satans-sanctum:Ed Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher.
satans-sanctum:Ed Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.Gein confessed to killing two women – Mary Hogan on December 8, 1954, and Bernice Worden, on November 16, 1957. Initially found unfit for trial, after confinement in a mental health facility he was tried during 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital.Searching his house, authorities found:Four nosesWhole human bones and fragmentsNine masks of human skinBowls made from human skullsTen female heads with the tops sawn offHuman skin covering several chair seatsMary Hogan’s head in a paper bagBernice Worden’s head in a burlap sackNine vulvae in a shoe boxA belt made from female human nipplesSkulls on his bedpostsA pair of lips on a drawstring for a window shadeA lampshade made from the skin from a human face -- source link