(1906 – 1984)
(died 26 july 1984)
(died 10 days before i was born)
“the butcher of plainfield”
(from plainfield, wisconsin)
(killed two women and made trophies from the body parts of corpses)
influenced the following movie characters:
norman bates (“psycho”)
leatherface (“texas chainsaw massacre”)
buffalo bill (“silence of the lambs”)
arrested in 1957
(at age 51)
(during questioning, Waushara County sheriff Art Schley reportedly assaulted Gein by banging his head and face into a brick wall)
(as a result, Gein’s initial confession was ruled inadmissible)
(‘schley’ died of heart failure at age 43 in 1968, before Gein’s trial)
(many who knew Schley said he was traumatized by the horror of Gein’s crimes and this, along with the fear of having to testify (especially about assaulting Gein), caused his death)
(one of his friends said: “He was a victim of ‘ed gein’ as surely as if he had butchered him”)
(spent the rest of his life in a “mental institution”)