The Cause Of Edward Gein's Murder

Edward Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse county, Wisconsin. His parents were George Philip and Augusta Wilhelmine Gein, his sibling was Henry George Gein.Edward Gein’s father was an alcoholic, and his mother was very religious. The death of his mother is the cause of Ed Gein’s murder.

Ed Gein was seriously devoted to his mom, and before she died, he never left the house or dated women. When his mother died, he became deranged and disoriented, he started roaming about graveyards and unbury females and keep them as “trophies” and then he would bring them back to their graves undisturbed. In 1954, he began murdering people. Police linked to him to two murders in 1957. During the investigation, police learned that he practiced necrophilia,

which is intercourse with dead corpses, and experimented with human taxidermy. In a trial that year, Ed Gein was found not guilty by means of insanity. He was found “unfit” to stand trial and committed to a mental hospital for criminals of his sort. Almost ten years later, he would be declared fit to stand trial and was found guilty. He was submitted into several different mental institutions including the Central State Hospital in Wisconsin and the Mendota Mental Health Institute. He died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer, on July 26, 1984. He was 77 when he died. His killings were so famous that he inspired many movie characters, like Norman Bates (Psycho), Jame Gumb (The Silence Of The Lambs), and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).