Case study of a serial killer

Ed Gein

Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906, to Augusta and George Gein in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was the second of two boys born to the couple. The death of Eddie's mother was a milestone in the life of this serial killer. Soon after her passing, Eddie became increasingly lonely. He spent much of his spare time reading pulp magazines and anatomy books. The rooms he lived in were full of periodicals about Nazis, South Sea head-hunters and shipwrecks. From his readings Eddie learned about the process of shrinking heads, exhuming corpses from graves and the anatomy of the human body. He became obsessed with these stories, and he would tell neighbourhood children about them. Eddie also enjoyed reading the local newspapers. Unsurprisingly, his favourite section was the obituaries.

He has actually been inspiration for many classic horror films such as; Psycho, who inspired the personality of the antagonist Norman Bates; Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill who used to like wearing women’s skin, and finally Leather Face in the cult film Texas Chainsaw massacre.

Ed Kemper

A serial killer in the 70’s was savage and disturbed. His IQ was substantially above average, and his height was 6ft 9 an over powering man with a violent temper. This relates to characters that we often see in horror movies. An overpowering, monster like, superhuman who cannot be defeated. He also befriend a local policeman so he could know and hear about the grizzle details of murders that operated in the same area as him. Like Norman Bates he is the person you would least expect to do such things, also like Michael Myers in John Carpenter’s and Rob Zombie’s Halloween, he killed his first victims at a very young age.