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1) Ed Gein was born in the state of Wisconsin, USA. His mother, Augusta, was a religious fanatic, who educated Ed and the eldest son, Henry, with a lot of lectures, punishments and little access to the outside world. When Augusta died in 1945, Ed got upset.
two) A year before Augusta’s death, Ed and Henry tried to put out a fire in the farm barn in which they lived. Henry would have been burned to death, but there are suspicions that he was the first victim of Edwho would have killed his brother because he was always fighting with his mother.
3) After the death of mother and brother, Ed He started living alone – his father, an alcoholic, had died in 1940 – and it didn’t take long for his madness to vent. In 1947 he went to a cemetery and dug up the corpse of a woman who had recently died.
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4) Soon, Ed would become a frequent visitor to the cemetery for a horrifying reason: he used parts of the corpses to decorate his house! Ed made chairs and a lamp lined with human skin and plates with pieces of skulls, among other bizarre items.
5) The «terror workshop» was kitchen. There, Ed he kept body parts in the refrigerator and corpses hung on hooks, like in a butcher’s shop. To mutilate the bodies, he used the experience he had gained from skinning animals.
6) Not satisfied with corpses, Ed went on to kill. With one 32 caliber pistol, he murdered at least two women: Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden. Bernice’s body was found torn to pieces in the house of Ed in 1957, when the police raided the place.
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7) What shocked the police the most was a «Woman’s Fantasy» what Ed dressed to “change sex”. It was made from the skin of his mother’s corpse! remembered the movie Psychosis? Yeah, this sinister story still inspired The Silence of the Lambs It is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
What end did it take?
Ed was found by the court to be mentally incompetent. In 1968, he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital, where he died in 1984, a victim of cardiac arrest.