Ed Gein Research Paper

Everybody breaks bad sometimes. When I was a child, I loved going for the cookie jar before dinner, even though I was told “No.” I can recall many adventures through “haunted caves” and dares to go and steal something from yard of the neighborhood “witch”. All of humanity at some point has felt this feeling: the urge to break away from what we know as right in order to give us a special thrill. College students do this through drinking and drugs, and as they grow into adults do it through lying and cheating about what they are doing. But what if the reasons they are doing these bad things are for a greater good? What if I am getting a cookie before dinner because I want to share it with my friend who never gets to eat cookies? On the other
They are different because although they choose to do what they know to be wrong, they have no feeling of remorse or guilt from doing it. Ed Gein was one the most terrifying psychopaths in history. The star villains in films: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and The Silence of the Lambsall were created from the psychopathic life style of Ed Gein. Until he was 39 years old, Ed Gein helped run the family farm and lived under the rule of his mother. When she died Gein collected the subsidies and was able to stop farming. The neighborhood viewed Gein as a man who kept to himself and never caused any trouble (A & E). It is amazing to think of how extremely wrong that point of view was. Ed Gein was a man fascinated with the female body. After his mother died, he was able to use his house to fulfill his every fantasy. He began stealing the bodies of local woman from graves and using parts of them for “experiments.” Gein 's fascination with the female body eventually led him to seek out fresher samples. His victims, usually women of his mother 's age, included 54-year old Mary Hogan, who disappeared from the tavern she ran in December 1954, and Bernice Worden, a woman in her late fifties who ran the local hardware store, who disappeared on the 16th November 1957. When the sheriff finally decided to investigate the lonely Ed Gein’s house, he saw before his eyes the most inhumane site a person could ever see. The skins from ten human heads were found preserved, and another skin taken from the upper torso of a woman was rolled up on the floor. There was a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pilled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of human organs. Gein was put into a mental hospital for 10 years, after which he stood trial. He was found guilty, but