Ed Gein’s sanity was at question when they sent him to trial. He had plead not guilty by reason of insanity. They did a series of psychological test on him and they found out that he did have a problem. They concluded that he was emotionally impaired, schizophrenic, and a sexual psychopath. He spent 10 years in a mental institution where he was recovering. His behavior and actions were different from most serial killers. He had only murdered two people, but had body parts from 10 women in his house. He told police that the remains of 8 of those women were from graveyards that he would steal from. He would make lamp shades and curtains out of body parts of the women graves that he would steal from. In his house they found 4 noses, 9 masks of human skulls, bowls made from human skulls, 10 female heads with the tops …show more content…
The owner was Bernice Worden and she had been missing. They searched his farmhouse and found her body decapitated and was hanging upside down by her feet. Her body was dressed out like that of a deer. He had shot her with a .22 caliber rifle. They questioned Gein about all the body parts he had in his house. He told investigators that he had made about 40 visits to local graveyards in a daze like state. He didn’t know what he was doing sometimes he would come out of the daze like state and return home empty handed.
Ed Gein was born to George and Augusta Gein in La Crosse County, Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. They had two sons Henry George Gein and Edward Theodore Gein. They lived on a farm on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Augusta moved here to prevent outsiders from influencing her kids. Ed Gein would leave his only to go to school, and when he would come home he would spend most of his day doing chores. Eds dad was a drunk that would spend his time drinking, but the marriage continued because of the families religious belief about