Serial Killer: Ed Gein

Today I'm gonna share to you my favorite (wrong choice of word, lol) serial killer. His name is Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein a.k.a. The Mad Butcher and The Plainfield Ghoul. Although his known victims are only two, the way he mutilated their bodies makes him a stone cold motherfucker.

On August 27, 1906 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, Ed Gein was born. His father was George Philip Gein and his mother was Augusta Wilhelmine Gein. He also had an older brother named Henry George Gein. Growing up, he is usually shy, resulting in poor social development. Despite that, he was very good in school.

On November 16, 1957, Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared. When the police questioned Worden's son, he said that the last person he saw at the store before the disappearance was Ed Gein. The last receipt written by Worden was a slip for a gallon of anti-freeze bought by Gein. When the police arrived to check out Gein's home, they discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed. Worse, it was hung upside down by ropes at her wrists, with a crossbar at her ankles. She was mutilated and shot by a .22 caliber rifle.

Bernice Worden's body

The police also found:

• Whole human bones and fragments
• wastebasket made of human skin
• Human skin covering several chair seats
• Skulls on his bedposts
• Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
• Bowls made from human skulls
• A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
• Leggings made from human leg skin
• Masks made from the skin from female heads
• Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag
• Mary Hogan's skull in a box
• Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack
• Bernice Worden's heart in a saucepan on the stove
• Nine vulvae in a shoe box
• A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
• A belt made from female human nipples
• Four noses
• A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring
• A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
• Fingernails from female fingers

He was arrested and when they questioned him, Gein told them that from 1947 to 1952, he would go to local graveyards and exhume buried bodies. And if the body he exhumed resembles his mother, he would took the bodies home and he would tanned their skin to make his paraphernalia. He admitted of robbing at least nine graves.

It is believed that when Gein's mom died, he would create a "woman suit" so that "...he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin". (fuckin' sick!)

He also admitted killing tavern owner Mary Hogan, who was missing since 1954 whose head was found in his house, but he later denied memory of details of her death.

 

He was found guilty of first-degree murder by Judge Robert H. Gollmar, but because he was found to be legally insane, he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.

Ed Gein died on July 26, 1984 due to lung cancer. He was 77 years old.