Why Is Edward Gein Alive

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The disturbing human being that is Edward Gein roamed the earth from 1906 to 1984, he once said, “When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants me to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick.” According to a recent study, five percent of Crane High school students have heard of this psychopath. This paper is based solely on the unbelievable yet intriguing crimes Ed Gein had committed when he was alive. He was a very unusual character, born on a farm and raised by a mother who was rather intimidating. In forty years his mother passed and he was left to raise the farm all by himself. In the next few years he became a grave robber, a necrophiliac, …show more content…

Alone he sat in the farmhouse he would think endlessly about sex, until one day he saw a newspaper report of a woman who had been buried that day. He enlisted the help of an old friend named Gus. Gus was a weird loner just like Gein, and quite definitely odd - he went to the asylum a few years later. Gus was Ed Gein’s trusted buddy, and agreed to assist Ed in opening a grave to secure a corpse for “medical experiments”. Gus helped dig the graves. His experiments with the dead bodies was bizarre beyond belief. He would construct objects from the bones and skin and would store the organs in the fridge to eat later. He also committed acts of necrophilia on the bodies. He even went on and dug up his own mother corpse. What Ed Gein didn’t reveal to Gus was his own growing desire to become a woman himself; it was for this reason he’d studied anatomy, thought about the possibilities of an ‘operation’ which would result in a change of sex, desired to dissect a female corpse and familiarise himself with its anatomy. The closest he would get to this is dressing up in a full woman bodysuit, complete with mask and breasts constructed entirely of human skin. As the collection of trophies grew, so did the range of his experimentation and obsession. Then Gus was taken away to the asylum, …show more content…

Gein told of how he thought someone had tried to frame him of Bernice Worden’s death. Sheriff Schley took Ed Gein into custody, Schley had not mentioned Bernice Worden’s death. Sheriff Schley and Captain Schoephoester returned to the house with other officers. The doors to the farmhouse were locked, but the oor to the side shed at the rear of the house opened when Schley pushed it with his foot. It was night time and since the farm had no electricity, the sheriff had to use a torch. It revealed a naked corpse of a woman hanging upside down from a crossbeam, the legs spread wide apart, and a long slit running from the genitals almost to the throat. The throat, like the head, was missing. The genitals and the anus were also missing. Bernice Worden had been disemboweled like that of deer. There was no electricity in the dark house so they conducted their inspection with oil lamps, lanterns. And flashlights. The place looked like it had not been clean or tidied in years, there were piles of rubbish everywhere. The few rooms that weren’t nailed off were littered with books, old papers, magazines, utensils, tin cans, cartons and a lot of other