ED GEIN
Edward Theodore Gein
Birth name: Edward Theodore Gein
Alias(es): Plainfield Ghoul, Ed "Psycho" Gein
Born: August 27, 1906
Plainfield, Wisconsin
Died: July 26, 1984 (aged 77)
Cause of death: respiratory and heart failure
Penalty: Not guilty by reason of insanity
Killings
Number of victims: 2 - 7
Span of killings: 1947 through 1957
Country: U.S.
State(s): Wisconsin
Date apprehended: November 16, 1957
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984) was a
notorious American killer. Though only two murders on his part were proven, he
gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of
his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of
corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of
corpses). Although he is considered to have engaged in necrophiliac behavior,
there is no significant evidence to prove that he engaged in sex with the
corpses. Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances,
six people disappeared from the Wisconsin towns of La Crosse and Plainfield
between 1947 and 1957.
Edward Theodore Gein
Birth name: Edward Theodore Gein
Alias(es): Plainfield Ghoul, Ed "Psycho" Gein
Born: August 27, 1906
Plainfield, Wisconsin
Died: July 26, 1984 (aged 77)
Cause of death: respiratory and heart failure
Penalty: Not guilty by reason of insanity
Killings
Number of victims: 2 - 7
Span of killings: 1947 through 1957
Country: U.S.
State(s): Wisconsin
Date apprehended: November 16, 1957
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984) was a
notorious American killer. Though only two murders on his part were proven, he
gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of
his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of
corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of
corpses). Although he is considered to have engaged in necrophiliac behavior,
there is no significant evidence to prove that he engaged in sex with the
corpses. Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances,
six people disappeared from the Wisconsin towns of La Crosse and Plainfield
between 1947 and 1957.