Ed Gein

“In terms of numbers, Ed Gein was not much of a murderer, as serial

killers go. But viewed through the lens of sheer, lunatic atrocity, he was one

of the worst”(Time-Life Editors 106)

Edward Gein was born on August 8, 1906 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Gein had a

heavy drinking father by the name of George, a weak ineffectual brother by the name of

Henry who was 5 years older than Ed, and a domineering mother, known as Augusta nee

Loehrke, who had no use for sex or men. When Gein was 8, they moved to Plainfield in

1912. The two boys did the work around the 160-acre farm, but their mother ruled their

lives. She insisted they remain unmarried, and instilled the belief that women would

separate the family and betray any love that was there. His mother taught them at an early

age that sex was a sinful thing. Between 1940, and 1945, first his father, who was 60,

then Henry who was 45, and then his mother, who was 64 died. Henry died in a marsh

fire, and his mother suffered a stroke in 1944. Ed took care of her until a second stroke

took her life in 1945, leaving him alone for the first time at the age of 39 on a desolate

farm that did not have electricity. Gein was still emotionally enslaved t

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He was committed to Central State

Hospital in Waupon, and in 1978, they transferred him to Mendota Mental Health Institute

where he died in 1984 of respiratory and heart failure at the age of 77. Gein was

particularly interested in the female genitalia. The

scary fact is that Gein had a partner who went insane and died. Gein became interested when he heard

of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and medical experiments performed on Jews. Other movies include: “Don’t go into the house”, “Maniac”, “Deranged”, and

“Nekromantik I,II. To sum up exactly how

he was, just watch the movie “Psycho. Through doctor’s tests and observations

of Gein, they learned that he had an IQ of 99 which was good for someone educated

through 8th grade. This sent shockwaves throughout the Eisenhower era. He later

sealed off the drawing room and the entire upstairs.

After his family’s deaths, Gein could no longer run the farm on his own. It was said that

Gein was a model prisoner-gentle, polite, and discreet.

Soon, macabre jokes about Ed Gein called “Geiners” became a

state-wide craze. Gein killed

victims of his mother’s age. Both Ed Gein’s mother and Norman Bate’s

mother didn’t want their son’s to have anything to do with women. He was smart

enough to know when to talk and when to not.

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