INFAMOUS serial killer Ed Gein lived in a disgusting hoarder home where he strung up the bodies of his victims and made furniture out of their skin.
The bone-chilling real-life story of the 1950s slasher has been thrust back into the limelight ahead of the release of the new Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story.
Serial killer Ed Gein lived in a remote farmhouse in Plainfield, Wisconsin, in 1957[/caption]
He was convicted of killing two women and admitted her robbed female body parts from graves[/caption]
Gein’s twisted crimes came to light in 1957 when two sheriffs barged into his secluded Plainfield, Wisconsin, farmhouse and uncovered a grisly crime scene.
Human skulls and other body parts were found among the junk-littered rooms where trash was piled up to eye level.
In a woodshed near the home, hardware store owner Bernice Worden was found dead hanging upside down from the rafters.
The severed head of Mary Hogan, a 51-year-old tavern owner who disappeared three years prior, was found inside Gein’s house.
Gein’s property was littered with sick trophies and constructions made from his victims and rotting body parts that he exhumed from graves.
Gein carved a mask using Hogan’s face, and shoved her skull into a box.
He shoved Worden’s head in a burlap sack and placed her heart into a plastic bag and put it in front of his potbelly stove.
Horrified investigators also uncovered a wastebasket made out of human skin, a corset made from a female torso, and several masks made from the skin of female heads.
The twisted killer carved a belt with female human nipples, sculpted bowls from human skulls, and stowed away nine vulvas into a shoebox.
HORRIFIC TALE
Gein’s crimes inspired some of the most eerie horror movies in cinema, including Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.
It was believed that he was trying to bring his domineering hyperreligious mom Augusta back to life with some of his horrific constructions.
Augusta taught her sons to fear womankind and preached against the temptation of short skirts and makeup, Time reported in 1957.
Deeply affected by his mother’s teachings, Gein would go on to avoid women and rarely went on dates.
Augusta died in 1945 after Gein had spent a year trying to nurse her back to health from a stroke.
After her death, Gein neglected their family farm and barely got by through odd jobs for his neighbors.
Human skulls and other parts were found among the junk-littered hoarder home[/caption]
Musical instruments were among the dusty heaps of abandoned garbage[/caption]
A fire of undetermined cause burned the house to the ground[/caption]
EERIE CRIME
When asked about Worden’s murder, Gein told cops, “I was sort of in a daze-like.”
He admitted to defiling graves around Wisconsin, and, in one eerie act, said that he had exhumed a body that was laid to rest beside his mother.
He didn’t practice cannibalism or necrophilia but preserved human remains to stare at them as terrifying trophies.
Investigators honed in on the suspect after Worden’s son found his mom’s story empty with blood stains dripped on the floor.
He realized that Gein had visited the shop the night before, and noticed his sales slip for anti-freeze was the last one written.
Gein’s story is being retold in the new fictional Netflix series created by true crime aficionado Ryan Murphy.
The show, which stars Son of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam as the killer, will premiere on Friday.
The serial killer’s story is being retold in Monster: The Ed Gein Story[/caption]
Heartthrob actor Charlie Hunnam is playing the killer[/caption]
