Criminal Psychologist Explains The Sick Mind Of Ed Gein
Dr. Eric Hickey is a criminal psychologist known for working with some of the world’s most notorious serial killers. In this episode of Unraveling, he explores Ed Gein's upbringing, and the unusual relationship Gein had with his mother that may have led to his gruesome crimes.
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Ed Gein, a Wisconsin, was led away by Sheriff Arthur Schley, near Plainfield, Wisconsin, in 1957, after he admitted to murdering two women and robbing graves. Apparently he had used body parts to make things. Minneapolis Tribune (now Star Tribune) photo b
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Genetics load the gun, environment pulls the trigger
Absolutely. But environment can also load the gun. Not only epigenetics, but complex trauma can change brain biochemistry. If we could prevent complex trauma I think a lot of agressive behaviors could be prevented too.
Wow love that
absolutely
@@ritabn8910 yes, but severe trauma can affect one person in an innocuous, non-violent way and lesser trauma can affect another person in an explosively violent way. Our brain chemistry and wiring are affected differently by different stimuli. For example, my mother has a long history of severe anxiety and depression, my father does not at all. When my brother and I experienced severe trauma throughout childhood, I developed PTSD, crippling anxiety and depression. He has never suffered from any mental illness and has always thrived. We both were subjected to the exact same environment and trauma, yet due to our different inherited genes, my ‘gun’ was loaded, his was not, so when the ‘triggers’ were pulled, the results were vastly different. It’s fascinating, really, when you see the effects of inherited genes so overtly. There are also instances in violent offenders where parts of their brains like the hippocampus or amygdala have been damaged by physical trauma or substance abuse or they were born with them underdeveloped so their emotional regulation is askew and are prone to poor impulse control which contribute to their violent and erratic behaviour. It’s so interesting!
that is perfect, love the wording
The pictures that are supposedly showing his mother when she was young are incorrect. That is actually Evelyn Hartley, a young girl who disappeared in 1953. She had nothing to do with this case and is certainly not Ed Gein's mother. These kinds of mistakes should not happen, Buzzfeed!
Shut up nerd 🥲
The errors that people are claiming in the comments are so outrageous that I just had to verify, and yup...you and others are correct. How did this video get posted and how is it still up? These errors are just egregious
I see now which you are talking about . Yeah thats not even time appropriate
Actually dunja, Gein was a suspect in Hartley’s disappearance, so the cases are indeed connected. There were quite a few strange disappearances in the area when Gein was at large, and they stopped once he was in custody.
@@WilliamLyons-ym7ee You gotta admit , it never fit his M/O .
This is my professor and he is literally the best person ever!!
Where dose he teach ?
He’s not my professor and I don’t know him but YAAAY!!!!! 🎉😂😂😂
Well done. Who could possibly fail that? Lol
Jokes. I enjoyed his insight. Seems great. Professional empathy that gets to the person but not disregarding the crime or empathy for his victims.
Where does he teach and is it a college course. I want to become a criminal psychologist!
This video had quite a few discrepancies, Ed Gein was born in LaCrosse, WI, some of the pictures of Augusta (when she was young) were not correct and there was a picture of Bernice Worden shown when they were talking about Ed's death. Ed Gein was not a complete hermit, he had friends and was well liked in the community. He did odd jobs for people and babysat people's children. The night he was caught, he was having dinner with friends and drove down to the hardware store with them. No one ever suspected he was doing what he did. I expected more from Buzzfeed...there was a lot of left out and false information in this video.
Yes, and also the comment toward the end that Gein “became a prolific serial killer.” He’s only believed to have killed two people (possibly three, if you include his brother).
Bump for the algorithm
The Casual Criminalist covers this more accurately and in depth
Expect less.
@@mrscarter6279 Thank you for mentioning him. New channel to watch
I’ve always heard that Guilt is about something you’ve done; Shame is about what you are.
That’s what I was taught too.
ppl feel guilt over things that other ppl have done too, like when murders kill ppl usually it's their families & friends who feel the most guilty for the murders actions towards the victims & their families. you can also feel shame from the things you've done, it's more context i think like with most things.
That picture wasn’t of Augusta! That’s Evelyn Hartley, a murder victim from 1953.
Ed gein was actually considered a suspect in her disappearance but was cleared so maybe that’s why it was in the video?
I was thinking wtf happened to her looks lol
That's why we need friends, uncles, cousins and relatives to give us perspective, options and love. Our environment needs to be livable and Lovable.
This criminal psychologist is fascinating to listen to. Are there more videos of his diagnoses? What a brilliant man.
Hm
It would be interesting to see his mother's childhood.
From what I understand, she was brought up in a very religious household where stepping out of line ment beatings.
Lost to the sands of time, I fear.
She was born to old Lutherans (Lutherans who believe humanity is inherently sinful) who used regular bearings to enforce an inflexible code of conduct, and were extremely work oriented. It’s also super likely she had purity culture drilled into her from day 1
His mother had also been raped and sexually molested by men
@@Theturtleowl There's literally NO true source for that.
Weird how EVERY SINGLE serial killers had a sad childhood
Not really, it's possibly the most important phase in human development. We can deduce quite confidently then, that there is a high chance of someone who has been through a fucked up childhood, to come out the other side a somewhat fucked up person
I've looked into a lot of killers, many of them had normal childhoods 🤷
Yup, ed gein , Jeffrey dahmer, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Aileen wuornos, Edmund kemper, John Wayne gacy, Albert fish, Henry Lee Lucas, Donald gaskins, Pedro Lopez Gary ridgeway, Joseph kallinger all horrible childhoods. The list goes on I’m sure.
@@user-tf9gq7fy8bKillers and serial killers are two different things. A lot of people who’ve just killed one or two people (to be serial it has to be 3 or more) did grow up in normal childhoods, but most serial killers do seem to have some type of trauma
@@user-tf9gq7fy8bAccording to whom? Take into account that really screwed up stuff could be going on in someone's home and if that's all they've ever known or even the parents were raised the same way by their parents, to them that IS normal because they don't know anything else.
A psychopath is born, a sociopath is made.
Sociopaths and narcissists are born with a predisposition to those traits. Childhood trauma will trigger it.
Not necessarily
If we could go back in time and give him a new mom or teach his mom to be an actual mom, his crimes would not exist. Parents really do bad numbers on their children.
What a ridiculous comment i have many friends with bad upbringings and parents who have treated them Vile they havnt grown up to rob graves, make nipple belts, skin chairs and murder people😂😂😂 next your be saying bundy killed 35 women due to him thinking his sister was his mum
Psychopath’s are born. He would have been messed up anyway.
@@slconley very true! And even if we could stop him someone else would have committed these horrible crimes.
Or we could have fixed whoever fucked his mom up so bad
@@evil1by1 Yes!
"His mother thought even sex for procreation was abhorrent." "she wanted ed to stay a virgin" "His mother discouraged him from masturbating" "He had to imagine his mother when he masturbated" "His mother was involved with ed sexually" Do you see the contradiction here? It doesn't follow logical consistency.
She was extremely religious as well and this kind of hypocrisy about sex with repressed religious fanatics is not uncommon. Abuse is a mindfvck that doesn't follow consistent rules all the time
@@Flanneryschickens yes but people who are sex adverse in all socially acceptable nay socially required circumstances generally don't go seeking illicit sex. As any sex adverse ace or any number of sexual abuse victims who derive no joy from sex. Hard for others to accept that some people are so broken that sex is not only unwanted but actually repellant.
She sexually abused him?
@@Flanneryschickens So I see the logic in your statement and I would agree normally, but the fact that he says she sees even sex for procreation abhorrent. nspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant. Disgust is an unconscious response. That's like saying someone with arachnophobia would be found cuddling spiders in privacy. It really comes down to how literal he was being but usually being with this type of repression tend to be more violent or she might have abused his genitals or shamed him in a way we would find as sexual abuse without it actually involving sex. That would make more sense in this situation. I've found many inconsistencies in this presenters language and I say that understanding his background. I still don't see her having sex with him. I would agree that it's still sexual abuse though, just without any sexual act.
@@cutekoala5492 From what he's saying yea.
I just can’t wrap my head around the idea of getting sexually aroused by internal organs. I saw a few other serial killers got off on that too. It’s like 2 totally different areas of life. It’s like feeling a need to brush your teeth because you pruned your apple tree. It’s just unrelated. So strange
Did you watch the Dahmer series? The doctor or psychologist said it’s comparable to the shiny and wet pictures of naked women in a magazine.. yeah it’s weird but I think that’s where it stems from
not really; organs being inside the human body and sex being mostly penetration which can be associated with sort of reaching for them, it kinda makes sense
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Humans can attach sexual attraction to anything...common paraphilias,,now called merely "kinks" can be human feet, shoes, anything can be focused on by the brain as a sexual object...this can happen accidentally as outlined on a roller coaster ride when a young boy's fear esponse to a roller coaster ride is accompanied at the same time by an erection. Or it CAN be a concious thought process.
It’s possible that part of the arousal stems from the idea of it being an object when can do whatever sexual acts you want to and it will do nothing to reject you or stop you, unlike a living human
Sick they got the guy from Saw to talk through it. Fair play
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@@dominiquechristine you sunk my battleship
@@scottieman2 I knew I'd get ya 😉
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This young woman on photos - not Ed Gain's mother, but completely different girl - Evelyn Hartley, who vanished in 1953. Is it so difficult to google correct information when you are writing the script or making a video?
the 5:41 indeed. It does not even look like Augusta Gein.
This is buzz feed. You aren't supposed to actually believe them. They're liars.
it's Buzzfeed...what else did you expect?
Even a psychopath can have a successful life if they are raised with love.
Teddy buddy was raised with love and had a perfectly normal childhood.
@@jenylass1521 Well that depends on if you believe ted and his family members, or the neighbours.
Lmao ok
Define "successful."
@jeny lass I doubt it. Lots of repressed dark stuff in that family.
I like this guy. I've watched a few of his synopses and he explains these ppl in a way that makes them human. He also seems like a very nice person.
Except according to other comments he makes a lot of errors in reporting facts.
Mid-age photo implied to be Ed's mother is NOT. That photo was stolen from a Find A Grave memorial page for a similarly-named woman who lived in Oregon. The owner of the memorial (and descendant of) HAS used legal means to halt unauthorized misuseage.
Ed Gein was one of the few serial killers I actually felt a little sorry for. Even as a child he had really sad eyes.
He really wasn’t a serial killer though. He only killed two people. He would really just be considered a murder with necrophilia.
Yeah he never really had a chance
2 people. Not exactly serial killer stuff.
@@futurepainthemaking98212 people is considered serial
No you need a minimum of 3 kills with a cooling period in between.@@blackabivak1583
Keep the contents coming Buzzfeed we need more to learn about
I work with kids and I have a keen interest in how the environment shapes us as humans. If you think about it, only 3.5% of the population would have a personality characterised as antisocial (the one that we normally call as being psychopaths). A large proportion of this small antisocial population will never commit a murder. They would be leaching, conniving, malicious people, but they never get to actually commit a murder. So, how are all these serial murderers created? We like to think that they were born sick, but were they all born this way? Years of abuse, disturbed love maps, neglect, dissociation from any semblance of normality would do the trick! I see it every day and I am actually terrified of thinking of how many many kids slip through the cracks and no one is common to save them from their own private hell. They stay there until hell actually starts to feel like home.
"His brother died mysteriously" 😂😂😂
I couldn't believe all the dis-information in this video.... but I am glad that others commented already.
I used to work as a psychotherapist at the Institute Ed lived in most of his life until his death. I think this psychologist is assuming a bit too much that Ed’s motive was sexual in nature. There was no evidence of necrophilia or any other sexually deviant behavior. Also, Ed wasn’t a hermit and did go out of his house and was well known in town as quite friendly albeit a little odd. And, he was a genuinely friendly (not a manipulative charming psychopathic) resident at the institution. He was known to be easy to talk to and did not present as narcissistic. When he was younger Ed was even trusted to babysit children in town and never hurt them. I think he was creating a female person “suit” because he was trying to recreate his deceased mother. Yes, she was quite controlling and abusive and their attachment/bond was pathological. She made herself his entire life. He had cognitive issues and obviously severe mental illness and trauma. Ed was not so much “evil,” as ill and broken by his mother. I do agree with this psychologist tha he was not a sadistic psychopath. But, not all behaviors such as these are created by sexual urges. That’s just the popular theory at this time for crimes like this in general. However, humans are unique and so are their motives. Desperation, fear and grief combined with a lack of coping skills can also create terrifying results.
Can you recommend any channels that discuss psychology and family background without hype or speculation.
The psychologist said "I believe", to be fair. Nobody could ever know for a fact what drives a murderer to murder and whatnot.
This is 90% speculation. Not interviewing Gein, this Dr. has no clue as to what drove Gein to do what he did. Why do they fixate on jacking off? Make it sound like every other minute the guy is rubbin' one out. For all this guy knows he was impotent and that brought on his frustration. He wasn't a serial killer either. He killed 2 people and robbed graves.
The FBI changed it to killing two or more people with a cooling down period in-between
Maybe he's projecting. He's said something before about jacking off in Jeffrey Dahmer's video too.
Who knows what this guy's motive is or was for getting into this profession anyway.
need more of this series please!!!
More of these pls!
his brother was raised by the same mother but he was normal
He was younger. Younger kids always get diff treatment , weather bad or good
Does anyone really know for sure the brother was normal?
I think Ed got more of the abuse from his mum so was more susceptible to mental health problems 😢
Great video, fantastic insight.
The best description I ever read of Ed Gein was a ‘pitiful monster’. Also “If he wasn’t crazy nobody ever was”. Btw that is NOT a picture of Augusta Gein. I don’t know where it emerged from and how it ended up in virtually every video about the man but that big and kindly looking lady ain’t her.
He was born in Lacrosse. He did not dig up his mother either.
I have a slight problem with this psychologist. I'm not saying he's wrong, and I even agree with other commenters who say that genetics are like a loaded gun, and conditioning pulls the trigger. But this man did not interview Ed Gein personally. He starts out making assumptions concerning a sexual relationship with his mother. It's an assumption. But later on, in contradiction to the scientific method, he's presenting it to you as a fact. He can't possibly know it was a fact. He even talks about Ed masturbating with thoughts of his mother. There is no way he can possibly know that. Psychology is an imperfect science to say the least. And my experiences are that when psychological assumption is being presented as empirical fact, that is a flaw. It might be nitpicking, and his explanations might be the best available guess, but it's still an assumption and not fact.
I have read more comments below. In addition to the assumptions that I stated before, apparently there are quite a few factual discrepancies that are simply untrue in telling of the story. So not only are factual details incorrect, but a psychologist telling us what Ed gein's mother thought, what Ed Gein thought in his private moments, and their relationship being presented as factual when it's just a clinical gas, is sloppy on several levels.
Dr. Hickey. He was my sociology professor in college. Very interesting himself...
Yeah. He seems like a fake.
He wasn't a necrophile or cannibal- that was added for sensational purposes - he didn't want or desire to kill - he just needed the skin and body parts
Frfr I been trying to hip ppl since the 50s.
It’s interesting seeing this kind of deconstruction of what led to a person’s particular state of being. If you do that with everyone, you stop seeing them with eyes of judgment and instead begin to understand. I can’t tell if it’s a complete way to see someone though, because it doesn’t draw the line for where their particular call to responsibility is. To what degree can a criminal be blamed, and to what degree can they be pardoned? That’s the tough question.
I think this is exactly what's very important to consider. In many cases the foundation of a criminal arise due to outward, often environmental, circumstances, and A LOT of those could potentially be avoided if we ensured people lived better, more stable childhoods. But that being said, it's still no excuse for crimes. Deliberately hurting others shouldn't shouldn't be ignored, it should be unlearned, and once a person is so far in that they can't unlearn, that's when I find life in prison a viable solution. We can have empathy and compassion with those who do horrible things and still hold them accountable for their actions.
Man's justice is not what you have to worry about. Murderers can still be forgiven and go to Heaven. The Holy Spirit will be our witness and Jesus is the ONLY way to LIFE and the HE is the only judge, that counts. Because there won't be any jury and no retrial. Don't get the NKI chip implants! Don't get the mark of the beast! And watch out for 5G and smartphones they have satellites now they can go anywhere and everywhere.
I don't think understanding means we have to pardon them. I think understanding lets us understand people in their situations who can still be helped, and prevent the cycle of abuse from continuing in the future.
@@Flanneryschickens Exactly. It's powerful knowledge to help us better secure our society and support people in need before things turn bad. And sure, we can pity those who's already lost, but if they don't want redemption, for the sake of the rest of us they don't deserve to go free.
A lot of people would argue nature versus nurture. How much of these crimes is Ed's fault? Personally, I would argue that nature had nothing to do with it. Many people grow up in unstable, violent, emotionally damaging environments and don't resort to sick crimes such as Ed did. I do believe he was confused sexually, but that confusion doesn't excuse his actions. I worked in a psychiatric hospital for many years and not ONCE did I ever encounter a soul that was capable of violence or criminal acts, such as this or of lesser extent. Psychiatric illness doesn't create monsters, neither does a person's environment. We all have free will. We all can choose to act in goodness.
I’m an aspiring criminal psychologist and I thank you for your professional opinion on this case!
Wow, you look fantastic! Like a beautiful succubus, if you don't mind me saying. Hope you have a successful career ❤
Very interesting! TY 😊
I was waiting to hear from Dr. Hickey again on this channel! With the way he was talking about Dahmer and made everything so interesting, I could listen to him talk for hours! LOL
He was a great professor. The only class I never missed in college.
The last thing the psychologist guy said was that Gein was a "very prolific serial killer" but he only actually killed two people.
I can't take any of this seriously. 1. It's BuzzFeed 2. It's inconsistent & contradictory 3. This is not ed geins psychiatrist 4. Lies like cannabalism 5. Assumptions like necrophilia 6. Assuming he was schizophrenic 7. Assuming he was abused.
He definately was Schizophrenic, but every other item you list is accurate.
He was born in LaCrosse WI. not Plainfield WI. He was approximately 6 years old when the family moved to Plainfield.
The whole Gein story makes me so confused. Some say he desecrated his mother 's grave and some say he could not get at the coffin because she was buried within a concrete vault.
He wasn't able to raise his mothers grave-
@@gazXspace If that is true then somebody should correct those who claims he did dug her up. I cannot stand when people take the liberty to tell stories in their own way just to give it a little extra twist. Fact is fact.
That photo is Evelyn Hartley!!!! Not Augusta! 🤦♀️
1:15 It's so weird to read about Ed Gein's horrible mother who was so abusive she created what is generally believed to be the craziest person ever and then see the pic of what she looked like.
Pic in this video is NOT her.
I live in Wisconsin but from Minnesota and he's a popular topic
I truly believe there is a DEEP connection between sons and their mothers.
Oedipus Complex
That is not true what he said about guilt. I have a guilty conscience when I know I haven't done anything. I just feel like somebody's going to think I'm the guilty one. I am too honest. I'm not saying, I don't lie but, usually when I do lie, I feel so guilty about it, I admit to the person that I lied, right away. And, did anyone notice how the psychiatrist looks a lot like the Killer?
Im the same! I often think if i was taken in for a lie detector id fail. Bc my anxiety and felling so awful about the victims would make me read of the charts!
That sounds like anxiety more than “guilt” because anxiety is the worry that things will go wrong or that people would think bad things about you, cause anxiety tells you lies and stresses you out about things that aren’t happening or aren’t true
The narrator is mixing up Gein with Kemper
Truly sad how all this happens, some people do not need kids. How disgusting
"No one feels guilt" - What is he talking about? Is this man a psycho himself??!
It's a semantic point and he explained it succinctly. Try listening again.
I'm from Plainfield.... There are a lot mistakes and misinformation in this video
I grew up in Plainfield and it really is upsetting to hear such untrue stories of Ed Gein and his victims! Get the facts before you tell stories!!!!
I remember this history of Ed Gein
Dr. Hickey! He was one of my college professors!
He has a striking resemblance to the jigg saw old guy
He's technically admitted to 1 murder. And he wasn't born evil, nor did he turn evil so to speak. He had a lot of mental issues, likely all due to his parents. There's a lot here that's being reached... He also wasn't by definition, a Serial Killer.
Interesting video
Many also believe that Ed killed his brother because his brother wanted to move out of the house and in with a divorcee or widower & her kids. He felt that his brother was betraying his mother & going against her preaching.
How much time did this guy spend with Ed Gein? Were they simply interviews, or therapy sessions?
No one gonna talk about how the criminal psychiatrist kinda looks like the dude from the saw movies 😳
...the professional got wrong a key aspect about gein. He was *NOT* a Serial Killer. He would have to have killed 3 people for that. Although, I believe the professional was trying to state Gein's trajectory had him going down that path, and he was only stopped due to law enforcement intervening. Thoughts?
I honestly agree
Many people speculate, and I think Dr Hickey is as well, that Ed Gein was a serial killer in the `killed 3 people' sense, because some of the body parts found may very well have come from additional unknown victims. This is addressed briefly at 10:06, though it also says that Gein himself denied having murdered more than the two women he was charged with. I will say that Dr. Hickey, at 13:11, does label Gein as a "prolific serial killer," without much explanation, and I am rather curious as to why he said that.
He killed 3 people if you include his brother who died under very suspicious circumstances.
They changed it to killing 2 or more people with a cooling down period in-between each murder
I've just commented on this. He almost certainly killed his brother. That makes 3 and left alone he would most certainly have gone on to kill many more. In the 70's when the term " serial killer " was born, it was 3 murders with a cooling off process between them that designated you as a serial killer. It's been reduced to 2 now for some unknown reason. Gein was certainly one of if not the most infamous graverobber that ever lived.
ed gein was my aunts next door neighbor. his farn was 3 miles from her chicken faem
This was terrific. More please! And even a little longer wouldn't hurt too! 👍🤠
Here to my personal opinion must be a combined model that classifies Ed Gein as a individual with all three triad patterns. His Machiavelli by his roles in possession of furniture in the likeness of his victims to have the most uncommon type of objects. The Incredible amount of solitude and isolated memories might have promoted his identity with neurotic type traits turned into real life horror. His combined historical experience about the past memories that he couldn't feel were true for other's, this past created delusional fixation, that led to his psychotic experience and also promoted his patterns of this abnormal behavior.
Wow your points really helped me connect a lot of dots concerning this case. I always wondered how someone so shy could be capable of such madness. He was curious because his sexuality was never able to develop, it makes so much sense! Good stuff
This is just sad. He wasn't able to live his life. That is why childhood is important.
With a mother like that its no surprise
Wow! With all the misinformation and inaccurate photographs in this documentary, a student presenting this as a final project in elementary school would fail. If you want to learn about Ed Gein from media content, watch the movie, 'Ed Gein.'
But he wasn't a serial killer, double murderer and grave robber, but not a serial killer. This is a label put on Charlie Manson too, and he didn't actually kill anyone
Shucks, no..... Good ole Charlie never killed anyone. He jus whipped those women into a hateful frenzy and got THEM to do it. If Charlie had got th death penalty, as he should have, no tears would have been shed.
@@rimrunz1795 no one is saying that he was not guilty of a crime. Person is simply stating that there's no proof he murdered anyone at all. So you can't be a murderer if you've never killed anyone. That was the only statement made. The rest you filled in yourself.
Lots of "probabilities" by this expert to make it sound worse; so not buying that........
Sometimes if people's religious/moral beliefs discourage expressing sexuality directly, it ends up coming out sideways.
Ed Gein and that Russian Doll Guy were really sick people.
Ed was as sick as Ted Bundy & Jeffrey Dahmer.
I believe ed was born in lacrosse Wisconsin . His mother moved them to Plainfield when he was a young boy because she wanted them away from the sins of bigger cities
You can see how Gein was the inspiration for so many horror movies😮
His brother seemed to have a clearer picture of his mother's abnormal behavior. It's a shame he wasn't closer to Ed, who didn't like his mother being countered by the brother.
Nobody is born evil - monsters make monsters
Ted Bundy's aunt said she woke up one morning with all the kitchen knives on her bed arranged pointing towards her- and 3 year old Ted standing there watching her - even as a tiny boy Ted knew there was something fascinating about women and knives
Not true
@@carolflower8015he was molested so wrong
They were only able (or willing, re alleged budget constraints) to tie Ed Gein to two murders, but he was suspected of many more over decades, including the famous-at-the-time disappearance of the Grimes sisters. One investigator claimed that based on evidence, the majority of the body parts were ~not~ from graves and that he did indulge in cannibalism, despite Ed denying this (uncomfortably). Gein was one of only a tiny handful of maniacs world-wide ever to be found not guilty by reason of insanity - no duh!
Ed was actually born in La Crosse, WI. The family later moved to Plainfield.
These little errors irk me. The photo isn't even of Augusta...a larger error.
Why would he say Gein was a prolific serial killer? He killed two people that we know of.
They found enough body parts, skin and private parts that there had to be more than 2 victims. Before DNA all they could do was visually match body parts with each other.
@@Phlowermom Wasn’t all that from the fresh bodies he dug up?
@@linusfotograf No, they found all of those parts. It's the 'extra' pieces they were finding scattered in his home. They were seriously creeped out by these, they did a headcount of all the local ladies AND checked the graves of the recently & not so recently deceased ladies in the area. They found they had too many of certain pieces (breasts, vaginas, etc.) and were trying to find the rest of their bodies. Many, many, too many moons ago when I was in college working towards an Admin of Justice degree, I would spend a LOT of time in the Law Library at my University and take advantage of visiting other schools Law Libraries. I was doing course work but I was also just snooping around. I looked up Mr. Gein's case and went through what material was there, I seriously had nightmares for a week or so. Then his name was brought up in class and due to my snooping skills I was able to sound like a knowledgeable law student for a couple of hours.
@@Phlowermom I see. Thanks for the info
Because he obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
Does killing two people make you a prolific serial killer?
These days it does. They've reduced it to 2 with a cooling off period between them. Back in the 70's when the term " serial killer " was created it was 3 killings, separated with cooling off periods. Gein almost certainly killed his brother so yes he was a serial killer. Left to his own devices he would have killed more. Infamous graverobber for sure.
He likely killed his brother too
@@alexisabercrombie133 rubbish.
Yes. Have you looked up what the word, prolific means? He likely killed more. He only confessed to two, because they had overwhelming physical evidence. If only they could have tested the things he made from human remains.
Known fact, Ed Gein tried to dig up his mother but in that area where she was buried, it is known to be sandy so they actually put concrete over her grave and Ed could not get to her like he wanted.
Exactly, thats what I remember too
Zero evidence that Ed tried to dig his mother up, sorry.
He himself admitted to it
@@tabitharankin5902 He tried to 'raise' her via willpower, but he did not take a shovel to ground. That's what he admitted.
I thought that was the guy who played jigsaw, lol ( the guy that was being interviewed)
I said the same thing and I still think he’s the jigsaw
He was also an inspiration for Gein in Rurouni Kenshin
1:16 I don’t think that’s her mother’s picture
This guy has way too much sympathy for him. There are people out there that had a terrible childhood like him and did not do what he did.
It isn’t empathy it’s psychology.. psychology is about understanding the persons mind and what might cause them to do what they do
Like who? I seriously doubt that.
Gein was an interesting individual the world he inhabited (in his mind) would give so many insights into modern serial killers.
The criminal psychologist favors the mastermind behind Saw.
I don't see how you can call him a very prolific serial killer, when he only killed 2 people, and most likely his own brother, as well.
Is it just me see the psychologist looks like Tobin Bell (Jigsaw series)?
great vid but the audio sounds terrible for the interview. A1 what happened..!!!
I recently read a biography of Ed Gein and it made no mention of him digging up his mother let alone decapitating her.
You guys should investigate the disappearance of emanuela orlandi
"Dr. Hickey"... Ok. We see you John Kramer 🤣
He dug up his mother, and put her corpse in her room that he boarded up…..he made the suit from women’s skin, so he could be a “woman “. His mother wanted Ed to be a girl….. the book by Harold schecter is really good, and explains the case really well.
That is not true- his mothers grave wasn't disturbed - he couldn't raise it himself - her bones weren't in the bedroom her locked up
@@gazXspace read the book by Harold schecter. I think it titled original psycho. Remember he had her body, he was trying to will her back to life.
@@rabidgator6473 honestly mate - that's spin - folk have added loads of fiction to his story for whatever reason - he wasn't able to retrieve her grave - it was a 2 man job
@@gazXspace so how was he able to grave dig, if someone was helping him, he didn’t mention them.
@@rabidgator6473 he dug up the graves alone - I meant it would've been a 2 man job to get his mums grave up - at least - the graves he dug up were fresh ones and that would've been hard enough - mate I was just pointing out your comment was not accurate
Is it Nature or nurture ? Although his natural environment wasn't extremely bad his nuture world was so evil and deplorable. These monsters are usually made from their own family or social environment
am i the only one who doesn't find anything horror, gore or scary related..scary? I find psychological mysteries fascinating edit: why is everyone so pressed? it's my opinion I'm not forcing you to respond lmao.
Same here. Only thing I find scary is paranormal horror.
Y’all need help then lol
@@TinFamsThoughts thank you kind stranger
It's not scary to us because in a way we're desensitized. We know it's serious but we don't feel the way these victims did when they were killed or tortured. And when we watch a lot of these videos it's almost typical behavior we expect from these killers. Many of them have the same psychological trends on why they do this. On the other hand we definitely would feel scared if we were the victims.
@@cameronsharon9617 and only some at that
I thought the thumbnail was of the Saw actor
OMG. This is sickening. 😱
What if he did that with the skin was a result of not understanding how the skin could be that vulnerable and maybe made it into furniture to strengthen it or give it meaning. I blame his mother for trying to warp his mind into believing things to be so horrible while also not making sense.