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The real life psycho who inspired ‘Psycho’
September 12, 2015ED Gein’s crimes have offered a gruesome feast for filmmakers for decades, and is the first in our True Crime Scene series – Crimes on Celluloid.
The extent of Gein’s deviancy was shocking enough, but his horrific activities spawned some of the most graphic slasher films of the 1970s.
And a warning, of the content in this article may – not surprisingly – disturb some readers.
One of America’s most notorious killers, Gein and his gruesome crimes “inspired” fare such as Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Born August 27, 1906, in Plainfield Wisconsin, Edward Theodore Gein was a shy and quiet young man.
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Ed Gein at the time of his arrest in 1957. Gein, who was also a grave robber, would dig up women’s bodies and take home their body parts. He was 77 when he died in a mental hospital in 1984.
Gein grew up with his older brother Henry, a drunken father, George, and a religiously fanatical mother, Augusta.
His father, who was despised by his mother, died in 1940.
Gein looked up to his brother Henry, who died in a bushfire in 1944. It was rumoured that Gein killed Henry.