Gein's Many Trips to the Graveyard
Between 1947 and 1952, Ed Gein said he visited three local graveyards at least 40 times during the night. When he was there, he searched for recently buried bodies while he claimed to be in a “daze-like” state. Gein told investigators that in around 30 of the visits, he came out of the daze when he entered the site of the graves, and returned home empty-handed. For the remaining visits, it is said that Gein searched for recently buried middle-aged women who resembled his mother. When he found a body that reached this criteria, he took it home and tanned their skin to make various items of furniture and clothing.
Gein used both the bodies he dug up in the cemeteries and the bodies of the two women he killed to build his creations at home. Some of these creations include masks made from human skin, bowls make from human skulls, human skin covering several chair seats, a belt made from human female nipples, a pair of lips on a draw sting to work a window-shade, a lampshade made from the skin taken from a human face, as well as decorating bedposts with skulls.
Gein confessed to robbing a total of nine graves and eventually led his investigators to the exact location of these graves. He did so to help prove that he had worked alone; the investigators did not believe he could dig up a grave by himself in a single night. But when they examined two of the graves and found them both empty, the investigators were convinced of Gein’s confession to working alone in these grave robberies.
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Gein used both the bodies he dug up in the cemeteries and the bodies of the two women he killed to build his creations at home. Some of these creations include masks made from human skin, bowls make from human skulls, human skin covering several chair seats, a belt made from human female nipples, a pair of lips on a draw sting to work a window-shade, a lampshade made from the skin taken from a human face, as well as decorating bedposts with skulls.
Gein confessed to robbing a total of nine graves and eventually led his investigators to the exact location of these graves. He did so to help prove that he had worked alone; the investigators did not believe he could dig up a grave by himself in a single night. But when they examined two of the graves and found them both empty, the investigators were convinced of Gein’s confession to working alone in these grave robberies.
http://www.weavils.com/edgein.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
image: http://www.quizlaw.com/blog/if_this_guy_really_wants_to_se.php