World's Most Weirdest Killer- Ed Gein aka The Leatherface
There are lots of serial killers and psychotic maniacs are out there but Ed Gein or should we say the infamous "Leatherface" hold his place as probably the most weirdest killer in the serial killer's Hall of Infamy.
He was the main source of inspiration behind the classic Hitchcock movies like
"Psycho", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and "Silence of the Lambs".
Let the horror begins...
Suspicion starts when Bernice Worden, a local hardware
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| Bernice Worden |
Police found her hardware store completely empty with the cash register missing and a trail of blood leading out towards the back of the store.
Bernice's son, Frank Worden who was also the deputy sheriff stated that he'd been suspicious of Ed Gein because of his strange and standoffish nature along with the fact that he was one of the last people to be seen in the store with her mother.
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| Worden's store in Plainfield |
He was arrested shortly after from one of his neighbor's house.
Ed was questioned about the murder of Worden and he confessed immediately.
He also confessed murdering Mary Hogan, owner of a local
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| Mary Hogan |
Now, this is where it gets weird at an unfathomable level.
Gein admitted that he had been robbing dead bodies from gravesites and remove their body parts.
However, while some officers had to hear Gein's evil deeds, some had to face it.
Welcome to the House of Horrors...
Soon after his confession, Police received a warrant to check out the Gein farm.
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| Ed Gein's house 1957 |
The Cops found what they were looking for immediately upon searching the farm.
That was Mrs. Worden's dead body - shot with a .22 caliber rifle, hung upside down from the ceiling of the shed like an animal.
The torso had been what's called in hunting "dressed out", meaning it was opened and the organs had been taken out. The body was also mutilated from head to toe.
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| Worden's body when found |
Captain Lloyd Schoephoester, who had to experience this grizzly sight himself said,
Tendons in the ankles had been cut and a rod had been placed through them. The body was drawn up in the air by a block and tackle. The body was dressed out and the head was missing.Her head was found later in a sack in his house.
This was obviously a sickening sight for the deputy that found the body, but inside the house, police got the shock of their lives.
Quite a Collection you got there...
It is said Gein liked to keep the heads of his victims. Perhaps that's why Police when searching his house of
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| Skull bowls |
Stomach churning was all over there.
In fact, Gein was quite a handyman in many ways. Police found human face masks, whereby Gein had carefully cut off the faces and kept them intact so he could wear them.
One Police officer told the press,
Some of them have lipstick on and look perfectly natural. If you knew them, you'd be able to recognize them.As they delved deeper into the house of horrors, they found all sorts of thing.
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| Skin lampshade |
Gein had lamp shades, sofa covers, and waste bins all made out of human skin.
He had human skulls sitting on the top of bed posts.
Our psycho had made a skin corset that he could get into, and thereby be a woman, or more specifically, his mother.
We will get into that later.
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| Skin apron |
He didn't leave out the bottom half, he had made leggings out of skin and socks as well.
Now who wouldn't wanna try human skin socks, they will keep your legs as natural as it gets.
But perhaps his most fashionable creation on which he must proud of was a belt made from women's nipples.
He also had a huge collection of noses, vulvas and other organs in jars. Women's genitals in a shoebox.
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| Nipple Belt |
Hell, he even had lips on the ends of curtains made of skin to drawstrings and a pair of lips fastened to a light cord.
Some believed that he may have worn all this to try to become a woman.
According to one website, Gein would wear a death mask and skin clothes and then go and dance around in the garden with his costume on.
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| Face mask |
We cannot confirm this though but seems perfect to me for this Halloween night to scare the shit out of those jerks.
I should probably go and check it out on eBay.
It doesn't really matter, because Gein admitted he liked to wear this suit of his creation to become his mother.
Gein told the Police that much of his raw material was gathered by robbing local graves.
A famous quote of Gein was this:
When I see a pretty girl walking down the streets, I think two things. One part wants to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick.Such strangeness and brutality left its mark on Plainfield, which would never be plain again.
Many people say that the sheriff of the town died fairly young as a direct result of the trauma from investigating this case.
Troubled Childhood
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| Ed Gein |
On August 27th, 1906, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Edward Theodore Gein took birth in the house of Augusta Crafter and George Gein. He also had an older brother Henry.
Gein has said to have been brought up in an abusive family with a very oppressive and hyper-religious mother.
She raised Ed and his elder brother Henry under strict religious beliefs. She preached to them about the sins of lust and desire.
She taught them that anyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart and shall face hell.
That means I have booked my seat in hell for sure.
It's said his childhood was very isolated and he had few friends.
One biography tells us that at school he rarely socialized, his teachers remembered that he had demonstrated queer mannerisms such as laughing randomly.
Later in life, his family moved to a farm and there Gein becomes even more isolated.
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His mother was strict, but it's said Gein was obsessed with her, he adored her.
She told her sons that having relationships with other women was a sin and that all other women besides herself were prostitutes, and dating them essentially meant being in league with the Satan himself.
Ed's father George Gein wasn't in the picture for the most part, he was a violent alcoholic who was frequently unemployed and didn't play much of a role in their life.
Augusta and her sons ignored their aimless father(& husband) and treated him like a nonentity.
In Ed's life, the lack of a father figure and an oppressive mother with borderline damaging religious teachings have played a great role in his mental and social downfall.
Madman rises...
Gein was just 34 when the darker side of him is believed to have made its first appearance. Their father George passed away in 1940 leading the two boys to take care of the farm and their mother.
By the time George died, Henry had begun to reject Augusta’s view of the world.
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| Augusta Gein |
He had even started bad-mouthing with her in front of Gein, which makes him livid.
In March 1944, the brothers found themselves in the middle of a brush fire on property they owned in a neighboring county.
When Ed ran to get the police, he told them he had lost sight of Henry, but then led them directly to his brother’s corpse.
Although there was evidence Henry had suffered blunt trauma to his head, the local county coroner decided he died of asphyxiation while fighting the fire.
But most of the researchers believe that Gein killed his brother out of anger as he cannot withstand his mother's insult.
From that day forward it was just Ed and his mother. Gein rarely left the house and never dated any woman. He was too devoted to his mother to do so.
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| Head in a shoebox |
He loved her more than anyone else he'd ever had contact with and that held true up until her death in December 29th,1945. Augusta died from a series of strokes, leaving her grief-stricken son alone on the isolated farmstead
Now with his brother, father and beloved mother out of the picture, Gein began falling into a questionable mental state.
His devotion to his mother was unerring.
He made sure to leave his mother's room untouched just that she had left it. He occupied the rest of the small house and tended to the farm.
To support himself he took odd jobs around town and despite his standoffish nature, he was known as a quiet and decent guy who was reliable when you wanted something fixed.
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| Ed Gein |
Apparently, he was quite a capable handyman as we have seen earlier.
Believe it or not, he was even a babysitter for some time. It's reported that no one ever picked up on Gein's unstable mental health. He was often described as a nice fellow and a calm soul if you will.
This would be a tribute to the absolute shock everyone felt when his dark secret came out.
When he wasn't attending to the farm, he took a strong interest in anatomy, stories about Nazis and Cannibals, which he read in various books and death-cult magazines.
And soon after, Gein took a new hobby. To some extent, that hobby was trying to become his mother.
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| A depiction of Grave Robbing |
This is the point where he began grave robbing and sooner it seems that the dead might not hold his thirst any longer.
During the time Gein was babysitting and working for others in town, a handful of residents had gone missing, one of them will be the town's tavern owner Mary Hogan.
If you recall she was one of the victims whose head was found in Gein's infamous skull collection.
And years after Bernice Worden was reported missing. Rest you know.
Justice being served...
While many believed Ed Gein's list of victims is quite long, it is proved that he is accountable for the murder of only 2 people, 3 if you assume he killed his own brother.
We are not counting the dead here cause ... they are dead Right?
But he was charged guilty for murdering two and robbing God knows how many graves.
Willian Belcher was the lawyer who was appointed to defend Gein on his trial, he fought for the ruling of not guilty by the reason of insanity.
Gein was unsurprisingly found by the court to be insane; he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and a severe Oedipus complex.
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| Death of Ed Gein |
He was deemed unfit to stand trial and was committed to Central State Hospital and worked as a mason and medical center aid.
It wasn't until 1968 that he was deemed fit to stand trial, during so he was found guilty of the murders of Bernice Worden and Mary Hogen.
But given the previous ruling of insanity, he was placed back into Central State Hospital and eventually faded into obscurity until his death on July 26th, 1984 due to lung cancer and respiratory illness in Mendota Mental Health Institute.
It's reported that he said this about his time in one Mental Institution,
I like this place, everyone treats me nice, some of them are a little crazy though.Like hell they are.
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| Tombstone of Ed Gein |
He was buried in Plainfield, although it's said parts of his grave are now missing because people wanted to take a souvenir back home with them when they visited.
Conclusion
We admit that people do have some bizarre hobbies and likings but nothing compares to this guy's handy work.
There hasn't been anyone that shocked the world as much as he did, just ask the cops that discovered his house of horrors; the ones that didn't succumb to a mental breakdown, anyway.
This incident tells us that how a disastrous childhood can give birth to history's most weirdest serial killer Ed Gein or should we say "The Butcher of Plainfield".
So now, who's still gonna say talking to girls is sinful?
References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Gein
- http://www.wisconsinsickness.com/ed-gein/
- https://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.html
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/edward-gein
Images
- http://malevolentnate.deviantart.com/art/No-3-Texas-Chainsaw-74-109822821
- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/horrifying-crimes-notorious-killer-ed-gein-gallery-1.2726944?pmSlide=1.2726929
- http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm
- https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KV-a56JQrV0/maxresdefault.jpg
- http://ihorror.com/ed-gein-an-american-psychopath-and-his-human-flesh-collection/
- https://i.imgur.com/rgYnJBU.jpg
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Ed_Gein-_The_Butcher_of_Plainfield.jpg/220px-Ed_Gein-_The_Butcher_of_Plainfield.jpg
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