So, do you think he was born to kill/dig up bodies and wear their flesh or do you think that his mother, and how she raised him, turned him into the man he became?



Personally, I think his mother and her way of raising him had a lot to do with it. I think she screwed him up quite a lot.

AzureStarr said:

Um...can you tell us a bit more? He's not that well known over here. I only know of him cos of reading about a song based on his story, but the lyric doesn't tell me much. I don't mean graphic details, just about his background..

the movie "psycho" is based on ed gein....also, i think "the texas chainsaw massacre" was inspired by him.

He murdered two older women and would wear their flesh, making a "vest" out of their skin, "stockings", "masks", etc.

He dug up graves and would do the same with the flesh of those bodies, making masks out of them, etc. Cutting out their vaginas and saving them in a box, hanging them from drapes, etc...

His mother always wanted a daughter and when having her second child being a son, she decided to try and make him "work" and not turn into a "man". She taught him that most all women were bad, except for her, especially those who drank, that men were bad, etc. Kept him pretty much sheltered, never allowing him friends as the kids' parents were "bad"... all he had was her. Once she passed away, he boarded up a few of her rooms and they were never entered until the time that he was arrested and the police entered the rooms.

He claimed that when he did these acts that he'd be in a daze and it was as if someone were telling him to do these things. Most of the victims who were women, the two that he killed and those he dug up were women of his mother's age or women who she would have considered evil or bad because of their way of speaking or if they drank.

http://www.crimelibrary.c...inmain.htm


Or here... this probably explains a bit better than what I did.

Gein's upbringing DEFINITELY had an influence on how he turned out. The book "Deranged" is an excellent account of his crimes. "TCM" was based on Gein's fetish for dressing in skin and using the remains of his victims in his furnishings. "Psycho" was more faithful to Gein's personality. Gein also inspired Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs." They also made a movie called "Ed Gein" a few years ago, which was low-budget junk.

Another serial killer from Wisconsin.

Case said:

So, the movie isn't worth watching?

Another good book on Gein is Deviant, by Harold Schechter. I'm going to Amazon to check out Deranged.

I agree about his upbringing. I doubt that he'd have commited those crimes had his mother raised him differently.

Case said:

Checked Amazon for that book... same author, but about Fish instead. Ordered it, though! So, you probably already read the book I suggested on Gein...

Thanks!

Hi, you.

I think the mom definately screwed him up!