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Ed Gein, Does Anyone find him Interesting?

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freddysgirl79	Posted: Oct 20 2004, 03:29 AM
Dream Warrior Group: Members Posts: 149 Member No.: 14 Joined: 19-October 04	Hi Everyone. I just recently learned about Ed Gein. I saw something about him on A&E. He was interesting to me anyways. I herd they based Leatherface on him. Has anyone seen Pics of Ed Gein? There are a few of him in his hat where i think he looks a bit like Elmer Fudd. :lol: I have a pic of his house before it Burnt down. Does any one know where Painfeild Wisconsin is?

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I think all serial killers are fascinating. Wouldn't want to meet one though. :lol: I think it's interesting to find out what they did, and what drove them to do it.

There was one serial killer (I forget which one it was now) whose favourite movie was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs... Makes you wonder. Now I don't trust anyone who lists that as their favourite movie, lol!

Ed Gein was one of the most interesting of killers I'd say. I think the more horrific the crimes they commit are, the more interesting their cases are to look back on.

Plainfield is the town Ed lived it at, in the state of Wisconsin. I'm from the UK though, so I wouldn't be able to say exactly where it is in Wisconsin...

Taken from my favourite True Crime book, The Murderers' Who's Who (by J.H.H. Gaute and Robin Odell), here is a little information about ol' Ed, for those who are unaware:

(Note: only read if you have a strong stomach; some of this information may be a little too much for some people)

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GEIN, Edward.

Middle-aged farmer denied an interest in women by an overbearing mother, turned into a murdering ghoul.
Gein worked the family farm at Plainfield, Wisconsin, with his mother and brother. His mother exerted influence over her sons, and made them work, and keep away from women. When they both died within one year, Gein turned in upon himself. He sealed off his mother's room, lived in a small part of the farmhouse and neglected the farm itself. He took to reading books on the human body, and developed a morbid interest in female anatomy, which he studied at close quarters by digging up corpses from isolated graves.
His practices were ghoulish to the extreme. He skinned some of the corpses and draped them over his own body in order to experience some bizarre sense of gratification. It was but a short step from grave-robbing to procuring fresh bodies by murder. Gein's first victim was a 51-year-old woman whom he shot dead in 1954 and took to the farm for examination. In 1957 he killed another victim, but was suspected by the woman's son.
A search of Gein's farm revealed the gruesome ornaments of this man's perverted pastime. There were bracelets made of human skin, a tomtom covered with skin, a sawn-up skull converted into a soup bowl and a refrigerator stacked with human organs. These grim relics were estimated to have come from fifteen bodies.
Gein admitted grave-robbing, and was both a necrophile and a cannibal. He was committed for life in December 1957 to an institution for the criminally insane. The Gein farm at Plainfield was burned down by local people, who regarded it as a place of evil.

For more information about him (like what documentaries have been made about him) go to his IMDB page. His mini-bio there gives even more information about him, such as the films that have been inspired by him (here's a quote from the IMDB mini bio):

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Is considered to be the direct inspiration for such film villains as Norman Bates (Psycho (1960)), Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)) and "Farmer Vincent" Smith (Motel Hell (1980)).

Was the inspiration for the characters 'Ezra Cobb' in Deranged (1974), 'Leatherface' in Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), 'Frank Zito' in Maniac (1980) and 'Buffalo Bill' in Silence of the Lambs (1991).

For some reason I thought he was executed, but I think I may have confused him with Albert Fish (who in my opinion was even worse). Apparently though, he died in a mental institute of cancer.

Hope you found some of this as interesting as I did.

freddysgirl79	Posted: Oct 21 2004, 10:13 PM
Dream Warrior Group: Members Posts: 149 Member No.: 14 Joined: 19-October 04	Thanks for that Info. I find him the most interesting. Do you know any other serial killers you think i might be interested in?

Suzi	Posted: Oct 25 2004, 10:18 AM
Administrator Group: Members Posts: 194 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-April 04	Well, I think if you're interested in Ed Gein then you might be interested in Albert Fish too (the guy I briefly mentioned). He ended up doing the same kind of thing, except his main victims were children. I'll write up a little factfile on him later so you can read for yourself. :)

halapande	Posted: Oct 25 2004, 01:34 PM
Sadness Group: Admin Posts: 323 Member No.: 3 Joined: 17-April 04	Well..there was one brutal killer in Slovakia also. I don't know his name..but he killed brutal a child. Another child was a victim to it .. to tell the truth, I don't understand why they do it...

freddysgirl79	Posted: Oct 25 2004, 08:35 PM
Dream Warrior Group: Members Posts: 149 Member No.: 14 Joined: 19-October 04	Thank you for telling me those people, i havent heard of either one. I will try to look them up online.

Suzi	Posted: Oct 26 2004, 11:27 AM
Administrator Group: Members Posts: 194 Member No.: 1 Joined: 13-April 04	I started a thread about Albert Fish so if you do find any more information out about him, feel free to add it there. Halapande, that would make a good thread... What drives someone to kill? :) I can't answer why, I've never wanted to kill anyone, but from a psychological viewpoint it makes great reading. That might just be me, but I like to understand what makes people different and why everyone does the things they do.

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