Edward(Ed) Gein, AKA The Plainfield Ghoul was an American Serial killer and a body snatcher. After authorities discovered that Gein had disclosed/exhumed corpses from locals graveyards, his crimes were garnered widespread notoriety. In 1957, authorities found body parts in Gein’s house, later Gein confessed to murdering two women. The two victims that Gein confessed to killing were Mary Hogan and Bernice C. Worden. Although very mentioned and feared when people hear his name, with fewer than three murders attributed, it is said that Ed Gein does not meet the traditional definition of a Serial killer. In 1968, Gein was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was found not culpable/guilty by reason of insanity and acquitted(later he was transferred to a mental hospital in which he died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer, on July 26, 1984. Who was Ed Gein? Edward (Ed) Theodore Gein AKA “The Plainfield Ghoul, was an American serial killer. Gein was born on August 27, 1906, La Crosse county, Wisconsin. The individual died on July 26, 1984, Mendota Medical Health Institute where he was sent after he was found not guilty, but insane. He lived with his mother Augusta, father George, and his older …show more content…
Gein had in mind ideas of experiments that he wanted to perform, but he needed bodies. This is why he started visiting locals cemeteries, and exhuming/robbing corpses from graves. The experiments with the corpses became more bizarre and gruesome over the time, it included cannibalism (1) and necrophilia (2). Gein’s obsession with the experiments was due to his overpowering desire to turn himself into a woman. He would construct items out of the skin of the corpse that he could then cloak on himself such as a female mask and breasts. He even made a complete body-sized female-like