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Jul 10, 2017 · Watch: Naomi Ekperigin talks about serial killer Ed Gein—the inspiration for Norman Bates—from his relationship with his mother to the murders he committed. Some aspects of Gein’s crimes were made more shocking in Psycho, including the choice of murder weapon: Whereas Gein shot both his victims with a rifle, Norman Bates’s weapon of ...
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Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, which he committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, garnered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
Oct 8, 2023 · Anthony Perkins' (left) famous 'Psycho' character was inspired by real-life killer Ed Gein (Universal) There is an underlying promise to the unearthing of the Gein tapes. If we are to hear from ...
Apr 13, 2021 · A profile of Ed Gein, the killer and body-snatcher who came to be known as the 'Butcher of Plainfield', and whose story is thought to have inspired Alfred Hi...
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Oct 14, 2020 · Ed Gein wasn't actually a serial killer — he only admitted to killing two women — rather, he was a body snatcher who had an obsession with his deceased mother, Augusta.
Edward Gein (1906-1984) was arrested on November 16, 1957 when the disemboweled and decapitated body of a local hardware store owner who went missing that morning was found hanging upside down in his dilapidated farmhouse in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Investigators later discovered the remains of an unknown number of victims scattered throughout ...
Sep 27, 2022 · Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 to George and Augusta. George farmed and, for a time, ran a butcher shop. Augusta, a harsh and sex-averse woman – according to Harold Schechter’s 1989 book “Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho” – had already given birth to a son, Henry, born in January 1902.
