1. Nadira Sutton Isaiah Lamb
Ed Gein

2. Background Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein Born August 27th, 1906
Died July 26th, 1984
Years Killed: Between 1947 and 1952
Nicknames:
Butcher in Plainfield
Buffalo Bill
Psycho

3. Childhood
Augusta, his religious mother, preached to her sons about the immorality of the world, the evil of drinking, and that all women (except herself) were prostitutes and instruments of the devil.
Bullied
Smart in school and a good student
Shy and had strange tendencies
Laughing to himself
Anti-Social
His mother punished him whenever he tried to make friends.

4. Profile White male Did well in school Stayed to himself
Traumatized childhood

5. Phases Trolling Wooing Capture Murder Totem
Looked for recently buried middle aged women who resembled his mother
Wooing
Capture
Exhumed bodies from grave
Shot a tavern and hardware store owner
Murder
Admitted to shooting 2 women
Other victims were already dead
Totem
Skinned body parts to make various items such as: belts, lamp shades, human suits, wastebaskets, preserved female genitalia, etc.
He never had sex will corpses claiming “they smelled too bad”

6. Death Toll
Ed Gein only admitted to killing two women; he is suspected of killing more.
He admitted to robbing 9 graves.

7. Transient or Stable He was stable.
He made as many as 40 visits to three local graveyards.
His victims Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden were shot in a local tavern and hardware store.

8. Mixed Killer
Ed Gein targeted already dead women who resembled his mother.
He had no personal connection with any of his victims.
The two victims he admitted killing he shot them.

9. Conviction Gein was arraigned on one count of first degree murder.
He pled not guilty by reason of insanity
He was found mentally incompetent and unfit to stand trial
Gein was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally insane
He stayed in the mental hospital until his death on July 26th, 1984 where he died of respiratory and heart failure due to Cancer.

10. Interesting Facts
He thought he could preserve his mother’s soul inside of his own body by create “female suit”
Often placed female genitalia over his naked groin as if he were a women
In his house authorities found:
4 noses
Human bones and fragments
9 nine masks of human skin
Bowls made from human skulls
10 female heads with the tops sawed off
Human skin seat covers
Mary Hogan’s head in a paper bag
Bernice Worden’s head in a burlap sack
9 vulvas in a shoe box
Organs in his fridge
A pair of lips on a draw string for window shades
Lampshade from human skin
A belt made from nipples

11. Crime Scene Photos

12. Citations
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