Before Norman Bates, Leatherface or Buffalo Bill there was Ed Gein!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

Edward Theodore Gein (/ɡiːn/; August 27, 1906[5] – July 26, 1984), also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered that Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein confessed to killing two women – tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden in 1957. Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility. In 1968, Gein was found guilty but legally insane of the murder of Worden,[6] and was remanded to a psychiatric institution. He died at Mendota Mental Health Institute of cancer-induced liver and respiratory failure at age 77 on July 26, 1984. He is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery, in a now-unmarked grave.

[lunasun]

1. I believe he was inspiration for both Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies . Yes anyone?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Yep! And many others including Silence Of The Lambs!

[lunasun]

4. I want to say I read he liked to dance in the moonlight in the skin of one of his victims

Not as romantic as it sounds..

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Not at all! 😨

[cyclonefence]

3. And before Hannibal Lector, there was Albert Fish

My dear Mrs Budd,

In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer Tacoma, Capt John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was a famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1 to 3 Dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold to the Butchers to be cut up and sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak – chops – or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girls behind which is the sweetest part of the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price. John staid there so long he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y. he stole two boys one 7 one 11. Took them to his home stripped them naked tied them in a closet then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them – tortured them – to make their meat good and tender. First he killed the 11 yr old boy, because he had the fattest ass and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except Head – bones and guts. He was roasted in the oven, (all of his ass) boiled, broiled, fried, stewed. The little boy was next, went the same way. At that time I was living at 409 E 100 St, rear – right side. He told me so often how good human flesh was I made up my mind to taste it. On Sunday June the 3 – 1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese – strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her, on the pretense of taking her to a party. You said Yes she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wild flowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mama. First I stripped her naked. How she did kick – bite and scratch. I choked her to death then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms, cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her, though, I could of [sic] had I wished. She died a virgin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Sick!

[cyclonefence]

10. that's not the half of it

x-ray of his pelvis

It was about this time that Fish began to indulge in self-harm. He would embed needles into his groin and abdomen.[10] After his arrest, X-rays revealed that Fish had at least 29 needles lodged in his pelvic region.[10] He also hit himself repeatedly with a nail-studded paddle and inserted wool doused with lighter fluid into his anus and set it alight.[17] While he was never thought to have physically attacked or abused his children, he did encourage them and their friends to paddle his buttocks with the same nail-studded paddle he used to abuse himself. He soon developed a growing obsession with cannibalism, often preparing himself a dinner consisting solely of raw meat and sometimes serving it to his children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Holy shit!

[dewsgirl]

13. Oh my God, I have watched a documentary on him/read a few

Articles none of that has prepared me for this thread. This is utterly mortifying.😨

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I remember him well. He was the subject of a long-running current events discussion

in my 5th grade class, as well as of a number of gruesome and very juvenile jokes. Here are a few I remember:

Q: What were Ed Gein's favorite cookies?
A: Lady fingers.

Q: What did Ed Gein say to the cop who arrested him?
A: "Come on, Officer, have a heart!"

Q: What did Ed Gein have in his sewing box?
A: Belly buttons.

Yeah, I know... Fifth grade.

He was at least in part the inspiration for Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. To be in the 5th again!

[edbermac]

14. They were called Geiners. The presiding judge wrote a book about it.

But one joke I’ll always remember. Some of the younger iPhone folks here might not know that phone numbers used letters and numbers. If you called the operator and asked them to call someone in Boston, you’d ask for BOS-1234. So the joke was:

What was Ed Gein’s phone number?

Answer: O I C U 8 1 2

[edbermac]

8. Got a book about him years ago written by the judge.

Had some of the crime scene photos with one of his victims dressed out like a deer. That guy was seriously whacko.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. True that!