American Murderer. The main character in Psycho is modeled after him. He was called the Butcher of Plainfield

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Childhood

Edward Theodore Gein was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1906, the second of two boys of George Philip Gein (1873–1940) and Augusta Wilhelmine Gein (née Lehrke; 1878–1945). Gein had an elder brother named Henry. Augusta, who was fervently religious and nominally Lutheran, frequently preached to her sons about the innate immorality of the world, the evil of drinking and her belief that all women (apart from herself) were naturally promiscuous and instruments of the devil. She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the Bible, usually selecting verses from the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation concerning death, murder and divine retribution.

Augusta hated her husband, an alcoholic who was unable to keep a job; he had worked at various times as a carpenter, tanner and insurance salesman. During his time in La Crosse, Gein's father owned a local grocery shop, but he soon sold the business and left the city with his family to live in isolation on a 155-acre (63-hectare) farm in the town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, which became their permanent residence. Augusta took advantage of the farm's isolation by turning away outsiders who could have influenced her sons.

Gein left the farm only to attend school. Outside of school, he spent most of his time doing chores on the farm. Gein was shy, and classmates and teachers remembered him as having strange mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. To make matters worse, Augusta punished him whenever he tried to make friends. Despite his poor social development, Gein did fairly well in school, particularly in reading.

• Residence: Plainfield, Waushara, Wisconsin, United States - 1930
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• Residence: Plainfield, Waushara, Wisconsin, United States - April 24, 1950
• Residence: Plainfield, Waushara, Wisconsin, United States - April 24, 1950
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Serial Killer. He was convicted of two killings. He was known for several rather bizarre acts, including grave robbing and making clothing from the skin of his victims. His crimes inspired such movies as "Psycho" (1960) and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974). Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, his family soon moved to a farm outside Plainfield, Wisconsin, where his father was a tanner and carpenter to supplement the farm income. His father died in 1940, his brother Henry in a 1944 fire, and his mother in 1945, leaving him alone on the farm. From childhood, he had doubted his masculinity, and thought about becoming a female. Now alone, between 1947 and 1954, he visited local cemeteries opening graves and removing parts or all of the bodies of mostly women. Skulls were mounted on bedposts, human skin was used for lampshades or upholstering chairs. He would often wear female human skin at home, using parts of the women's bodies. On December 8, 1954, he turned to murder to satisfy his need for human body parts, killing Mary Hogan in the tavern she managed, and taking her body. When Bernice Worden disappeared on November 16, 1957, from her hardware store, police traced leads to Ed Gein. Arriving with a search warrant, police found Worden's body hanging in a shed, gutted like a deer. Inside Gein's house were ten human skulls, skins from numerous bodies made into costumes, and other body parts used to decorate the house. Gein quickly pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, and to stealing bodies from three graves. The judge declared him insane, and sent him off to the Central State Hospital at Waupun, Wisconsin. When he contracted cancer, he was transferred to the Mendota Mental Hospital (for the criminally insane), in Madison, Wisconsin, where he died of respiratory failure on July 26, 1984. Police were unable to match body parts for two women found at the house to bodies.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 10 2023, 18:34:21 UTC