was apparently a harmless man ... but his personality hid a terrible psychopath who turned his farm into a human slaughterhouse. His grisly crimes Hitchcock provided the basis for his classic horror movie Psycho.
That comes later ...
On the afternoon of December 8, 1954, a farmer from Plainfield, Wis., entered "Hogan's Tavern" for a drink on this cold winter afternoon when he discovers with horror a large trail of blood that covered the wooden floor. The owner Mary Hogan, had disappeared.
GeinEl sheriff Ed noted that there were no apparent signs of struggle and that the cash register was full, but determined that the woman had been murdered and that his body had been dragged to a car waiting outside. The only forensic report confirmed the conclusions reached by the sheriff and did not shed any light on the case. Mary's disappearance was a mystery.
About a month after this incident, the owner of the sawmill in Wisconsin commented on the case with a timid little man who lived in a wooden farm a few miles away. His name was Ed Gein.
Gein lived alone since the death of his mother in 1945 and earned a living doing odd jobs for the residents of Plainfield. It was his skill in this type of work, why this man of slight, middle-aged blond hair and blue eyes became known among locals as a hard-working, dutiful, reliable but eccentric.
The mill owner did not get along very well with Gein. Was extremely difficult to talk to him because sometimes he nervously began to laugh for no reason like a madman, or inappropriate comment that left another person without knowing what to say.
On this occasion, the man recalled that Gein used to sit alone in a corner of the bar staring at the local owner of lost in thought with a pitcher of beer, and assumed he was in love with the woman. He suggested jokingly that if he had spoken Mary clearly about their feelings, probably at that time on his farm would be cooking and waiting to come back rather than have disappeared presumably killed. Gein, a strange gesture rolled his eyes and replied with one of his famous smiles: "It is not missing. Right now it's on the farm." The man shrugged and did not take him seriously, after all, was the kind of comment that was expected of him ...
born August 27, 1906, son of austere religious fanatic mother who despised her weak, drunken husband. When the two were arguing, they used to often, the man got drunk and beat her two children.
From the first time, Ed's life was completely dominated by his mother, who had promised herself that her son would never be like those lascivious men, atheists and drunk he saw around him. Still a very hard discipline to punish their children, and unable to give comfort and love of a mother. Gein
tube no contact with other children, because everyone assumed the eyes of this mother a threat to moral purity of his son. So for thirty-nine years until the woman died the victim of a heart attack, leaving behind her a man dependent, repressed and only in a world that barely understood.
Morning Saturday November 16, 1957, Ed Gein murdered the owner of Village Hardware, Bernice Worden, shooting a bullet with his old hunting rifle .22. Also on this occasion took the corpse in the van, leaving the local soil puddling of blood. But this time, there would be a witness ... the ledger. In his last entry, containing the name of Ed Gein, who have sold their last antifreeze.
B. WordenDos police officers arrested Gein, while two others went immediately to his farm with the intention to carry out a search. When you step inside, the sheriff felt like something touched his shoulder, and he turned he encountered the headless body of B. Worden. The headless body hung from the rafters of the shed hanging by his ankles. It had all began with his mother, who did more than hassling their sexual instincts and finally allowed to establish any contact with women, which ended with the result that the young Ed developed a morbid and unnatural interest for the female anatomy.
After recovering from the shock of the horror they had witnessed, and after asking for help by radio, the two men returned to the house.
The body hung from a hook at the ankle and a wire had subjected the other foot to a pulley. Had splitting the body from the chest to the base of the abdomen, and intestines glowed as if they had been washed and cleaned.
There was no doubt that the cause of this frightening spectacle was a sick person. It was hard to believe that a human being could live there. Everywhere there were piles of garbage and waste, cardboard boxes, empty cans, rusty tools, excrement, pornographic magazines, terror and human anatomy, gum stuck to the cups and a set of teeth on the tablecloth ...
Later, as more patrols arrived, was discovered inside the house all the horror hidden there. There were several skulls scattered around the kitchen, some intact and others cut in half and used as bowls.
Closer inspection revealed that one of the chairs in the kitchen was made from human skin, such as lampshades, paper, covers the knives and even a garment, like a vest or belt formed human nipples.
Among the most egregious findings were found boxes with human remains belonging to different unidentified bodies, hearts and Bernice Worden's severed head in a plastic bag, a collection of nine masks of human skin with hair intact , of which four were hanging on the wall surrounding Gein's bed, etc.
had decorated the inside of their wooden house with these masks made with strips of skin from real human faces and skulls hanging from the columns of your bed.
The only room in the house that seemed normal was sealed with planks on the door and perfectly organized ... his mother. Since his mother died in 1945, twelve years earlier, the room had been closed with nails as a tomb. Ed told police after his arrest after his death, his mother kept in touch with him for over a year, fell asleep while talking. He said it was at that time he developed his fascination with anatomy. He was fascinated by stories about the sex change operation and was thought to become a woman himself.
Gein said that only remember, very vaguely, having killed Bernice Worden, and other human remains had been found on the farm that belonged to nine bodies were removed from the cemetery. He explained that in recent years occasionally felt the need to desecrate graves, and sometimes even knew the victims in life and learned of their deaths reading newspapers. Then, on the night of burial, was heading the cemetery, took out the body and refill the grave (so he could check the police later, when the exhumation of graves, some of which Gein had said, were empty.)
Many household items and furniture that was discovered following the arrest of Gein, came from the desecration of graves. Sometimes whole carcasses dragged to his house, sometimes the most interesting cut and carried them as a souvenir.
On March 30, 1958 Gein's house was arrested after the rumor that she was destined to become an attraction for tourists and the House of Horrors. Anyway, his Ford survived and sold at public auction to be used in local fairs with a sign announcing: Ed Gein's car! See the car that carried the dead from the graves!
His farm was burned by the locals and even today remembered as Ed had obsquiado with succulent pieces of meat, which claimed that the animals were hunted but later in its opinion, recognized that were Gein leftover debris of their feasts ghouls.
Central hospital physicians to decide that the murderer is not able to go to trial and is admitted to year 68, when after a week-long trial, he convicted of two murders, but argued his madness, is again hospitalized.
The case of Ed Gein is from a medical standpoint, one of the most complex of criminology. Voyeurism, fetishism, transvestism and may necrophilia, integrated personality.
spoke in his voluntary confession of sexual pleasure that got wrapped around her naked body with the skin of their victims.
But as they got to know his real story became apparent that these perversions are mere manifestations of a deep psychosis, a mental disorder that had its roots in the abnormal relationship he had with the mother.
When psychiatrists began to consider the possible reasons for abnormal behavior, assumed it was a case of "Oedipus Complex" that Gein was in love with his mother and that after his death became obsessed in finding someone to replace, as striking resemblance was found between the victims and their mother. As a child, looking for the love of his mother obsessively, that he was denied time and again, was in his mind and developed a new personality, Ed who hated women.
Gein died of respiratory failure on July 26, 1984, after decades of confinement in a psychiatric unit, where he proved a model patient. Today, their remains rest in the Plainfield cemetery next to his mother's ...
However, Gein's influence can be seen even in literal characters like Buffalo Bill, the skin transvestite Silence of the Lambs or in films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Murderer, The Butcher ...
Today, his "fans" can buy latex masks Gein, Gein memorabilia collecting or meet in his fan club for geiners jokes ("How were the people who lived on the farm of Ed Gein horror? Delicious. "or," Why Gein always put the heat to stop at your farm? For furniture that were not put an goosebumps. ") *
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