Edward Gein: The Most Famous American Serial Killer

As cases start to arise, parental abuse starts to become a common recurring factor. One of the most famous American serial killer, Edward Gein an atrociously notorious grave digger, and the serial killer was known for his mutilation of human body parts and scavenging graves of those already dead to manifest their body parts to create himself, essentially a new skin. At first, he appears to be a psychotic gentleman that hacks and engulfs his victim, however, his problems seem to spur from an even deeper psychological problem. The problems he has experienced as a youth and all of these emotional instances that drain him from his proper cognitive development come back to bite him in the future. Edward Gein grew up in a very abusive environment, …show more content…
More abuse could be found from his strict and radical mother, ironically instead of hating her, he would always try to please her “Gein tried to make his mother happy, but she was rarely pleased with her boys. She often abused them, believing that they were destined to become failures like their father,”(Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers) . Gein’s father was a known alcoholic, and his wife would often think of him as a deadbeat father, this combination with her radical views caused her to put a large amount of stress on her offsprings, and the majority of her kids did reject her and hated her, however Gein was the one with the most stress, effectively pushing him past his limits creating a serial killer. These limits and threshold were broken by nurture to create Edward Gein as one of the most famous and revered serial killers. A couple of years later, Edward Gein’s mother would eventually die. This would spur his dark sexual fantasies and be the final flicker that made the bomb go off. Edward Gein would spiral out of control and would go on to kill women and collect their body parts to finish his woman skin suit. Gein had the intent of making this suit out of female skin so he can feel like a woman. His desire for a sex change to appease his mother was the motive for his killings, however if he was put in a situation without his abusive mother he would have never fallen into the psychotic …show more content…
Meaning that in the population of serial killers, child abuse is profoundly more common in serial killers than in the normal population. There are more instances of child abuse from parents which leads to the spurring of serial killers than there are instances of child abuse in the average and normal human population. There is an affirmative correlation between child abuse and the serial killer population. These abuses play a huge role in disrupting a child 's cognitive development and effectively altering the chemical reactions within their brain. With a hindrance in a youth 's’ cognitive development problems due to abuse by a caregiver, psychological disorders start to spur. Two strong links between these two facts start to connect, because there can not be a serial killer without psychological disorders, and if there is a huge percentage of those who have been abused that get psychological disorders, then there is a very high percentage of youth that has been abused physically or mentally to be affected and is at risk to become a serial killer. Because abuse falls under the nurturing category, serial killers seem to spur from the nurture factor. Nurture plays a huge role in the development of one 's character, with any type of abuse, the development is