2. Ed Gein – Psycho & Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are two horror films which petrify people to the core but what is even more disturbing is that one person had inspired both of them. Edward “Ed” Gein grew up on a remote farm in La Crosse County, Wisconsin with his mother and brother. He was only allowed to leave the farm to attend school, his home life was mostly spent doing chores or listening to his mother, a Lutheran, preach that all women were prostitutes and instruments of the devil.
In 1957, hardware store worker Bernice Worden disappeared and Gein was one of the few customers who had visited the store on the day she was last seen. When they searched his property they found Worden hanging upside down, decapitated and “dressed out like a deer”. They also found on the property a basket made of human skin, skulls on his bedposts, bowls made from skulls, Worden’s head in a sack, female genitalia in a shoe box, a belt made from female human nipples, four noses and a lampshade made from a human face. SEE ALSO: Top 25 most evil serial killers in the world – Their evil deeds will leave you in a big shock! (With Pictures)
Gein told detectives that between the years of 1947 and 1952 he had robbed more than 40 graves of middle-aged women who he thought resembled his own mother. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and found not-guilty by reason of insanity. He was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane which is a maximum-security facility in Waupun, Wisconsin. He died aged 77-years-old of heart failure.
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