"These eyes will deceive you, they will destroy you.
They will take from you, your innocence, your pride,
and eventually your soul. These eyes do not see
what you and I see. Behind these eyes one finds
only blackness, the absence of light.....

these are the eyes of a psychopath."




The audio clip is a interview with a man living in the
local community wehre Ed Gein committed his....acts.

The Ed Gein story broke in 1957 (2 years before I was born)
but I remember hearing it brought up now and then
when I was a child. It seems each generation
has it's "boggeymen".

Ed was a quiet man, seemingly gentle, just a little odd.

The BIOGRAPHY series DVD has a
documentary on Ed, and shows how a series
of events coupled with a fragile mind (already) can combine to
produce a true psychopath.

My impression is that Ed was a vicitm of his own mental illness
and not the type that revels in it. He was deemed insane and
was held many years in a santirorium untill he could
stand trial, then returned there for the rest of his life.

Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs,
Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
all were based around Ed Gein.

What I find of interest in the above mentioned DVD
is an interview with one of the warders in the asylum that spoke to Ed
daily - and he states that when the moon was in it's full phase - you could tell
it in Ed. Ed acted a little funny and his eyes had a very weird gleam in them.

Below is a list of the first crime search
of the Gein home-

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 in a saucepan on the stove
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 woman's nipples
Socks made from human flesh
A sheath made from human skin
An array of "shrunken heads"