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Ed Gein / Page 3 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. Ed Gein / Page 4 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 / Grave robbery, 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) Ed Gein / Page 5 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. Ed Gein / Page 6 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 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. Over the next 10 years Ed did the same thing look up obituaries in the local newspaper and dig up fresh corpses on a full moon. He would take the whole corpse or just the parts that he needed at the time. His experiments with dead bodies were bizarre.

He would construct objects with the bones and skin and the organs and meats were stored in the fridge to eat and give as fresh venison to his neighbors. He would commit acts of necrophilia on the bodies. He even dug up his own mother's corpse! Ed Gein / Page 7 Wanting To Be A Woman Ed Gein never told Gus that he wanted to be a woman. That's why he studied anatomy. He was always telling people about operations that resulted in a change of sex.

Ed was always desiring to dissect female corpses and familiarize himself with its anatomy. The closest he got was to wear a full body suit made of women skin, breasts and face included. His collections of trophies got larger, and so did the range of his experimentation and obsession. Gus was then taken to an asylum, and Ed was then left alone again. Ed thought that fresher bodies would be better for his collection so he turned to murder.

Ed Gein Page 8 He Kills Ed's first victim was Mary Hogan. She was 51 years old and operated Hogan's Tavern at Pine Grove six miles away from home. She was by herself on December 8, 1954 in the tavern, when he shot her in the head with a 32-caliber revolver, placed her body in his pick up and took her to his shed. A customer found the place empty and a large bloodstain on the floor. There was a spent. 32 caliber cartridge near it and bloodstains that went out to the parking lot where they halted and there was tire tracks that looked like those of a pick up truck.

Police were unable to find any clues as to who had Mary Hogan. A couple of weeks later a sawmill owner named Elmo Ue eck mentioned the disappearance to Ed Gein and Ed replied: " She isn't missing. She's at the farm right now". Elmo didn't work up t he interest to ask him what he meant.

There may have been other victims in the years that followed, but nothing definite is known about Gein's murderous activities until that day on 16 November, 1957, when he shot and killed Bernice Worden in her hardware store on Plainfield's Main Street. He used a. 22 rifle from a display rack in the store, inserting his own bullet which he carried with him. Ed Gein / Page 9 (He Kills Continued) Ed Gein shot and killed Bernice Worden, locked the store and took the body home in the store's truck.

Gein also removed the cash register, which contained $41 in cash, but not because he wanted to commit robbery, but he later explained that he wanted to see how it worked, and fully intended to return it later. Her son Frank always assisted her in the store but this particular Saturday he was out hunting. When he returned that afternoon the store was closed, the lights were on, and the cash register was missing. His mother was no where to be found and there was blood on the floor. Frank Worden served as deputy sheriff in the area and immediately alerted the sheriff, Art Schley, and reported the circumstances. He checked the record of sales transactions made that morning.

One of them was for half a gallon of antifreeze. Worden remembered that Ed Gein had stopped by the previous evening at closing time and said he'd be back the next morning for antifreeze. Ed had also asked Worden if he intended to go hunting the next day. Worden also recalled that Gein had been in and out of the store quite frequently the previous week. Since the cash register was missing, it appeared that Gein had planned a robbery after finding a suitable time when the coast would be clear. Worden told of his suspicions to the sheriff.

The sheriff Art Schley and captain Lloyd Schoephoester set off for the farm, seven miles outside Plainfield. Ed Gein / Page 10 The Findings Ed Gein was not at home when the police arrived at his residence. Acting on suspicion the police headed out to a store in West Plainfield that Gein would purchase groceries regularly. The sheriff halted him, and asked him to get in the police car for questioning.

Ed Gein mentioned how someone tried to frame him for Bernice Worden's death, Schley had not mentioned the missing Bernice or her death. They took Gein into custody and returned to Gein's home with other officers. They went thru the door that was open in the shed and it was dark. There was no electricity ad it was nighttime. When they lit up a torch they found a corpse of a woman hanging upside down from a crossbeam. The legs were spread far apart and there was a slit from the genitals to the area before the throat.

The throat and the head were missing. The genitals and anus was also missing. It was the body of Bernice Worden disembowel led like a deer. They conducted their inspection with oil lamps, lanterns, and flashlights. The place looked like it had not been clean or tidied in years, there were piles of rubbish everywhere.

The few rooms that weren't nailed off were littered with books, old papers, magazines, utensils, tin cans, cartons and a lot of other junk. In the house they found - two shin bones, four human noses, a quart can converted into a tom-tom by skin stretched over both top and bottom, a bowl made from the Ed Gein / Page 11 (The Findings Continued) inverted half of a human skull, nine 'death masks' (from the well preserved skin from the faces of women), ten female heads with the tops sawn off above the eyebrows, bracelets of human skin, a purse made with a handle of human skin, sheath for a knife made in human skin, a pair of leggings made from human skin, four chairs with the seats being replaced by strips of human skin, a shoe box containing nine salted vulva's of which his mothers was painted silver, a hanging human head, a lampshade covered with human skin, a shirt made of human skin, a number of shrunken heads (Ed always joked that he had a collection of shrunken heads), two skulls for Gein's bedposts, a pair of human lips hanging from string, Ed's full woman body suit constructed with human skin and complete with mask and breasts, Bernice Worden's heart in a pan on the stove, and the refrigerator which was stacked with human organs. Ed Gein / Page 12 Conclusion Gein was in a series of examinations at the Central State Hospital for the Criminally insane. He was proven insane. The reasons for his actions were seen; he loved his mother but he hated her, so that is why he killed older women.

It is said that Mary Hogan had more of a passing resemblance to his mother. At Christmas, 1957, Gein was judged insane and he was committed to Wa upan State Hospital for a life sentence. Gein died of cancer on July 26, 1984, at the age of 78. He was buried back in Plainfield next to the graves of his family. Ed Gein / Page 13