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Ed Gein : Ini Aku................................ 

"I like this place, everybody treats me nice, some of them are a little crazy though." --Ed Gein, the butcher of Plainfield, WI, speaking about prison.

"When asked if he wore the skin face masks over a prolonged time: 'Not too long, I had other things to do.'" --Ed Gein. Another serial killer quote.

Arrest

Police suspected Gein's involvement in the disappearance of a hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, in Plainfield on November 16, 1957. Upon entering a shed on his property, they made the first discovery of the night: Worden's corpse. She had been decapitated, her headless body hung upside down by means of ropes at her wrists and a crossbar at her ankles. The torso was empty, the ribcage split and the body "dressed out" like that of a deer. These mutilations had been performed postmortem; she had been shot at close-range with a .22-caliber rifle.

Searching the house, authorities found:

~Human skulls mounted upon the corner posts of his bed
~Skin fashioned into a lampshade and used to upholster chair seats
~Human skullcaps, apparently in use as soup bowls
~A human heart (it is disputed where the heart was found; deputy reports all claimed that the        heart was in a saucepan on the stove, while some crime scene photographers claimed it was in a    paper bag)
~Skin from the face of Mary Hogan, a local tavern owner, found in a paper bag
~A window shade pull consisting of human lips
~A vest crafted from the skin of a woman's torso;
~A belt made from several human nipples
~Socks made from human flesh
~A sheath made from human skin
~A box of preserved vulvas that Gein admitted to wearing.
~An array of "shrunken heads"

Various neighborhood children, whom Gein occasionally babysat, had seen or heard of the shrunken heads, which Gein offhandedly described as relics from the South Seas, purportedly sent by a cousin who had served in World War II. Upon investigation, these turned out to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from cadavers and used by Gein as masks.

Gein eventually admitted under questioning that he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skin to make his possessions. Gein's practice of putting on the tanned skins of women was described as an "insane transvestite ritual". Gein denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining, "They smelled too bad." During interrogation, Gein also admitted to the shooting death of Mary Hogan, who had been missing since 1954.

Shortly after his mother's death, Gein had decided he wanted a sex change. He created a "woman suit" so he could pretend to be a female.

Plainfield police officer Art Schley allegedly assaulted physically Gein during questioning by banging Gein's head and face into a brick wall, reportedly causing Gein's initial confession to be ruled inadmissible. Schley died of a heart attack in December 1968, at age 43, only a month after testifying at Gein’s trial. Many who knew him said he was so traumatized by the horror of Gein's crimes and the fear of having to testify (notably about assaulting Gein) that it led to his early death. One of his friends said, "He was a victim of Ed Gein as surely as if he had butchered him."

what a splendid day........................... 

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