EDDIE GIEN

By. Wes Gallagher

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Quick Intro to Ed.

• He was OBSESSED with his Mama• Never had friends outside his family• Lived on a secluded farm in Wisconsin • Weirdly intrigued by the female body• Would take the skin of female body’s

and wear it around the house. Among other horrific weird things

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Serial Killer?

• Serial Killer- Someone who has killed( in a pattern or unique way) more than one person in which they had no emotional connection.

• YES- Ed Gein is a serial killer– He was only found guilty of killing 2 women– Both women were in their 50’s ( near the age of

his mom when she died)– Killed both by shooting them with a 22. Cal. Rifle

Criminal Profiling

• If criminal profile was available, it would have shown how likely Ed. Gein was to be a serial killer.– No friends– Family died– Secluded on a farm– Made fun of as kid in school– No job

Hobbies

– His number one hobby was his mother– Reading was Eddie second favorite thing

• He read adventure stories as a young boy• As he grew he started reading death cult

magazines and books about Nazis, South Sea headhunters, shipwrecks, and anatomy.

– He also made many late night grave yard visits

Hobbies

• Reading the obituaries in the newspaper, looking for local women who have just died. – He would dig up the women and take their

bodies in order to have their skin and body parts

– With these body parts he would make/ do things such as . . .

Messed Up• “Preserved skins from ten human heads

• A rolled up skin from a woman's torso

• A belt made of excised nipples

• A chair covered in human skin

• Soup bowls made of the crowns from human skulls

• Lampshades made of stretched human skin

• A table with human leg bones as legs

• A refrigerator filled with human organs

• Bracelets made from human skin

• A shoebox filled with female genitalia

• The entire skin from a woman's torso, including the breasts”

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Evidence

• Not the smartest serial killer– The day Mrs.Worden went missing local

residents had seen Edie in town which is a very unusual site.

– Hearing that Eddie was in town the same day Mrs. Worden disappeared, he went and snooped around Eddie farm and found her beheaded hanging necked upside down from a meat hook with all of her organ removed.

– She had been shot in the head with a 22. rifle

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Connecting Evidence

• Both Bernice Worden & Mary Hogan were murdered with a 22 rifle.

• Small radius around from Ed.’s farm to the points of disappearance.

• Both were of similar ages and sex– Females mid-late 50s

• Near the age of his mother when she died.

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SICK

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Bernice Worden’s body

Trial and Jail

• He was proven guilty of killing both Bernice Worden & Mary Hogan– He did not deny or hide anything

• Before his trail he was sent to mental constitution until found stable enough for trial.

• After trial he spent the rest of his sentence/ life in different mental constitutions

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SOURCES

• http://z.about.com/d/crime/1/0/j/X/gein.jpg• http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/gein/5b.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein• http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=107

• http://www.geocities.com/serialmurderers/geincrime.html

• http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/cf_gein4.jpg