it was shocking.
Ed Gein’s farmhouse was the habitation of a literal ghoul, somebody who had been living amidst these horrific relics of human dismemberment.
It was a madhouse.
Gein’s fascination with death and corpses had been growing ever since his mother had died 12 year previously, Ed enjoying reading ,that’s not particularly surprising , but after the death of his mother and his brother, he started to read an awful lot more, and his tastes in literature really did span quite a wide spectrum,he read pornographic magazines, he read medical textbooks
And he developed a particular interest in Ilse Koch, who worked at one of the Nazi concentration camps and collected patches of skin of the prisoners who were detained there, and al lof this was fueling a very active imagination.
So he’s developing these obsessions and these interests, and he’s quite scaled as a farmland at this point in time.
He knows how to slaughter animals, he knows how to prepare carcasses, he’s from a community that’s very much into its hunting and its fishing ,at some point , reality and fantasy are going to collide.
As the search of the farmhouse progressed , officers found that the grotesque collection of body parts became even more disturbing.
Among the most serious of all the items, were human skin masks that were hanging from the wall of his bedroom,the faces of women that have been flayed from the skulls and tht had ben preserved.
Some of them had lp stick applied to them and that thad been hung on the waslls as decorations ,and then , most notoriously, ther was a skin suit that Ed had crafted out of the upper torso of a women and the leggings of a woman
And apparently, as he later confessed, he would put on this skin suit and put on one of the female skin masks and caper around in his yard,pretending to be his mother…
Gein’s macabre collection had been acquired from the very same cemetery where his mother’s body lay.
Two years after the death of his mother in 1947 , he starts grave robbing.
So,he’s going into a local burial ground,his diggig up bodies, and he’s taking things from the bodies,now he’s not taking jewelry or items of any value,he’s actually taking body parts, it really is an absolute house of horrors.
So, what started off as an interest , which was confined to the pages of a book, has now become a reality behind the doors of this rather bizarre house.
So what heäs doing in a really grotesque way is trying to bring his mother back to life in some way, shape or form , because he was just so dependent upon her for a sense of his own identity.
And the search wasn’t over yet , officers would soon discover inside a paper bag in Gein’s home the severed head of a a women, who’d been missing from plainfield for over two years.
The real tipping point for Ed Gein was when his mother and his brother died because even though this family was very intense and rather extreme in its beliefs, it was still a check on his behavior, there was still that informal surveillance over him , and that might kept him contained.
But once he was on his own, he was free to rminate and fantasize, and his behavior was only going to escalate.
It’s like some crack opened up, in the civilized part of his head and all this weird achaic stuff going back to the days when our species did engage in these bizarre , unspeakable rituals flooded out and took possession of him.
With Gein in custody,officers continue to scour his home, and they would about to make another startling discovery.
A local women hwo’d been missing for almost three years, there had been a female tavern keeper named Mary Hogan who ran this roadside Tavern outside of Plainfield, who disappeared very ,very mysteriously.
When she went missing, he’d said some rather bizarre things, he said to one of the townspeople,” oh ,she’s not missing , she’s up at the house”.
But because he was a b it of a misfit and because he was a bit weird , people didn’t really take what he said very seriously at all, so that one was allowed to slip under the radar,until this grisly discovery a few years later.
In searchng through Gein’s house of horrors, the investigators opened up some receptacle and saw this face and pulled it out and realized it was Mary Hogan’s,that she had been another one of these victims.
Gein had murdered Mary Hogan on December the 8th , 1954, three years previous to killing Bernice Worden.
There was some sense in which he associated her with his mother, she almost seemed to be like the shadow side of his mother, you think in killing her , again, he was both enacting some kind of homicidal rage toward his mother .
But also there were times when he just ran out of suitable female corpses and had to make his own.
Back at the local police station,it was time for Ed Gein to start talking.
For the first day of his arrest, Ed felt like a bit of a fish out of water, he didn’t quite know how to react, but he did start talking after about 24 hours.
The first thing he said, was that he wanted an apple pie with a slice of cheese on it, and that really does show the emotional immaturity of this guy.
And when you’ve got somebody whose development stops at particular point, they don’t develop those complex emotions that enable them to emphathize with ther people or to think through the consequences of their actions.
So, what you’ve got here is a teenage boy in a man’s body, and he was capable of some really terrible things, and he was subjected to a very lengthy interrogation.
he freely confessed to the murders of Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan, when the police first broke into Gein’s house and discovered this crazy mass of body parts, their first assumption was Gein was a serial killer.
It was only during his interrogation that he revealed that they were taken from the corpses he had dug up from this local cemetery and people , in a way , had a harder time believing that, than that he was a serial killer, that seemed totally beyond the bounds of belief for a whole variety of reasons
Human bodies are traditionally buried six feet underground,that’s a lot of digging,that’s a lot of work to get to them through packed earth, he’d need spades, picks, h e need to be strong, and it need , one assumes, to do it at night because he’d need to be undisturbed .
Not sure he did recognize that what he was doing was wrong, there are some necrophiles who think,” well , i wasn’t really hurting anybody .” they were dead anyway.”
Gein confess to investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he’d regularly visited the local cemetery after dark,he would often follow the local newspapers and read the obituaries.
and when some middle -aged or elderly woman who bore some vague resemblance to his departed mother died and was buried.
He would apparently go out to the cemetery at night while the soil was still fresh and easily dug up and exhume these coffins and remove the bodies and somethimes take the entire corpse back to his farmhouse, sometimes just take parts of the corpse back to the farmhouse and leave the rest there.
investigators decided to dig up some of the graves to see if Gein was telling the truth, when they uncovered them , they discovered that the coffins had been broken into and the bodies were missing or there were just parts of the skeleton remaining there.
He admitted to grave robbing nine corpses,but the maths didn’t quite add up because the police had found 12 human heads in Gein’s property and he’d only admitted to 11 offenses against the separate people, so the numbers never really added up properly, so there’s always been questions over that.
Ed Gein’s crimes were in the late 50s ,1957, the state of forensic science in those days was far less than we have now.
Things like DNA simply didn’t, simply didn’t exist as a tool,so identification could potentially be very difficult and would suspect and certainly some of the body parts simply imopssible.
There was no doubt that Gein specifically targeted females, all th graves he descecrated belonged to women.
Some think he was both trying to rebuild his mother, but some also think that he was taking revenge on his mother
That kind of love and hate of mommy were manifested both by his attempting to bring her back from the dead but also perpetrating these atrocities on the corpses of female bodies .
It’s been reported that Gein did , in fact, try to return Augusta to the family home after her funeral.
There’s some indication that he initially tried to exhume his mother’s corpse, apparently , Ed missed the presence of his mother so much, he wanted to bring her back ,and somehow,in his madness reconstitute her in his household.
He couldn’t get to his mother’s grave because the soil in that part of Wisconsin is very sandy,and many coffins were buried within concrete vaults to prevent the sand from collapsing on them.
and that was apparently true of Augusta Gein.
In November,1957, Ed Gein was charged with the murder of Bernice Worden
The media descended on the tiny town of plainfield, Wisconsin.
Well , the cultural context of the Gen case is quite an interesting one because this was one of the first cases that gathered an awful lot of attention, there was a media circus that developed around this because nothing like this had ever really happened before,It was something completely new.
It spread the very quickly through the local newspaper and then through the associated press and so on to the national media,Plainfield, which had always existed from the time of its founding in happy obscurity,suddenly found itself to be the center of national and even international attention.
It was just an exasperating time, and then we were inundated by nosy Nellies that all thought that,” boy , i gotta go drive by that old farmhouse”
and then became a chaotic,a very unsettled community for a while.
Plainfield was suddenly famous and famouse for the most horrifying of reasons, that it was the home of America’s most notorious psychopat.
The entire community was stunned, for the previous decade, they’d been living in the same town as a real life bogeyman,it would now be down to the courts to decide whether or not Ed Gein was insane.
On November the 21 st ,1957, the 51 year old pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, at his arraignment at Waushara County Court, and it was declared that he was unfit to stand trial.
Their indication that Ed was clinically psychotic, that he had hallucinations, that he heard voices where the trees would start talking to him.
Most serial murderes are not psychotic, but Ed seemed to have the symptoms of some form of psychosis.
Gein was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane In Wuapun, Wisconsin, which is now a maximum security prison.
70 miles away in Plaintfield, the community was trying to get back on its feet but the shadow of Ed Gein lingered over the town…
In 1958 , the property that Gein had lived in was due to be auctioned off.
The last thing that local people wanted was for this to become some kind of shrine,some kind of attraction for people who were morbidly fascinated.
So,a few days before the auction,the property was burned to the ground, essentially.
A lot of talk of arson, they hadbeen cleaning up around there and had been burning trash up around the particular day, too,or anyway, that was an excuse of a possible cause that maybe the wind got something in the evening and got some live embers in there.
A lot of the neighbors weren’t too happy with having talk of it being turned into a museum of sorts,but there were a lot of stories.
This is the site where Ed Gein’s house once stood.It is located on the corner of 2nd Avenue and Archer Avenue in Plainfield, Wisconsin.
This photograph of the front gate was taken by Twitter user Tanner Root (TRdirtdog). N5691 2nd Avenue is now an empty plot of land. The property website Zillow indicates that it was last sold for $92,000 in 2008.
People still kept coming though, even after the house was gone,for a year , you still had people coming to drive by the empty lot where the house used to stand.
In march 1958, the car which Gein used to transport the bodies of his victims was bought at an auction for over $ 700 by a carnival operator,who charged fascinated Americans 25 cents for a photograph at a macabre side show.
what we’re seeing here is the rise of the serial killer consumer culture,people are fascinated in these kind of cases, and some criminologists refr to this as wound culture,that were essentially drawn to the trauma and the suffering of other people, and we’re drawn to the artifacts that exist around these cases.
Gein remained in the Cental State Hospital for 11 years until doctors determined that he was finally fit to stand trial for the first -degree mruder of Bernice Worden, the hearing lasted for a week, and on November the 14th , 1968, Judge robert Gollmar had reached a verdict.
He was tried and found guilty of the murder of Bernice Worden but then he was judged insane and stuck back in the mental instituion.
That was possibly somewhere he may have thrived ‘ cause he had structure. he had a routine, he had people watching over him and looking after his needs.
Forensic psychologist Dr Helen Morrison interviewed Gein during his time in hospital, Gein’s quiet nature in hospital was in s tark contrast to the monster Helen had heard so much about.
i was working at that time as a stapp psychiatrist, and i was covering all the units, and when i was asked to go over to see this person, i went over to see it , and i saw Ed Gein,he was not at all coherent, he was such a little person that i found it hard to picture him as the person who committed all these homicides.
He lived there peacefully, he never caused any problems,never had any type of behavioral thing , no type of i gues you could say consequence for bad behavior.
i received a letter from one of his neighbors who used to be a friend of his, she was a little girl, and she remembers going over to his house, and he would serve soup and everything, well , it turned out the soup bowls were the skulls of many of his victims, and people never knew it.”
On July the 26,1984, Ed Gein died of lung cancer, age 77,he was buried next to his mother on the Gein family plot at the same cemetery which he so often desecrated during his careeer of horror.
Gein has left a lasting impact o nthe small community where he committed his ghouslish crimes.
But just like the carnival operators of the 1950s , people continue to try and get their hands on grisly souvenirs related to Gein.
In the year 2000, somebody was found to be selling parts of the gravestone that had ben ereceted at Ed Gein’s grave.
For people who are fans of the serial killer cult,this was just the gift that kept on giving,well, they keep putting up headstones, and the headstones keep disappearing.
there’s a whole category of collectible that has come to be known as murderablia, and Gein relics are particularly prized among people who collect that kind of morbid relic.
Over 60 years since the horrrific crimes, Gein has grown into a nororious figure in American folklore, A killer of almost mythic proportions .
The two things that are fascinating about Ed Gein is the fact that he only, as far as we know, murdered two people , which is a lot less than many infamous killers, but he’s had such a huge legacy in films, books , music.
He seems to have become a sort of pop culture murderer.
At the time the Gein crimes were being revealed in the press, there was a writer of pulp horror named Robert Bloch, who had moved to Wisconsin to be with his wife’s family,and at some point when Gein was being interviewed by various psychiatrists.
All these headlines in the paperswere trumpeting the fact that Gein had been motivated by these deranged Oedipal conflicts, that he was this desperately sick mamma’s boy.
Who was perpetrating these atrocities on middle -aged women, who reminded him of his mother and this caught the attention of Robert Bloch,who decided this could potenially make the basis of a good horror novel , and that became the book ” psycho “.
In the book ” Psycho ” Norman bates , actually , after he’s arrested compares himself at the end of the book to Ed Gein, so the connection i made very explicit theree in the book.
Anyway, “psycho,” as we know, turned into one of the great classic horror movies of American cinema.
If you look a horror movies before then, there were all these Eastern European monsters, Frankenstein and Dracula and the Wolf Man or else they were Aliens from outer space.
With “Psycho” ” psycho” establishes and Ed Gein establishes this quintessentally American figure of horror, the ordinary middle American guy who turns out to be this monster in disguise.
and then ,of course,Gein become the basis for Tobe Hopper’s
” Texas chainsaw massacre”
and later on for Thomas Harris’s character Buffalo Bill,in
” Silence of the Lambs,so Gein has this very very direct influence on American horror cinema.
But Gein’s crimes were not fictional, they were very real ,and he remains one of the most infamous murderers in US history.
We think of Gein as this notorious American serial murderer, but in many ways , he doesn’t really fit that profile,for example , he wasn’t a sexual sadist in the way John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy Or Jeffrey Dahmer.
He wasn’t driven by that particular form of deviance, he was brought up in a vacuum that created the condition for someone who would go on to do evil things, whilst most people are shocked and repulsed and absolutely horrified at some of the things he’s done, because he didn’t have that filter and that check on his behavior,he was able to escalate to a level of evil .
People don’t believe in evil, but i truly believe that he was evil ,i thil there are people who would like to say thaty the devil got into him and made him do these awful things,but i think he was born evil/Dr Helen Morrison
The Ed i knew it was not an evil person, he did things that normal people do not do, and there’s just no doubt about that, and to kill two people is certainly not a person who you would really like to invite to your neighborhood party, but yeah,there was something in his head that didn’t click right.”
Inside Ed Gein’s jail cell at the museum
Ed’ Gein’s crimes are the stuff of genuine nightmares, the man with an unhealthy obsession with his mother brazenly murdered two women and kept a bizarre collection of gruesome keepsakes inside his house of horrors, he truly desrves to be remembered as one of the world’s most evil killers”
