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Ed Gein (The Real Leatherface) - Serial killer documentary
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LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT WISCONSIN Home of Ed Gein
Serial Killers Documentaries
Published on Aug 12, 2017
Ed Gein was a notorious killer and grave robber. He inspired the creation of several film characters, including Norman Bates ('Psycho'), Jame Gumb ('The Silence of the Lambs'), Leatherface ('Texas Chainsaw Massacre') and the new Leatherface (2017).
Obsessively devoted to his mother until her death in 1945, Gein never left home or dated women. After she died, he became increasingly deranged and eventually began prowling cemeteries to unearth recently buried female corpses. He would cut off body parts and keep them as trophies, returning the corpses seemingly undisturbed to their graves. In 1954, Ed Gein turned from grave robbing to murder, a task he was less meticulous about. Police implicated him in the murders of two women in 1957. During the investigations, police learned that he had practiced necrophilia and experimented with human taxidermy.
That same year, Gein pleaded not guilty by reason by insanity. He was found unfit to stand trial and committed to a mental hospital for criminals. Nearly ten years later, he would be declared fit to stand trial and was ultimately found guilty of murder. He was confined in various criminal psychiatric institutions, including the Central State Hospital in Wisconsin and the Mendota Mental Health Institute, where he died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer, on July 26, 1984, at age 77.
Serial Killers Documentaries
Published on Aug 12, 2017
Ed Gein was a notorious killer and grave robber. He inspired the creation of several film characters, including Norman Bates ('Psycho'), Jame Gumb ('The Silence of the Lambs'), Leatherface ('Texas Chainsaw Massacre') and the new Leatherface (2017).
Obsessively devoted to his mother until her death in 1945, Gein never left home or dated women. After she died, he became increasingly deranged and eventually began prowling cemeteries to unearth recently buried female corpses. He would cut off body parts and keep them as trophies, returning the corpses seemingly undisturbed to their graves. In 1954, Ed Gein turned from grave robbing to murder, a task he was less meticulous about. Police implicated him in the murders of two women in 1957. During the investigations, police learned that he had practiced necrophilia and experimented with human taxidermy.
That same year, Gein pleaded not guilty by reason by insanity. He was found unfit to stand trial and committed to a mental hospital for criminals. Nearly ten years later, he would be declared fit to stand trial and was ultimately found guilty of murder. He was confined in various criminal psychiatric institutions, including the Central State Hospital in Wisconsin and the Mendota Mental Health Institute, where he died of respiratory and heart failure due to cancer, on July 26, 1984, at age 77.
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SGT James Murphy
I know! They Tore the House down Decades ago but he used to be kept locked up in Newberry Michigans Hospital for the Criminally Insane! Howed you like to work THAT ward?
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SGT James Murphy
PVT Mark Zehner - Ya' I talked to a customer I had that had a TV Shop in Newberry and he had to go in and fix their TV's once in a while and he said it was the creepiest experience of his life when Ed came up to him and very quietly asked him if it would be fixed in time for some show, I forget which.
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