By: Chris Veal

 Someone who has murdered at least 3 people  Require “cooling off” period between each murder  Main cause is psychological pleasure  Many believe that they are not doing anything wrong; rather helping the world  Many serial killers were abused as children or had abnormal childhoods  Most have above average IQ

 The intention of effect of causing harm or destruction  Murdered two women and exhumed nine female bodies from their graves  Dismembered them and created their dismemberments into clothing, jewelry, other paraphernalia  Worn skin of other women around his house and spoke like his mother  He said that the reasons he killed older women was because of his love-hate feelings toward his mother  Determined that Gein had necrophilia and cannibalistic acts with some of the bodies  Although never admitted to cannibalistic or necrophilia activities

 Was not allowed to have any friends  Father was a drunk, could not hold a job  Mother poured scalding water on him for masturbating  Ed never had a full time job  After mothers death lived on subsidies and worked odd jobs

 Born August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin  Smart student best subject was reading  Most time spent doing chores  Mother made sure he did not have any friends  Bullied as a child

 Augusta  Born 1878 – Died 1945 age 67  Believed sex was for procreation only  Caught Ed masturbating, poured scalding water on him as punishment  Did not allow Ed to have any friends  Favored Eddie over his brother

 Father (George)  Died in 1940 of heart attack  Alcoholic  Violent  Couldn’t keep a job  Brother (Henry)  Normal older brother  Died in 1944 age 43 of suspicious brush fire  Blunt force trauma to the head  Asphyxiation  Did not like his mother

 Modern movies based on him  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  The Silence of the Lambs (also a novel)  Psycho (also a novel)  Music  Ed Gein (band)  Ed Gein: The Musical

 Trophies  Head found in cardboard box  Heart in plastic bag  Purse, bracelet, and knife sheath made of human skin  Rug, chair upholstered, lampshade, wastebasket, belts made all of skin  Belt buckles of human nipples  Box of noses  Necklace of lips  Bowls made from skull crowns  Shinbone table legs  Refrigerator of female genitalia and internal organs  Masks from faces of the dead

 Trophies Cont.  Vests made of human breasts  Coat made of vaginas and breasts  Skin leggings  Dug up female bodies from there graves  Reburied the bodies around his house  Dress and behave as a woman and talk like his deceased mother

 Arrested after police found the body of Bernice Worden beheaded and hanging in his house  He admitted to killing Worden and Hogan  Dug the rest of the bodies from graves and reburied them in his house  During interrogation period officer slammed Gein’s head into a desk making his confession inadmissible  Diagnosed as schizophrenic, clinically insane and mentally unfit for trial  Sent to mental hospital where after 10 years was diagnosed as competent to stand trial

 Found guilty of first degree murder of Bernice Worden  But clinically insane at the time of murder  Committed to Central State Hospital for criminally insane in Wisconsin  Good patient  Transferred to Mendota Mental Health Institute  Died here of Cancer on July 26, 1984

 Body buried next to his mother  Gravestone stolen in 2000 recovered in Seattle and placed in a museum in June 2001  Many movies and novels written after Gein  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  Psycho  The Silence of the Lambs  Deviant  Red Dragon