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Related Articles. The true-crime genre is experiencing a huge boom, and it comes as no surprise—podcasts, documentaries, and TV shows have us all addicted to Read more No trivia or quizzes yet. Gein was in a series of examinations at the Central State Hospital for the Criminally insane. He was proven insane. The reasons for his actions were seen; he loved his mother but he hated her, so that is why he killed older women.

It is said that Mary Hogan had more of a passing resemblance to his mother. Gein denied being a cannibal or necrophiliac, but he did admit to grave robbing. The case created a sensation because of the true nature of the crime. Thousands of people drove to Plainfield to get a look at the 'murder farm'. Eventually the place was burned down by the Plainfield citizens as they regarded it as a place of evil.

At Christmas, , Gein was judged insane and he was committed to Waupan State Hospital for a life sentence. Gein died of cancer on 26 July , at the age of He was buried back in Plainfield next to the graves of his family.

It is said that Ed killed Henry so he could be more alone with his mother. In some sources it says that Henry was found dead in the Gein barn or was killed trying to put out a fire that had got the barn; but in others it says that Henry died while fighting a forest fire, and got trapped and was either burned or died from smoke inhalation.

Whatever is the case the motive for Ed to kill Henry is not substantiated. He did love his mother, but he killed women who were old and looked like his mother, so why would he kill his brother just to get more of his mothers love?

It is still unknown if Ed Gein did kill his brother and it quite possible he did; Ed was definitely a twisted character. One possible early story of Ed Gein is that in Ed was invited over to his nearest neighbours house, the Bankses. The intruder fled before the boy could tell him anything. The boy thought he had recognised Ed Gein as the man.

Some other stories of possible victims of Gein is an eight-year-old girl who went missing in and a fifteen-year-old who had disappeared on her way home from babysitting in Because of the true nature of the crimes it gave Hollywood a lot of ideas to work on.

One such early film was Psycho. Based on the Robert Bloch novel and made into a Hitchcock film. The connection being the overpowering mother and horror of the film, it made it one of the first of a kind. Robert Bloch got most of the ideas for Psycho from Ed Gein's life. The connection is mostly with the house, graverobbery and the cannibalism. One more recent and Academy Award winning film is Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal Lector.

There are a lot of connections to this film and Ed Gein, being with the skin clothes, cannibalism, and Buffalo Bill being a transvestite. Ed Gein was definitely one of the most weird murderers of this century. Even though he did kill only two women and suspected for the disappearance of others he is seen as one of the worlds infamous killers. Go Back. Ever wonder where influences of horror-films such as Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, came from?

Ed was responsible for multiple crimes, including the deaths of Mary Hogan in , and Bernice Worden in It was during the disappearance of Bernice that local law enforcement suspected Gein. Not only did they find the body of Bernice Worden, but they also found skulls and body parts of other victims throughout the home.

He exhumed as many as 40 corpses from the local grave sites of Plainfield, Wisconsin. He kept bones, body parts, and skin as his prized possessions. Ed was arrested on November 16th, , for shooting Worden with a.