What Happened to Ed?
"Edward Gein had two faces.
One he showed to the neighbors.
The other he showed only to the dead.
I think there was a third face
to Gein also–the one he showed
only to those he was going to kill.
That would have been the
worst face of all."
Before Ed Gein was suspected for murder he was seen as the anti-social next door neighbor. He often babysat for local families and kept to himself. Someone who grew up near Ed Gein says, "The face I saw as a kid was simply the face of a seemingly old man. Being a handyman of sorts, Gein kept the farm vehicles in running order and at times even worked a bit on cars and trucks for other people." To most of the citizens living in Plainfield, Wisconsin, Gein was just a neighbor willing to help. Ed Gein would even hang out around town and offer some of the local children candy and hang out and chat. This side of Ed Gein does not seem to go with the side that murdered both Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden.
Augusta Gein had taught both of her children strict views of the world and all the evil it holds. Along with these harsh opinions, Gein's father also abused his sons. They would be abused for making friends at school and because their mother believed that they would become failures like her husband. Her continuous disappointment and belief that they should remain separate from any outside influence lead Ed to develop off-putting mannerisms and poor social skills. After his father died, Ed's brother Harry began rejecting his mothers views and worried about Ed's attachment to their mother. It was true, Ed did have an attachment to his mother. He would become shocked and hurt whenever Harry spoke negatively about Augusta.
After both Harry and Augusta died, Ed was completely alone in the world. He had no family and the most important figure in his life, his mother, was gone. The women he had taken from their graves had all resembled his mother in some way, along with Mary Hogan and Bernice Warden. He was brought up to hate women, believing that they were all full of temptation and evil, while also having to deal with conflicting emotions of natural sexual attraction. Gein had taken these women because he wanted to bring his mother back. This obsession he had with his mother was taken to a whole different level. He had made a woman suit out of his victims body parts so he could take on the role of his mother in a physical form. The internal love-hate relationship with women he felt would ultimately cause him to form an obsession that could only be curbed with murder. Overall, the way he was raised and the ideals about women that were forced into his head would have an enormous impact on the way he would view women.
"They say that events from your childhood do more to shape who we are than we can ever imagine."
Augusta Gein had taught both of her children strict views of the world and all the evil it holds. Along with these harsh opinions, Gein's father also abused his sons. They would be abused for making friends at school and because their mother believed that they would become failures like her husband. Her continuous disappointment and belief that they should remain separate from any outside influence lead Ed to develop off-putting mannerisms and poor social skills. After his father died, Ed's brother Harry began rejecting his mothers views and worried about Ed's attachment to their mother. It was true, Ed did have an attachment to his mother. He would become shocked and hurt whenever Harry spoke negatively about Augusta.
After both Harry and Augusta died, Ed was completely alone in the world. He had no family and the most important figure in his life, his mother, was gone. The women he had taken from their graves had all resembled his mother in some way, along with Mary Hogan and Bernice Warden. He was brought up to hate women, believing that they were all full of temptation and evil, while also having to deal with conflicting emotions of natural sexual attraction. Gein had taken these women because he wanted to bring his mother back. This obsession he had with his mother was taken to a whole different level. He had made a woman suit out of his victims body parts so he could take on the role of his mother in a physical form. The internal love-hate relationship with women he felt would ultimately cause him to form an obsession that could only be curbed with murder. Overall, the way he was raised and the ideals about women that were forced into his head would have an enormous impact on the way he would view women.
"They say that events from your childhood do more to shape who we are than we can ever imagine."
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gein/5b.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein