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The Wikipedia article on Edward Gein talks about how people felt about Gein's property. His farm, according to one version, was burned down, and his car, which was shown as an exhibit at some fair, was expelled from this fair at the insistence of people and was lost somewhere in history. That is, the actions of the Ephesians are evident, who by all means tried to ensure that nothing reminded of Herostratus. However, Edward Gein is dedicated to several feature films and, the jester knows how much documentaries and Internet sites. This is the paradox of society: those who committed brutal murders become popular; those who are abnormal, insane, dangerous. People are interested in them, they read about them, look at the chronicle, someone even visits places of "glory". And all because they give a feeling of admiration. Horror, right? I feel sick at the sight of blood, I don't have an orgasm at the sight of a butchered pork carcass, I'm not drawn to frying human meat and eating it. But I want to look at the person who does all this. Preferably at an impressive distance, or even better after the fact, when he is no longer alive.

This is a biography film. But the biography of a maniac. The authors of the film were attentive to the various biographical details of Edward Gein. Starting from his harsh, and in many ways influenced his childhood, ending with a red plaid cap, an exact copy hanging female corpse, plates of skulls and even books about Nazism. From the point of view of the biography, the film seemed to me very accurate and attentive to the facts.

Steve Railsback, who played Gein himself, did an excellent job. However, in my opinion, there was something insanely predatory about the face of the real Edward Gein. And at the same time primordially farmer's. If anyone has not seen it, look at his photographs, he looks like the most typical farmer, but with rather unpleasant eyes. Steve Railsback Gein turned out to be unhappy with sad, suffering eyes. Here Gein came out as a sufferer, a mentally ill person who did not want to kill anyone, but his mother forced him, and she was a saint for him. I will not say that in reality it was not so, but still, it seems to me that Steve Railsback is not ideally suited for the role of Gein. Again, he did a great job with the role.

But there were very "sagging" moments in the film. For example, the first victim wounded in the shoulder, who had the strength in the car to beat Gein, but was not smart enough to just run away. She's not injured in the leg. Strange episode. She simply allowed herself to be dragged somewhere, driven, while being conscious, talking to Gein. In general, in the film, people seemed to be drunk on brake fluid. Reactions are somehow inhibited, there is no self-preservation instinct. Somehow unbelievable. But in general, just like a film about Edward Gein, this movie can be recommended to interested parties. It is not scary at all, there is very little blood or anatomy, they did not focus on this, and, probably, there was not enough money. Just illustrated the life of a real famous maniac.

Boyarova O.

The topic of US maniacs was well covered in one of the essays (). Unfortunately, Ed Gein was forgotten. It is unlikely that many people know his name, but films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho are well known to horror lovers. Where is the connection? The thing is that the prototype of the maniac from the farm and Buffalo Bill was just Edward Gein.

The prerequisites for the corrupted psyche of the future maniac can be found in Edward's childhood.

The boy was born on August 27, 1907 near the city of La Crosse, Wisconsing. All his childhood passed there. Edward was youngest child in the family of George and Augusta Gein. His brother Henry George Gein was four years older.

Gein's parents deserve special attention. His father George Gein was an alcoholic. He could not find a permanent job, and the family was interrupted by rare earnings. It is noteworthy that there is no evidence that George beat his children. Most likely, he himself was a victim of his insane wife.

Now for Augusta Gein. She grew up in a very pious family. The idea that the world is mired in sin, everywhere there is only dirt, lust and sex, and all women (of course, except for her) are whores, Augusta carried through her whole life.

The question involuntarily begs, if she was already so pious and correct, then how did she get two sons? Well, this is just food for thought.

The truth was that Augusta was a tyrant in her family. After the Geins moved to a farm in Plainfield, Augusta forbade her sons to communicate with other children and constantly forced them to do hard work on the farm. She constantly read the Bible to Ed and Henry and always said that the city they live in is a "hell hole".

Despite all this, Edward idolized his mother and considered her a saint. His elder brother had a completely different opinion.

Relations between Ed and Henry became very strained after the death of their father in 1940.

Andrew sought to start an independent life, unfortunately, without success. Trying to denigrate his mother in the eyes of his younger brother, he only aggravated the situation more.

On May 16, 1944, a fire broke out on the farm, in which Henry died. The brothers were burning garbage that day, and according to Ed, the fire got out of control. Many believe that it was Ed who killed his older brother. Their opinion is not unfounded. First, Edward was the only witness, and the incident is known only from his words. Secondly, the question remains unclear why the men did not try to put out the fire?

Be that as it may, Edward's guilt has not been proven.

Now Ed Gein was alone with his mother. They still lived a quiet, aloof life on their farm. But in 1945, Augusta suffers a heart attack and is bedridden. Edward's concern only delays the inevitable end. A woman dies on December 29, 1945 and Ed is left alone.

The neighbors never complained about Gein. They considered him a good-natured eccentric and even left him to sit with the children. No one knew that the “quiet farmer” was fond of books on anatomy, reading stories about the atrocities of the Nazis during World War II. He is fascinated by information about the exhumation, obituaries in the newspapers give him particular pleasure.

Soon "Old Eddie" moves from theory to practice. He is attracted by the female body, but he is too cowardly to apply fresh knowledge to living people.

Ed went to the local cemetery, where he tore open the fresh graves of women. After that, he gutted their bodies and took a couple of "souvenirs" for himself. His house became like a burial ground. He hung the heads of corpses on the walls, made a belt from the female genital organs, processed the skulls in the form of bowls, from which he then ate and drank. But the most sophisticated was the costume made from the skin of women.

Later, when Gein was arrested, he said that he did not perform any sexual manipulation on the corpses because "they smelled too bad." Thankfully he didn't have an air freshener.

In principle, a serial killer is considered to be a person who has killed three or more victims. This is due to the fact that when the third victim is killed, the serial has its own mode of action. However, all researchers consider Ed Gein a successful serial killer, despite the fact that, on his account, only two proven victims.

Although many attribute Gein a few more corpses.

In 1947, an eight-year-old girl was found murdered, the only evidence the police found were tire tracks from a car that belonged to Gein. True, Gein did not confess to committing this crime.

In 1952, two tourists who stopped to have a small picnic near Gein's house disappeared. Their bodies have not been found so far. Ed's involvement has not been proven.

In 1953, a fifteen-year-old girl was found murdered. Gein's involvement has also not been proven, but some elements of the coincidence with the first murder are clearly visible.

Blaming Ed Gein for these crimes is not entirely reasonable. If you study Edward's personality well enough, it becomes clear that this is not his handwriting (subsequent murders will confirm this). Gein was not interested in teenage girls. Furthermore, known fact that Gein was left to sit with children, further proves his innocence in these crimes. The dubious evidence of tire tracks and the absence of any other evidence (the bodies of the girls were not found in Gein's house) make these accusations look like a cheap horror story, made up to draw attention to Gein's personality.

But in 1954 Gein really commits a crime. He kills the owner of the local tavern, Mary Hogan. Mary disappeared from the motel, leaving behind only pools of blood. Gein managed to discreetly transfer the woman, who weighed about eighty kilograms, to his home across the city. He dismembered her and kept her at home. Mary was declared missing.

Presumably, Gein did this because the woman, who somehow reminded him of his mother, yelled at the man, thereby provoking his anger.

On November 16, 1957, another woman, 58-year-old Bernice Worden, went missing. In the afternoon, her son returned from hunting and stopped at the hardware store run by his mother. It seemed strange to him that his mother was not there. He decided to go to the police after he found a bloody trail on the floor, stretching from the shop window to the back door. After a quick search of the premises, Frank found another crumpled receipt for half a gallon of antifreeze lying around in the backyard. The receipt was in the name of Edward Gein.

The woman's body was later found at Gein's farm. It was so disfigured that the sheriff at first mistook it for a deer carcass. Only later was it established that the decapitated body belonged to the missing Bernice Worden.

But more terrible things were found in Ed's house. In addition to the already known "souvenirs", human entrails were found in Gein's refrigerator, and in one saucepan there was a heart.

The trial over him was not long. Gein confessed to killing the two women. He was declared insane, and, in accordance with the verdict of the court, Edward Gein was sent to compulsory treatment to a high-security hospital for the insane in Waupan, but was later transferred to the Menthod Institute of Mental Health in Madison.

Gein died on July 26, 1984 in a mental hospital from cardiac arrest caused by cancer, after which he was buried in Planfield City Cemetery. For a long time, the tombstone of his grave was destroyed due to souvenir hunters, and in 2000 most of the tombstone was completely stolen.

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Ed Gein became fashion brand. A man who took people's lives. Who devoted half of his life to desecration of graves and corpses. Who, after all, had sex with his dead mother!But modern fashion has its own view on this ...

Film "Ed Gein: The Butcher of Feature film card
Plainfield" 2007 "Ed Gein: Wisconsin Monster" (2000)

The human mind is amazing… Fans kill their idols. Serial killers become idols.

If for a second we put the world of music and crime on the same parallel, then Ed Gein is the "Freddie Mercury" of the underworld. In the hit parade of America's serial killer maniacs, he has been firmly in the lead for more than half a century.

His farmhouse, nicknamed the "Temple of Horrors", stirred up the media and civilians Wisconsin during years. His crimes were so barbaric that the masters of the film industry, wiping the sweat from their foreheads, issued such imperishable masterpieces as: Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Childhood. There is such a sad pattern: any biography serial killer begins with the words "he had a difficult childhood."

Edward Theodor Gein was born in a provincial town in 1906. His mother Augusta was obsessed with religion, his father George with a bottle of whiskey.

Augusta and Ed Gein

Local idiot. When the father died, the pious mother gained double power over the family, and matriarchy hopelessly reigned in the house.

Soon the weak-willed Ed, obeying Augusta, also became involved in a religious sect. One day, a despotic mother caught him masturbating. Her rage was so great that she doused her son with boiling water as punishment. But this did not turn Edward away from his mother, on the contrary, he began to cultivate her and elevate her to the rank of saints.

The elder brother, Henry, categorically did not like the situation in the family, he did not lose hope of bringing the obsessed relatives to reason. But he had to pay a heavy price for his efforts. Henry is dead. Suddenly. It's absurd. Due to a burn and head injury sustained while working alone in the field with Ed. Henry's death was ruled an "accident".

Mother's death. A year after the tragedy, Augusta suffered a double heart attack, as a result of which she died. For Edward, the death of his beloved mother was like the end of the world. He begged her not to leave him and did not want to part with her body. Therefore, even after bereavement, he continued to sleep on the same bed with his deceased mother. It was there that his first and only sexual intercourse took place ...

obituaries. The death of his mother made irreversible changes in Gein's psyche. Edward has a strange hobby. He swept all the press from the newspaper counters, savored articles about Nazism, exhumations ... and studied the Obituaries column with maniacal meticulousness! Having studied the notes on all the newly deceased, at night, when all the burial ceremonies were completed, Ed entered the cemetery and opened new graves.

Having dug up a fresh corpse, Ed looked at the body for a long time and admiringly. In favor, he had the corpses of middle-aged women who looked like his mother. Then he began to put into practice his deep knowledge of female anatomy. With a massive meat-cutting knife, Gein enthusiastically cut out the genitals of the deceased, the chest, cut off the legs with an ax,

he carefully removed the skin from the faces, from which he later “made” masks.

The famous leather mask of Edward Gein: in life and in cinema. If Mr. Gein had not been so creative in nature, the "Massacre in Texas" would not have taken place.

Mr decorator. Human skin has become his fetish. Soon his whole house was "decorated" with exclusive products from this hard-to-find material. Sofas and armchairs were upholstered in leather torn from female corpses, lampshades were designed in the appropriate style. Pots and other kitchen utensils for the butcher-Hein were replaced by bones and skulls. And the contents of the refrigerator vaguely resembled a cabinet of curiosities: dozens of cans and flasks with turbid liquid and heads, organs, scraps of flesh floating in it ... Under the bed, in a shoe box, Ed kept dried vaginas.

Soon, Edward's wardrobe was enriched with clothes and accessories made of human material. A tongue necklace, a nipple strap, a shirt with female breasts that he wore and imagined himself as his mother ...

Surprisingly, having exhausted all the “resources” of corpses he needed, Ed punctually, before dawn, returned the remains to the coffins and put things in order on the graves.
Moreover, Gein did not perform any sexual maneuvers over the bodies. As he would later explain to the judge, "They smelled very bad."

Murder. Ed is 48 years old. For the first time, a living person becomes his victim... He managed to kidnap the obese owner of a local pub completely unnoticed, leaving only a pool of blood. At home, Ed dismembered it, and his collection was replenished with a trophy. What, a necrophilic maniac with many years of "experience", prompted him to switch to the living? For experts, this remains an unsolved mystery, like the smile of the Mona Lisa. Meanwhile, the woman was put on the wanted list, and the psychopath Eddie reacted to the general alarm with a daring mockery: "She is staying at my house."

But the locals brushed it off and still considered Edward a "harmless fellow" and even hired him as a babysitter for their children.

This went on until Bernice Warden disappeared... The manager of the local store. Her son, returning from hunting, was horrified to find bloody footprints leading to the very parking lot. Also found on the floor was a receipt in the name of Ed Gein. But even this discovery did not give either the police or the locals a reason to admit the idea that the killer was Edward Gein, a funny harmless guy. The sheriff decided to interrogate him just in case, as a possible witness.

A squad of police officers went to Gein's house, and this was the beginning of the end of the monstrous craft of an obsessed psychopath. On the veranda hung the naked body of Bernice, butchered like a pig carcass.

A further tour of the possessions of Edward Gein shocked both the local police and criminologists around the world.

There was a disgusting stench in the Butcher's house, the remains of the bodies of 15 women were found, 9 of them were the very ones that were taken "for rent" from local graveyards. Who owns the other 6 corpses? How many people did Edward Gein kill in total? As well as a host of other gaps in this black history are still under question mark.

Edward Theodor Gein was declared mentally ill and placed in a prison-type psychiatric hospital for life. He died in 1984 of lung cancer at the age of 77.

In a psychiatric clinic shortly before his death.

Edward Gein is one of those killers to whom the epithet "legendary" can be applied. Indeed, he went down in history not because of the number of his crimes (there are very few of them, only two have been proven at all), not because of the duration of his series, not because of the loud litigation. Gein became widely known because life in a small town like Edward's was rarely shaken by events like those in Plainfield in the late '50s. People tend to embellish reality, and soon after Gein's capture, his figure was overgrown with many fictions and real legends. Discard them, let's rely on the facts!

Edward Theodor Gein was born on August 27, 1906 near the town of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He spent his childhood there and went to school there. Eddie was the second child of George and Augusta Gein, his older brother Andrew was born four years earlier.

It cannot be said that Eddie's childhood was prosperous. All members of the family, including George, were under the control of a despotic and tough Augusta, who did not recognize any authority, an imperious and strict woman. As for Gein himself, he considered his mother just a saint, her opinion was the law. Many psychologists involved in the Gein case believe that the mother greatly influenced the subsequent development of Gein's personality. So, from childhood, she instilled in her sons hatred for female gender especially for sex. This was expressed in the fact that Edward Gein became a closeted homosexual, while not having sexual relations of any kind at all.

Gein's father dies of pneumonia in 1940. After that, Augusta begins to dominate the family even more. With Andrew, she now often has quarrels, and in connection with this, the relationship between him and Edward, who supports his mother in everything, is strained.

And on May 16, 1944, with extremely mysterious circumstances Andy Gein dies. That day, he and his brother worked on the farm, burning garbage. According to Edward, the fire went out of control, Andy was engulfed in flames, and Eddie himself ran for help. When he returned with several men, his brother was already dead. At the same time, it is not clear what prevented Andy from knocking off the flames, because the edge of the field was so close, and his body was not burned much ... One way or another, someone is inclined to think that the elder brother was the first victim of Edward Gein, someone thinks his death was an accident, but Gein himself never acknowledged his brother's murder.

Eddie and Augusta are now alone. They still lived a quiet, aloof life on their farm. But 1945 was a fatal year for Edward. In January, Augusta suffers a heart attack and barely survives, and her son's subsequent care sets her back on her feet. However, the heart problems continue, and at the end of the year, on December 29, August Gein dies from another stroke.

However, now Gein is somewhat narrowing the gap between himself and society. Thanks to the agricultural reforms being carried out in the United States just at that time, he no longer has to cultivate his land, he lives on an allowance paid by the state, and earns extra money doing various small jobs here and there around Plainfield.

He developed a fairly even relationship with his neighbors: Gein had a gentle character, sometimes he was even asked to sit with the children. locals they did not consider him crazy or feeble-minded, and he, in general, was not such in the full understanding of these words. Gein was known as "weird old Eddie" and that nickname pretty much summed it up.

Gein's personal interests and hobbies were also rather strange. He read books about the atrocities of the Nazis during the Second World War and their experiments on people in concentration camps with incredible enthusiasm, he knew this topic by heart. Although, of course, this is not at all a reason to consider a person mentally unhealthy.

But his real passion, the passion of his whole life, raised to a really unhealthy scale, was the female body. Eddie drew the information concealed by his mother for so long from books on anatomy, medical encyclopedias, scientific (and, to put it mildly, not very) magazines, newspapers - in general, from any sources that fell into his hands.

Around the summer of 1947 Gein moved from theory to terrible practice. He began to almost regularly visit the surrounding cemeteries, where he performed an autopsy of fresh women's graves, removed the corpses and studied them. After that, he again carefully returned the bodies to their place. But Gein kept some body parts for himself. I even used them...

With the skill of a pathologist, “Old Eddie” butchered corpses, cut out genitals, skinned bodies with the dexterity of an inveterate hunter. From human skin, tanned, dried according to all the rules, Ed sewed himself a suit - a vest and a jacket - in which he periodically arranged dances around his estate. It seems wild, utterly unbelievable, like a lot of the stories that come up about Gein after he's arrested, but as crazy and horrific as it is, it's the absolute truth.

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At Gein's house during a search.

Edward Gein is one of those killers to whom the epithet "legendary" can be applied. Indeed, he went down in history not because of the number of his crimes (there are very few of them, only two have been proven at all), not because of the duration of his series, not because of the high-profile trial. Gein became widely known because life in a small town like the one where Edward lived is rarely shaken by events like those that happened in Plainfield in the late 50s.

Edward Gein

Gein's two victims

The first victim of a maniac in 1954 was the hostess of the bar, Mary Hogan, whose corpse he managed to quietly carry through the whole city. He dismembered the body and it added to his "collection". Later, he joked that Mary Hogan stopped to stay with him, but no one then took the eccentric seriously.

bar owner Mary Hogan

The second murder, fortunately, was the last. When 58-year-old widow Bernice Warden went missing.

Her son, in addition to pools of blood, found a receipt in the name of Edward Gein. After searching the maniac's house, even experienced cops were shocked by what they saw - the widow's body was hung on a hook like in a butcher's shop and partially butchered. In addition, a lot of truly terrible finds were found at his house. During the investigation, Edward Gein confessed to both crimes. He was also suspected of being involved in the disappearance of several people, but his guilt was never proven.

Edward Theodor Gein was born on August 27, 1906 near the town of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
It cannot be said that Eddie's childhood was prosperous. All members of the family, including George, were under the control of a despotic and tough Augusta, who did not recognize any authority, an imperious and strict woman. As for Gein himself, he considered his mother just a saint, her opinion was the law. Many psychologists involved in the Gein case believe that the mother greatly influenced the subsequent development of Gein's personality. So, from childhood, she inspired her sons with hatred for the female sex, especially for sex. This was expressed in the fact that Edward Gein became a closeted homosexual, while not having sexual relations of any kind at all ..

In 1914, the family moved to a 195-acre farm near the town of Plainfield, where Gein would spend the rest of his life in freedom. The land was infertile, the Geins' economy was poorly developed. From the very arrival in a new place, a certain alienation appeared between the family and the neighbors: the Geins lived apart, they had no friends. So without incident, without changes in the usual way of life, 26 years passed. Gein's father dies of pneumonia in 1940. After that, Augusta begins to dominate the family even more. With Andrew, she now often has quarrels, and in connection with this, the relationship between him and Edward, who supports his mother in everything, is strained. And on May 16, 1944, under extremely mysterious circumstances, Andy Gein dies. That day, he and his brother worked on the farm, burning garbage. According to Edward, the fire went out of control, Andy was engulfed in flames, and Eddie himself ran for help. When he returned with several men, his brother was already dead. At the same time, it is not clear what prevented Andy from knocking off the flames, because the edge of the field was so close, and his body was not burned much ... One way or another, someone is inclined to think that the elder brother was the first victim of Edward Gein, someone then considers his death an accident, but Gein himself never acknowledged the murder of his brother. Eddie and Augusta are now alone. They still lived a quiet, aloof life on their farm. But 1945 was a fatal year for Edward. In January, Augusta suffers a heart attack and barely survives, and her son's subsequent care sets her back on her feet. However, the heart problems continue and at the end of the year, on December 29, August Gein dies from another stroke.

Home or farm, but where everything happened.

For the first time in his life, Edward is completely alone. He has no friends or good acquaintances, the last person close to him is now dead. After the death of his mother, Gein permanently boards up the doors of her room, just like the door to his past, and more and more plunges into madness, which will lead him to murder ... However, now Gein somewhat narrows the gap between himself and society. Thanks to the agricultural reforms being carried out in the United States just at that time, he no longer has to cultivate his land, he lives on an allowance paid by the state, and earns extra money doing various small jobs here and there around Plainfield. He developed a fairly even relationship with his neighbors: Gein had a gentle character, sometimes he was even asked to sit with the children. The locals did not consider him crazy or weak-minded, and he, in general, was not such in the full understanding of these words. Gein was known as "weird old Eddie" and that nickname pretty much summed it up. Gein's personal interests and hobbies were also rather strange. He read books about the atrocities of the Nazis during the Second World War and their experiments on people in concentration camps with incredible enthusiasm, he knew this topic by heart. Although, of course, this is not at all a reason to consider a person mentally unhealthy. But his real passion, the passion of his whole life, raised to a really unhealthy scale, was the female body. Eddie scooped up the information hidden by his mother for so long from books on anatomy, medical encyclopedias, scientific (and, to put it mildly, not very) magazines, newspapers - in general, from any sources that fell into his hands ..

At Gein's house

With the skill of a pathologist, "old Eddie" butchered corpses, cut out genitals, skinned bodies with the dexterity of an inveterate hunter. From human skin, tanned, dried according to all the rules, Ed sewed himself a suit - a vest and a jacket - in which he periodically arranged dances around his estate. It seems wild, totally unbelievable, like a lot of the stories that come up about Gein after he's arrested, but as crazy and horrific as it is, it's the absolute truth..

Cut off body parts stolen from cemeteries, Ed Gein kept at home. Heads and skulls were hung on the walls of his house. Strange rumors began to circulate about Gein's farm, and he only laughed and laughed it off. When the children looked through the window and saw the skulls, Gein told them that his brother served somewhere in the southern seas and brought them from there. The fame of a man not of this world was entrenched behind him, and his house was considered a strange place, but no one could imagine what kind of "nightmare museum" Gein had arranged there.