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Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein was born to Augusta Crafter (1878–1945) and George P. Gein (1873–1940) on August 27, 1906, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His parents, both natives of Wisconsin, had married on July 7, 1900, and their marriage produced Ed and his older brother, Henry G. Gein (1901–1944).
George Gein was a violent alcoholic who was frequently unemployed. Ed and his brother rejected their violent, aimless father, as did Augusta, who treated her husband like a nonentity. Despite her deep contempt for her husband, the atrophic marriage persisted. Divorce was not an option due to the family’s religious beliefs. Augusta operated the small family grocery store and eventually purchased a farm on the outskirts of another small town, Plainfield, which became the Gein family’s permanent home.
Augusta moved to this desolate location to prevent outsiders from influencing her sons. Gein only left the premises to go to school and Augusta blocked any attempt he made to pursue friendships. Besides school, he spent most of his time doing chores on the farm. Augusta, who was a fanatical Lutheran, drummed into her boys the innate immorality of the world, the evil of drink and the belief that all women (herself excluded) were prostitutes and whores. According to Augusta, the only acceptable form of sex was for biological reproduction/procreation. She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the Bible, usually selecting graphic verses from the Old Testament dealing with death, murder and divine retribution.
With a slight growth over one eye and an effeminate demeanor, the young Gein became a target for bullies. Classmates and teachers recall other off-putting mannerisms such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal joke. Despite his poor social development, he did fairly well in school, particularly in reading and the study of world economics.
By the time his father George died in 1940, Henry had begun to reject Augusta’s view of the world. He had even taken to bad-mouthing her within earshot of his mortified brother. In March 1944, the brothers found themselves in the middle of a brush fire on property they owned in a neighboring county. When Ed ran to get the police, he told them he had lost sight of Henry, but then led them directly to his brother’s corpse. Although there was evidence Henry had suffered blunt trauma to his head, the local county coroner decided he died of asphyxiation while fighting the fire. Gein then lived with his mother. Less than two years later, on December 29, 1945, Augusta died from a series of strokes, leaving her grief-stricken son alone on the isolated farmstead.
Police suspected Gein to be involved in the disappearance of a store clerk, Bernice Worden, in Plainfield on November 16, 1957. Upon entering a shed on his property, they made their first horrific discovery of the night: Worden’s corpse. She had been decapitated, her headless body hung upside down by means of ropes at her wrists and a crossbar at her ankles. Most horribly, the body’s trunk was empty, the ribcage split and the body “dressed out” like that of a deer. These mutilations had been performed postmortem; she had been shot at close-range with a .22-caliber rifle.
Searching the house, authorities found:
- Human skulls mounted upon the cornerposts of his bed
- Human skin fashioned into a lampshade and used to upholster chair seats
- Human skullcaps, apparently in use as soup bowls
- A human heart (it is disputed where the heart was found; the deputies’ reports all claim that the heart was in a saucepan on the stove, with some crime scene photographers claiming it was in a paper bag)
- The head of Mary Hogan, a local tavern owner, found in a paper bag
- A ceiling light pull consisting of human lips
- A “mammary vest” crafted from the skin of a woman’s torso
- A belt made from several human nipples, among many other such grisly objects
- Socks made from human flesh
Gein’s most notorious creations were an array of “shrunken heads.” Various neighborhood children — whom Gein occasionally babysat — had seen or heard of these objects, which Gein offhandedly described as relics from the South Seas, purportedly sent by a cousin who had served in World War II. Upon investigation, these turned out to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from cadavers and used by Gein as masks.
Gein eventually admitted under questioning that he would dig up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and take the bodies home, where he tanned their skin to make his macabre possessions. One writer describes Gein’s practice of putting on the tanned skins of women as an “insane transvestite ritual”. Gein denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining, “They smelled too bad.” During interrogation, Gein also admitted to the shooting death of Mary Hogan, who had been missing since 1954.
Shortly after his mother’s death, Gein decided he wanted a sex change, although it is a matter of some debate whether or not he was transsexual; by most accounts, he created his “woman suit” so he could pretend to be his mother, rather than change his sex.
Harold Schechter, an author of several true crime books, wrote a best-selling book about the Gein case called Deviant. In this book, Schechter mentions that Plainfield police officer Art Schley physically assaulted Gein during questioning by banging Gein’s head and face into a brick wall; because of this, Gein’s initial confession was ruled inadmissible. Schley died of a heart attack at the age of 43 shortly before Gein’s trial. Many who knew him said he was so traumatized by the horror of Gein’s crimes and the fear of having to testify (notably about assaulting Gein) that it led to his early death. One of his friends said, “He was a victim of Ed Gein as surely as if he had butchered him.”
Gein was found mentally incompetent and thus unfit to stand trial at the time of his arrest, and was sent to the Central State Hospital (now the Dodge Correctional Institution) in Waupun, Wisconsin. Later, Central State Hospital was converted into a prison and Gein was transferred to Mendota State Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1968, Gein’s doctors determined he was sane enough to stand trial; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity by judge Robert H. Gollmar and spent the rest of his life in the hospital.
While Gein was in detention, his house burned to the ground. Arson was suspected. In 1958, Gein’s car, which he used to haul the bodies of his victims, was sold at public auction for a then-considerable sum of $760 to an enterprising carnival sideshow operator named Bunny Gibbons. Gibbons called his attraction the “Ed Gein Ghoul Car” and charged carnival-goers 25 cents admission to see it.
On July 26, 1984, Ed Gein died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer in Goodland Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute. His gravesite in the Plainfield cemetery was frequently vandalized over the years; souvenir seekers would chip 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 presently displayed in a Wautoma, Wisconsin museum.
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Kat
December 28, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Ed gein had mental illness. He was mentally retarded and His mom room care of him Because he couldnt take care of himself. When she died he was incredibly sad. He no longer had anyone to take care of him. He knew what he was doing But he didnt know it was wrong.
michel
December 26, 2012 at 9:42 pm
where can someone find a human lamp???
would really match my living room.. even a human vest for church
Amber La Penguin
December 12, 2012 at 3:31 pm
I love reading things about serial killers..and Ed is one of the worst its weird…
gio
December 14, 2012 at 4:35 pm
if this man was still alive, i would be his best friend.
latasha
December 15, 2012 at 11:31 pm
If this man was still alive women would never go outside again thank the lord he’s dead!
bets
December 17, 2012 at 9:16 pm
GIO…..your a sick P.O.S!!!!! It’ll catch up to you, just wait and see!
Pamela
December 29, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Fucking psycho, do us a favor and DIE!!!
John
December 11, 2012 at 1:14 pm
This comment box solidified my belief that everybody from Wisconsin is retarded.
Taylor
March 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Excuse me…?! Im not retarded… Next time you critisize someone… Critisize yourself becasie u obviously got somethin wrong with you.. Swerve … Seriously… Grow da fugg up!!!
Jess
April 10, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Sweetie, its “criticize”.
Way to prove that guy’s point.
Check & mate.
Trei
April 25, 2013 at 6:10 pm
I dont think so such retarded, Maybe embred? Lmao.
JReal
December 10, 2012 at 10:11 am
Where can I buy one of those nipple belts? Gein should’ve copyrighted that
the 1
December 10, 2012 at 12:06 am
This guy is fucking warped.
magbill
November 30, 2012 at 12:13 pm
“STUPID AMERICAN PEOPLES”
Yes, fortunately Europe has never experienced mass murder. Oh wait…
flash
November 30, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Oddly enough, media inadvertently turns these people into sordid heroes and icons. I guess that’s the power of the money making business. Then for decades and decades they continue to make money long after their deaths generating millions for various genres and venues……….making them famous in a sick way…….I suppose I’m guilty also, due to the fact I watch a good horror flick every now and then………
jdoss
December 14, 2012 at 9:49 pm
I know this isn’t a funny topic but…lol…NICE!!! @magbill
long
November 28, 2012 at 9:11 am
hi I have the second head stone of ed gein,that was made by a private individual.out of concrete,it sat on his grave for a couple of years,then the towns people got rid of it ,because it was drawing in many people who worshiped gein, an they are trying to discourage people from visiting his grave,does anyone out there have a picture of the second headstone they can send me,if you do, leave me a message thanks, I will check back often.
Carrie1970
November 28, 2012 at 11:08 am
If you have the second stone, why do you need pics? Do you mean pics. of the first stone??
paulhurst
November 28, 2012 at 11:29 am
I dont get half of this story i was told they never caught the dude
Samantha
December 10, 2012 at 8:49 am
I am sure you are thinking of Jack The Ripper.
Debbie
November 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm
i agree; many people have been thru traumatic incidents as a child and they don’t let it take over their life. but at what point would a person kill or do the strange things he did. there’s a tipping point and when is that point crossed. i don’t know, i do know its called thinking for yourself, i really don’t understand it. that’s the way the person is and that’s that. the rest of us need to see the patterns and get the heck away from them.
Chelc
November 23, 2012 at 12:01 am
Lmao for everyone saying oh I hope he burns in hell he doesn’t deserve forgiveness, don’t say u believe in God then, if u were a TRUE believer you’d know a SIN IS A SIN IN GODS EYES when you sin God doesn’t think your any better then him. So while Gods laughing at you thinking your sins arnt as equal to his, you’ll be questioned on why you think your sinner blood is better then his an if u say oh Cus I didn’t kill people Gods just gunna laugh an be like oviously u don’t follow what I say. Murder an lieing is the exact same we make up morals not God. God says we are all equal sinners. Maybe this guy wouldn’t be so fucked up if we didn’t have crazy women raising there kids under religion? His parents are crazy I could say lutherines are the reason this happend Cus that’s how he was raised an every person would say no that’s not true so don’t think u have the right to say he deserves to burn in hell Cus you have no judgment. But I’ve had family members killed an I still know I’m no better then the person next to me. BECAUSE IM A SINNER TO. so get over yourself.
ame
November 23, 2012 at 6:13 pm
God has never sinned. He died with no sin, in order to pay the price for all the sins that WE have committed and are going to commit. Regardless of what this horrible Ed guy has done, God will still forgive him. Unfortunately, one will never know whether Ed repented of his sins before he died. Chelc, you are correct when you say that we are all sinners! We all sin and we all need to be forgiven on a daily basis. Only the Lord can forgive sins because he is sinless and perfect.
Duhhh
November 28, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Jesus died for our Sins not God
Brenden Buntz
January 6, 2013 at 12:10 am
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all one, Duhhh
Steph
December 3, 2012 at 9:35 am
God doesn’t exist.
JR
December 9, 2012 at 10:52 pm
you’re an idiot
love
April 10, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Hi Chelc, your parents must have been cousins, right? Because that’s the only way I can BEGIN to understand the roots of this crap you’re spewing.
Ps Use proper grammar, you’ll still sound like a crazy idiot- but at least it will show you managed to pass third grade.
Brie
November 15, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Okay to all of you trash talkin.
I’m not taking his side or anything.
But He was mentally ill. Meaning he didn’t know what what he was doing.
He made 40 visits to local graveyards.
Only 30 of the visits he snapped out of his dazed like state and went home empty handed.
It’s a sickness. He wasn’t doing it for fun like other sickos out there.
He did it because he didn’t know what he was doing half the time.
What he did was wrong, But doesn’t mean he has to “suffer” or “burn in hell”.
And his childhood didn’t help with his sickness either.
Mother abusing him on everything he did.
Honestly I feel bad for him. <3
R.I.P Ed :)
josh lavell
November 16, 2012 at 10:55 am
What the hell. Thats a dam lie. Why the hell would u feel sorry for him, how the fuck will U feel if he was trying to kill u, I bet ur attitude would change about him than.
jasmine gonzalez
November 17, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Y would u feel bad for him he wanted to do it no one made him. If the store clerk was your mom u would u still feel bad.
Riderofthepalehorse
November 17, 2012 at 10:02 pm
His chilhood means nothing. There are humans out there that had worse and their normal … He did all that with a clear mind … he know what he was doing! Sending him to ahospital for the insane is bullocks, he should of got the death penalty. And I could never feel sorry or sad for a sick human. like him.
nicole
November 19, 2012 at 1:12 pm
i agree bre RIP ED
Brenda Gast
December 15, 2012 at 10:21 pm
I agree also Nicole. “Judge not, lest ye be judged”.
Dr. McFadyen
November 19, 2012 at 1:41 pm
I would just like to say that Ed Gein was very mentally ill and that I agree with Brie; he can therefore not be held entirely responsible for his actions as his perception of ‘right and wrong’ were very warped. This stems from the isolated atmosphere in which his mother (also clearly mentally ill) fashioned him with her pretty fucked up ideologies. It is very likely that had he experienced a ‘good enough childhood’ and went through a decent enough early socialisation process he would never have turned out to be a murderer. It is no fault of his own, imagine you have a fly on your face, you bat it away. It is the same thing, he had these awful urges because he was mentally ill and looked for instant gratification of them. He could not help it. I also believe that he did not murder for the pleasure of killing someone, it is to do with his fixation on his mother and wanting to be/recreate her, strangely through human body part (or something alone those lines). No disrespect to his victims, may they rest in peace. I hope this gives some people a better insight in to psychosis…
Mike
November 20, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Ther are plenty of people that grow up in abusive households and have tramatic childhoods that don’t grow up to be killers. People regardless of circumstances know what the hell they are doing and so did he. He should have been found guilty and put to death like I believe any murderer should, the people of that town were simply embarassed by what happened and wanted it over with as soon as possible.
Heather
November 20, 2012 at 5:11 pm
You feel bad for him.ok so how dk you feel for thefamilies of the innocent.its people like you that are what’s wrong with this country…..what he did was unforgivable and there is a special.place for him in hell.I guess you don’t believe in the death penalty eigher?
Asia
November 21, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Just because he was mentally ill does not mean he deserves to have “R.I.P” or “I feel bad for him” written. Just because it was concluded that it was because of his mental state, does not mean that it actually was. They don’t have near as much knowledge as we do now. When in the early 90′s and mid 90′s they still thought being gay was a mental illness. Wearing someone else’s skin does not make that a mental illness, it means he probably got off pretending to be different gender, and the fact that he could control women like his mother controlled him his entire life. He probably resented her, and his brother.
SGLM
December 24, 2012 at 9:23 am
Ummm…you think homosexuality was still considered a mental illness as late as the ’90′s? If you mean the 1890′s, then you’d be correct. Being gay hasn’t been considered a mental disorder since 1973 (in The U.S.).
Aside from that little nugget, psychiatric studies on Gein, and various other serial killers throughout history, continue to be carried out to this day. They didn’t just diagnose him in the 50′s and then close the case forever. Far more is known then what you read in this little article. Do some research, please.
helena
November 23, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Yea, I have to agree with everyone else: Mental illness or not, Ed Gein consciously raped, tortured, and mutilated people without remorse. The above article quotes him as saying, “They smelled too bad” when questioned about necrophilia which, is a narcissistic statement indicating the victims are less of a person than he is by continuing to insult them. He WAS the typical self-centered serial killer: an unintelligent and ungifted bully.
SGLM
December 24, 2012 at 9:40 am
Have you ever known anyone in history who has been around a corpse (that’s been dead for at least a few days) that DIDN’T think it smelled horrible? How is that a) an insult or b) the part of his horrifying acts that you take as proof of him being a “typical” killer?
charlene
February 24, 2013 at 10:50 pm
Actually he never raped his victims and he only killed two ppl hardly a serial killer if not for the horrible way he committed his crimes he wouldn’t even be a “legend” he was a sick man and there is no excuse for what he did but there are way worse killers in history
Dayna Phipps
November 13, 2012 at 9:41 pm
How on earth did this turn into a spelling and punctuation issue? I kid you not; everyone that was condescending and called people out as being stupid over their writing made grammatical errors! Reading many of the comments was better than Comedy Central! Thank for the laughs!!!
Clem aa K49
November 12, 2012 at 8:46 pm
If Ed were still alive he’d make a perfect candidate for public office
mark
October 28, 2012 at 4:45 pm
im doing this guy for a project at school and he has given me nightmares!
brenda
October 31, 2012 at 1:10 pm
i hope this THING goes to hell and suffers forever he is such a sick perveted ill ugly nasty hoe ratchet. i just hope he suffers .
shailley
November 1, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Im doing this guy too he’s freaking me out hopefully it doesnt drag on for long
ralph
October 27, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Poor. Guy hope that. God. Forgave him. And found. Peace
shailley
November 2, 2012 at 9:53 am
I hope god doesnt its a heartless thing he did he doesnt deserve it.
April
November 12, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Um he died in 1984. I’m trying to figure out why a bunch of you are referring to his like he’s alive.
bobby
November 12, 2012 at 8:48 pm
fuck you ralph fuck you
ark
October 27, 2012 at 3:25 am
Jeffry waa from Ohio Charles Manson to. Where your born has nothing to do with it….. How one looks at the problem of his mother…. No one never believe a kid….an too think this an babysit..People kids…wow to think people let him around there houses…..one would have to know he was a sicko……..If OK,Kay C. Anthony free…. Ed should had free too….
HarmonyZ
October 23, 2012 at 11:58 pm
I grew up in the area. First of all, the tombstone is not on display at the museum. It is not on display at all. The police have it in storage in Wautoma about 15 miles away. The museum is also in Wautoma. It was at the time the jail where Ed was held for a short time. There are no souveneirs of Ed at the museum on display. They do have a couple of his rifles (or did) but will not show them.
The people that knew Ed considered him “slow,” or “odd.” They thought he was harmless. Ed would babysit for families on occassion and was regularly invited for dinner. He was good with kids because he had child like qualities. He did odd jobs for people. He was known to gift “deer sausage.” Ed hunted and this is how he got his skills at gutting, skinning, and being familiar with cuts of meat.
There were other missing people before Ed was arrested and some thought Ed was guilty of these crimes, but the bodies were not found. I find it interesting however that there was a lot of land on the Gein farm where bodies could have been buried, that was not dug up. Also DNA was not done all all the body parts to prove that these were all body parts taken from graves. They could never accound for all the body parts. It was impossible to match them up. Ed wasn’t forthcoming in his information. He was a delusional, paranoid schizophrenic. We will never know.
Plainfield was horrified about this at the time. They didn’t want the publicity. They wanted news crews gone, Ed convicted and the whole thing over. Rumor has it that Ed’s house was set on fire (so people and newscrews would quit coming) while the fire department watched it burn.
Ed’s mom obviously had mental problems. She is the one who caused him to be the way he was. All killers have problems with their parents. Was he born this way or was it his environment? In this case obviously both. As I said, his mother obviously had mental problems. She was obsessed with whores and the bible and had a mission to make Ed’s dad’s life miserable. did he cheat on her with a woman she thought was a whore? Did she decide to replace him with Ed? Whatever the case, she munipulated her son’s thinking. She brainwashed him. She had control over him. He lost his own identity. She crippled his growth mentally, sexually and intellectually. He had no coping mechanisms. She kept him isolated. She had all the control. Even after she died her voice was in his head. We will never know if she abused him physically or sexually. This woman was a real bitch.
Ed was happy while at Mendota. He was medicated and in a stable, safe place. He truly was mentally ill.
What Ed did was sick. He was sick. We are fascinated with things we do not understand. Some people fear what they do not understand. With Ed we have a murderer, a cannibal, a grave robber, and the true life inspiration for psycho.
Britt Rain
December 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm
thanks Harmony. I too grew up in Plainfield. Lived right off of KK. Thanks for your history. I doubt these dumbasses on here will even bother to read the real story.
Taylor
March 1, 2013 at 6:44 pm
I live 2 miles away from there and i hope the people thinking different go die in a hole for critisizing wisconsinites… Smh…
Kris
October 21, 2012 at 2:18 am
For those of you addressing Ed Gein as sick and disgusting, just remember that his mother taught him that women were evil and were tramps. She also made sure of isolating him and the family. So, he was bound to have psychological problems. When his mother passed, he took it hard. He was a momma’s boy. His mother was the only friend he had after his brother and father passed. How he coped with losing his mother, he turned to exhuming dead bodies…trying to be her. The man was mentally ill. I’m certain if anyone lived the way he did, they would turn out just like him.
chells
October 20, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Such a sick man!!! Wisconsin is also home of Jeff dahmer!
Kris
October 21, 2012 at 2:09 am
If you mean “sick” as in mentally ill, yeah.
Skip Stone
November 21, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Jeffery Dalmer was from OHIO.. Get your facts straight!
Carrie
November 24, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Jefferey Dahmer may have been from Ohio, but his crimes were discovered. I have lived in Wisconsin most of my life and I agree that we do seem to draw many notoriuos killers, rapists, mobsters and the like. I truly believe this is because we have out of the way hiding places and wonderfully large open spaces that attract them. Such is life. If something terrible like this happens, we mourn for the victims and families, look for justice and unfortunatly wait for the next while hoping it won’t come.
get-your-facts-straight
December 7, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Dahmer was born on May 21, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. dumbass
chells
October 20, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Such sick man!!! Wisconsin is also home of Jeff dahmer!
Jake
October 20, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Humans are truly disgusting creatures.
Darrean
October 18, 2012 at 9:45 am
the dude was fucked up in the head!!!
Stay
October 18, 2012 at 10:44 pm
It’s always a white guy
Tessa
December 9, 2012 at 9:20 pm
What about all the black men that rape and beat women? Or what about that black man from Ohio or whatever who raped and murdered over ten women and burried there bodies in his backyard. Fuck you Stay you racist peace of shit.
katelynn
October 17, 2012 at 2:10 pm
this is seriously nuts. what kind of person does that? he must of had many problems. his mom drilled stuff in his head that was no near truth. what kind of mother calls themselves a whore..?
CeeCee
November 9, 2012 at 3:40 pm
His mother called all other women whores, not herself. She taught Ed that she was the only “good” woman, so he had no hope of ever finding someone he could have a normal relationship with. One has to wonder what sort of mental illness Mrs. Gein suffered from.
ronnie
October 17, 2012 at 12:41 pm
this is a really good stroy i herad about this person but didnt know the whole stroy and i look it up it is really cool
Trevor
October 16, 2012 at 5:15 pm
i really kind of love being from wisconsin now. i want a wisconsin sickness tshirt XD
kimberly
October 16, 2012 at 10:46 am
How terrible, I do think that this abuse and disruption of all character is another drug form, not yet discovered by science……Perhaps he needed to hurt to feel alive?
aroura
October 16, 2012 at 9:09 am
i just read this it real weird the guy was a nut but i did like the ceiling light pull consisting of human lips that sounded cool, creepy, sick in the head and creative at the same time. i don’t know if that sounds weird or not but that sounds like something you would put into a haunted house or something
blaine
October 13, 2012 at 12:28 pm
this guy is a fucking sick person but u have to think about how he was raised and think was it really because of him being raised that way or because he chose to be like that….. i personally think it was because he chose to be that way but…. people should think about this more often.
Ali Torres
October 12, 2012 at 2:11 pm
this is so AMAZING!!!
sarah
October 15, 2012 at 6:17 pm
ikr but its still sick in ways that he would even do that to anyone but oh well if thats how your raised i wouldnt wanna change that
Traci
October 8, 2012 at 11:50 pm
Hasn’t anyone that visited this site or done their research on Ed Gein se that part of the problem was bullying for the person his mother turned him into. BULLYING…this is exactly what most of you are doing to people who are stating their OPINION about Ed Gein. No matter what anyone thinks about this case…you have to ask yourself was this monster created through nature or nurture…was he born to commit these disgusting acts or was he molded and forced into it by his mother and family life and how he was raised and then treated by society? You have to ask yourself what was this man’s mind like? How did his brain function? What created this monster? His crimes were hanious or horrific but you have to be fascinated with the mental part of his entire life. It scares me and fascinates me at the same time…What was inside the mind of this damaged man?
Bruce
October 9, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Anyone that goes onto perform acts such as this is born with a propensity to do such things. Jeffrey Dahmer would be a very good example of whether “Nature/Nurture” is the problem. People go through very similar circumstances that Gein and Dahmer did, yet could NEVER go on to perform the things they did. Thankfully, a very intricate kaleidoscope of things need to fuse in order for people like them to exist, and that propensity they are born with is at the very centre of that kaleidoscope……..and yes, weak, insecure, gutless, troll bullies don’t help either.
nadim akhter
October 13, 2012 at 4:28 am
SURELY I will suport ur opinion…
People who called themself ‘FRANK, NORMAL they bully any1. They made these people.
IsInHere
October 16, 2012 at 12:44 am
Definitely odd. I think it’s mostly a nurture thing with a chemical imbalance (his schizophrenia). The bullying, radically religious mother degrading the oldest male figure in his life (even though he was a jobless drunkard), and mostly his unhealthy upbringing with lack of REAL, healthy social interaction mixed with twisted concepts about women. His mother was definitely a sick, twisted woman and denied her son social interaction. I think her denial of social interaction and degrading women twisted his natural sexual curiousity into deviance and he was ashamed for it. I didn’t see him killing or digging up male bodies. Just women. I think his sexual curiosity was unhealthily geared towards his mother due to isolation and when she passed, he only wanted her, so he found middle-aged corpses like her. I don’t think this was ENTIRELY his motive, but definitely a strong one. Frued mentions that a child of about age 4 develops significant interest in the opposite sex (the child often forgets about their urges they had when they grow out of it and mature), but the way he was raised, going through puberty and the only woman that he saw to be decent, and not filthy prostitutes or whores, was his mother. Children seek approval all the time so instead of liking other women (which would upset his mother and he desperately wanted her approval) he secretely had urges towards her. I honestly think that’s a MAIN reason behind it. His upbringing was unhealthy and encouraged unnatural, unhealthy behavior. When his mother was gone, he went nuts (he probably killed his brother due to jealousy of not having ALL of the attention from his mother before she passed).
drake
October 1, 2012 at 5:54 am
I thought it was about ed sick ass too! Not grammar school! Lmfao at the sick ass mf who feel sorry for ed gein bitch ass!!!!
john
October 4, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I stumbled onto this site and found where all the stupid, uneducated, listless, unproductive and, I am sure, unemployable people spend their time. So this is where all you retards (I am trying to speak your language) reside. Not so much taking a peak at the dark side, that’s just curiosity, but your comments, my God, they are absolutely rich with stupidity. So, it’s true – there is a dark cave where all the idiots reside bouncing their inane comments off each other like wet socks (which don’t bounce by the way}, in other words your comments only serve to amuse the casual passersby like me and absolutely no social significance. BRAVO – I feel that much smarter now
yvette
October 9, 2012 at 4:30 pm
*peek*….but I’m sure that was a typo, because you make typo’s and everyone else is an idiot. While we’re at it….since you want us all to see just how brilliant you are….perhaps you should revisit your last sentence. Can you find anything wrong with that? I guess you just dumbed it down for us and assumed no one here would notice. I’ve never been here before but it does prove to me that there are jack ass, one-uppers on every single thread on the internet. That’s YOU by the way. So allow my ignert ass to say….FUCK YOU JOHN!
Divonya
October 10, 2012 at 12:23 am
BRAVO! If John claims to be “just” a passerby, then John, you should have done just that…passed by and saved us your grammatical side notes and lackluster comments. You need a damn hobby and maybe a friend or two…
Moniquw
October 16, 2012 at 12:09 am
You ROCK Yvette!
Divonya
October 10, 2012 at 12:24 am
Seriously? Get YOUR life John….get your life!
tury sanz
October 10, 2012 at 11:59 am
john do you have brain? your words sound stupid, what ever!
Lasher
October 11, 2012 at 2:05 pm
it’s spelled “peek,” Einstein.
Tom
October 17, 2012 at 3:44 am
John: You do know that unqualified feelings of superiority and unverified biases are strong pointers toward a sociopathic character insecure with itself – and that most serial killers are sociopathic losers? Also: if you use a figure of speech and then denounce it between brackets, why use it at all? To convince us of your vast intellect? You, sir, are the true cretin here.
dj
September 30, 2012 at 3:13 am
i thought this was about ed not a fucking english lesson
poo
September 27, 2012 at 8:47 am
this article made me sick,
also the fact that they put his gravestone in a museum like its a good thing when its not, fuck i hate everyone.
J. Nathan Couch
September 27, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I think it’s in a museum because it’s a huge part of local history, though not a pleasant part. It’s no different than seeing some Nazi Germany memorabilia in a museum.
chris
September 28, 2012 at 2:14 pm
dude ed gein is my hero. quit complaining about an awesome persons gravestone.
road don
October 1, 2012 at 9:15 pm
sick fuck
reeper10.2
September 17, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Y’all quit pokin at ppl! Someday somebody might poke back!!
asshole
September 14, 2012 at 11:20 pm
The man was a fucking nut… Plain n simple. But it inspired some great horror films
reeper10.2
September 17, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Lots of blood smells like metal. Iron to b specific.. Dahmer was a push over! Ed wrote the book on sickness and gore. The adrenaline is what gets u addicted!
Moniquw
October 16, 2012 at 12:12 am
If this get’s you addicted, u need rehab!
kittie
September 19, 2012 at 1:47 am
Dude seriously…you sound like lil bitch -.- ..stick to reading Mother Goose you puss.
asshole
September 14, 2012 at 11:18 pm
The man was a fucking nut… Plain n simple
kittie
September 7, 2012 at 11:08 pm
I can’t praise this gem of society enough. This man is a treasure and second only to Dahmer and Albert Fish. Everybody likes to judge and point the finger but deep down inside you all get off on reading the sordid details and taking a peek inside the deliciously demented mind of a “madman”. Give into it tongue-cluckers and admit you wish you had the cojones. ;)
I kill for fun main
September 4, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Who give’s a dam a bout other’s peep’s punctuation!!!! Y’all try too just a fy you’re own self alleged intelligence buy criticizing others spell check’s or lack there of….pun intended ya condescending douche bags,
Arrrgh
September 5, 2012 at 5:37 pm
You are what you appear to be. If you go out dirty and unkempt then that’s who you are to people who see you in Walmart. If you don’t bother to spell or punctuate then you appear to be an illiterate hammering at the keys. The punctuation marks make what you write make sense. If you want to get the message across, do it correctly.
Dice
September 17, 2012 at 3:25 pm
learn how to spell you fucking moron and people wont pick on you.
Vanessa
September 4, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Some people here just know to criticize others. And that’s sad :/
amend
September 3, 2012 at 5:05 pm
first i live like 3hrs away from plainfeild nd second there are way to many rumors on ed nd 3rd u people have no clue what ur talking abiut he may have murdered people but it was mostly by hanging them. which then he threw them in different rivers around plainfeild! so get ur facts strait befor u start trashing everybody!
Steve hart
September 4, 2012 at 12:20 am
do u really know what ur talking about?? Seriously? The only reason he hung people was to skin them. He never threw anyone in a river u nut. That’s a fact. He hung them to skin them not kill them. So what if u live three hours away does that mean u know what he did? I think u should do some fact finding urself. Obviously u don’t know as much as u think u do. He killed two people and they were found in his house and shed. He skinned them both. The last one he shot with a rifle hung upside down and gutted. If uve seen the crime scene photo it shows the girl hanging there not floating in the river knuckle head.
grammar nazi gal
September 1, 2012 at 2:44 am
HaHa, it sure looks as though Grammar Nazi Guy needs a refresher course in grammar and punctuation as well. Please don’t throw stones if you are looking from the windows of your glass house.
Waldo
October 6, 2012 at 12:44 am
Please grammar nazi guy and grammar nazi gal get a fucking life you fat disgusted pieces of shit that go on the Internet just to insult people on what they are saying to try and make your selves feel better about taking 5 min to get your fat asses off the couch to take a shit before accidentally missing the bathroom completely! Find sum friends other than that 6 course meal in front of u and try to get out for like 7 min a day, and open the blinds a little, let sum lite in and realize there’s a beautiful world out there, and when your done with trying that do me a favor and GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!
Kami K
August 28, 2012 at 12:06 am
I love learning about people that are mass murders
I find it interesting, not for what they did to their victums but why they did it what made them tick like that. I can read this shit all day about people like this. Thats why I am in college for it. Its just crazy how someone can kill and fuck with people like that, how they did everything to they vicyums it just blows my mind. Sorry to victums but damn some Americans are fucked up and I want to know why
slimbiggins
September 1, 2012 at 1:00 am
First of all he’s a serial killer not a mass murderer a mass murderer is someone who goes on a shooting spree and kills a bunch of people at once. Apparently you don’t pay to much attention about these kinds of killings otherwise you would know that. I hate how people get that confused so ill break it down for you. Ted Bundy (serial killer) the columbine shooters mass murderers. John Wayne gacey serial killer Timothy McVeigh mass murderer /terrorists you get the picture there is a difference both on how they kill and what drives them to kill. Anybody who disagrees is just wrong had to point that out.
KatMora
September 1, 2012 at 2:36 pm
He killed less than 3 people, that isn’t classified as a serial killer.
Kris
October 21, 2012 at 2:13 am
Uhh, not all Americans are “fucked up”. You do realize that some of the most famous killers are from Europe? Like, Jack the Ripper from London. So, do not classify Americans as the only ones who murder.
J. Nathan Couch
October 21, 2012 at 9:09 am
*cough* Hitler *cough*
Philippe Tardif
August 26, 2012 at 1:37 pm
C’est vraiment étrange de voir tout le monde capoter pour le beau Luka Rocco Magnotta alors que cet homme a fait pus de crimes mais Comme nous avons un dieu d’amour, Jésus est mort sur la croix pour ses péchés, Dieu l’a sûrement accueilli dans ses bras de tendresse.
Arrrgh
September 5, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Talk English. This isn’t Frogtown.
Mandee
September 5, 2012 at 9:19 pm
(TRANSLATE FOR YOU) It’s really strange to see everyone for the great collapse Luka Magnotta Rocco while this man has pus crimes but as we have a God of love, Jesus died on the cross for our sins, God surely welcomed into his arms tenderly.
luac
August 24, 2012 at 6:00 pm
STUPID AMERICAN PEOPLES
Steve Samu
August 31, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Its people…not peoples, your stupid!
smarterthanyou
August 31, 2012 at 10:12 pm
It is “you’re,” not “your.”
smarterthanyou
August 31, 2012 at 10:14 pm
It’s also “it’s,” not “its.”
john holmes
September 21, 2012 at 7:38 pm
does it realy matter how sumone spells summin as long as they get the point across.
Tessa
December 9, 2012 at 9:33 pm
The comma goes after the quotation mark’s, DUMBASS!
dedrae
August 24, 2012 at 10:40 am
Sick ass white boi!!! “All he really needed was a PlayStation er’ sumthin…..”
Steve Samu
August 31, 2012 at 7:53 pm
Its boy….not boi, your stupid too, and its or not er’!
Waldo
October 6, 2012 at 12:34 am
No it’s boi and its er’! U stupid son of a goat!
jose
August 20, 2012 at 1:44 am
this is very horrific how anyone can have sympathy for this person is unreal there is no excuse for what he did and if this was your family member hanging upside down like this i wonder how you would feel then im sure you wouldnt be saying anything sympathetic about him people really need to open there eyes how could anybody think that this idiot was not sane he new enough to cover his ass when he was doing all of this or else he would have just done these things and not hid what he was doing because he thought it was normal and that would have made him insane duh they should have fried him instead he got to live unbelievable
grammar nazi guy
August 21, 2012 at 5:31 am
oh my god use some fucking punctuation!! i tried to read your comment but it just made my head hurt.. i think i agree with what youre trying to convey, but i stopped reading shortly after i realized you hated things like periods, question marks and commas..
ill fix it for everyone else-
this is very horrific! how anyone can have sympathy for this person is unreal. there is no excuse for what he did and if this was your family member hanging upside down like that i wonder how you would feel then. im sure you wouldnt be saying anything sympathetic about him. people really need to open there eyes! how could anybody think that this idiot was not sane? he new enough to cover his ass when he was doing all of this, or else he would have just done these things and not hid what he was doing. he thought it was normal and that would have made him insane, duh. they should have fried him, instead he got to live. unbelievable..
Arrrgh
September 5, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Capital letters also lend sense to the writing.
Waldo
October 6, 2012 at 12:30 am
Do u only reply to ppl that dont spell write or are u just that much of a douchebag! Huh? Oh crap its th grammar police! U mite get fined if this douche dont like the way u spell!!! Run for the hills cuz he do have eyes! Lmao
longgone
October 20, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I’m sorry nazi guy,but I feel the need to correct you at this point ,but the word is their not there,4th line from top
mercedes
August 27, 2012 at 8:47 pm
that was so nasty he should of got fried ur right is he even alive they wrong for keeping him alive
jose
August 20, 2012 at 1:38 am
this is very horrific how anyone can have sympathy for this person is unreal there is no excuse for what he did and if this was your family member hanging upside down like this i wonder how you would feel then im sure you wouldnt be saying anything sympathetic about him
Carol
August 11, 2012 at 1:19 pm
I sort of feel bad for Gein. The product of his clearly insane mother, he didn’t stand a chance. She was just a big of a monster as he.
jose
September 21, 2012 at 8:34 pm
you are stupid you feel for him his mother was no monster you idiot he was a monster you wouldnt feel sympathy for him if that was your mom hanging upside down by her feet beheaded how stupid can you be
Laura
October 30, 2012 at 1:40 pm
I don’t think either of these people was a monster. His mother was a troubled woman who was trying to the best she could by her sons, but in the course of raising them, she also created at least one man who could not function in a normal way.
Have you read the facts of the case? His mother would read to them the most horrific passages from the Old Testament, the kind of reading that shows the ‘monsters’ as you call them who are hidden in the Bible.
Do you think that you would have been different from him, being a gender confused, effeminate boy who is constantly made fun of? Being a boy whose mother keeps you from making friends and being a working part of society? Being an individual who, from a very young age, hears nothing about religion and the after life but the horrific massacres and murders and prostitution of women?
I think that you are ignorant. I fear the fact that, after reading a case such as this, you feel no sympathy for the man trapped in the insanity.
samanth
August 9, 2012 at 2:16 pm
That’s Jus degusting what a sick man
Mandee
September 5, 2012 at 9:24 pm
that’s what i thought!
Jen
August 7, 2012 at 12:58 pm
I can’t even believe what I’m reading. People search people like this because it is nearly impossible to understand how a human being could be this messed up. That is why there are all these shows on T.V. about serial killers and such. Because normal people dare try to comprehend the mind of a monster desguised as a human. “Role Model”? Really people. Please think about the words your fingers are typing. Please get your thoughts in some kind of order. There is nothing positive about this individual or the HORRIFIC crimes he commited. Giving him credit for any small things makes whomever said it as capable of these crimes as Ed Gein and just as messed up in the head. Please get it together.
Ded
September 2, 2012 at 11:52 pm
To sympathize with this evil….. Is to condone it and commit it. You do, at your own peril. You WILL ALL PAY…. Dearly….
asshole
September 14, 2012 at 11:23 pm
U nut
Hash Mother F'n Majin
October 4, 2012 at 2:03 am
We all have monsters within us. Some are just more honest about it while others bury theirs deep inside. Still, when the beast inside wants to stretch, it will get it’s elbow room, if you know what I mean.
In the end, everyone is capable of very bad things. They just need the right motivation.
Hash Mother F'n Majin
October 4, 2012 at 2:06 am
You sound like you’d commit some very bad things to make people pay. Do you want to make the evil ones pay? Pay big? Pay their pound of flesh to your righteousness?
Hypocrites like you are worse monsters than those that get locked up.
h66id
September 19, 2012 at 2:47 am
true ed is messed up, im not saying this because he killed people, but how how he did it, to do what he did hanging people upside down and skinning them is wickedly insane, i could point out that maybe ed had been disgusted by the people around him, who knows if the victims had done something to cause him to kill them, and through addiction of the fascination of being able to solve your issues with fast solution was the route he preferred. In my country people not considered insane kill in numbers for land or revenge, it is sad what the person can do to another when all logic he has points to giving the ultimate amount of pain and suffering towards someone he hates, Ive seen this, women are still being burnt on stakes and disabled children being thrown into burning houses, this are what we call mentally stable human beings, just driven by pure hate and vengeance do the unthinkable. so was ed really insane or was he just driven by pure hate of everything around him!!
kyle
September 24, 2012 at 4:39 am
really??? he was insane and the things that he done were stoped by his mother before she died get your facts straight before you comment he was socialy and mentally unstable with the only block to stop him (his mother) died
Laura
October 30, 2012 at 1:33 pm
That’s a fair interpretation, though his mother was also very likely a huge part of the reason he lost himself after her death.
She would read to him the most gruesome parts of the Old Testament in the old “fire and brimstone” way of religion, so from a very young age he was exposed to ideas of mass murder, flagellation, and ideas that women are naught but prostitutes and whores.
He may have been an unstable person, but I think we as people are better served looking at the case of Ed Gein as a mirror for the destructive power religion can wield and the lack of acceptance of homosexuals/transvestites in society, though this is becoming less of an issue every day.
I mean, the reason he killed the tavern owner and the hardware store clerk was to create a “Woman Suit” that he could wear. It sounds to me like Ed Gein was a gender confused individual who was brought up to believe that he himself was an abomination against the Lutheran god his mother worshiped.
I find Ed to be an extremely intriguing sociological case, and I wonder whether he would have been the same man if raised in today’s more accepting and less religious society.
Hash Mother F'n Majin
October 4, 2012 at 2:08 am
I’ll give him credit for his knowledge of arts and crafts. He shoulda been an art teacher. I woulda studied with him. Would you like to?
LATONYA BARNETT
December 22, 2012 at 11:20 am
NO THAT IS DISGUSING.HE WENT TO CEMATERYS AND CUT WEMENS NIPPLES AND PUT THEM ON A STRING.WHO WANTS TO WORK WITH A PCYCO.ARE YOU CRAZY.