Ed gin (ed gein) - the real story of a maniac leatherface. American serial killer ed gin and what he turned his victims into ed gin his human creations

Ed Gein became fashion brand. A man who took people's lives. Who devoted half of his life to desecration of graves and corpses. Who, after all, had sex with his dead mother!But modern fashion in your opinion...

Film "Ed Gein: The Butcher of Feature film card
Plainfield" 2007 "Ed Gein: Wisconsin Monster" (2000)

The human mind is amazing… Fans kill their idols. Serial killers become idols.

If for a second we put the world of music and crime on the same parallel, then Ed Gein is the "Freddie Mercury" of the underworld. In the hit parade of America's serial killer maniacs, he has been firmly in the lead for more than half a century.

His farmhouse, nicknamed the "Temple of Horrors," stirred the media and civilians in Wisconsin for years. His crimes were so barbaric that the masters of the film industry, wiping the sweat from their foreheads, issued such imperishable masterpieces as: Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Childhood. There is such a sad pattern: any biography of a serial killer begins with the words "he had a difficult childhood."

Edward Theodor Gein was born in a provincial town in 1906. His mother Augusta was obsessed with religion, his father George with a bottle of whiskey.

Augusta and Ed Gein

Local idiot. When the father died, the pious mother gained double power over the family, and matriarchy hopelessly reigned in the house.

Soon the weak-willed Ed, obeying Augusta, also became involved in a religious sect. One day, a despotic mother caught him masturbating. Her rage was so great that she doused her son with boiling water as punishment. But this did not turn Edward away from his mother, on the contrary, he began to cultivate her and elevate her to the rank of saints.

The elder brother, Henry, categorically did not like the situation in the family, he did not lose hope of bringing the obsessed relatives to reason. But he had to pay a heavy price for his efforts. Henry is dead. Suddenly. It's absurd. Due to a burn and head injury sustained while working alone in the field with Ed. Henry's death was ruled an "accident".

Mother's death. A year after the tragedy, Augusta suffered a double heart attack, as a result of which she died. For Edward, the death of his beloved mother was like the end of the world. He begged her not to leave him and did not want to part with her body. Therefore, even after bereavement, he continued to sleep on the same bed with his deceased mother. It was there that his first and only sexual intercourse took place ...

obituaries. The death of his mother made irreversible changes in Gein's psyche. Edward has a strange hobby. He swept all the press from the newspaper counters, savored articles about Nazism, exhumations ... and studied the Obituaries column with maniacal meticulousness! Having studied the notes on all the newly deceased, at night, when all the burial ceremonies were completed, Ed entered the cemetery and opened new graves.

Having dug up a fresh corpse, Ed looked at the body for a long time and admiringly. In favor, he had the corpses of middle-aged women who looked like his mother. Then he began to put into practice his deep knowledge of female anatomy. With a massive meat-cutting knife, Gein enthusiastically cut out the genitals of the deceased, the chest, cut off the legs with an ax,

he carefully removed the skin from the faces, from which he later “made” masks.

The famous leather mask of Edward Gein: in life and in cinema. Don't be Mr Gein so creative nature, the "massacre in Texas" would not have taken place.

Mr decorator. Human skin has become his fetish. Soon his whole house was "decorated" with exclusive products from this hard-to-find material. Sofas and armchairs were upholstered in leather torn from female corpses, lampshades were designed in the appropriate style. Pots and other kitchen utensils for the butcher-Hein were replaced by bones and skulls. And the contents of the refrigerator vaguely resembled a cabinet of curiosities: dozens of jars and flasks with turbid liquid and heads, organs, scraps of flesh floating in it ... Under the bed, in a shoe box, Ed kept dried vaginas.

Soon, Edward's wardrobe was enriched with clothes and accessories made of human material. A tongue necklace, a nipple strap, a shirt with female breasts that he wore and imagined himself as his mother ...

Surprisingly, having exhausted all the “resources” of corpses he needed, Ed punctually, before dawn, returned the remains to the coffins and put things in order on the graves.
Moreover, Gein did not perform any sexual maneuvers over the bodies. As he would later explain to the judge, "They smelled very bad."

Murder. Ed is 48 years old. For the first time, a living person becomes his victim... He managed to kidnap the obese owner of a local pub completely unnoticed, leaving only a pool of blood. At home, Ed dismembered it, and his collection was replenished with a trophy. What, a necrophilic maniac with many years of "experience", prompted him to switch to the living? For experts, this remains an unsolved mystery, like the smile of the Mona Lisa. Meanwhile, the woman was put on the wanted list, and the psychopath Eddie reacted to the general alarm with a daring mockery: "She is staying at my house."

But the locals brushed it off and still considered Edward a "harmless fellow" and even hired him as a babysitter for their children.

This went on until Bernice Warden disappeared... The manager of the local store. Her son, returning from hunting, was horrified to find bloody footprints leading to the very parking lot. Also found on the floor was a receipt in the name of Ed Gein. But even this discovery did not give either the police or the locals a reason to admit the idea that the killer was Edward Gein, a funny harmless guy. The sheriff decided to interrogate him just in case, as a possible witness.

A squad of police officers went to Gein's house, and this was the beginning of the end of the monstrous craft of an obsessed psychopath. On the veranda hung the naked body of Bernice, butchered like a pig carcass.

A further tour of the possessions of Edward Gein shocked both the local police and criminologists around the world.

There was a disgusting stench in the Butcher's house, the remains of the bodies of 15 women were found, 9 of them were the very ones that were taken "for rent" from local graveyards. Who owns the other 6 corpses? How many people did Edward Gein kill in total? As well as a host of other gaps in this black history are still under question mark.

Edward Theodor Gein was declared mentally ill and placed in a prison-type psychiatric hospital for life. He died in 1984 of lung cancer at the age of 77.

AT psychiatric clinic shortly before death.

Edward Gein is one of those killers to whom the epithet "legendary" can be applied. Indeed, he went down in history not because of the number of his crimes (there are very few of them, only two have been proven at all), not because of the duration of his series, not because of the loud litigation. Gein became widely known because life in a small town like Edward's was rarely shaken by events like those in Plainfield in the late 1950s. People tend to embellish reality, and soon after Gein's capture, his figure was overgrown with many fictions and real legends. Discard them, let's rely on the facts!

Edward Theodor Gein was born on August 27, 1906 near the town of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He spent his childhood there and went to school there. Eddie was the second child of George and Augusta Gein, his older brother Andrew was born four years earlier.

It cannot be said that Eddie's childhood was prosperous. All members of the family, including George, were under the control of a despotic and tough Augusta, who did not recognize any authority, an imperious and strict woman. As for Gein himself, he considered his mother just a saint, her opinion was the law. Many psychologists involved in the Gein case believe that the mother greatly influenced the subsequent development of Gein's personality. So, from childhood, she instilled in her sons hatred for female gender especially for sex. This was expressed in the fact that Edward Gein became a closeted homosexual, while not having sexual relations any kind at all.

In 1914, the family moved to a 195-acre farm near the town of Plainfield, where Gein would spend the rest of his life in freedom. The land was infertile, the Geins' economy was poorly developed. From the very arrival in a new place, a certain alienation appeared between the family and the neighbors: the Geins lived apart, they had no friends. So without incident, without changes in the usual way of life, 26 years passed.

Gein's father dies of pneumonia in 1940. After that, Augusta begins to dominate the family even more. With Andrew, she now often has quarrels, and in connection with this, the relationship between him and Edward, who supports his mother in everything, is strained.

And on May 16, 1944, with extremely mysterious circumstances Andy Gein dies. That day, he and his brother worked on the farm, burning garbage. According to Edward, the fire went out of control, Andy was engulfed in flames, and Eddie himself ran for help. When he returned with several men, his brother was already dead. At the same time, it is not clear what prevented Andy from knocking down the flames, because the edge of the field was so close, and his body was not burned much ... One way or another, someone is inclined to think that the elder brother was the first victim of Edward Gein, someone thinks his death was an accident, but Gein himself never acknowledged his brother's murder.

Eddie and Augusta are now alone. They still lived a quiet, aloof life on their farm. But 1945 was a fatal year for Edward. In January, Augusta suffers a heart attack and barely survives, and her son's subsequent care sets her back on her feet. However, the heart problems continue, and at the end of the year, on December 29, August Gein dies from another stroke.

For the first time in his life, Edward is completely alone. He has no friends or good acquaintances, the last person close to him is now dead. After the death of his mother, Gein permanently boards up the doors of her room, just like the door to his past, and more and more plunges into madness, which will lead him to murder ...

However, now Gein is somewhat narrowing the gap between himself and society. Thanks to agricultural reforms carried out in the United States just at that time, he no longer has to cultivate his land, he lives on an allowance paid by the state, and earns extra money doing various small jobs here and there around Plainfield.

He developed a fairly even relationship with his neighbors: Gein had a gentle character, sometimes he was even asked to sit with the children. locals they did not consider him crazy or feeble-minded, and he, in general, was not such in the full understanding of these words. Gein was known as "weird old Eddie" and that nickname pretty much summed it up.

Gein's personal interests and hobbies were also rather strange. He read books about the atrocities of the Nazis during the Second World War and their experiments on people in concentration camps with incredible enthusiasm, he knew this topic by heart. Although, of course, this is not at all a reason to consider a person mentally unhealthy.

But his real passion, the hobby of his whole life, raised to a really unhealthy scale, was female body. Eddie drew the information concealed by his mother for so long from books on anatomy, medical encyclopedias, scientific (and, to put it mildly, not very) magazines, newspapers - in general, from any sources that fell into his hands.

Around the summer of 1947 Gein moved from theory to terrible practice. He began to almost regularly visit the surrounding cemeteries, where he performed an autopsy of fresh women's graves, removed the corpses and studied them. After that, he again carefully returned the bodies to their place. But Gein kept some body parts for himself. I even used them...

With the skill of a pathologist, “Old Eddie” butchered corpses, cut out genitals, skinned bodies with the dexterity of an inveterate hunter. From human skin, tanned, dried according to all the rules, Ed sewed himself a suit - a vest and a jacket - in which he periodically arranged dances around his estate. It seems wild, completely unbelievable, like a lot of the stories that come up about Gein after he's arrested, but as crazy and horrific as it is, it's the purest truth.

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Boyarova O.

The topic of US maniacs was well covered in one of the essays (). Unfortunately, Ed Gein was forgotten. It is unlikely that many people know his name, but films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho are well known to horror lovers. Where is the connection? The thing is that the prototype of the maniac from the farm and Buffalo Bill was just Edward Gein.

The prerequisites for the corrupted psyche of the future maniac can be found in Edward's childhood.

The boy was born on August 27, 1907 near the city of La Crosse, Wisconsing. All his childhood passed there. Edward was youngest child in the family of George and Augusta Gein. His brother Henry George Gein was four years older.

Gein's parents deserve special attention. His father George Gein was an alcoholic. He couldn't find permanent job, and the family was interrupted by rare earnings. It is noteworthy that there is no evidence that George beat his children. Most likely, he himself was a victim of his insane wife.

Now for Augusta Gein. She grew up in a very pious family. The idea that the world is mired in sin, everywhere there is only dirt, lust and sex, and all women (of course, except for her) are whores, Augusta carried through her whole life.

The question involuntarily begs, if she was already so pious and correct, then how did she get two sons? Well, this is just food for thought.

The truth was that Augusta was a tyrant in her family. After the Geins moved to a farm in Plainfield, Augusta forbade her sons to communicate with other children and constantly forced them to do hard work on the farm. She constantly read the Bible to Ed and Henry and always said that the city they live in is a "hell hole".

Despite all this, Edward idolized his mother and considered her a saint. His elder brother had a completely different opinion.

Relations between Ed and Henry became very strained after the death of their father in 1940.

Andrew was eager to start independent life unfortunately unsuccessful. Trying to denigrate the mother in the eyes younger brother He only made the situation worse.

On May 16, 1944, a fire broke out on the farm, in which Henry died. The brothers were burning garbage that day, and according to Ed, the fire got out of control. Many believe that it was Ed who killed his older brother. Their opinion is not unfounded. First, Edward was the only witness, and the incident is known only from his words. Secondly, the question remains unclear why the men did not try to put out the fire?

Be that as it may, Edward's guilt has not been proven.

Now Ed Gein was alone with his mother. They still lived a quiet, aloof life on their farm. But in 1945, Augusta suffers a heart attack and is bedridden. Edward's concern only delays the inevitable end. A woman dies on December 29, 1945 and Ed is left alone.

The neighbors never complained about Gein. They considered him a good-natured eccentric and even left him to sit with the children. No one knew that the “quiet farmer” was fond of books on anatomy, reading stories about the atrocities of the Nazis during World War II. He is fascinated by information about the exhumation, obituaries in the newspapers give him particular pleasure.

Soon "Old Eddie" moves from theory to practice. He is attracted by the female body, but he is too cowardly to apply fresh knowledge to living people.

Ed went to the local cemetery, where he tore open the fresh graves of women. After that, he gutted their bodies and took a couple of "souvenirs" for himself. His house became like a burial ground. He hung the heads of corpses on the walls, made a belt from the female genital organs, processed the skulls in the form of bowls, from which he then ate and drank. But the most sophisticated was the costume made from the skin of women.

Later, when Gein was arrested, he said that he did not perform any sexual manipulation on the corpses because "they smelled too bad." Thankfully he didn't have an air freshener.

In principle, a serial killer is considered to be a person who has killed three or more victims. This is due to the fact that when the third victim is killed, the serial has its own mode of action. However, all researchers consider Ed Gein a successful serial killer, despite the fact that, on his account, only two proven victims.

Although many attribute Gein a few more corpses.

In 1947, an eight-year-old girl was found murdered, the only evidence the police found were tire tracks from a car that belonged to Gein. True, Gein did not confess to committing this crime.

In 1952, two tourists who stopped to have a small picnic near Gein's house disappeared. Their bodies have not been found so far. Ed's involvement has not been proven.

In 1953, a fifteen-year-old girl was found murdered. Gein's involvement has also not been proven, but some elements of the coincidence with the first murder are clearly visible.

Blaming Ed Gein for these crimes is not entirely reasonable. If you study Edward's personality well enough, it becomes clear that this is not his handwriting (subsequent murders will confirm this). Gein was not interested in teenage girls. Furthermore, known fact that Gein was left to sit with children, further proves his innocence in these crimes. The dubious evidence of tire tracks and the absence of any other evidence (the bodies of the girls were not found at Gein's house) make these accusations look like a cheap horror story made up to draw attention to Gein's personality.

But in 1954 Gein really commits a crime. He kills the owner of the local tavern, Mary Hogan. Mary disappeared from the motel, leaving behind only pools of blood. Gein managed to discreetly transfer the woman, who weighed about eighty kilograms, to his home across the city. He dismembered her and kept her at home. Mary was declared missing.

Presumably, Gein did this because the woman, who somehow reminded him of his mother, yelled at the man, thereby provoking his anger.

On November 16, 1957, another woman, 58-year-old Bernice Worden, went missing. In the afternoon, her son returned from hunting and stopped at the hardware store run by his mother. It seemed strange to him that his mother was not there. He decided to go to the police after he found a bloody trail on the floor, stretching from the shop window to the back door. After a quick search of the premises, Frank found another crumpled receipt for half a gallon of antifreeze lying around in the backyard. The receipt was in the name of Edward Gein.

The woman's body was later found at Gein's farm. It was so disfigured that the sheriff at first mistook it for a deer carcass. Only later was it established that the decapitated body belonged to the missing Bernice Worden.

But more terrible things were found in Ed's house. In addition to the already known "souvenirs", human entrails were found in Gein's refrigerator, and in one saucepan there was a heart.

The trial over him was not long. Gein confessed to killing the two women. He was declared insane, and, in accordance with the verdict of the court, Edward Gein was sent for compulsory treatment to the maximum security hospital for the insane criminals in Wapan, but was later transferred to the Menthod Institute of Mental Health in Madison.

Gein died on July 26, 1984 in a mental hospital from cardiac arrest caused by cancer, after which he was buried in Planfield City Cemetery. For a long time, the tombstone of his grave was destroyed due to souvenir hunters, and in 2000 most of the tombstone was completely stolen.

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Serial killer Ed Geen (1906–1984) from the American town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, was the inspiration for villains in several horror films, including Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, and Norman Bates from Psycho.

Gein's mother, Augusta, suffered from psychosis. She became a single mother in 1940 after the death of her alcoholic husband, George, from a heart attack. After the death of his brother Henry in 1944, as some argue, not without the help of Ed himself, his mother became everything to him. Her world revolved around him, and she became the center of his existence. After her death at the end of 1945, Gin, who at that time was 39 years old, was left alone for the first time in his life.

Ed Geen, who was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, yearned for his mother. Perhaps in hopes of becoming his mother, he dressed like a woman and ransacked graves, digging up the bodies of women who reminded him of his mother. He later turned to murder.

He dismembered women and used their body parts to make furniture, other household items and clothing. Here are 10 gruesome items Ed Geen made from the corpses of women he killed or dug up in local cemeteries.

10. Clip for curtains from women's lips

Geen confessed to killing only two women, local bar owner Mary Hogan and hardware store owner Bernice Worden. But there is reason to believe that as many as seven women became his victims.

The exact number is difficult to determine, because Gin "diluted" the bodies of his victims with corpses stolen from neighboring cemeteries, among which was 51-year-old Eleanor Adams. He was also suspected of the disappearance of two children, eight-year-old Georgia Weckler and 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley.

When Bernice Warden disappeared without a trace from her own hardware store in Plainfield, her son Frank, the town's deputy sheriff, suspected that Ed was involved. And he was right. Captain Lloyd Shoefoester and Sheriff Art Schley found Bernice's body at Gin's house.

Her decapitated corpse, which was hung like a deer carcass, was discovered in a courtyard building. In a nearby box were her head and intestines, and nails protruding from her ears. Bernice's heart was found in Gbna's house. The police immediately searched the premises and, among other horrors, they found a curtain clip made from a woman's lips.

9. Lampshade made of human skin.

To find something to do, Gin began to read a lot. However, his "library" can not be called anything other than strange. It contained articles about cannibalism, headhunting, dried heads, and Nazi lampshades made from human skin.

Gin also studied Grey's Anatomy (a popular English textbook on human anatomy, considered a classic). Perhaps it was this tutorial that inspired Gin to create unique "designer" interior items. In his house, next to the chair where he liked to read books, there was a lamp, the lampshade of which was made of human skin.

8. Chairs upholstered in human skin.

Gin was reluctant to part with the body parts of his victims. He tried to use the bodies of his victims to the maximum. He kept the organs in his refrigerator and appears to have consumed them after cooking them on the stove or in the oven. Some say that sometimes he invited acquaintances to his creepy dinners. Among the gruesome finds police found at Gin's home were several chairs upholstered in the skin of his victims.

7. Bowls, tableware and ashtrays.

Some serial killers are obsessed with the skulls of their victims. For example, Richard Ramirez (known as the "Night Stalker") liked to smoke them. Gin used skulls stolen from nearby cemeteries as makeshift soup bowls and ashtrays. He also made forks and spoons from bones.

6. Masks.

Gin, who used female body parts as clothing, made sure that his hideous costumes were complemented by masks made from the faces of dead women.

The masks looked very realistic. They consisted of the victim's face, including hair, ears, nose, lips, chins, and jaws. The only thing missing was his eyeballs, Ed "used" his when he wore the masks.

5. Corset and belt.

As a boy, Gin exhibited an effeminate demeanor that caused him to be bullied by his classmates. After the death of his mother, he tried more and more to become a woman, perhaps in an attempt to "resurrect" his mother in this way.

Although he claimed to refrain from necrophilia because the women's corpses "smelled badly," he "tried on" the victims' skin to make clothes. One such piece was a corset, made to slim his waist and make him look more feminine. But he also had several other terrible items in his wardrobe. women's clothing including nipple strap.

4. Wall carpet and other artifacts.

Mountains of strange artifacts were scattered throughout Gin's house. Among them was a wastebasket made from human skin, a skull on the head of the bed, a collection of noses, a box of vaginas, and the head of the victim, Mary Hogan, in a bag. Gin also made a wall hanging from various body parts.

There were other equally disgusting things. A corset made from the skin of the victims helped him transform into a person of the opposite sex. Determined to be as human as possible, Gin skinned dead women's legs and used them as leggings.

3. Vest.

In Geen's time, psychological support, hormone therapy, breast augmentation, and sex reassignment surgery were not available, and gender dysphoria was not recognized as such. Consequently, in order to pretend to be a woman, Gin had to improvise.

In addition to the masks, corset and leggings, Gin used a "women's" vest. Made from the upper body of a woman, the vest included a woman's breasts, which is why it is referred to in some sources as a "chest vest". This thing gave him a feminine look, at least he believed in it.

2. Dress.
Gin made a grotesque dress from the skin of his victims, which he wore when he pretended to be a woman. His love for such dresses became the inspiration for many horror films about atrocities similar to those committed by Gin himself.

1. Accessories.

Gin's wardrobe also contained many accessories, such as an apron made from the skin of his victims. Too strange even for Gin, this piece of clothing was a collection of mismatched pieces of leather stitched together with large, thick stitches, similar to those used by mortuary workers after performing an autopsy.

The nipple is present in the upper left part of the apron (but the breast itself is missing). Parts of the face - eyes, nose and upper lip - are sewn together at the bottom left. A pair of ears are sewn in where pockets should be, above them is part of another face. On the bottom right right breast with pacifier.

Gin's other possessions included a pair of human-skin gloves (the stitches on which follow the contours of the fingers), a pair of leather pants, and a necklace of five tongues strung on a string.

Ed, who was now completely alone on the farm, began to voraciously read books on anatomy, stories about Nazi atrocities during World War II, various information about exhumations, he also liked to read the local newspaper, especially the obituary section. The neighbors didn't think Gein was crazy, just a "slightly weird" harmless eccentric and left him to babysit the kids, to whom Gein sometimes recounted what he had read on topics he was obsessed with. Gein soon moves from theory to practice - he begins to visit cemeteries at night, dig up corpses and butcher them. He is often guided by information gleaned from obituaries in the local press, he especially enjoyed tearing up the fresh graves of women, although later in the investigation he swore that he had not performed any sexual manipulations with the corpses: “they smelled too bad,” Gein said. Gein took some parts of the corpses home, and soon he had a kind of collection of skulls and severed heads, which he hung on the walls. Gein also made himself a suit of women's leather, which he wore at home.

Even the stories about the strange things that happened on his farm did not bother anyone. Local children who looked into the windows of Gein's house spoke about what they saw human heads hung on the walls. Edward just laughed and said that his brother served during the war somewhere in South Seas and sent him these heads as a gift. Nevertheless, rumors spread around the town about strange objects in Gein's house, while he himself smiled and nodded without malice when asked about the severed heads that he supposedly keeps at home. Nobody thought it could be real.

1947-1956

In 1947, an eight-year-old girl was found murdered in the district. Gein is believed to have committed the murder. The only piece of evidence the police found was tire marks from a car that later turned out to be Gein's. Gein's involvement has not been proven.

In 1952, two tourists disappeared after stopping to have a small picnic near Gein's house. Their bodies have not been found so far. Gein's involvement in the crime has not been proven, although he was suspected of their murder.

In 1953, a fifteen-year-old girl was found murdered. Gein's involvement has also not been proven, but some elements of the coincidence with the first murder can be seen quite clearly.

In 1954, Gein kills Mary Hogan, the owner of a local tavern. Gein managed to quietly transfer fat woman to your home across the city. He dismembered her and kept her at home. Mary was declared missing. Gein joked that she stopped by to stay at his house. Mary had disappeared from the motel, leaving only pools of blood in her wake, so Ed's jokes about the missing woman seemed tasteless to everyone. Nobody took him seriously.

Arrest. Court. Death.

On November 16, 1957, the owner of a hardware store, 58-year-old widow Bernice Warden, disappears without a trace. In the afternoon, her son Frank Warden returned from hunting and stopped at the store. He saw that his mother was not at home, and the front and back doors were left unlocked. Frank discovered something that scared him terribly - a trail of blood stretching from the shop window to the back door. After a quick search of the premises, Frank found a crumpled receipt in the name of Edward Gein.

The police decide to search Gein's house, and immediately make the first terrible discovery - the disembowelled and mutilated corpse of Bernice Worden in Gein's barn. The corpse was disfigured and hung like a deer carcass. Much more terrible finds were waiting for the police in the house of Ed Gein, where there was a terrible stench. Masks made of human skin and severed heads were hung on the walls, a whole wardrobe was also found, made in a handicraft way from tanned human skin: two pairs of trousers, a vest, a suit made of human skin, a chair upholstered in leather, a belt from female nipples, a plate for soup, made from a skull. But that was not all. The refrigerator was filled to the brim with human organs, and a heart was found in one of the pots. Gein later admitted to digging up the bodies of middle-aged women who reminded him of his mother from graves.

During many hours of interrogation, Gein confessed to the murder of two women - Bernice Warden and Mary Hogan (However, Gein confessed to the murder of Hogan only a few months later). His trial began.

While Gein's trial was going on, local boys began throwing stones at the windows of the House of Horrors. The townspeople considered the farm a symbol of evil and debauchery and avoided it at all costs. The authorities decided to sell the estate at auction. People protested but could do nothing about it. On the night of March 20, 1958 Gein's house mysteriously burned down. There is a version that it was arson, but the perpetrators were never found. When Gein, imprisoned at the Central State Hospital, learned about the incident, he said only three words: "That's right."

The Gein property was purchased by Edmine Shi, a real estate broker. Within a month, he destroyed the ashes and the nearby undergrowth of 60,000 trees.

Ed Gein's car, which he drove on the day of the murder of Bernice Warden, was sold at an auction. 14 people fought for this lot, and, in the end, Ford left for big money at that time of $ 760. The buyer chose to remain anonymous. It is possible that the buyer was the organizer of the fair in Seymour, where a Ford car appeared as an attraction called "Ed Gein's Ghoul Car."

More than 2,000 people paid 25 cents to see the car on the first two days of the show.

Profiting from Gein's notoriety was met with outrage by the townspeople of Plainfield. At the Washington Fair in Slinger, Wisconsin, the car was on display for four hours, after which the sheriff arrived at the scene and closed the attraction. After that, Wisconsin authorities banned the display of the car. Offended businessmen went to the south of Illinois, in the hope of understanding. Further fate car is unknown.

In accordance with the verdict of the court, Gein was declared insane and committed to compulsory treatment at the High Security Hospital for the Criminally Insane (now Dodge Correctional Facility) in Waupan, but was later transferred to the Institute mental health Mentoda in Madison. In 1968, the doctors decided Gein was sane enough to stand trial again. A new trial began on November 14, 1968, and lasted a week. Judge Robert Gollmarp convicted Gein of premeditated murder, but since Gein was legally insane, he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, where he died on July 26, 1984 from cardiac arrest caused by cancer, after which he was buried in Planfield City Cemetery. For a long time, the tombstone of his grave was destroyed due to souvenir hunters, and in 2000, most of the tombstone was completely stolen. In 2001, the gravestone was restored.

In popular culture

In literature

To the cinema

• A version of the retelling of the life of Edward Gein as the most brutal serial killer in the history of America is made in the film "Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield" and in the film "In the Light of the Moon".
• Elements of the biography of Ed Gein are included in famous films - such as Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
• Ed Gein is mentioned in the series about serial killers"Think Like a Criminal", several episodes were filmed based on the plot of his life.
• The character in the 4th episode of the 1st season of the cartoon Super Prison! »
• Ed Gein is mentioned in the movie "American Psycho"
• Ed Gein is mentioned in the television series Bones. Season 8 Episode 5 "The Method in the Madness"
• Ed Gein, partly inspired the character Zachary Quinto in the TV series " American History Horror: Mental Hospital"

In music

• Song " Nothing to Gein", the Mudvayne group tells about Ed Gein.
• Song " Nipple Belt”, by the Tad group, tells the story of Ed Gein.
• Song " Edward Gein”, by the Fibonaccis group, tells the story of Ed Gein.
• Song " Dead Skin Mask”, The Slayer group tells about Ed Gein.
• Song " Ballad of Ed Gein”- the Swamp Zombies group tells about Ed Gein.
• Song " Ed Gein”- the Killdozer group tells the story of Ed Gein.
• Song " Ed Gein"- the Macabre group tells about Ed Gein.
• Song " Plainfield"- the group "Church of Misery" tells the story of Ed Gein.
• Song " Sex Is Bad Eddie"- The Tenth Stage is about Ed Gein.
• Song " skinned”- the group“ Blind Melon ”narrates about Ed Gein.
• Song " The Geins"- the group" Macabre Minstrels "tells about Ed Gein.
• Song " Torn"- the Maladiction group tells about Ed Gein.
• Song " young god"Swans" also talks about the life of Ed Gein.
• Gein is an American darkstep drum & bass band from Milwaukee.
• Song " Ed Gein”- the group“ Billy the Kid ”narrates about Ed Gein.
• The musical group "Ed Gein", playing in the genre of grindcore, mathcore, hardcore

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• Ed Gein

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• Personalities in alphabetical order
• August 27
• Born in 1906
• Born in La Crosse
• Deceased July 26
• Deceased in 1984
• Deceased in Madison
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• American serial killers
• Necrophiles
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Died from respiratory failure
• Died of heart failure

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