Ed Gin is one of the famous American maniacs. It is the prototype of many box-office horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. Officially, he has only two victims, about ten murders remained unproven. Gin's life and his crimes are still legendary.
Biography: early years
Ed (full name - Edward Theodore) Gin was born on August 27, 1906 in the small American town of Plainfield, Wisconsin. He had an older brother, Henry. The Gin family was reputed to be dysfunctional. His father was an unemployed alcoholic, and his mother sold groceries in her own small shop. Parents hated each other, but did not divorce because of their religious views.
Ed's mother grew up in a strict Lutheran family. She was obsessed with religion and read the Bible to her sons every day. Their mother also inspired them that everything in the modern world is fixated on lust, and all women are fallen. She forbade children to interact with their peers and loaded them with hard work on the farm. And if her sons disobeyed, their mother brutally beat them and mocked them in every possible way, as if taking out her unsettled life on them.
Ed was closed at school. Despite the tyranny of his mother, he studied relatively well and even reached for creativity. After high school, Ed and Henry rarely left the farm.
In 1939, his father died. After that, the brothers began to leave home more often. They took odd jobs to cover their daily expenses. Ed often sat for money with the neighbour's children.
Henry's older brother has repeatedly entered into an argument with a fanatical mother. Ed, who literally idolized her, didn't like it. In 1944, Henry died in a farm fire. Nobody investigated his death. Subsequently, experts doubted that he died a natural death. A version was put forward about Ed's involvement in the death of his brother.
Crimes
A year after Henry's death, his mother died. Ed was then 39 years old. He was left alone on the farm. During this time, he began to get carried away with books on anatomy and about the atrocities of the Nazis. Lonely Ed did not seem dangerous to the neighbors, they considered him a local eccentric.
He soon began to wear women's clothing. In the investigative experiment, Ed explained this by longing for his mother. This was followed by the excavation of fresh graves of women. He carried the bodies home and dismembered them. Gin made various objects from body parts. So, the police found at his house a chair covered with human skin and a lampshade, dishes made of skulls.
Gin committed his first murder in 1954. His victim was the owner of a local eatery, Mary Hogan. The next murder took place in 1957. Ed killed and dismembered shopkeeper Bernice Warden in cold blood. At the crime scene, Gin dropped the receipt. On it the police came to him.
According to American law, Ed was waiting for the electric chair. However, the jury found him insane. He was admitted to the clinic for treatment. In 1984 he died within its walls.
Personal life
Ed Gein was not married. Moreover, he never met women, because his mother suggested to him that they were all "dirty".
