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ED GEIN's desolate farmhouse was a study in chaos. Inside, junk and rotting garbage covered the floor and counters. It was almost impossible to walk through the rooms. The smell of filth and decomposition was overwhelming. While the local sheriff, Arthur Schley, inspected the kitchen with his flashlight, he felt something brush against his jacket.
When he looked up to see what it was he ran into, he faced a large, human carcass hanging upside down from the beams.
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ED GEIN. Bizarre handicraft made ED GEIN into a celebrity. Author Robert Bloch was inspired to write a story about Norman Bates, a character based on Eddie, which became the central theme of the Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho.
In 1974, the classic thriller by Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has many Geinian touches, although there is no character that is an exact ED GEIN model. This movie helped put "Ghastly Gein" back in the spotlight in the mid-1970's.
Years later, ED GEIN provided inspiration for the character of another serial killer, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. Like ED GEIN, Buffalo Bill treasured women's skin and wore it like clothing in some insane transvestite ritual.
While shocked deputies searched through the rubble of ED GEIN's existence, they realized that the horrible discoveries didn't end at the missing Mrs. Worden's body. They had stumbled into a death farm.
The soup bowl in his home was actually the top of a human skull. The lampshades and wastebasket were made from human skin.
A ghoulish inventory began to take shape: an armchair made of human skin, female genitalia kept preserved in a shoebox, a belt made of nipples, a human head, four noses and a heart.
The more the looked through the house, the more ghastly trophies they found. Finally a suit made entirely of human skin. Their heads spun as they tried to tally the number of woman that may have died at ED GEIN's hands.
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