Serial Killer

By: DeMarcus Waggoner

Serial Killer:A person who murders several

people without a specific motive for murdering the individuals. These people generally are victims of mental insanity

ranging from Schizophrenia and bipolar traits.

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Ed GeinName: Edward Theodore Gein

DOB: August 27, 1906

Pace of Birth: Plainfield, Wisconsin

Parents: Augusta and George Gein

Siblings: One brother Hereny G. Gein

Parents

Augusta Gein

Mother

Very “Religious”

Owned a Grocery Store

Crazy

Passed the line between mother and son

relationship.

George Gein

Father

“Religious”

Alcoholic

Unemployed

Died 1940

Sparks

• Mysterious death of brother• Fire

• COD: asphyxiation

• Jobs: Farmer (digging)

• Baby Sitter

*The greatest contribution to Ed Geins crimes was the death of his mother

MurdersMurdered 2 people

Robert H. Gollmar and Bernice Worden

Most of his crimes came with grave robbing.

He kept their body parts

Death of his mother caused his to want to be a women.

“Skinned” the bodies

evidence

• Searching the house, authorities found:[7]

• * Human skulls mounted upon the corner posts of his bed

• * Human skullcaps used as soup bowls

• * An array of shrivelled heads

• * Skin fashioned into a lampshade and used to upholster chair seats

• * Skin from the face of Mary Hogan, a local tavern owner, found in a paper bag

• * Socks made from human flesh

• * A sheath made from human skin

• * A human heart (it is disputed where the heart was found; deputy reports all claimed that the heart was in a saucepan on the stove, while some crime scene photographers claimed it was in a paper bag)

• * A window shade pull made of human lips

• * Four noses

• * Organs in the refrigerator

• * Pieces of salted genitalia in a boxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

Trail

Insanity plea

Guilty of murder of Robert H. Gollmar

Spent time the rest of his life in a mental hospital.

Death

• He died of heart failure in 1984

• He also had Cancer

• Many people stole chips from his Headstone

bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

• http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gein/bill_1.html

• http://www.prairieghosts.com/ed_gein.html

• http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/E/d/Edward_Gein.html