Ed Gein

[Rando]

Now, I am sure we have all heard of him, but it is always fun to read about!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906—July 26, 1984) was an American killer and graverobber. His crimes earned widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned gruesome trophies and keepsakes from them.


Searching the house, authorities found:

• Human skulls mounted upon the corner posts of his bed
• Skin fashioned into a lampshade and used to upholster chair seats
• Human skullcaps, apparently in use as soup bowls
• A human heart (it is disputed where the heart was found; deputy reports all claimed that the heart was in a saucepan on the stove, while some crime scene photographers claimed it was in a paper bag)
• Skin from the face of Mary Hogan, a local tavern owner, found in a paper bag
• A window shade pull consisting of human lips
• A vest crafted from the skin of a woman's torso;
• A belt made from several human nipples
• Socks made from human flesh
• A sheath made from human skin
• A box of preserved vulvas that Gein admitted to wearing.
• An array of "shrunken heads"

My favorite is tied between the flesh socks and the lip shade

 

[Wolfwood]

I can't imagine what it would've been like searching that house, I know I would've lost it. I never knew the bastard lived that long either.

 

[Lighthouse]

Out of all serial killers, Gein has had the most movie psychos modeled after him.

 

[JLBats]

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A boring, sick, PERVerTED psycho who people have mythologized.
Seriously, why does everybody talk about THIS dude?
I'm surprised more people aren't obSESSed with THIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kehoe bat**** insane mother****er.

 

[SLVRSR4]

Being from Wisconsin I've heard so much about this guy. I thought Albert Fish was a lot more interesting.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I know Leatherface and the killer from Silence are based on him, but who else has Ed Gein moldings?

 

[JLBats]

^THIS guy

 

[PyroChamber]

Wasn't Patrick Bateman based a little on him too?

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I wanted to say Bates, but wasn't sure.

 

[Yerzrinot]

You have to kill three people to be a serial killer. Gein had only two confirmed kills to his name.

 

[Wolfwood]

Yeah, but he wasn't exactly famous for his killings, it was the other stuff that got him all his attention.

 

[Abstract]

zzzzZZZZZzzzzzZZZZZzzzzz

A boring, sick, PERVerTED psycho who people have mythologized.
Seriously, why does everybody talk about THIS dude?
I'm surprised more people aren't obSESSed with THIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kehoe bat**** insane mother****er.

Neighbors also recounted how Kehoe was cruel to his farm animals, having once beaten a horse to death.

That is some out of control rage.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

666 on the grave stone.

 

[Abstract]

So if Gein only has two murders attributed to him how do they account for all the extra souvenirs he had in his home?

 

[adhokk7]

So if Gein only has two murders attributed to him how do they account for all the extra souvenirs he had in his home?

eBay.

 

[Mike_D202]

I never thought I'd see a thread with the title "Ed Gein" and a smiley face attached to it.

 

[Abstract]

eBay.

Ahh, so that must be the origin of their no-body-parts-or-biological-matter policy.

 

[Majic Walrus]

How do you wear a vulva?

 

[JayCaz]

How do you wear a vulva?

You just completely read my mind, word for word, bravo.

 

[Untilteld]

Gein is crazy, I wish they'd make a good horror movie about him.

 

[Bubonic]

Although it must have been a ghastly seen, truth is that he only has two confirmed murderers, the man was a grave robber first and thats how most of his place was decorated.

I find this other Ed much more terrifying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_kemper , had a near genius IQ, beheaded the family pets, killed his grandparents at 14, was so cunning he convinced the shrinks to let him out because obviously he'd gotten better, proceeded to lure coeds into his car, beheaded them, family he killed his mother... The root of his problems, cut her head off and had oral sex with it, then turned himself in to police.

Oh and he was a towering 6'9"

 

[Troy_Parker]

Frighten Me This Thread Does

 

[Bubonic]

It's a weird subject to go on about, basically recounting grisly tales like this validates the existence of the killers and almost always ignores the fallen.

My first ambition as a kid was to become a profiler, so I read up a lot on serial killers... Started with gaudy biographies then moved on to things written by John Douglas and Robert Ressler.

Then I decided the whole notion of criminal profiling was slightly bogus. Some of these guys are very good, they hit the nail on the head more often then not... But unravelling the identity of a killer deductively from how he commits his crimes, where he commits his crimes is not an exact science and a lot of the profiles they give are very, very general.

 

[donk70]

Now, I am sure we have all heard of him, but it is always fun to read about!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein



My favorite is tied between the flesh socks and the lip shade

You're a sick and twisted person. May God have mercy on your soul

 

[Bubonic]

There are worst things in life then a random nutter who killed a couple of people many years ago.