Ed Gein

Ed gein a man who believed he truly felt he had a compulsion to commit his murders.  Growing up with a weak alcoholic father and a extremely religious mother; Gein was destined to have mental problems.   Geins mother expressed that sexual feelings were not suposed to be expound upon. He also grew up managing and running a farm with his brother.  Geins Mother passed away when he was 39.  His brother passed away only one year later.  The farm soon started to become run down and Ed started to become fascinated with female anatomy which soon lead to horrific crimes.


Ed Geins young sexual feelings were always frowned upon by his mother.  Gein was a 39 yr. old bachelor who never dated.  When his mother passed away so he had no one to watch his every move; this allowing Ed to research and become obsessed with the female body and pornographic material.  He started out by digging up women's graves where would remove reproductive organs, heart, liver and intestines.  Then he would remove the skin and create breast for himself to wear along with clothing and rags.  He soon thought that he needed fresher samples so he began murdering women.  He killed victims around his mothers age(51-58).  He continued to dissect there bodies and decorate his house with all aspects of the human body.  Gein murdered 15 know victims but he also stated that he could not remember exactly how many.


Finally Gein was arrested and sent to Central Sate Hospital for the criminally insane. He went to three mental institutions before he finally passed away from cancer.  He admitted to grave robbing but claimed he never had se with any corps because of there smell. I believe that he committed his murders because of lack of carrying out his sexual feelings.  It is human instinct to have those feelings.  Where when his mother was alive he had to conceal them.  When his mother passed away he expressed all feelings and became so obsessed with the female body that he went way beyond social standards.