A polite, quiet man, that most people knew Ed to keep to himself turned out to be a meathook with several of women's dead bodies in his shed. Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, and served 10 years in a mental institution before being mentally stable to withstand his trial. Ed was found guilty from the crimes that he committed and was sent to the Central State Hospital. On March 30, 1958 Ed's house and property was put up for auction. Before the auction happened, the house was set on fire on March 27, 1958, three days before the auction. It had been suspected that arson was the cause of the fire but the real cause was never officially figured out. Ed's car that was used to put the dead bodies of his victims in was sold at a public auction for $760 to a carnival.
On July 26, 1984 Gein died at the age of 77 because of respiratory faliure. He died in the Stovall Hall in the Mendota Mental Health Institute. He was burried at the Plainfield Cemetry and several people vandalized his gravestone. Many people would come and chip off pieces of his gravestone. Durion 2000 Ed Gien's gravestone was stolen and was found in Seattle in June of 2001. Gein's gravestone is now in a museum in Waushara County.
Ed Gein is the original American Psycho who's real life antics in backwoods Wisconsin later served as the foundational basis for fictional killers such as Robert Bloch's Norman Bates and the terrifying Leatherface from Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
On July 26, 1984 Gein died at the age of 77 because of respiratory faliure. He died in the Stovall Hall in the Mendota Mental Health Institute. He was burried at the Plainfield Cemetry and several people vandalized his gravestone. Many people would come and chip off pieces of his gravestone. Durion 2000 Ed Gien's gravestone was stolen and was found in Seattle in June of 2001. Gein's gravestone is now in a museum in Waushara County.
Ed Gein is the original American Psycho who's real life antics in backwoods Wisconsin later served as the foundational basis for fictional killers such as Robert Bloch's Norman Bates and the terrifying Leatherface from Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre.