Edward Theodore Gein was a Famous American Serial Killer who Inspired about 8 movies. Ed and his elder brother Henry were born into a farming family in a small town called La Crosse near Plainfield, Wisconsin. His Father 'George Gein' was also a tanner and carpenter and was drunk most of the time. His Mother 'Augusta Gein' was the Dominating Woman and the real voice of the house. She was a very religious woman who frequently warned her sons about the sins of premarital sex. Ed's Father died in 1940 and his brother in 1944 when he was fighting a marsh fire. It was later believed that Ed might have killed him. The Local Sheriff noted that Henry had some injuries to his head, but upon examination it was determined that these had not been the cause of death. A point of interest is that only his head was seriously burned. He sealed off the drawing room down stairs and five more rooms upstairs including his mothers bedroom. He lived in the downstairs room and the Kitchen. In loneliness he would read books on Human Anatomy, Nazi concentration Camp; including experiments done on the Jews during World war 2, Medical Encyclopedias, Pulp Horror novels and Pornographic Magazines. Ed became sexually aroused and he grew an interest in intmate anatomy of the female body. He had his first orgasm when his father and mother were slaughtering a pig inside an outhouse that George had built to store meat and groceries. When his mother Augusta died of a Stroke in 1945, Ed was left all alone at the at age of 39. His mother was buried on 31 December. It was around 18 months later that Ed started to visit the Local Graveyard at night. He began to have strange visions, He had often thought of sex-change operation but couldn't afford it. He confessed to wanting to see a woman's body, so he went to the cemetery to talk to his Mother. He then Dug up the body of a woman who had just been buried and took it home. He would read newspaper for obituaries of woman and go and open their graves. During the period of 1950-54 he visited 3 local Cemeteries at night and exhumed about 9-10 Graves. He took out humans body organs and pieces and stored them into refrigerator. He used skullcaps for bowls, created hanging mobiles with various body parts and crafted lampshades and chair seats out of human skin. On special occasions like dancing in the moonlight, he would wear 'nipple belt' and a 'mammary vest'. With this process Ed would think he became of another sex. On December 9, 1954, Mary Hogan, a 54 year old woman disappeared from her tavern, Hogans Tavern, Wisconsin. She was never seen alive again. Then, On November 16, 1957, Bernice Worden in her 50's was missing as well. Ed attacked her at her shop and dragged her body to his truck which was parked at the back. Bernice's son was a Sheriff's deputy and realized that Ed was in town the day of her disappearance. When the Police went to his farm, they found her headless body in his shed and also found Mary Hogan's head in a brown bag. There was no electricity at Ed's house, Police had to use Flash lights. Police found many Masks made of human faces, many other heads, some stuffed with newspaper, some soaked in oil. The police thought that oil was to keep the skin from decaying. According to other local farmers, Ed Gein was never expected to be a Murderer as he had been quiet and hard working person. Police had found many more unexpected stuffs at Ed's farm like: *Human Bodies hanging from hooks set in the basement walls. *Four noses in a cup in the Kitchen. *A Pair of lips hanging from a string. *A human heart (Worden's) on the plate on the table *Refrigerator full of human organs and body parts. *Human head hung on the wall alongside nine masks made of skins of women he had killed. *Faces stuffed with newspapers and soaked in oil and mounted like hunting trophies on the walls. *A chair seat and lampshade made of human skin. *A skull topping each of the four posts of his bed. *A belt made of nipples. *The crown of a skull used as a bowl. *Bracelets made of human skin. *A table with shinbone legs. *A woman suit Ed made for himself, complete with a mask and breasts. *A shoebox containing nine salted vulvas and genitalia of many women. *A can of congealed liquid believed to be blood. Edward Gein was arrested and immediately confessed to his crimes. He was accused of 10 murders but actually only charged with two. On January 16, 1958 he was judged insane and sent to central state Hospital at Waupun, Wisconsin. In November 1968, He was tried again was now diagnosed to have chronic schizophrenia, found NGBRI and returned to Central state, Waupun. Ed was a model patient - gently, polite and discreet. He spent all of his days in Mental Institutions. He was liked by the staffs and never caused any problem again. In 1978 Central state was turned into a prison so Gein was moved to the Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, Wisconsin. On 26 July, 1984 Edward Gein succumbed to cancer and died in the psychiatric ward aged 77 at Mendota.