Ed Gein Essay

So he lived alone in his barn with nobody. So he went to dig up graves to get women that looked like his mom to get “Company”. He also wanted to act like a girl after his mom's death so he can feel closer to her so he made a woman suit. Then he started to kill women, on December 8, 1954 Edward Theodore Gein killed 54-year-old Mary Hogan with a .22- caliber rifle, he found her at a tavern (bar). When he killed her he decapitated her head and put her head in a paper bag. In November 16 1957 he killed 58-year-old Bernice C. Worden with the same weapon and he found her at the hardware store and, he placed her head in a burlap sack (a bag) . When he got done killing them, he used their body parts as materials like bowls from skulls, human skin that covered the chairs, a lampshade that was made from human faces, and organs in the refrigerator. When he was caught, he didn’t go to jail, but was called insane and when to the mental hospital, but in July 26, 1954 he died from respiratory cancer. Later in the future he inspired the movies like Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and Texas Chainsaw

from his unknown sickness. He was 56 years old when he died. One of his best

The World’s Columbian Exposition, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World, occupied the streets of Chicago in 1893. With the crowding of people, tourists have a high demand for a place to stay during their visit. A young man by the name of H.H. Holmes decides to open up a large hotel during the Columbian Exposition to bring in extra money. Little did his customers know that the man they are staying with would soon become one of the first documented serial killers. Many aspects throughout Holmes’s life formed him into the kind of person he turned out to be. Influences from his childhood, his greed for money and power, and his intelligence gave him the ability to construct his “Murder

I told the coroner I had said my goodbyes and he led me to another table and lifted the sheet off the body of the other

“Well earlier today stumbleupon one of the people the people they killed. We checked him out and someone saw that we found the body,” said James.

Jessie has indicated she put the bodies into large plastic totes. Then she has hidden them inside Weekly's landlord's

Edmour had a locket around his neck. A locket is something most people don’t have around their neck, but those who do have them on uses it as a memorial. Edmour had a locket that was given to him by his wife. According to the story “the locket was a golden memorial that held pictures on his wife’s parents. This little object cause a conversation that can turn someone’s mind from the current situation to something much more devastating. Edmour could have been focusing on what he was doing at hand, but since the guys brought up the locket his mind may have went to sorrow, and fear.

In 1918, Albert noticed the ever-worsening condition of his oldest son, Abel Josiah, born to Harriet and him. His condition continued to grow worse that October of 1918. According to his mother’s account, “[after his contact with the sickness], he lay there for about eleven days, and it was impossible to get help.... His fever before he died was a 106, and it lasted forty-eight hours... before his death.” After that cold wintry night when death knocked on the door of this family, Albert now 78, with a grey, pointed beard, covering most of his chin, dressed with a heavy black coat, black wool hat, cloth gloves, high shoes standing on a promontory in cold, wintry weather, faced the reality of the loss of a son, whose patriarchal blessing had promised him he would be here when the Ten Tribes returned to receive their blessings under Ephraim and other statements of assurance of a long life. There was rain with intermittent snow as he dug another shovel full of dirt after another out of the ground and threw it on the packed snow opposite the hole he was digging. He was at the Richville Cemetery, located on a small headland to the southwest of the town. There, Albert Douglas Dickson was

It’s January 15, 1947 the time is 10 am, local Leimert Park, Los Angeles resident, Betty Bersinger was walking down the street with her daughter when she noticed what she thought was a mannequin in an empty lot. With further investigation she noticed it was a real body and she rushed to a nearby house to call the police. So the question is, who’s body was it? The answer?

At the start of the book Ed is simply existing. He’s not living, “I cook. I eat. I wash but rarely iron. I live in the past and believe that Cindy Crawford is by far the best supermodel. That’s my life.” (p.20) This is a sentence that I feel really shows who Ed is at the beginning. He more or less does the same thing every day in sort of a monotone way. Throughout the cards and difficulties that Ed goes through, we really start to see a person emerging out of Ed. We see someone who is feeling and hoping and living. “In a flood inside me....three minutes straight.” (pg.351) This change that we see in Ed happens progressively. Each card and task that is given to Ed brings out something in him that in the beginning we didn’t see often.

When they brought him into questioning he admitted to killing numerous other people including, Mary Hogan who went missing three years earlier. While in questioning he also stated that he had dug up corpses to use for body parts that he would cut to make masks. He also made clothing out of his victims in which he would wear while at his house. (6)

This soundtrack emulates Ed’s elation since he knows he will still be alive despite his arterial disease. After the kiss, Ed makes a sarcastic remark saying “Here we are again, male school mom”. This is a huge tension that arises in Ed’s character. In making this statement, Ed is essentially realizing his lack of power in the hands of his spouse, his job and ultimately his life. He probably noticed this idea since he had such a close brush with death.

The body will then be laid out and kept in the hospital mortuary until you arrange for the funeral directors, family or whoever you chose to collect it. If you choose, funeral directors will take the body to their chapel of rest until the funeral takes place.

Due to the catastrophic loss of blood, Eddie was airlifted to a hospital, separating himself from the remainder of his unit. His unit later went on to die after driving over a landmine, rendering Eddie the only survivor of his unit. For a lifetime, Eddie perceived his handicapped leg as a burden and a nuisance, not fully understanding the bullet in his permanently impaired leg is what allowed his life to continue on.

Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27th, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin to an alcoholic father and an extremely religious mother who taught him that sex was a sinful act an early age and preached her religious teachings to both Ed and his brother. By 1915 Gein’s mother had decided to move the family to a farm in Plainfield Wisconsin and only let him go out in order to go to school. Due to this, the main influence in his life was his mother. Once his mother died in 1945 Gein's obsessive attachment to her and her teachings would end up making him one of the most heinous and notorious killers in American history. This essay will show how the attachment theory is applicable in Ed Gein’s case. More specifically, how Gein's attachment to his mother and how her death ultimately proved to be deadly.