Edward Theodore Gein

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On November 17, 1957 police arrived to the house of Ed Gein, they had suspected him of robbing the local hardware because he was found loitering around the store and being the last person seen at the store. When the police entered the house they found chairs, couches, lampshades, bowl made from a skull, a belt of female nipples and a costume made from human skin.
“Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin”( A+E Networks). Ed never really had a normal childhood, a childhood where your parents love you and you lived normally. Ed grew up in a household run by his mother who was a “religious fanatic” (A+E Networks). His mother raised Ed and Henry on her beliefs and ideals she also told them that “if they had sex before marriage they would go to hell” (Bell and Bardsley). George Gein their father was an alcoholic and when intoxicated would become angry and violent. George had no role when it came to raising the kids there mother “saw him as a worthless creature not fit to hold down a job, let alone care for their children” (Bell and Bardsley). “Augusta their mother would try to keep Ed and Henry from the world but that was unsuccessful because they had to go to school”(Bell and Bardsley). Their mother opened up a grocery store in La Crosse in order to get away from the city and better the family’s life. With the money she had saved up they moved to a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin the place where Ed would commit his crimes. In Ed’s teenage years he would be bullied all the time and had no friends, people in his class thought that he had feminine qualities because of the way he acted. Another reason he wasn’t able to make friends was because if tried to make friends his mother would scold him and punish ...

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...uilty he has several websites dedicated to him and has “groupies”. Ed also became the inspiration to leather face or better known as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
So the epic story of Ed Gein comes to a close. People know don’t really remember the victims but they will always remember the killer. Most people of today society think of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as unreal but don’t really know it was based of Ed Gein and his gruesome acts.

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"Robert Bloch." UXL Biographies. Detroit: U*X*L, 2003. Student Resources in Context. Web. 2 Dec. 2013.
"Ed Gein biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2013. .

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