The Serial Killers Excerpt, Ed Gein The First American Psycho

This is an excerpt from my new ebook The Serial Killers volume one Pure Evil. This is from the chapter on the serial killer Ed Gein. He was the inspiration for the movie Psycho. Also Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs and Leatherface in the Chainsaw Massacre. This almost forgotten killer inspired some of the world's most famous movie villains and this is part of his story.

BIOGRAPHY:

Ed Gein’s family consisted of his parents, namely, George Gein and Augusta and his only sibling, his brother named Henry George Gein. George, his father was an alcoholic and never supportive. Augusta worked at her farm in Plainfield, where they soon started living.

The two brothers were always kept isolated and rarely had social interactions. They worked in the farm with their mother and she was the one who actually groomed them. Augusta had, from the very start, taught her boys that the world is a bad place, surrounded by evil beings and all females were prostitutes, symbols of the devil. She used to teach them the bible with more emphasis on the verses about death, murder and similar topics.

The two boys were being abused by their mother for being similar to their father, who according to her was a completely useless creature. Henry soon realized the wrong thoughts of his mother and tried to explain the same to Ed, being disturbed by his attachment to her. In 1940, George died of cardiac arrest and the two boys had to work to earn a living.

TRAGIC CLOSE DEATHS:

In 1944, due to an accidental fire Gein lost his brother. The police suspected it as a murder due to some odd proofs but soon the case was closed declaring asphyxiation as the cause of death. Soon after, in December 1945, Ed had to bear the pain of his mother’s demise which was due to strokes. This death was the life turner as Ed was left alone in this world.

TRANSFORMATION:

Edward had sealed all of the rooms of his house except the ground floor living room and the kitchen. Ed spent most of his time alone in the farmhouse reading about female anatomy and sexual practices. The Nazi camps’ human experiments attracted him too. Soon, he started the practice of digging out the dead bodies from the graves for experimentation.

The practice continued for long till the time when Gein started to change himself to turn into a woman. He made items from the body or skin that he later wore to feel like a female. He made a complete female costume of this sort.

Gein started craving for fresher samples and began to search for it. On December 8, 1954 Ed killed Mary Hogan, a lady who owned a tavern. The police couldn’t find out the cause and failed to solve the case. On November 16, 1957, Bernice Worden, Plainfield hardware store owner went missing when her son suspected Gein , as he was the one in the store that evening.

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