Ed Gein: The Real Psycho

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Necrophiliac Ed Gein murdered at least two women and desecrated the graves of dozens more to feed his bizarre fetishes. The true story behind Psycho and Silence Of The Lambs.

Biography

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Ed Gein
born: 27-08-1906
birth place: La Crosse, Wisconsin
died: 26-07-1984

Locals were horrified by the litany of depravity carried out by Gein in their community, and his farmhouse suffered an arson attack on 20th March 1958, and was razed to the ground. His car was sold at auction, and toured State fairs, billed as the “Ghoul Car”, which made its entrepreneurial purchaser a healthy profit.

The Trial
Gein was finally declared mentally competent to stand trial in November 1968, and tried for the murder of Bernice Worden. He was found guilty, but by reason of insanity, and sent back to Central State hospital in Waupun.

The Aftermath
Gein was regarded as a model patient during his incarceration, and died of cancer on 26th July 1984.

He was buried next to his mother, in the same cemetery that had provided him so much pleasure in life. Fittingly, vandals desecrated his grave.

The American public viewed Ed Gein as the quintessential product of a disturbed childhood, and his persona was forever immortalised in the film “Psycho”, in which Norman Bates murders women out of loyalty to his domineering mother. The character of Leatherface, in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, also pays homage to Gein, where the killer wears a mask made of human skin.

More recently, his character appears in the chilling tale of the transvestite serial killer, who murders women for their skin, and then dresses in it, in “The Silence of the Lambs.”

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