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Case File - Ed Gein web hostingshort URLsphoto sharing  IntroductionThis page is based on the true life murderer Ed Gein. Hewas an unusual character, born on a farm and raised by a domineering mother. In thespace of a few years his entire family died and he was left to raise the farm all byhimself. In the next few years he became a grave robber, a necrophiliac, a cannibal, andalso took up arts and crafts in body parts. He is seen as one of the most weird andbizarre serial killers of the twentieth century, and maybe only Jeffrey Dahmer got asclose to what Ed did. His crimes also inspired the movies Psycho, The Texas ChainsawMassacre and Silence of the Lambs. This page is a documentation of his life andcrimes. Profile Name - Edward 'Ed' Gein.AKA - The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, ThePlainfield Ghoul.DOB/DOD - 1906 - 26 July 1984.Family - Mother 'Augusta 1878-1945', Father 'George 1873-1940', Brother'Henry 1901-1944'.Residence(at Time of Murders) - 160-Acre Farm Seven Miles OutsidePlainfield, Wisconsin. USA.Murder Type/Practices - Serial Killer / Graverobbery, Necrophilia,Cannibalism, Sadism, Death Fetishism.Method/Weapons Used - Shooting / .22, .32.Organization - Mixed.Mobility - Stable.Victim Vicinity - Plainfield, Wisconsin.Murder Time Span - 1954 - 1957.Victim Type - Old Women.Victims - Mary Hogan (Died 8 Dec 1954), Bernice Worden (Died 16 Nov1957) (+?). The BeginningEd Gein and his brother Henry were raised by a domineering motheron their 160-acre farm seven miles outside Plainfield, Wisconsin. She was a veryreligious woman with a protective attitude towards her boys and a definite conviction ofsin. She discouraged them from women and kept them busy with farm work.His alcoholic father died in 1940 and a few years later his brotherHenry died in 1944, trapped while fighting a forest fire. Shortly thereafter hismother suffered her first stroke and in 1945 she had her second stroke from which shenever recovered from, and Ed was left alone.It was then that he sealed off the upstairs, the parlour, and hismother’s bedroom by boarding it off and set up his own quarters in the remainingbedroom, kitchen and shed of the big farmhouse. He stopped working the farm becausea government soil-conservation program offered him a subsidy, which he augmented by hiswork as a handyman in the area. The GraveyardIn his spare time Ed read books on human anatomy and Naziconcentration camp experiments. He was quite interested by it all, especially thefemale anatomy. Alone in the farmhouse he thought endlessly about sex, until one dayhe saw a newspaper report of a woman who had been buried that day.He enlisted the help of an old friend named Gus. Gus was a weirdloner too, and quite definitely odd - he went to the asylum a few years later. Guswas Ed Gein’s trusted buddy, and agreed to assist Ed in opening a grave to secure acorpse for ‘medical experiments’. Gus helped dig the graves.The first corpse came from a grave less than a dozen feet away from thelast resting place of Gein’s mother.Over the next ten years Ed did the same, checked the newspaper for freshbodies, always visiting the graveyard at the time of a full moon, got the whole femalecorpse or just the parts he wanted, filled in the grave and took his winnings home. His experiments with the dead bodies was bizarre. He wouldconstruct objects from the bones and skin and would store the organs in the fridge to eatlater. He also committed acts of necrophilia on the bodies. He even dug up hisown mothers corpse.What Ed Gein didn’t reveal to Gus was his own growing desire tobecome a woman himself; it was for this reason he’d studied anatomy, thought aboutthe possibilities of an ‘operation’ which would result in a change of sex,desired to dissect a female corpse and familiarise himself with its anatomy. Theclosest he would get to this is dressing up in his full woman bodysuit, complete with maskand breasts constructed entirely of human skin.His collection of trophies grew, and so did the range of hisexperimentation and obsession.Then Gus was taken away to the asylum, and Ed was all alone again. Ed thought that fresher bodies would be better for his collection so he turned tomurder… The MurdersEd Gein’s first victim was Mary Hogan. Mary Hogan wasa 51-year-old divorcee who operated Hogan’s Tavern at Pine Grove, six miles fromhome. She was alone when he came to her on the cold afternoon of 8 December 1954. He shot her in the head with his 32-caliber revolver, placed her body in his pickuptruck, and took her back to his shed.A customer who dropped into the tavern found the place deserted, and alarge bloodstain on the floor. A spent .32 cartridge lay near it. Bloodstainsran out the back door and into the parking lot, where they halted beside tyre tracks thatlooked like those of a pickup truck. It looked as if Mary Hogan had been shot andtaken away.Police were unable to find any clues to the disappearance. But afew weeks later, when a sawmill owner named Elmo Ueeck spoke of the disappearance to EdGein, Gein replied: ‘She isn’t missing. She’s at the farm right now.’Ueeck could not even work up the interest to ask him what he meant. There may have been other victims in the years that followed, butnothing definite is known about Gein’s murderous activities until that day on 16November, 1957, when he shot and killed Bernice Worden in her hardware store onPlainfield’s Main Street. He used a .22 rifle from a display rack in the store,inserting his own bullet which he carried with him. Ed Gein shot and killed BerniceWorden, locked the store and took the body home in the store’s truck. Gein alsoremoved the cash register, which contained $41 in cash, but not because he wanted tocommit robbery, but he later explained that he wanted to see how it worked, and fullyintended to return it later.Bernice Worden’s son, Frank, often assisted her in the store, buton this particular Saturday morning he’d gone deer hunting. When he returned inthe late afternoon he discovered the store to be closed with the lights still on and hismother missing, also the cash register was gone. There was blood on the floor.A local garage attendant told him that he had seen the store truckdriving away at about 9.30 that morning.Frank Worden served as deputy sheriff in the area and immediatelyalerted the sheriff, Art Schley, and reported the circumstances. He checked therecord of sales transactions made that morning. One of them was for half a gallon ofantifreeze. Worden remembered that Ed Gein had stopped by the previous evening atclosing time and said he’d be back the next morning for antifreeze. Ed had alsoasked Worden if he intended to go hunting the next day. Worden also recalled thatGein had been in and out of the store quite frequently the previous week.Since the cash register was missing, it appeared that Gein had planned arobbery after finding a suitable time when the coast would be clear.Worden told of his suspicions to the sheriff. The sheriff ArtSchley and captain Lloyd Schoephoester set off for the farm, seven miles outsidePlainfield… Modus Operandi Date Place Victim Time of Death Method 8 Dec 1954 Hogan’s Tavern Mary Hogan Approx Noon Shot Dead With .32 16 Nov 1957 Hardware Store Bernice Worden Approx 9.15am Shot Dead With .22 Gein’s ResidenceThe house was dark and Ed Gein was absent, so acting on a hunch,they drove to a store in West Plainfield where Gein usually purchased groceries. Gein was there as he’d just had dinner with the proprietor and his wife. He wasjust about to leave in his truck.The sheriff halted him, and asked him to get into the police car forquestioning. Gein told of how he thought someone had tried to frame him for BerniceWorden’s death. Sheriff Schley took Ed Gein into custody, Schley had notmentioned Bernice Worden’s death.Sheriff Schley and Captain Schoephoester returned to the house withother officers. The doors to the farmhouse were locked, but the door to the sideshed at the rear of the house opened when Schley pushed it with his foot. It wasnight time and since the farm had no electricity, the sheriff had to use a torch. Itrevealed a naked corpse of a woman hanging upside down from a crossbeam, the legs spreadwide apart, and a long slit running from the genitals almost to the throat. But thethroat, like the head, was missing. The genitals and the anus were alsomissing. Bernice Worden had been disembowelled like that of a deer. There was no electricity in the dark house so they conducted theirinspection with oil lamps, lanterns, and flashlights.The place looked like it had not been clean or tidied in years, therewere piles of rubbish everywhere. The few rooms that weren’t nailed off werelittered with books, old papers, magazines, utensils, tin cans, cartons and a lot of otherjunk.What those police officers also found in that house is in the extreme. In the house they found - two shin bones, four human noses, a quart can convertedinto a tom-tom by skin stretched over both top and bottom, a bowl made from the invertedhalf of a human skull, nine ‘death masks’ (from the well preserved skin from thefaces of women), ten female heads with the tops sawn off above the eyebrows, bracelets ofhuman skin, a purse made with a handle of human skin, sheath for a knife made in humanskin, a pair of leggings made from human skin, four chairs with the seats being replacedby strips of human skin, a shoe box containing nine salted vulvas of which his mothers waspainted silver, a hanging human head, a lampshade covered with human skin, a shirt made ofhuman skin, a number of shrunken heads (Ed always joked that he had a collection ofshrunken heads), two skulls for Gein’s bedposts, a pair of human lips hanging fromstring, Ed’s full woman body suit constructed with human skin and complete with maskand breasts, Bernice Worden’s heart in a pan on the stove, and the refrigerator whichwas stacked with human organs.The bodies of 15 different women had been mutilated to provideGein’s trophies. It is also said that sometimes Gein brought house gifts offresh venison to his neighbours although Gein said he had never shot a deer in his life. The EndGein was in a series of examinations at the Central StateHospital for the Criminally insane. He was proven insane. The reasons for hisactions were seen; he loved his mother but he hated her, so that is why he killed olderwomen. It is said that Mary Hogan had more of a passing resemblance to his mother. Gein denied being a cannibal or necrophiliac, but he did admit to graverobbing.The case created a sensation because of the true nature of thecrime. Thousands of people drove to Plainfield to get a look at the 'murderfarm'. Eventually the place was burned down by the Plainfield citizens as theyregarded it as a place of evil.At Christmas, 1957, Gein was judged insane and he was committed toWaupan State Hospital for a life sentence. Gein died of cancer on 26 July 1984, atthe age of 78. He was buried back in Plainfield next to the graves of his family. Ed Gein's Gravesite MysteryThere is also the mystery of Ed’s brother, Henry. Itis said that Ed killed Henry so he could be more alone with his mother. In somesources it says that Henry was found dead in the Gein barn or was killed trying to put outa fire that had got the barn; but in others it says that Henry died while fighting aforest fire, and got trapped and was either burned or died from smoke inhalation. Whatever is the case the motive for Ed to kill Henry is not substantiated. Hedid love his mother, but he killed women who were old and looked like his mother, so whywould he kill his brother just to get more of his mothers love? It is still unknownif Ed Gein did kill his brother and it quite possible he did; Ed was definitely a twistedcharacter. One possible early story of Ed Gein is that in 1942. Ed wasinvited over to his nearest neighbours house, the Bankses. A female relative of theBankses was in the house, and was wearing shorts, Ed couldn’t keep his eyes off herlegs. Later that night a man broke into the woman’s house and grabbed her smallson by the throat, asking him where his mother had gone. The intruder fled beforethe boy could tell him anything. The boy thought he had recognised Ed Gein as theman.Some other stories of possible victims of Gein is an eight-year-old girlwho went missing in 1947 and a fifteen-year-old who had disappeared on her way home frombabysitting in 1953. The babysitter’s bloodstained clothes were found but nobody had turned up. In Ed’s house there were also some body parts whichdidn’t prove to come from that of his grave robbing or 2 known murders. The MoviesEd Gein’s activities certainly inspired the literature andfilm industry. Because of the true nature of the crimes it gave Hollywood a lot ofideas to work on.One such early film was Psycho. Based on the Robert Bloch noveland made into a Hitchcock film. The connection being the overpowering mother andhorror of the film, it made it one of the first of a kind. Robert Bloch got most ofthe ideas for Psycho from Ed Gein's life.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one movie lightly based on Ed Gein. The story is about a group of travelling teen’s who stumble on a horror house. The house’s residents are a family of weird homicidal cannibals who also likegrave robbing and constructing furniture made of bones and skulls alike. The leadbad guy is called ‘Leatherface’. Leatherface likes chasing teen’saround with his chainsaw and wearing the human face mask of his victims. There areabout four Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies each with the teen’s trying to escape thedeadly Leatherface. The connection is mostly with the house, graverobbery and thecannibalism.One more recent and Academy Award winning film is Silence of theLambs. It’s about an FBI agent who’s tracking down a serial killer and tofind him she must get the help of an intelligent cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lector. Theserial killer she’s trying to track down is called ‘Buffalo Bill’ becausehe likes to kill women and make clothes of their skin, also he wants to be a woman, hencethe skin costume like that of Gein. There are a lot of connections to this film andEd Gein, being with the skin clothes, cannibalism, and Buffalo Bill being a transvestite. ConclusionEd Gein was definitely one of the most weird murderers of thiscentury. Even though he did kill only two women and suspected for the disappearanceof others he is seen as one of the worlds infamous killers. Its what was found inGein’s house that made him instantly infamous in the murder world. Go Back   web hosting • domain names • video sharingfree online games • photo sharingfree blog • short URLs |
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