The novel and film psycho stem from a true story, author Robert Block lived not far from the rural community of Plainfield Wisconsin, the scene of a horrific event that would change Plainfield forever. Timid little farmer Plainfield Edward Theodore Gein had lived most of his life in a farm house with his mother Augusta and his brother Henry outside of Plainfield Wisconsin.
Ed’s farther died when he was a child, bible bashing mother August Gein always warned her sons that all women were sinful, and to just stay on the farm. Ed considered her a saint, as an adult Ed’s brother Henry began to disagree with the views of his mother, he told the now grown Ed that he was too attached to their mother, a momma’s boy. Henry Gein died shortly after that
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Only living in his bedroom and the kitchen Ed immersed himself in books about anatomy, Nazi atrocities, island cannibals and horrific crime stories. Due to government subsidies Gein no longer had to work, occasionally hiring himself out to his neighbours. Some of Plainfield’s 700 other residence called him wired Ed.
He would give them a funny smile at odd times, but nobody payed much attention to the harmless 5’foot 5 farmer. According to Ed he convinced another local farmer to help him with some work, which was grave robbing. Old Gus and Ed dug up the bodies of women and carried them back to Ed’s farm house, Ed told his friend only that he was doing experiments, few people ever entered his lonely farm house.
One night in 1954 Ed walked into a saloon in nearby Pine Grove, deserted except for the owner Mary Hogan, who physical appearance resembled Ed’s mother. Ed shot her with a 22. Calibre, packed the 51 year old woman onto a sled and carted her to his farm, Ed continued his lonely life, unmolested by outsiders or sanity. In November 1957 Ed hung around Warden’s hardware store in Plainfield, Betrays Warden was a bucksen woman whose shape reminded Ed of his