The Women Gein Killed
Ed Gein was linked to over ten missing persons cases, but was only convicted of killing two women: Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan. Bernice Worden was a fifty-eight year old hardware store owner, and Mary Hogan was a fifty-four year old tavern owner. The day before Gein murdered Worden, in 1957, he visited her shop and promised to return the next day to buy another item. The last receipt found before Bernice Worden disappeared was documenting a purchase made by an Edward Gein.
When Frank Worden returned to his mother’s hardware store, there was said to be a small pool of blood and a trail leading out of the store’s back door. Frank then ordered a search of Gein’s property for Gein had left a large trail of suspicion behind for the authorities to consider him as the murderer. Gein was the last to buy anything from the store, and had shown interest in Mrs. Worden previously; one source stated that he even asked her to go skating with him once.
The officials went to Gein’s home and eventually found the body of Bernice Worden hanging upside down by her heels. She had been gutted, like a deer, and decapitated (see picture above). She was so deformed that when an officer had brushed up against her body in the dark, he had thought it was a deer hanging by its legs.
When the police found Bernice Worden’s body on Gein’s property, they also found her head and the head of Mary Hogan inside his house. Mary Hogan had been missing since 1954, and Gein admitted to shooting her during his interrogation. Unfortunately for Mary Hogan’s family, Gein was not actually tried for her murder, only that of Bernice Worden. According to the judge of Gein’s case, the reason for this was “prohibitive costs.”
Ed Gein also had possession of many other women’s body parts, some from digging up graves, and some from women who were declared missing. As said before, Gein was only tried for one murder, but it is not know if he killed more than two people. Some believe he killed his brother Henry, and because of the locks of hair belonging to missing women, some believe he killed numerous others as well.
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When Frank Worden returned to his mother’s hardware store, there was said to be a small pool of blood and a trail leading out of the store’s back door. Frank then ordered a search of Gein’s property for Gein had left a large trail of suspicion behind for the authorities to consider him as the murderer. Gein was the last to buy anything from the store, and had shown interest in Mrs. Worden previously; one source stated that he even asked her to go skating with him once.
The officials went to Gein’s home and eventually found the body of Bernice Worden hanging upside down by her heels. She had been gutted, like a deer, and decapitated (see picture above). She was so deformed that when an officer had brushed up against her body in the dark, he had thought it was a deer hanging by its legs.
When the police found Bernice Worden’s body on Gein’s property, they also found her head and the head of Mary Hogan inside his house. Mary Hogan had been missing since 1954, and Gein admitted to shooting her during his interrogation. Unfortunately for Mary Hogan’s family, Gein was not actually tried for her murder, only that of Bernice Worden. According to the judge of Gein’s case, the reason for this was “prohibitive costs.”
Ed Gein also had possession of many other women’s body parts, some from digging up graves, and some from women who were declared missing. As said before, Gein was only tried for one murder, but it is not know if he killed more than two people. Some believe he killed his brother Henry, and because of the locks of hair belonging to missing women, some believe he killed numerous others as well.
http://www.weavils.com/edgein.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
image: http://www.headcheese666.20m.com/Edward%20Gein.htm