Gein was diagnosed with schizophrenia and declared unfit for trial. He claimed that he was using the body parts to assemble a new version of his beloved mother. Many of these gruesome items were from already-dead bodies that Gein had stolen from their graves, but he had murdered one other woman in addition to Worden. Their search of the property revealed a hall of horrors that included human body parts turned into household items such as chairs and bowls, faces used as wall hangings and a vest made up of a human torso. They discovered Worden’s headless corpse hanging upside down from the rafters. Thirteen years later, local police arrived at the farm, following up on a tip regarding missing hardware store owner Bernice Worden. When his father, brother and mother died within a 5-year period, he was left alone at the family farm, where he eventually cordoned off parts of the house turning it into a shrine, of sorts, to his mother. He was an abused child of an alcoholic father and a puritanical and domineering mother who instilled in her son a pathological fear of both women and sex.
The man whose macabre and horrific acts helped inspire Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre grew up in an isolated area of Wisconsin.
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He supposedly murdered 11 people, eviscerating them and hiding body parts in his house. Serial Killer Ed Gein sitting in back of police car after being arrested.
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