![]() ![]() Gein and Henry were burning brush on the family farm and the blaze apparently grew to uncontrollable proportions, ultimately leaving Henry dead. In 1944, however, a supposed accident shrank the Gein family even further. The two brothers worked a variety of odd jobs to make ends meet and support their mother lest her wrath be turned against them. Gein and his brother were attempting to pick up the slack left by their admittedly complacent father after he passed away. In 1940, when Ed was 34 years old and still lived at home, his father died. Though Gein had likely already been shaped and molded in terms of repressive behavior and unnatural rejection of normal urges, his mental health issues wouldn't truly take shape until both of his parents died. This would be Ed Gein's house until for decades and the place where he would commit his ghastly crimes. Gein was only nine when they moved onto the desolate farmland and he rarely left for any reason besides school. ![]() ![]() She'd regularly preach about sin, carnal desire, and lust to the two young boys while their father nodded off in a booze-induced trance.Īugusta relocated the Gein family to Plainfield in 1915. Though Ed grew up alongside his older brother, Henry, no amount of sibling companionship could sway the tides of an overly puritanical matriarch who routinely mocked and shamed her children.Īugusta ruled the home with an iron fist ideologically founded on her stern, conservative outlook on life. ![]() The bright lighting in the side ground floor window is part of the illumination for the on-site crime lab.Īugusta, meanwhile, was a complete religious fanatic. Frank Scherschel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Curiosity-seekers peer through a window into the house of serial killer Ed Gein in Plainfield, Wisconsin. ![]()
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