Story of the Killer:
Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin and died July 26, 1984. He lived with his older brother Henry, his mother Augusta, and his father George on a 160 acre farm. Ed's father was a raging alcoholic, and his mother was very demanding and controlling over him and his brother. Ed and Henry's mother always kept them busy by either working on the farm, or quoting the Gospel. She was very clear on telling them the sins about the evil of sex and women. In 1940 George died of alcoholism, and his brother Henry died while fighting a fire. For a few years it was just Edward and his mother at the house. When Augusta died Ed still lived in the farmhouse but sealed off all except one room and the kitchen. Ed was a part of the soil conservation program, and the government began paying him so he no longer had to work on the farm. Gein stayed to himself but no one knew that he spent hours obssesed with sexual fantasy and reading about the female human anatomy.