Why Is Edward Gein Insane

Edward Gein was an insane person. It all started when his mother Augusta Gein died in December 29, 1945. Edward was really attached to his mother, which was not healthy at all. Augusta always told him things that weren’t basically true about the world. Edward believed it all because he looked at his mother as if she was a “saint”. Ed’s behavior was psychotic, he was also very antisocial. He was shy. The primary motive he killed woman was because he had a psychological and sexual desire. The snapping point of all his crimes was when his mother died. His mother left him lonely and without someone to idolize in his own isolated world. Gein’s main signature behavior was mutilation, he mutilated his victims and kept parts of them as if there were trophies.

She was a tavern owner. Ed’s second murder was Bernice Worden, he murdered her on November 6th, 1957. He admitted to both of those murderers. Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial. He was confined to a mental health facility. In, 1968 Gein was found guilty but legally insane of the murder of Worden. So, he was remanded to a psychiatric institutions. Later he died at Mendota Mental Health Institute. He died of cancer- induced liver respiratory failure at age 77 on July 26, 1984, Ed is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery with unmarked grave. Edward’s childhood was not a very good one. He was obsessively devoted to his mother. His mother was a religious fanatic, Edward was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was the son of a timid alcoholic father and a fanatically religious mother. Ed grew up alongside his older brother Henry in a household ruled by his mother’s preachings about the sins of lust and carnal desire. Gein never went out or dated any women, so when his mother died he became increasingly deranged, then he eventually began prowling cemeteries to unearth recently buried female