![]() ![]() Gein was a sloppier killer than he was a grave robber and left a sales receipt on the counter. Bernice Worden, 58, who ran the town’s hardware store, disappeared on November 16, 1957. Mary Hogan, 54, disappeared from the tavern she ran in December 1954. Gein started hunting less fragrant, living victims in 1954. He sealed off the drawing room and five rooms on the second floor and lived in one downstairs room and the kitchen. He kept his mom’s bedroom exactly as it was when she was alive. And he was absolutely alone in the world.” Ed was a 39-year-old bachelor who never dated women and never left home. Schechter wrote that Ed “lost his only friend and one true love. Augusta wasn’t upset about the animal attack as much as she was about seeing a woman who wasn’t the man’s wife being in his house and labeled her “Smith’s harlot.”Īugusta died shortly after suffering a second stroke. Gein said his mother saw a woman come out of the house and yell at Smith to stop. Arndt posited that it was “possible and likely” that Henry’s death was “the ‘Cain and Abel’ aspect of this case.” Gein’s mother Augusta had her debilitating stroke shortly after Henry died.ĭeviant also mentions an incident from 1945, when Augusta saw a man named Smith beat a dog to death when she and Ed went to his place to buy straw. It wasn’t until state investigator Joe Wilimovsky asked Ed about the 1957 death of Bernice Worden that it was even questioned. The county coroner officially labeled asphyxiation as the cause of Henry’s death. Other reports say Ed led the police right to the body. The only bruising Henry sustained, according to the Harold Schechter Ed Gein biography Deviant, was blunt trauma to his head. ![]() ![]() His body had not been burned in the fire. It looked like he had been dead for a while. Ed reported his brother missing at the end of the day and, according to some reports, a search party went out into the dusk with lanterns and flashlights and found Henry’s dead body lying face down. They were burning marsh vegetation when the fire got out of control and the fire department was called in. The Geins didn’t have to farm their land because of federal agriculture subsidies. Ed saw the relationship as his brother’s rebellion against their mother and shut him out.Īccording to reports at the time, Henry Gein had a heart attack while he and Ed were trying to put out a brush fire on property they owned in a neighboring county. He started dating a divorced, single mother of two and was thinking of shacking up with her. His brother Henry was trying to live a normal life after his father died and his mother became increasingly oppressive. The movies don’t mention it, but Gein may have had at least one male death, a fratricide, on his resume. Augusta died at the age of 67 on December 29, 1945, a year after Ed’s brother Henry died in a suspicious fire on the 160-acre farm on the outskirts of Plainfield. She was overbearingly prudish, controlling and, in the years leading up to her own death, immobilized by a stroke and left in the care of her son, Ed. By all accounts Ma Gein wasn’t too far off from Norman Bates’ mom. Ed’s father, George Philip Gein, died after his heart gave out from a lifetime of booze on April 1, 1940, aged 66. He was born with a slight growth over one of his eyes and was bullied by kids in school who found him effeminate. Three classic films, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 chiller Psycho, Tobe Hooper’s 1973 killer The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Jonathan Demme’s 1991 thriller Silence of the Lambs, as well as the 1974 low budget cult flick Deranged, all delved into the memories Gein supposedly repressed.Įdward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906, in the Plainfield’s small farming community. That was irresistible to filmmakers in the post-post-war era that followed Eisenhower’s America when cinema was throwing off the prohibitive motion picture codes. Ed said he couldn’t even remember how many people he actually killed. Investigators found the corpses of Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden, two women in their 50s, and the remains of about fifteen bodies, when they searched Ed Gein’s Plainfield, Wisconsin, farmhouse after his arrest. But they were all eclipsed by “Weird Ed,” a quiet, unassuming man from Wisconsin farm country. The body of the 3-to-6-year-old Boy in the Box was found in Philadelphia. The Barbershop Quintet took too much off the top of gangland’s Lord High Executioner Albert Anastasia. Mary Elizabeth Wilson, the Merry Widow of Windy Nook, gave beetle poison to the last of her quartet of husbands. Elvis Presley swiveled prison stripes in Jailhouse Rock. The year was 1957 and crime rocked the headlines. ![]()
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