Ed Gein Crime Scene Analysis

The Crime Scenes: Horror in Disguise

Ed Gein was the center of attention in the most infamous way imaginable. The scenes he left after his crimes were not that far from the typical murder. The first crime scene attributed to him was a local tavern owned by Mary Hogan, a middle aged woman who resembled Ed’s mother but had a foul mouth in comparison; blood stains and an empty .22 bullet casing on the floor were the only evidence there. Gein later confessed to drinking with her that day, then closing the blinds and shooting her in the head with a .22 caliber gun (Ed Gein, 2009). The other crime scene Gein confessed to was a harvest products shop where he killed owner, and mother to deputy Frank Worden, Bernice Worden, 58. There sheriffs found

There, they found far more than they could have imagined. The general look of the house was the typical disorganized clutter, but it’s what was in plain sight amongst the clutter that was the real shock, which only increased as investigators uncovered more “items” as they searched the property. Among the items found, according to BBC (2008), were masks made from human faces, bowls made from human skulls, female heads with the top sawed off, chairs and a lamp shade covered in human skin, organs in the refrigerator, a belt made from human female nipples, a whole body suit made from female skin, including a vest with breasts among many other disturbing sights. As for the crimes Gein was being investigated for, they found Mary Hogan’s head in a paper bag, and in Gein's shed “Bernice Worden’s headless corpse was found hanging upside down with her ankles lashed to a wooden cross beam. She was split open from vagina to sternum, field dressed like a deer.” (Radford University, 2012). Although he did not admit to any other murders, Gein also confessed to taking bodies from graveyards, where he got most of the “material” he