To say that this man was a psychotic cannibal would be a gross understatment. His horrific hobbies inspired the movies 'Psycho', 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', 'Silence of the Lambs', and every slasher pic made since the 50s. And, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's all of them.
His abusive and domineering mother kept him and his younger brother from society, and taught them that women were evil. Neither married. Both of them lived and worked at the 160 acre family farm, in Plainfield, Wisconsin. They made little profit.
Within the span of two years, his brother, and mother died. In 1945, at the age of 39, Ed was alone for the first time in his life. With federal subsidies, he no longer needed to run the farm, and took up odd jobs around town for extra cash. Surpirsingly, there were plenty of folk willing to hire "weird old Eddie."
He soon picked up an intrest in the anatomy of the female body, and spent more and more time buried in medical texts, horror fiction, and porn. He also took great intrest in Nazi atrocities, and 'medical experiments' performed in concentration camps.
Before long, the books weren't enough for him. He started grave-robbing, and doing experiments of his own on the decaying corpses. Taking bits and peices from areas that interested him, sometimes wearing those peices around his run-down farm. But, this wasn't enough for Ed.
His new victims were women, usually in their mid-fifties, his mother's age when she died. What he did with these women was discovered when the mother of the sheriff's deputy went missing. When it was heard that Weird Old Eddie was in town that day, the deputy went straight to the dilapidated Gein place.
There, he found his mother in the tool shed, with her entire front split open, beheaded, and hanging from a meat hook, upside down. Her head and intestines were found in a box, and her heart on a plate in the dining room. He called for a search party. As the house was searched, they found the skin from a female upper torso rolled up on the floor, a chair upholstered in flesh, lamps with tight skin shades, the crowns of skulls used as soup bowls, a table set on shin bones, a refridgerator full of organs, skulls on his bed posts, a 'mammary vest', and stuffed trophies of his victim's faces on his wall. He later admitted to recieving great pleasure from wearing the vest, and other skin clothing, while dancing around his house, pretending he was his late mother.
It was finally determined that a total of fifteen bodies decorated Ed's house. He couldn't remember how many women he actually murdered.
In 1957, Ed Gein was convicted, and spent the rest of his life in mental institutions. On July 26th, 1984, he died of heart failure. He was 77 years old.
- Underground Tiger-
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