Ed Gein Research Paper

Ed Gein was born 1906, in Plainview, Wisconsin. His father was a violent alcoholic, and his mother an obsessive Lutheran. His mother kept Ed, and his brother Henry, from any outside influence. Allowing them only to go to school, and return home. His mother often told them bible stories, and preached about how evil alcohol and women were. Ed Gein’s first murder could have been his brother, Henry, because he started to resent their mother. Henry didn’t share his mother’s opinion of the world, and even became worried about how close Ed and their mother had become. In 1944 during a wildfire on the property, Ed ran to the police stating that he had lost his brother in the fire. After alerting the authorities, Ed led them directly to where the body was. Henry was lying on the ground with blunt trauma to the side of his head, his clothes were also unburned. Police dismissed this evidence, and coroner said he died of asphyxiation. Gein was never formally charged with his brother’s murder.
After Gein’s mother died in
Mary Hogan was a local bar owner where Ed sometimes went for a beer. Surprisingly Gein was never suspected in her disappearance; even after making jokes that she was “staying” at his house. Gein’s next murder was Bernice Worden in 1957. Bernice was a local hardware store owner. The night before her disappearance Ed was in her store and said he would be back the next day for some anti-freeze. A receipt for anti-freeze was the last receipt made out by Bernice the following day; making Gein a prime suspect. Police went to his property, and upon searching a building behind the house found Bernice Worden’s body. She had been shot and strung up upside-down like a deer; her head cut off and internal organs removed. Police then searched his house finding other atrocities such as: human masks, clothing, skulls, organs, skin covered furniture, and skull