The disturbing human being that is Edward Gein roamed the earth from 1906 to 1984, he once said, “When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants me to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick.” According to a recent study, five percent of Crane High school students have heard of this psychopath. This paper is based solely on the unbelievable yet intriguing crimes Ed Gein had committed when he was alive. He was a very unusual human, born on a farm and raised by a mother who was rather intimidating. In forty years his mother passed and he was left to take care of the farm all by himself. In the next few years he was to become a grave robber, a cannibal, a necrophiliac, and he took up arts and crafts in body parts. He is seen as probably the most weird and bizarre serial killer of the twentieth century, and probably …show more content…
She was very religious with a protective attitude towards her two children with a definite conviction of sin. She discouraged them from women and kept them busy with work on the farm. His father was an alcoholic he died in 1940 and a few years later his brother Henry died in 1944, supposedly trapped while fighting a forest fire. Shortly thereafter his mother had suffered from a terrible stroke and in 1945 she had her second stroke from which she never recovered from, and Ed was left all alone on their farm. It was for that reason he sealed off the upstairs, the parlour, and is mother’s bedroom by boarding it off and set up his own living arrangements in the remaining bedroom, kitchen and shed of the big farmhouse. He completely stopped working on the farm because a government soil-conservation program offered him a subsidy, which he augmented by his work as a handyman around the area of Plainfield,