Most serial killers come from dysfunctional families, and they seem to have little love and more abusive tendencies due to a lack of emotional reactions to the horror that they have caused.
These types of people start out sometimes harming animals. They also tend to have issues in school or can’t seem to get anyone to like them. Something in the brain triggers them to go out killing.
Could it be revenge, the thrill of it, or too much anger inside? No one really knows but the serial killer themselves. Serial killers have a weird behavior to them and can’t seem to tell the truth.
Most of them suffer from severe memory problems, and the majority has experienced alcohol or drug abuse at some point in their life.
They tend to have a high sex drive and abnormal sexual behavior. Most of them have a selected place on where they prefer to orchestrate their killings at. Preferable choices include the woods, lakes, amusement parks, and so on. Some of them only choose to go after one sex to where others don’t care who it is. Most serial killers choose victims from their own race, and rarely go outside of it.
Edward Gein was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on August 27th of 1906. It was a small town that he was born in. His parents names where George and Augusta. He had a brother named Henry. The brothers lives where very hard and complicating. There father was an alcoholic and there mother picked at the father until he was so drunk that he came back at her violently.
The serial killer was a quiet and obedient boy, and Augusta happened to favor him. All Ed ever wanted was attention from his mother in return for his devotion. When Ed turned 8 his mother kept on there father until he finally bought a 275 acre farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. There new home was six miles from town and around the woodland.
Ed’s parents were working on the inside of a wooden outhouse that George had built to store meats and groceries. The mother had made it very clear that her boys where never allowed to go into the outhouse. Edward had listened to his mother’s wishes and never disobeyed her or had an interest in going into it.
One day Edward had gotten tired of waiting on his mother and decided to peek through a crack in the door. What he had seen was not something he had ever expected.
His mom and dad where slaughtering pigs. From him seeing this he had become sexually aroused and had his first orgasm. 1940 of April 1st Edward had lost his father to pneumonia. At the time Henry was 38 and Edward was 34. Four years later Augusta and Edward lost Henry to a forest fire. It was only him and his mother left after that. The local sheriff and noted that Henry had some injuries to his head.
But looking more into it they had discovered that these weren’t the cause of his death. Only his head was seriously burned. December of 1945 Augusta Gein died in the hospital due to being ill for a long period of time followed by a stroke.
She as buried on December 31st About eighteen months later Edward began visiting the local graveyards at night. In 1957 Edward was in an interview while being under investigation and had stated to Earl Kileen, which was the district attorney, that after his mom had died he began to have strange visions. He had confessed to wanting to see a woman’s body. He had gone to the cemetery to talk to his mother.
Then he dug up a body of a woman who was just recently buried and took it home. After this he would watch the newspapers and obituaries and every time a new woman’s body was buried he would go dig it up. He had done this for ten years and also raided many graves. At this time he had become virtually a total recluse. It was said that Edward suffered from agoraphobia.
1954 on December 9th a 54 year old woman named Mary Hogan was a tavern owner of Pine Grove, Wisconsin. She had disappeared and was never seen alive again. The law enforcement had entered into Geins farm house in 1957 on November 16th they where there to investigate the disappearance of a woman.
The Pine Grove Police had then joined them and they where working on the case of Mary Hogan. Edward was locked up during the time that the officers came into the farm house. They came across masks that had looked to be made out of human faces.
There was also a lot of head, some being stuffed with newspaper, and others soaked in oil. The police suspected that the oil was to keep the skin from decaying.
A deputy had found the head of Mary Hogan in a brown paper bag. The Sheriff from close by in Portage County was convinced that Gein was a mass murdered. He had said that although the masks had traces of formaldehyde on them, so did Mary’s Hogan’s and they knew he was the serial killer.
He had said Gein couldn’t have moved the heavy head stones to get to the caskets. The D.A. Kileen of Portage County ordered a body of Mrs. Eleanor Adams’s who was buried right next to Edward’s mother.
They found the casket had been placed in a much larger box beginning at two feet under ground. The realized that the grave had been tampered with. They knew that Gein wouldn’t have had much trouble digging up the casket if the grave had been freshly dug.
There where many other things reported found at Geins farmhouse which was many women which he had kept in salt. A can of doctor pepper that had congealed liquid that was believed to be blood, a belt made out of nipples, a skull that was made into a soup bowl. Gein said he got the idea from Norwegian custom. Also a mobile made of noses was found. He had made lampshades and chair seats from human skin.
He stocked his fridge with human organs. November 2nd of 1957 Geins stood before a judge named Herbert A Bunde. He had been charged with robbery and a bail of 10,000 dollars. The murder charges were held off until his sanity was proved.
The judge had determined that Geins be held at Central State for 30 days for an evaluation. On December 23rd of 1957 Geins was announced insane. He was sentenced to Central State until 1968 when he found fit to stand trial. He then was charged with first degree murder his lawyer put in his defense of insanity and was then found to be insane again.
He was then returned to Central State. He was known for being a model prisoner and the stall liked him a lot. In 1978 Central State was turned into a prison so Gein was moved to a mental health institute in Madison, Wisconsin July 26th 1984. He had died of heart and respiratory failure. He had suffered from cancer. He passed on at the age of 77. He was buried next to his mother.
