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.…