Ed Gein
Submitted by brittney09 on April 3, 2010
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Ed Gein
Ed Gein and his elder brother Henry were born into a farming family near Plainfield, WI. George Gein, his father, was a tanner and carpenter and was drunk most of the time. Augusta, Ed's domineering mother, was the real power of the house. She was a religious fanatic who constantly warned her sons about the sins of premarital sex and railed against "evil" women. Ed's father died in 1940, and brother Henry died four years later fighting a marsh fire (although it was later suspected that Ed might have killed him). Ed stayed at the family farm with his mother and never left it, except for trips to nearby Plainfield. When she died of a stroke in 1945, Ed was left all alone at the "tender" age...
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