These looney toons.....Serial Killer Bio

Known as history’s most inspirational killer with his character becoming the central theme for many films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller “Psycho” and the character of Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs” among others.

Modus Operandi

He was a serial killer who would skin his victims, exhume corpses and decorate his home with parts of his victims’ bodies. Human skin was used to make dustbins, furniture and clothes.

Background

Edward Theodore was born in the year 1906 as the youngest of two boys. He had a weak alcoholic father and a domineering mother who was deeply religious. He was said to be very attached to her. She taught them about immorality and the evils of women and sex and discouraged their sexual desires. He turned into an effeminate and shy boy.

Ed’s father died of alcoholism and later his brother Henry, who used to criticize his mother about Ed’s unhealthy attachment to her, died in a mysterious fire, and Ed was later suspected.

Fantasies

With nobody to control him after his mother passed away, Eddie became obsessed with sexual fantasy and female anatomy. He was fascinated by the human experiments performed in Nazi camps. He started robbing graves to perform experiments, including removing his own mother from her grave. The experiments became gruesome and cannibalistic. He had the desire of turning himself into a woman and would create breasts out of human skin and drape it. He believed that for a sex change, he would need fresh bodies and thus started his killing spree, which was said to be because of his love-hate relationship with his mother.

House of Horrors

When police finally caught up with him, they found - hanging corpse’s with throat and heads missing, bowls made of skull, various pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, masks made of facial skin and vulva, including his mother’s, that were painted silver. The most shocking was his mother’s heart that was found in a pan on the stove.

Killings and Sentence

Police counted them as 15 women. Gein told the police that he never had sex with any of the dead women as “they smelled too bad.” His fascination with women was because of the power they held over men. Gein was admitted to Waupan State Hospital and died of cancer at the age of 78.