Criminal Case - Ed Gein

Criminal Case
Ed Gein - serial killer in America

Random information
He was known as one of the history's most inspirational killer. Actaully his character became a role in many films like Alfred Hitschock's thriller Psycho and the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.

About Ed Gein
Ed Gein was a serial killer, who skinned his victims, exhumed corpses and decorated his home with parts of his victims bodies. The skin of the victims was used to make dust bins, furniture and clothes.
Ed Gein was born in 1906 and had a brother. He had a alcoholic father and domineering mother wich was really religious. His mother passed away, and with nobody to control him, Ed Gein became obsessed with sexual fantasies and female anatomy.
Fascinated by human experiments performed in Nazi camps, he started making graves to perform experiments of his own, including exhuming his own mother’s body. The experiments became gruesome and cannibalistic. When police caught up with him, they saw a house full of horror. There were hanging corpses with their throats and heads missing, bowls made of skulls, pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, and masks made of facial skin and vulva that were painted silver. The most shocking discovery was perhaps his mother’s heart, which was found in a pan on the stove. The police counted 15 woman as his victims.

Punishment:
Ed Gein was tranported to different hospitals after he was arrested. The trial began november 14, 1968 and that took a week. The jugde said he was guilty in first-degree murder, but because he was mental sick, he spended the rest of the life in a mental hospital. He died of cancer in a age of 78.