Edward theodore gein's personal experience.

Augusta never gave George a chance to improve his position in the children's hearts. She gave the children the impression that their father was a useless man. In addition, it is worth mentioning that Augusta is a fanatical religious woman who is very strict with "morality". He instilled in his children the idea that "women are demons" and asked them to ban premarital sex on the grounds that "if a woman is good enough for you to have sex with her, then she is also suitable for marriage". Later, she even made her children swear to remain a virgin, and naturally obeyed Ed, who regarded his mother as a god, and remained a virgin until he died peacefully at the mental health research institute in Mondota at the age of 78.

In order to ensure that their children are not taught by bad people, stay away from the immoral and sinner-ridden city. 19 14, Aide's family moved to Planfield, Wisconsin, a farm of 195 mu. Here, their nearest neighbors are also miles away.

Ed's feelings for his father George are both hate and fear. Because of Augusta, he also looked down on this father. His mother often scolds him, subconsciously making Ed think that he will fail like his father. He thinks that it is because of this incompetent father that he has no future, but he has to give in to George's arrogance. Ed was once bullied by a child and went home to cry to his father. Instead of comforting him, George gave him a good beating. From then on, in Ed's mind, his father was not a trustworthy person, and he relied more on his mother's strength.

With Ed, his brother Henry is two years older than him. Like Ed, Henry is the object of his mother's education. But unlike Ed, Henry is more independent and has the ability to think independently. He thinks that it is unhealthy for Ed to rely too much on his mother, and at the same time, he is more and more resistant to his mother's "autocracy", and finally a quarrel broke out with Augusta. Ed loved his brother very much, but Henry's behavior brought great shock and distress to Ed who worshipped Augusta. He doesn't know which side he should be on. What happened later brought quite a shock to Planfield. Henry and Ed died at the age of 43 when they put out a fire in a swamp near their home. The police don't think it was an accident. Ed is the biggest suspect. Because Ed called the police and said that Henry could not be found after putting out the fire, but after the police arrived at the scene, he took the police directly to the place where Henry was lying. Judging from the injuries, the cause of death was obviously not a fire. Henry's body was not burned by the fire, but his head was badly burned. These doubts in the county made the police think that Ed was the murderer of his brother, and the autopsy report of the forensic doctor thought that Henry's death was suffocation. The police ruled out Ed as a suspect. However, this incident warmed the quiet air in Planfield. Although Ed was acquitted, many years later people still suspected that Henry was killed by "pious" Ed because he violated Augusta. After Henry died, Augusta fell ill and died the next year. I wonder if it has anything to do with this.

Because of family reasons, little Ed is a silent child. When he went to Roche-a-Cri primary school with Henry, he was also a withdrawn student. Under Augusta's "teaching", the two of them were afraid to associate with other students. Once Augusta found out that they had made friends, he would severely punish them, which made Ed even more unsociable. For these reasons, Ed is very interested in books. He is an excellent reader. This may be the nature of a withdrawn person. As an adult, his interest in human anatomy books and German Nazi human experiments probably contributed to his future terrorist acts.

1940 In April, George died of pneumonia at the age of 66. Augusta attributed his death to his weakness and often said that George would go to hell. Ed and Henry began to do odd jobs instead of family, mostly simple unskilled jobs. Ed often takes care of children for others. He likes being with children because he thinks it is easier to communicate with them. Everyone in the town thinks these two brothers are trustworthy people.

1945 65438+On February 29th, Augusta died of complications at the age of 67. Ed responded that he boarded up Augusta's bedroom and living room, just like a museum, and Ed kept these things as they were before her death. Because of his mother's control, Ed lacked the ability to get in touch with people, so his rude mother's death made him feel relieved, but he was at a loss because he didn't know who to go to. So he felt even more frustrated.

Once again, the book became Ed's comfort. Ed lives in the books he reads and his own fantasies. Through the books that Ed is interested in, we are not so surprised by his future behavior. His main concern is two aspects, one is human anatomy, and the other is Nazi books on experiments with living people. He was intoxicated by the Nazi spirit of "exploration" and was eager to try. Later, he fell in love with the third kind of book-tomb-robbing book, and began to "practice" what he learned from it.

There are two theories about his motives. One is that he wanted to have sex-change surgery, but because of the high cost and high risk at that time, he decided to make himself a woman with real "material", and the plot of "Wild Cow Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs came from this prototype; Secondly, because he misses his mother very much and depends on her all the year round, he wants to copy a mother and put it on to make himself feel that her mother is back. This idea makes ordinary people seem to feel a logical paradox. If they follow his idea, they will become their own mothers, but for Ed, this may be the right thing. Judging from his growing process, women and mothers have the supreme position in his mind, and he feels very satisfied from the heart whether he becomes a woman or a mother.

The next thing is how to find the "material". From 1947 to 195 1, Ed began to "visit" the cemetery at midnight. In a few years, he went to more than 40 cemeteries, all over Planfield, Spiryt Rand and Hancock. But he doesn't dig graves every time. By his own admission, he dug the coffins of newly buried middle-aged women nine times. He masturbated by the cemetery. But Ed firmly denied having sex with the bodies because "they all stink". Judging from Ed's behavior, his desires and impulses, he has necrophilia. Even more incredible, according to Ed's own account, the first cemetery he excavated was the tomb of his mother Augusta. He dug up his mother's body and put it in his museum.

As for how to find these cemeteries, or how to decide which body to study, Ed himself confessed that one day, he read an obituary in the newspaper that a woman in her fifties died and was buried in a cemetery near his home. So Ed had an epiphany. Isn't this good material for research and experiment, and since it's so close to home, let's go and have a look. So he made an appointment with a neighbor with a low IQ (the neighbor estimated that his IQ was really low enough, otherwise his name would not be reflected in so many materials, and the court did not file a lawsuit against him). So their journey of robbing and digging graves began until Mrs. Wharton's case was exposed.

When the deceased couldn't meet Ed's experimental needs, or the deceased couldn't stimulate Ed's nerves, he turned to the living. There are two victims that can be confirmed when the judicial authorities close the case, one is Mary Hogan and the other is Bernice Wharton, both of whom are middle-aged and elderly women in their fifties and sixties. It can be seen that Ed's goal is still a woman like his mother. Regarding the first victim, Mary Hogan, Ed said that he met the proprietress, Mary Hogan, at Planfield Bar in 195 1. She is a middle-aged woman who looks like Ed's mother. Unlike a religious mother, Mary has a dirty mouth and her past is tragic. Ed was confused. He was at a loss because Mary had a completely different personality under the appearance similar to her mother's. 1954, 1954 On February 8, 1954, Ed shot Mary with a.22 caliber rifle in her bar. Ed said that he hung Mary first, drank some wine himself, then closed his eyes and shot her in the forehead and torso. Then he dragged Mary's body to the car and took it back to the farm. The next day, he still went to Elmo Ueeck's house as a helper. At work, he told elmo that he had killed a man and hung his body at home, but Elmo didn't believe him and thought Ed was bragging. Maybe it's because Ed is too honest and always docile, so no one doubts him.

If it weren't for the second victim, Mrs. Wharton's son Frank Wharton and a deputy sheriff, Ed, who undoubtedly chose the wrong person this time, Ed might always be the quiet and unsmiling man, living alone in the white partition room in the middle of the farm, and no one had much impression on him. He'll die. Nobody cares. However, the date1957 165438+1October16 changed his fate and let the whole country know that besides all the beautiful things in the world, they may be the most horrible citizens in the world.

1957165438+1October1Saturday is the first day of the local annual deer hunting season, and young people and adults in the town are looking forward to it. The sky is clear in Wan Li, and almost everyone in the town participated in this traditional festival, and Frank was no exception. Frank is a deputy sheriff, and his mother Bernice Wharton runs a hardware store. To put it bluntly, it is a grocery store selling daily necessities and farm tools. On this day, when Frank came back from deer hunting excitedly, he found a dim light on his hardware store and a lock on the front door. He felt something was wrong, so he entered the room and found a pool of blood on the ground, extending to the back door. Frank, call the police immediately. Sheriff Schelai and his assistant Arne Fraise arrived at the scene. The scene was not chaotic, and there were no signs of fighting. Except for a pool of blood on the ground, they found that the cash register was gone, and there was a.22 caliber rifle on the shelf outside the store. All this looks like a robbery scene. But Frank thinks it's not that simple. He thinks their mother may have been killed. When the sheriff asked him who was suspicious, Frank thought for a moment and said, Ed Cain. Because just yesterday, Ed came to the store the day before yesterday to ask about the price of antifreeze, and repeatedly asked Frank if he wanted to attend the opening ceremony of the Deer Hunting Festival. Frank recalled that Ed's attitude was abnormal at that time. When he learned that Frank had repeatedly confirmed that he would go all day, he left without buying anything. Then they looked at the receipt of the goods, and the last item was antifreeze, and the buyer was ed. So Ed became the prime suspect.

After the suspect was identified, the operation began, and the sheriff led a group of policemen to Ed's farm to arrest people. But when they didn't catch Ed, they discovered an amazing secret. The police surrounded ed's farm. Because they can't enter from the main entrance, they enter the room from the woodshed. But when the policeman entered a dark room, he found something hanging on the beam. Because it's deer hunting season, people will clean up their prey and hang it at home, so it doesn't matter. But he seems to forget that Ed didn't go deer hunting. When his eyesight adapted to the darkness, he also realized that something was wrong, so he turned on the flashlight and found a human body, which had been treated. The body has no head and hangs upside down on the beam. The body was cut from the genitals to the chest, the internal organs were taken out, washed and hung around like leather clothes. In fact, this description should be correct in a sense, which is probably Ed's next "coat".

The police kept back the cramps from their stomachs and continued to search the room, which made them even more shocked. The room is a mess, and it stinks. Further inside, they found themselves in hell. Ed's bedpost is inlaid with a dead man's skull. A fresh heart was put in a pot on the stove. Obviously, this belongs to Mrs. Wharton. Her head was in the linen pocket on the side, her eyes were closed and her ear socket was hooked. The other organs are in another box. In addition, the police found a lot of evidence in the room, which can be said to be an alternative "performance art". Many skulls and masks are the whole face peeled off from a person's face, as well as hair. The plastic box contains all kinds of female organs, and there is even a labia painted gold with the words "Mom's" next to it. Many chairs made of leg bones and human skin are smooth on the outside and still have fat inside. A dagger with a human bone handle, a lampshade made of human skin, a bowl made of skull, a garbage can with human skin sticking out, and a belt made of women's nipples. One of the most noteworthy "works" here is a bust of a woman, starting from the shoulders, cut from both sides of the waist, and even the breasts and everything are completely peeled off. Later, according to Ed, he often put on this "coat" and walked on the farm in the dark, thinking he was a woman. Arne, the assistant sheriff also found something. He found a mask in the tape behind the kitchen door, and another policeman blurted out, "Oh, my God, this is Mary Hogan!" " "Two cases were solved in one day!

Ed had just come home from dinner with a business couple when the police found the disgusting evidence. Seeing so many policemen, his first reaction was to say to the sheriff, "If it's about the hardware store murder, I don't know anything." . The sheriff gave him a pair of handcuffs.

After careful interrogation, Ed told what he had done. Although the police already knew about it, Ed told the truth without emotional fluctuation, which made the police who had seen the world sweat all over. After the police's "education", Ed knows everything, but the police know that this is not all, because from the forensic examination of the evidence brought back from the scene, many organs are not consistent with what Ed said. To be precise, there are many more parts than victims. Frankly speaking, ed doesn't remember. He was in a trance when he did these things. Regarding this state, the police also have to believe that Ed's mental state cannot be faked by ordinary people.

The next day, journalists from all over the world found this exciting material. So the whole United States made a sensation, and many experts began to analyze Ed's special character. This quiet town has also become a tourist attraction, and even Ed's truck has been auctioned off. But people in the town think Ed's farm is the root of evil. They didn't allow it to exist, so a fire burned it down.

During the ten years from murder to trial, according to the Forgetting Convention, people gradually cooled down Ed's case, but experts did not stop studying him.

Some experts believe that Ed is a sexual predator, but not a sadist. He doesn't kill people because of his instinctive desire for enjoyment. He does not seek power or control. All he has done is to be a mother with this large and small human organ. He thought wearing this thing would make him Augusta.

Other experts think Ed hates his mother. Because Ed chose a woman about his mother's age, including two victims and nine bodies, all women in their sixties, about the same age as his mother died. It is very likely that I found my mother's shadow in them. Although he loves his mother, there is a trace of resentment against her in his heart, which he may not even realize.

Some experts believe that the above two tendencies exist, regardless of each other and intertwined with each other. His behavior is hostile, and he is eager to replace his mother with a replica that can be preserved forever.

Although there are some differences on this issue, other aspects of understanding are still relatively consistent. He is a serious mental patient, probably schizophrenic. Ed was later taken to the State Central Hospital in Fort Worth. There he lived quietly, without the anxiety and rage of ordinary mental patients, and always showed a docile look.

1967, the psychiatrist in the central hospital thinks that Ed's mental condition can be tried in court. Finally, the judge pronounced that "although the murderer intentionally killed, the defendant's insanity made the crime legal". Finally, Ed went to a mental hospital, the Institute of Mental Health in Mondota. He is a model patient from 1968 to 1984. 1984 died peacefully in the psychiatric ward. The story seems to be over, but people still can't help asking the same question over and over again. How are such people "refined"? What kind of person is he?