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This paper is based on the life of Ed Gein. He was an unusual character, born on a farm, and raised by a religious crazy, domineering mother. In the space of a few years his entire family passed away and he was left to take care of his farm all by himself. In the next few years he became a grave robber, a necrophiliac, a cannibal, and also took up arts and crafts in body parts. He is known as one of the weirdest serial killers of the twentieth century. He also inspired movies like Psycho, Silence

Edward Theodore (Ed) Gein aka the butcher of Plainfield born August 1906 died July 1984. The crimes he has committed around his home town of Plainfield, Wisconsin was removal of bodies from local graveyards which he fashioned trophies/keepsakes out of the bones and skin, and has kill several people. The court found Ed unfit to stand trial but was found guilty and placed into a mental health facility where he stays till he died from heart failure due to cancer in his liver. His family started out

Ed Gein Spenser Wiles Born: August 27, 1906 Death: July 26, 1984   Edward Theodore Gein was born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin in 1906. The second son of George Philip and Augusta Wilhelmine Gein. Augusta despised her husband, an alcoholic who was unable to keep a job. He worked various times as a carpenter and an insurance salesman. Augusta owned a local grocery shop and later sold it in 1914 for a farm to live in isolation near Plainfield, Wisconsin, which was there permanent home. Augusta

Edward Theodore Gein (1906-1984), known as The Butcher of Plainfield, was an American serial killer guilty of the murder of at least two women between 1947 and 1957. Ed Gein was such a controversial and disturbing figure that his story inspired a lot of plots for thriller movies and books, such as the character of Norman Bates in Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, a novel by Thomas Harris. The life of Ed Gein was significantly marked by several factors: he spent

Many of you may know Ed Gein from his influence on the characters from Texas Chainsaw Massacre as “leatherface”, American Horror Story as “Dr. Thredson”/“Bloody Face”, Psycho as “Norman Bates”, The Silence of the Lambs as “James Gumb”. But, This certain serial killer is much more than how he is portrayed in these films. He was even a furniture entrepreneur of sorts among other things. Ed was born on August 27,1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He endured a fairly secluded childhood. This is due to his

this, there was an actual skin-wearing maniac that was the film’s inspiration. He may not have had a chainsaw, but serial killer Ed Gein was a key inspiration for the infamous Leatherface. Born in 1906 in Plainfield, Wisconsin, Ed Gein lived most of his life as a reclusive loner. Born to an alcoholic father, George, and a fanatically religious mother, Augusta, Ed Gein suffered heavy psychological and physical abuse at the hands of his parents. Classmates remember Ed as being reclusive with strange

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. ( A&E Television Network, 2017) 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

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

In 1956, serial killer Ed Gein was arrested in his Wisconsin home. The quiet hermit was found to be in possession of various items made out of human skin, shrunken heads, even soup bowls that were made from human skulls. It was determined that he lived alone because of his family’s untimely demise, his father died in the late 40’s and his mother died in the 50’s. After their deaths, Gein went insane and turned into a human butcher. Even though, he was only guilty of murdering two women, he also

Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27th in 1906 in the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Even at the beginning, it seems as though he had a troubled home life. Upon moving to a small farm outside Plainfield, his father was always working-whether it was as a carpenter and tanner, or at the farm. When he isn’t working however, he is drinking. As such, he is not around for the major family decisions, leaving them to Ed’s mother Augusta, whom was very religious. Ed’s father died in 1940. Four years