Edward Gein

Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The son of an alcoholic father and a very religious mother, Gein grew up alongside his older brother, Henry, in a household ruled by his mother preaching about the sins of carnal desire. With an effeminate demeanor, Ed Gein became a target for bullies. Classmates and teachers brought up mannerisms from the past, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. His mother scolded him whenever he tried to make friends, so he never tried anymore because of the pain it caused him. Not being distracted by his social life, he did well in school, mostly in reading. (http://www.biography.com/people/ed-gein-11291338).

His fathers death

After his father died of a heart attack in 1940, the Gein brothers started working at odd jobs to help with expenses. Both brothers were reliable and honest to the community. While both worked as handymen, Ed Gein also babysat for neighbors. He loved babysitting because he related to children better than adults. Henry Gein let his mother's view of the world out of his head and began worrying about his brother’s attachment to her. He spoke ill of her around his brother so that Ed would do the same thing to let the overly obsessive attachment go. (http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gein-edward.htm).

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His brothers death

On May 16, 1944, a brush fire burned close to the farm, Ed and Henry went out to try and put it out. Gein reported that he and Henry were separated, and as night fell, when the fire was put out. When a search party was organized, Gein le...

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...rson was the main thought. When Gein heard that his house burned down, he shrugged his shoulders and said just as well. In 1958, the car that Gein had used to move the bodies of his victims, was sold at a public auction for $760 to a carnival sideshow operator named Bunny Gibbons. Later after Gibbons bought it he charged everybody 25 cents to see it. (http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gein-edward.htm).

Death

On July 26, 1984, Gein died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer in the Mendota Mental Health Institute. His grave site in the Plainfield cemetery was often vandalized over the years, people chipped off pieces of his gravestone for a souvenir before the whole piece of it was stolen in 2000. The gravestone was found around june of 2001 near Seattle and is now in a museum in Waushara County Wisconsin. (http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gein-edward.htm).