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When we think of serial killers we think of people like John Wayne Gacey or David Berkowitz. They were both terrible and caused so much grief to people they were unforgettable. Jack the Ripper was another famous serial killer that may come to mind, but for sheer ghoulishness none can top Ed Gein. He was the sickest of the sick. If you look at the movie Psycho, it was inspired by Ed. Believe me this is nothing to be proud about. Even the movie didn't dare go as far as Ed did in real life.

Many websites are devoted to this fiend. Ed looked like any other ordinary midwesterner. He wasn't particularly large or strong, but there was something about that stare of his. He eyes seemed to reflect a sort of malevolence when he was mad. He looked at you like he wanted to kill you. His house looked like something the Bates family would live in. I am talking about the Bates family from Psycho As a matter of fact, it would have made the perfect haunted house. It was a run down victorian home on a farm with nothing else around it. It would have made a great movie set.

Make no mistake Gein was a vicious murderer. He didn't kill as many as some of the other serial killers, but he treated every person he killed like some animal that was to be gutted and their parts cut off. Ed liked killing and he liked killing women. He seemed to get some sort of sexual pleasure from the act. Ed had just killed a shop keeper named Bernice Worden but this time he had slipped up. It seems that when he left with the body, he didn't realize that it was leaving a trail of blood. Arthur Schley was the sheriff from Plainfield Wisconsin. He had followed the trail of blood back to Ed's farmhouse, but even this seasoned law man was not ready for what he was about to find.

As the sheriff entered the kitchen he bumped into something hanging from the ceiling. The kitchen was dark so he turned on his flash light. What he saw made him almost throw up. There, hanging from the ceiling, was part of a human body. The head, arms and lets had been cut off and the body had been gutted. This was what was left of the shop keeper. He had never seen a human body being treated this way and it must have made him very angry. But this wasn't the only gruesome sight he was about to see. He found human ears nailed and with string through each one. More police were called in and they also found things of indescribable evil.It seems good old Ed was making furniture out of his victims, along with utensils. A box of noses had been found and other body parts were being used for various utilitarian purposes around the home. Even a shirt made of human skin, complete with breasts, was found.

As if this wasn't bizarre enough, Ed said that most of his body parts came from female corpses that he had dug up. Having said that, he also admitted to two murders of women. Ed had a friend named Gus that used to help him dig up the bodies for mutilation. The friend moved to an old people's home and now Ed decided to start killing women. The police believed that Gein was actually responsible for the deaths of about 8 or 9 women. But how did he get this way? Psychiatrists had stated that he was insane. It seems his mother constantly preached that all women were whores and the world was an evil place. He had become an alcoholic. He became afraid of women because it would lead to eternal damnation. His mother owned the local store in a busy town named La Crosse, Wisconsin. One day she said that the town was too depraved and moved to the farm. Eventually his brothers moved away and Ed was alone on the farm with his mother. She died about a year later, in 1945.

It is said that the women he selected to kill were older and on the plump side, just like his mom was. When he killed a woman he would cut off their faces and mount them on the wall. Ed never went to jail. He was sent to the Central State Hospital in a unit for the criminally insane. The movie, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, was inspired by the life of Ed Gein. Ed was a model patient, but he did have one bad habit, he would stare at some of the female staff, making them extremely uncomfortable and anyone could understand why.

Ed Gein died of cancer on July 26, 1984.