Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were all horror movie characters inspired by one man. According to A.K. (2007), that man was Ed Gein. Born August 27, 1906, Edward Theodore Gein was raised on a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein suffered through a traumatic childhood, considering he had a violent drunk as a father and a fanatical Lutheran as a mother. Since his mother was devoutly religious, he was taught by her that women were basically prostitutes; she warned the boys against premarital sex, however, she approved of masterbation. Due to his motivation and outside influences, the media called Ed Gein “a criminally insane serial killer;” the gruesome investigation
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According to an article about Gein on Murderpedia (2015), on November 16, 1957, there was a strange disappearance of Mrs. Worden. That morning, the hardware store was still closed; Worden’s son came to open it, only to find the store empty except for a puddle of blood. Due to the finding of the last receipt written by Worden, investigators determined Gein was the last person to buy something in the store, which was a gallon of anti-freeze. The same source indicates that the Plainfield Sheriff and his Deputy went to Gein’s farmhouse that dark night to search for Worden. When they arrived at the house, Gein was not home so they searched the woodshed. The deputy bumped into something hanging from the ceiling, only to find that it was Bernice Worden’s body hanging upside down, decapitated. When the police searched the house, they discovered that Worden was not Gein’s only murder. Inside the house, one investigator found the head of Mary Hogan, the local tavern owner. She first disappeared from the tavern on December 8, 1954, three years before Worden went missing. Also stated on Murderpedia (2015), Hogan was shot by Gein. He then used the skin on her face to create a skull …show more content…
According to Newton, Gein quickly admitted to the murders of Worden and Hogan. In 1958, a judge found Gein incompetent for trial, therefore, it wasn’t until ten years later he was tried for first-degree murder. Gein then admitted to having sex with some of the dead bodies he dug from graves. The same source indicates that Gein told investigators he had made several trips to local graveyards, robbed nine graves of recently deceased, middle-aged women who resembled his mother, and used their body parts for collections and multiple household objects. The judge of Gein’s second trial in 1968 was Robert H. Gollmar, who declared Gein legally insane and sentenced him to life at the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Gein was deemed innocent by reason of insanity, as sentenced by Gollmar. Once Gein was sentenced to life imprisonment in a mental institution, the people of Wisconsin and the United States felt as though justice was finally
According to an article about Gein on Murderpedia (2015), on November 16, 1957, there was a strange disappearance of Mrs. Worden. That morning, the hardware store was still closed; Worden’s son came to open it, only to find the store empty except for a puddle of blood. Due to the finding of the last receipt written by Worden, investigators determined Gein was the last person to buy something in the store, which was a gallon of anti-freeze. The same source indicates that the Plainfield Sheriff and his Deputy went to Gein’s farmhouse that dark night to search for Worden. When they arrived at the house, Gein was not home so they searched the woodshed. The deputy bumped into something hanging from the ceiling, only to find that it was Bernice Worden’s body hanging upside down, decapitated. When the police searched the house, they discovered that Worden was not Gein’s only murder. Inside the house, one investigator found the head of Mary Hogan, the local tavern owner. She first disappeared from the tavern on December 8, 1954, three years before Worden went missing. Also stated on Murderpedia (2015), Hogan was shot by Gein. He then used the skin on her face to create a skull …show more content…
According to Newton, Gein quickly admitted to the murders of Worden and Hogan. In 1958, a judge found Gein incompetent for trial, therefore, it wasn’t until ten years later he was tried for first-degree murder. Gein then admitted to having sex with some of the dead bodies he dug from graves. The same source indicates that Gein told investigators he had made several trips to local graveyards, robbed nine graves of recently deceased, middle-aged women who resembled his mother, and used their body parts for collections and multiple household objects. The judge of Gein’s second trial in 1968 was Robert H. Gollmar, who declared Gein legally insane and sentenced him to life at the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Gein was deemed innocent by reason of insanity, as sentenced by Gollmar. Once Gein was sentenced to life imprisonment in a mental institution, the people of Wisconsin and the United States felt as though justice was finally