1) How often do you post to the discussion board? I post my required amount starting on Thursday through the weekend. As we are wrapping up the week I liked that you changed the first day to post Thursday.
2) What types of response techniques do you use (there are specific ones noted in the grading rubric)? I ask open ended questions, I ask a specific question,and I expand on the topic.
3) Do you complete the initial prompt or list your activities at your agency by Wednesday of each week? I usually do my first posting by Thursday as that works for me best as that day wraps up my week.
4) When peers post to your initial prompt, do you reply to them? I always respond back.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Week 3 Blog Post
Running Head: ED GEIN
Ed Gein:
Case Study
Beth Burt, Bryan Fleming,
Melissa Glamann,
Kari Kuss, and Jason Schreiner
Northcentral Technical College
Abnormal Psychology
April 7, 2010
Author Note
Kari E. Kuss, Beth R. Burt, Bryan W. Fleming, Melissa A. Glamann, Jason Schreiner, North Central Technical College Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kari Kuss, Beth Burt, Bryan Fleming, Melissa Glamann, Jason Schreiner North Central Technical College E-mail: kekuss1@.edu; maglamann@ntc.edu; bburt@ntc.edu; bfleming1@ntc.edu;
Abstract
This is the story of one man that took the media by storm and his name will live forever in infamy. Edward Gein an American murderer from Plainfield, Wisconsin, gained widespread attention when police found body parts inside his home. This story will tell about the horrible and disturbing hobbies this man had. We will discuss his childhood, deaths of family members, arrest, trial, aftermath, impact on popular culture, and his death. Ed Gein impacted and influenced the creation of several fictional serial killers, including James Gumb from The Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Norman Bates from Psycho.
Childhood
Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein was born August 27, 1906, in Lacrosse, Wisconsin (Ed Gein at AllExperts). Ed’s parents are native to Wisconsin and were married on July 7, 1900. Augusta, Ed’s Mother, soon took on the role as the domestic tyrant (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). Ed’s father George P. Gein was an alcoholic who couldn’t seem to hold a job. He would come home drunk and have to hear Augusta belittle him. On some occasions he would fly off the handle and punch her to the floor. She decided maybe children would bring some joy to her. She was appalled by any sexual relations but she endured it for the sake of children. She viewed women as harlots. To her, sexual relations were wrong if it wasn’t for procreation. She was never really close to her firstborn, Henry because he was a boy. She longed for a daughter. Their second child ended up being a boy as well. When she found out it was another boy she was bitter. She vowed this one would be different. He would not be lustful or foul mouthed (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). Ed and his brother, Henry both rejected their violent father. Eddie’s parents only stayed married because of Augusta’s deep religious beliefs. Divorce was not an option. Ed’s mother Augusta moved the family to a 195 acre farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin known to the locals as the old John Greenfield place (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). Back when property was almost entirely in the hands of men, Augusta Gein was what the purchase and deed records showed (Ed Gein). She wanted to prevent outsiders from influencing her sons. The closest neighbors lived a quarter mile away. Ed only left the house to go to school. Augusta prevented him from having any friends and this led to his classmates shunning him. He developed poor social skills, even though he did fairly well in school (Ed Gein at AllExperts).
Ed became even more sensitively timid. Ed spent most of his childhood doing farm chores.
Ed and his brother were brought up as Lutherans. His mother was a religious fanatic and would drill her two boys about the immorality of the world, evils of drinking, and that all women (except her) were whores (Ed Gein). Augusta made time every night to read the bible to her boys, usually reading verses from the Old Testament about death, murder and divine retribution.
Ed’s mother verbally abused him, telling him that he was destined to become a failure like his father. Throughout Ed’s teenage years and early adulthood he remained detached from the rest of the world. Ed loved his mom. Ed’s brother Henry was very critical of her, this bothered Eddie.
Deaths of Family Members
In 1940, Ed’s father, George, died from a heart attack.
On May 16th, 1944, Ed and Henry were fighting a brush fire near their farm. The police report stated that the two boys were separated during their struggle to put out the fire and Ed lost sight of Henry. After the fire was extinguished, Ed became worried about his missing brother and contacted the police. The police rounded up a search party only to have Ed lead them directly to Henry’s dead body. The police were suspicious of Henry’s death. There was evidence that Henry had blunt head trauma, but police decided cause of death was from asphyxiation while fighting the fire.
On December 29, 1945, Augusta, his mother died from a series of strokes (Ed Gein). This left Ed alone on the farm. He adored his mother and had lost his only friend. Ed boarded off the rooms his mother used the most. He preserved them as shrines to her (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
Ed on His Own
After the death of Ed Gein’s mother was when everything started happening. According to Dead Men Do Tell Tales (Taylor, 2004), no one had even noticed how different and strange Eddie was and what was taking place inside his farm house. Ed was looked upon as odd because he didn’t hunt like the other men in the town did. They also thought he had a strong odor and was in need of a bath.
Everything changed in the small town of Plainfield on November 16, 1957. That day an old widowed woman named Bernice Warden went missing. She was the owner of the local hardware store and one evening she wasn’t there. Her son, Frank, had gone to the store that afternoon after a day of hunting, only to find his mother missing. The front door was unlocked and the back door was open. He then found the long thin line of blood trailing from the front of the store all the way to that back door. Frank quickly notified police. The police found a sales receipt made to Ed Gein for a half gallon of anti-freeze.
Police had reasons to believe that Eddie was a suspect so they drove up to his farm house, none of them expecting to see the sight they had found there. Found in his back shed behind the house was Bernice Warden, beheaded, gutted, naked and hung like a deer. The police immediately called for backup. As they entered the house they discovered many more disturbing images. There were a number of different body parts that Eddie had turned into human furniture. The cops found four noses, nine vulvas in a shoe box and heads in paper bags. He made human skin lamp shades, masks and skulls made into bowls and on bed posts. The police at the scene had guessed there were about fifteen women’s body parts, at least, that they had found there (Taylor, 2004).
Confessions
In the Article titled Ed Gein (2003), Ed Gein had later confessed to the killings of Bernice Warden and Mary Hogan, a tavern owner who went missing December 8, 1954, three years before Bernice’s murder. The police had found her skull in Gein’s house while searching for Bernice Warden. Eddie would go to the local cemetery and dig up bodies to dismember. He then became desperate for fresh trophies. He made about 40 visits to the local cemetery. During his confessions Ed Gein was very cooperative with everyone and openly admitted to all his perversions (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
The Press
The story broke late Sunday evening. There wasn’t a living soul who didn’t learn of what was to become the most heinous crimes to ever be committed in Wisconsin. This would put Plainfield, Wisconsin forever in the minds of people as the home of the most demented murderer. All the major media from the large dailies ascended into Plainfield, Wisconsin on that Monday morning. They began to connect every missing person in the last 10 years to Ed Gein. This was the most talked about news story for the year. This small town would become a side show freak for many visitors to come. This is where a lot of rumors began to circulate from the major city press to make the stories sound more exciting. The little town began to feel exploited. The Plainfield head collector was a headline. He was becoming known as the Plainfield Butcher.
Crime lab
William Belter, a thirty-year old former state assemblyman from Wautoma would become Ed Gein’s defense attorney. They transported Eddie to Madison to the state’s major crime lab where they could give him a few lie detector tests. They would later find out that these tests only work sometimes. Here they learned of even more gruesome details. The graves that were all thought to be robbed were generating a lot of controversy. He showed no signs of guilt or indeed any consciousness of what he actually did. His attorney informed Eddie of his intention to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. It seemed as if Gein had no clue of what crimes he committed. This is where they learned that he had a greater fondness for his mother than was normal. He suffered from Oedipus complex (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). A term used by Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of development to describe a boy's feelings of desire for his mother and jealously and anger towards his father. Ed wished he was woman instead of a man. He was really intrigued by the story of the GI looking to do a sex change that he read about in the paper. He had medical books and studied anatomy. He also read crime magazines and horror comics. He read about the torturous stories of the Nazi’s. He read about cannibalism and necrophilia which is sexual feelings for or sexual acts with dead bodies. He found sexual mutilation fascinating as well. After all this, he always made sure to keep up on the obituaries. Ed’s sexual attitudes were encouraged by his mother’s control over him. This is what drove him to murder woman that reminded him of his mother’s likeness. The psychiatrists speculated that he was a sexual psychopath, mentally defective to society, and possibly schizophrenic. He had a love hate relationship with his mother (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
Trial
Ed Gein’s face showed no sign of emotion as the initial court proceedings began. The citizens from Plainfield were outraged that he would get away with the crimes of the two women he murdered. The DA, Kileen, explained that Ed Gein would never be free to roam the streets of Plainfield ever again. They had considered that the town folk could become violent after hearing the outcome so they made sure to put extra security on Eddie. He was recommended to the Central State Hospital for a sanity test before the actual trial began. He was ordered to Waupun for a thirty day evaluation. The sanity hearing on January 6 was held in Wisconsin Rapids. The staff that evaluated him felt he could best be classified as pseudo (which means not authentic or sincere, in spite of appearances) neurotic schizophrenic. Dr. Schubert summed up his findings as chronic schizophrenic. He was ruled insane and unfit to stand trial. He was recommitted to the Central State Hospital in Waupun for an indeterminate term of commitment. A lot people thought he was going away to a better life than what he was even accustomed to.
This was a poor county to begin with. The question was how long they could keep footing the bill on the Ed Gein case. They had to have 24 hour watch on his homestead. They had to keep groups of frat boys from trying to have parties there. The other pertinent question was whether they exhume any of the eight or nine bodies of the graves he claimed to have robbed. They were all women no men. They decided to do it and to their shocking surprise the graves were empty. Everything that Gein told them was gruesomely true. So now they pretty much had to exhume the rest of the graves on the list. The Waushara County appealed to the state that they couldn’t afford to keep paying for the investigation. The state ended up taking it over. They did find out he robbed from another local grave in Hancock also.
The final disposition of the evidence from the Gein case was ending in December of 1962. Eddie was enjoying his life at the hospital. Finally ten years after, Circuit Judge Gollmar received a letter stating that Ed Gein was competent to stand trial for the two murders. In the end he ended up right where he was. It came as a shock in 1974 when he petitioned the court that he had recovered. It was determined that he would stay right where he was. He would eventually get to leave Central State because it was turned into a correctional facility. He was moved to Mendota Health Institute in Madison. He became the resident celebrity. This is where he would die at the age of 78 years old, senile, and suffering from cancer. He died of respiratory failure in the geriatrics ward on July 26, 1984. He was buried the following night between three and six A.M., Gein was laid to rest in an unmarked plot in the Plainfield Cemetery. Only a handful of the Gasperic Funeral Home workers were there (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
After he was sentenced there was to be an auction of his belongings and land. There were already lawsuits pending from the families that he grave robbed. They determined the auction would be held on March 30. The town was irritated it fell on a Palm Sunday day of worship. The town was angered that they were charging fifty cents to get into the auction. The community was bitter. They protested and got the charge removed. But the date was to stay. Some say it had to be arson but ten days before the auction was to commence Ed Gein’s home was burnt. This sight actually was very pleasing to many.
An exhibitor named Koch /Cook/Kook Brothers purchased Ed Gein’s car under false pretense. He intended to make some money off the gruesome car that hauled body parts and bodies to local fairs around the state. He charged an admission to see the car up close. This soon was halted by the fair board (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
Popular Culture
The legacy of the gruesome events that took place at the hands of Ed Gein has, needless to say, carried on throughout the years in popular culture. Bands Such as Slayer, Mudvayne, and Macabre have entire songs about Ed, and even local Stevens Point band Wrath of the Girth, have a song called “November 16, 1957”. One band even called them simply “Ed Gein”.
Hollywood has had many movie characters based on Ed as well, including characters such as Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Norman Bates from the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Psycho”. A recent musical called “Ed Gein: The Musical” was filmed, and created mixed reactions amongst the public and critics.
Works Cited
Bardsley, R. B. (n.d.). tru TV Crime Library Criminal Minds and Methods Serial Killers Most Notorious Eddie Gein. Retrieved April 5, 2010, from True Tv: http://www.truetv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gein/bill_1.htmltr
Ed Gein. (n.d.). Retrieved March 15, 2010, from Monstropedia: http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Ed_Gein
Ed Gein at AllExperts. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2010, from AllExperts: http://en.allexperts.com/e/e/ed/ed_gein.htm#hd1
Schechter, H. (1989). Deviant. New York: Pocket Books.
Schechter, H., Everitt, D., & Brottman, M. (1997- present). Ed Gein: Real American Psycho. Retrieved April 5, 2010, from House of horrors: http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm
Taylor, T. (2004). Dead Men do Tell Tales. Retrieved March 9, 2010, from www.prairieghosts.com/ed_gein.html
(Mudvayne, 2001)
(Slayer, 2001)
(Macabre, 1994)
(Demme, 1991)
(Hitchcock, 1960)
(Hooper, 1974)
(Ed Gein: The Musical, 2010)
This was one of the hardest papers I worked on in a class that was a bit of a challenge. I really enjoyed it. I really needed a good grade to boost my grade up as the teachers quizzes were tough. I worked on this paper in a group setting. Which can suck sometimes if you don't have a great group of people that all pull their share. We all were responsible for a part. Mine was the paper. I was also the only one who read the the book. It was worth 200 points, we received 198! The only points missing was my sighting sources which is my weak spot. We worked on this right down to the night before. We were kind of iffy on a member of the group pulling his share of the paper but he pulled off the creativity part with video clips. There was a bond some of us shared that will last us forever as we got to know each other that semester. A couple of us I ended up becoming good friends together and we car pooled to school the last semester of school in Wausau.
Ed Gein:
Case Study
Beth Burt, Bryan Fleming,
Melissa Glamann,
Kari Kuss, and Jason Schreiner
Northcentral Technical College
Abnormal Psychology
April 7, 2010
Author Note
Kari E. Kuss, Beth R. Burt, Bryan W. Fleming, Melissa A. Glamann, Jason Schreiner, North Central Technical College Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kari Kuss, Beth Burt, Bryan Fleming, Melissa Glamann, Jason Schreiner North Central Technical College E-mail: kekuss1@.edu; maglamann@ntc.edu; bburt@ntc.edu; bfleming1@ntc.edu;
Abstract
This is the story of one man that took the media by storm and his name will live forever in infamy. Edward Gein an American murderer from Plainfield, Wisconsin, gained widespread attention when police found body parts inside his home. This story will tell about the horrible and disturbing hobbies this man had. We will discuss his childhood, deaths of family members, arrest, trial, aftermath, impact on popular culture, and his death. Ed Gein impacted and influenced the creation of several fictional serial killers, including James Gumb from The Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Norman Bates from Psycho.
Childhood
Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein was born August 27, 1906, in Lacrosse, Wisconsin (Ed Gein at AllExperts). Ed’s parents are native to Wisconsin and were married on July 7, 1900. Augusta, Ed’s Mother, soon took on the role as the domestic tyrant (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). Ed’s father George P. Gein was an alcoholic who couldn’t seem to hold a job. He would come home drunk and have to hear Augusta belittle him. On some occasions he would fly off the handle and punch her to the floor. She decided maybe children would bring some joy to her. She was appalled by any sexual relations but she endured it for the sake of children. She viewed women as harlots. To her, sexual relations were wrong if it wasn’t for procreation. She was never really close to her firstborn, Henry because he was a boy. She longed for a daughter. Their second child ended up being a boy as well. When she found out it was another boy she was bitter. She vowed this one would be different. He would not be lustful or foul mouthed (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). Ed and his brother, Henry both rejected their violent father. Eddie’s parents only stayed married because of Augusta’s deep religious beliefs. Divorce was not an option. Ed’s mother Augusta moved the family to a 195 acre farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin known to the locals as the old John Greenfield place (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). Back when property was almost entirely in the hands of men, Augusta Gein was what the purchase and deed records showed (Ed Gein). She wanted to prevent outsiders from influencing her sons. The closest neighbors lived a quarter mile away. Ed only left the house to go to school. Augusta prevented him from having any friends and this led to his classmates shunning him. He developed poor social skills, even though he did fairly well in school (Ed Gein at AllExperts).
Ed became even more sensitively timid. Ed spent most of his childhood doing farm chores.
Ed and his brother were brought up as Lutherans. His mother was a religious fanatic and would drill her two boys about the immorality of the world, evils of drinking, and that all women (except her) were whores (Ed Gein). Augusta made time every night to read the bible to her boys, usually reading verses from the Old Testament about death, murder and divine retribution.
Ed’s mother verbally abused him, telling him that he was destined to become a failure like his father. Throughout Ed’s teenage years and early adulthood he remained detached from the rest of the world. Ed loved his mom. Ed’s brother Henry was very critical of her, this bothered Eddie.
Deaths of Family Members
In 1940, Ed’s father, George, died from a heart attack.
On May 16th, 1944, Ed and Henry were fighting a brush fire near their farm. The police report stated that the two boys were separated during their struggle to put out the fire and Ed lost sight of Henry. After the fire was extinguished, Ed became worried about his missing brother and contacted the police. The police rounded up a search party only to have Ed lead them directly to Henry’s dead body. The police were suspicious of Henry’s death. There was evidence that Henry had blunt head trauma, but police decided cause of death was from asphyxiation while fighting the fire.
On December 29, 1945, Augusta, his mother died from a series of strokes (Ed Gein). This left Ed alone on the farm. He adored his mother and had lost his only friend. Ed boarded off the rooms his mother used the most. He preserved them as shrines to her (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
Ed on His Own
After the death of Ed Gein’s mother was when everything started happening. According to Dead Men Do Tell Tales (Taylor, 2004), no one had even noticed how different and strange Eddie was and what was taking place inside his farm house. Ed was looked upon as odd because he didn’t hunt like the other men in the town did. They also thought he had a strong odor and was in need of a bath.
Everything changed in the small town of Plainfield on November 16, 1957. That day an old widowed woman named Bernice Warden went missing. She was the owner of the local hardware store and one evening she wasn’t there. Her son, Frank, had gone to the store that afternoon after a day of hunting, only to find his mother missing. The front door was unlocked and the back door was open. He then found the long thin line of blood trailing from the front of the store all the way to that back door. Frank quickly notified police. The police found a sales receipt made to Ed Gein for a half gallon of anti-freeze.
Police had reasons to believe that Eddie was a suspect so they drove up to his farm house, none of them expecting to see the sight they had found there. Found in his back shed behind the house was Bernice Warden, beheaded, gutted, naked and hung like a deer. The police immediately called for backup. As they entered the house they discovered many more disturbing images. There were a number of different body parts that Eddie had turned into human furniture. The cops found four noses, nine vulvas in a shoe box and heads in paper bags. He made human skin lamp shades, masks and skulls made into bowls and on bed posts. The police at the scene had guessed there were about fifteen women’s body parts, at least, that they had found there (Taylor, 2004).
Confessions
In the Article titled Ed Gein (2003), Ed Gein had later confessed to the killings of Bernice Warden and Mary Hogan, a tavern owner who went missing December 8, 1954, three years before Bernice’s murder. The police had found her skull in Gein’s house while searching for Bernice Warden. Eddie would go to the local cemetery and dig up bodies to dismember. He then became desperate for fresh trophies. He made about 40 visits to the local cemetery. During his confessions Ed Gein was very cooperative with everyone and openly admitted to all his perversions (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
The Press
The story broke late Sunday evening. There wasn’t a living soul who didn’t learn of what was to become the most heinous crimes to ever be committed in Wisconsin. This would put Plainfield, Wisconsin forever in the minds of people as the home of the most demented murderer. All the major media from the large dailies ascended into Plainfield, Wisconsin on that Monday morning. They began to connect every missing person in the last 10 years to Ed Gein. This was the most talked about news story for the year. This small town would become a side show freak for many visitors to come. This is where a lot of rumors began to circulate from the major city press to make the stories sound more exciting. The little town began to feel exploited. The Plainfield head collector was a headline. He was becoming known as the Plainfield Butcher.
Crime lab
William Belter, a thirty-year old former state assemblyman from Wautoma would become Ed Gein’s defense attorney. They transported Eddie to Madison to the state’s major crime lab where they could give him a few lie detector tests. They would later find out that these tests only work sometimes. Here they learned of even more gruesome details. The graves that were all thought to be robbed were generating a lot of controversy. He showed no signs of guilt or indeed any consciousness of what he actually did. His attorney informed Eddie of his intention to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. It seemed as if Gein had no clue of what crimes he committed. This is where they learned that he had a greater fondness for his mother than was normal. He suffered from Oedipus complex (Schechter, Deviant, 1989). A term used by Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of development to describe a boy's feelings of desire for his mother and jealously and anger towards his father. Ed wished he was woman instead of a man. He was really intrigued by the story of the GI looking to do a sex change that he read about in the paper. He had medical books and studied anatomy. He also read crime magazines and horror comics. He read about the torturous stories of the Nazi’s. He read about cannibalism and necrophilia which is sexual feelings for or sexual acts with dead bodies. He found sexual mutilation fascinating as well. After all this, he always made sure to keep up on the obituaries. Ed’s sexual attitudes were encouraged by his mother’s control over him. This is what drove him to murder woman that reminded him of his mother’s likeness. The psychiatrists speculated that he was a sexual psychopath, mentally defective to society, and possibly schizophrenic. He had a love hate relationship with his mother (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
Trial
Ed Gein’s face showed no sign of emotion as the initial court proceedings began. The citizens from Plainfield were outraged that he would get away with the crimes of the two women he murdered. The DA, Kileen, explained that Ed Gein would never be free to roam the streets of Plainfield ever again. They had considered that the town folk could become violent after hearing the outcome so they made sure to put extra security on Eddie. He was recommended to the Central State Hospital for a sanity test before the actual trial began. He was ordered to Waupun for a thirty day evaluation. The sanity hearing on January 6 was held in Wisconsin Rapids. The staff that evaluated him felt he could best be classified as pseudo (which means not authentic or sincere, in spite of appearances) neurotic schizophrenic. Dr. Schubert summed up his findings as chronic schizophrenic. He was ruled insane and unfit to stand trial. He was recommitted to the Central State Hospital in Waupun for an indeterminate term of commitment. A lot people thought he was going away to a better life than what he was even accustomed to.
This was a poor county to begin with. The question was how long they could keep footing the bill on the Ed Gein case. They had to have 24 hour watch on his homestead. They had to keep groups of frat boys from trying to have parties there. The other pertinent question was whether they exhume any of the eight or nine bodies of the graves he claimed to have robbed. They were all women no men. They decided to do it and to their shocking surprise the graves were empty. Everything that Gein told them was gruesomely true. So now they pretty much had to exhume the rest of the graves on the list. The Waushara County appealed to the state that they couldn’t afford to keep paying for the investigation. The state ended up taking it over. They did find out he robbed from another local grave in Hancock also.
The final disposition of the evidence from the Gein case was ending in December of 1962. Eddie was enjoying his life at the hospital. Finally ten years after, Circuit Judge Gollmar received a letter stating that Ed Gein was competent to stand trial for the two murders. In the end he ended up right where he was. It came as a shock in 1974 when he petitioned the court that he had recovered. It was determined that he would stay right where he was. He would eventually get to leave Central State because it was turned into a correctional facility. He was moved to Mendota Health Institute in Madison. He became the resident celebrity. This is where he would die at the age of 78 years old, senile, and suffering from cancer. He died of respiratory failure in the geriatrics ward on July 26, 1984. He was buried the following night between three and six A.M., Gein was laid to rest in an unmarked plot in the Plainfield Cemetery. Only a handful of the Gasperic Funeral Home workers were there (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
After he was sentenced there was to be an auction of his belongings and land. There were already lawsuits pending from the families that he grave robbed. They determined the auction would be held on March 30. The town was irritated it fell on a Palm Sunday day of worship. The town was angered that they were charging fifty cents to get into the auction. The community was bitter. They protested and got the charge removed. But the date was to stay. Some say it had to be arson but ten days before the auction was to commence Ed Gein’s home was burnt. This sight actually was very pleasing to many.
An exhibitor named Koch /Cook/Kook Brothers purchased Ed Gein’s car under false pretense. He intended to make some money off the gruesome car that hauled body parts and bodies to local fairs around the state. He charged an admission to see the car up close. This soon was halted by the fair board (Schechter, Deviant, 1989).
Popular Culture
The legacy of the gruesome events that took place at the hands of Ed Gein has, needless to say, carried on throughout the years in popular culture. Bands Such as Slayer, Mudvayne, and Macabre have entire songs about Ed, and even local Stevens Point band Wrath of the Girth, have a song called “November 16, 1957”. One band even called them simply “Ed Gein”.
Hollywood has had many movie characters based on Ed as well, including characters such as Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Norman Bates from the Alfred Hitchcock classic “Psycho”. A recent musical called “Ed Gein: The Musical” was filmed, and created mixed reactions amongst the public and critics.
Works Cited
Bardsley, R. B. (n.d.). tru TV Crime Library Criminal Minds and Methods Serial Killers Most Notorious Eddie Gein. Retrieved April 5, 2010, from True Tv: http://www.truetv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gein/bill_1.htmltr
Ed Gein. (n.d.). Retrieved March 15, 2010, from Monstropedia: http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Ed_Gein
Ed Gein at AllExperts. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2010, from AllExperts: http://en.allexperts.com/e/e/ed/ed_gein.htm#hd1
Schechter, H. (1989). Deviant. New York: Pocket Books.
Schechter, H., Everitt, D., & Brottman, M. (1997- present). Ed Gein: Real American Psycho. Retrieved April 5, 2010, from House of horrors: http://www.houseofhorrors.com/gein.htm
Taylor, T. (2004). Dead Men do Tell Tales. Retrieved March 9, 2010, from www.prairieghosts.com/ed_gein.html
(Mudvayne, 2001)
(Slayer, 2001)
(Macabre, 1994)
(Demme, 1991)
(Hitchcock, 1960)
(Hooper, 1974)
(Ed Gein: The Musical, 2010)
This was one of the hardest papers I worked on in a class that was a bit of a challenge. I really enjoyed it. I really needed a good grade to boost my grade up as the teachers quizzes were tough. I worked on this paper in a group setting. Which can suck sometimes if you don't have a great group of people that all pull their share. We all were responsible for a part. Mine was the paper. I was also the only one who read the the book. It was worth 200 points, we received 198! The only points missing was my sighting sources which is my weak spot. We worked on this right down to the night before. We were kind of iffy on a member of the group pulling his share of the paper but he pulled off the creativity part with video clips. There was a bond some of us shared that will last us forever as we got to know each other that semester. A couple of us I ended up becoming good friends together and we car pooled to school the last semester of school in Wausau.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Week 2 Blog Response
1. Please tell me 4 goals you hope to achieve ---specific things you want to learn--- by participating in this course. 1. I wanted to see if this is what part of this Human Service is what I want to work with. 2. To understand the whole paperwork process that goes on working with this population of people and not be confused about it. 3. To have a better field experience than the last one! 4. To possibly have this as a option for a career down the road.
2. Rank your goals in terms of their relative importance to you.
3. What was the best thing that happened to you this week? Receiving a check in the mail for unclaimed property owed to me that I thought was a scam. I didn't know it was coming, bonus it covered my groceries for the week!
2. Rank your goals in terms of their relative importance to you.
3. What was the best thing that happened to you this week? Receiving a check in the mail for unclaimed property owed to me that I thought was a scam. I didn't know it was coming, bonus it covered my groceries for the week!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Ed Gein Social History
Name: Edward (Ed) Theodore Gein
Date: October 24th
Prepared by: Kari Kuss
Presenting Problem: Ed is a 51-year-old unmarried white male who is convicted with the murder of two women and possible five more. He has an abnormal attachment to his dead mother. He has memory deficits. He has issues with Transvestic fetishes. He is necrophilia as well with women whom look like his dead mother. He has dug up graves of women his mother’s age. The psychiatrist states that he is schizophrenic. The state has requested therapy. His mother wished him to be a girl so he might have gender issues.
Family of Origin: Mother Augusta, she was a religious tyrant, she verbally abused him and her husband. Ed put her on a pedestal. Augusta supported the family through a successful grocery Business. She despised George, felt he was worthless, and gave him no part in raising the two boys. Father George P. was an abusive alcoholic who worked periodically as a carpenter, a tanner, and a farmer that died of pneumonia. He had an older brother Henry that didn’t agree with his mother’s ways and Ed is suspected of killing him from criticizing her.
Birth and Childhood: August 27, 1906 in LaCrosse, WI. His mother wanted him to be a girl. He spent most of his time doing farm chores. Ed began school at Roche-a-Cri grade school, a tiny one-room building with 12 students. Ed was average at school, but an excellent reader. Ed was shunned and isolated at school because of his lazy eye and his shyness. Augusta severely punished Ed when he did attempt to make friends. Ed graduated the eighth grade and then dropped out of school.
Marriages and Significant Relationships: Never married no significant relationships
Current Living Arrangements: Living alone in Plainfield, WI
Education: He went to school to the 8th grade then dropped out.
Military Service: None
Ed was still eligible for the draft and had to travel to Milwaukee for a physical exam. He was rejected due to the growth on his left eyelid, which slightly impaired his vision. This was the farthest from home he had ever been and the only time in his life he would travel so far.
Employment History: He hung windows, patched roofs, painted houses, repaired fences. He babysat for children as he could relate to them better. He also worked for a road building contractor.
Medical History: A growth on his left eyelid caused Ed to have a “lazy” eye. He had a lesion on his tongue which caused his speech to sound weird. He is schizophrenic and a sexual psycho path.
Legal History: November 16, 1957 he was arrested for the murder of Bernice Warden. He confessed to the murder of Mary Hogan from December 8, 1954. He was suspected of five more.
Social and Recreational Interests: His mother prevented him from developing any friends. So he had poor social skills. He read books about which included head shrinking, grave robbing, and many books on human anatomy.
Religious Activities: He was brought up Lutheran and his mother was a religious fanatic. She drilled it into him that drinking was evil and that all women were whores. His mother read from the bible nightly.
Successes/Strengths and Resources:
Impressions and Recommendations: Ed is a 51-year old unmarried white male who is convicted with the murder of two women and possible five more. The murders started around the time after his mother passed away. He is functioning on a level that he is only admitting to committing two murders. He seems to have areas of memory loss and isn’t affected by the public’s reaction. He however has an insight on whether or not he dug up the graves of middle aged women. He believes at one point he has recovered his mental health and wants to be released. He is motivated to change. Client appears to have impaired mental and social functioning.
Recommendations for Ed are as follows: Recommend a mental health treatment and a psych evaluation for his schizophrenia and necrophilia issues and 12 counseling sessions to address why he had committed the crimes he was convicted of.
Date: October 24th
Prepared by: Kari Kuss
Presenting Problem: Ed is a 51-year-old unmarried white male who is convicted with the murder of two women and possible five more. He has an abnormal attachment to his dead mother. He has memory deficits. He has issues with Transvestic fetishes. He is necrophilia as well with women whom look like his dead mother. He has dug up graves of women his mother’s age. The psychiatrist states that he is schizophrenic. The state has requested therapy. His mother wished him to be a girl so he might have gender issues.
Family of Origin: Mother Augusta, she was a religious tyrant, she verbally abused him and her husband. Ed put her on a pedestal. Augusta supported the family through a successful grocery Business. She despised George, felt he was worthless, and gave him no part in raising the two boys. Father George P. was an abusive alcoholic who worked periodically as a carpenter, a tanner, and a farmer that died of pneumonia. He had an older brother Henry that didn’t agree with his mother’s ways and Ed is suspected of killing him from criticizing her.
Birth and Childhood: August 27, 1906 in LaCrosse, WI. His mother wanted him to be a girl. He spent most of his time doing farm chores. Ed began school at Roche-a-Cri grade school, a tiny one-room building with 12 students. Ed was average at school, but an excellent reader. Ed was shunned and isolated at school because of his lazy eye and his shyness. Augusta severely punished Ed when he did attempt to make friends. Ed graduated the eighth grade and then dropped out of school.
Marriages and Significant Relationships: Never married no significant relationships
Current Living Arrangements: Living alone in Plainfield, WI
Education: He went to school to the 8th grade then dropped out.
Military Service: None
Ed was still eligible for the draft and had to travel to Milwaukee for a physical exam. He was rejected due to the growth on his left eyelid, which slightly impaired his vision. This was the farthest from home he had ever been and the only time in his life he would travel so far.
Employment History: He hung windows, patched roofs, painted houses, repaired fences. He babysat for children as he could relate to them better. He also worked for a road building contractor.
Medical History: A growth on his left eyelid caused Ed to have a “lazy” eye. He had a lesion on his tongue which caused his speech to sound weird. He is schizophrenic and a sexual psycho path.
Legal History: November 16, 1957 he was arrested for the murder of Bernice Warden. He confessed to the murder of Mary Hogan from December 8, 1954. He was suspected of five more.
Social and Recreational Interests: His mother prevented him from developing any friends. So he had poor social skills. He read books about which included head shrinking, grave robbing, and many books on human anatomy.
Religious Activities: He was brought up Lutheran and his mother was a religious fanatic. She drilled it into him that drinking was evil and that all women were whores. His mother read from the bible nightly.
Successes/Strengths and Resources:
Impressions and Recommendations: Ed is a 51-year old unmarried white male who is convicted with the murder of two women and possible five more. The murders started around the time after his mother passed away. He is functioning on a level that he is only admitting to committing two murders. He seems to have areas of memory loss and isn’t affected by the public’s reaction. He however has an insight on whether or not he dug up the graves of middle aged women. He believes at one point he has recovered his mental health and wants to be released. He is motivated to change. Client appears to have impaired mental and social functioning.
Recommendations for Ed are as follows: Recommend a mental health treatment and a psych evaluation for his schizophrenia and necrophilia issues and 12 counseling sessions to address why he had committed the crimes he was convicted of.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Week 12 Blog Post
You will have moments in your life when you feel like you have made a difference for another person. If this has already happened for you, tell me what that looked like. If it hasn't yet, tell me what you think it will be like.
I work with this lady Bonnie Lindow she is in her upper 50's and is not up on the technology as I am and I have helped her figure out just simple steps that have made her job a lot easier to do. To me its just simple stuff but to her it means a lot more having to do things a longer way. We have created a great friendship along the way as well. She has taught me administration stuff as I have never worked in an office setting before either so it has been a give take lasting relationship. I find you can learn something from anyone you meet usually at some point.
I work with this lady Bonnie Lindow she is in her upper 50's and is not up on the technology as I am and I have helped her figure out just simple steps that have made her job a lot easier to do. To me its just simple stuff but to her it means a lot more having to do things a longer way. We have created a great friendship along the way as well. She has taught me administration stuff as I have never worked in an office setting before either so it has been a give take lasting relationship. I find you can learn something from anyone you meet usually at some point.
Week 11 Blog Post
How is it going? In field, in classes, just in general. I'm checking in to see how you are as we begin to wind down the term.
We get a new Executive Director on November 16th Raechel Sherfield. Bonnie finds out if the board will hire her on as a permanent administrator assistant this coming wk at their board meeting. She pretty much has been the glue to keep this place running smoothly. If she leaves I think they will struggle for awhile. She has put in her year's time awhile ago already from the program through the Senior Center. I have been making my decisions on what classes to take for my last semester and what to carry over for the summer. I think I will end up taking the rest online that are available just so I can make money at my new job. I started driving taxi on October 17th for the elderly and handicapped as that is pretty much most of my clientele. I really like it so far and the pay is pretty good for start out too. As I told you I was accepted into UW Oshkosh last week for their online leadership program. So hopefully when we get a new director I can get some of my assignments questions for field answered but yet I don't want to bombard her too much right away. This semester has been a lot easier than the summer which has been nice so who knows what the spring will bring me...
We get a new Executive Director on November 16th Raechel Sherfield. Bonnie finds out if the board will hire her on as a permanent administrator assistant this coming wk at their board meeting. She pretty much has been the glue to keep this place running smoothly. If she leaves I think they will struggle for awhile. She has put in her year's time awhile ago already from the program through the Senior Center. I have been making my decisions on what classes to take for my last semester and what to carry over for the summer. I think I will end up taking the rest online that are available just so I can make money at my new job. I started driving taxi on October 17th for the elderly and handicapped as that is pretty much most of my clientele. I really like it so far and the pay is pretty good for start out too. As I told you I was accepted into UW Oshkosh last week for their online leadership program. So hopefully when we get a new director I can get some of my assignments questions for field answered but yet I don't want to bombard her too much right away. This semester has been a lot easier than the summer which has been nice so who knows what the spring will bring me...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
D.B. 9 Blog Prompt
1. How do you get feedback from your supervisor at your agency? I just ask Bonnie the administrator, Tara the Parent Educator or Carole the other Parent Educator. Tara's last day is November 4th and Tammy Dahl will be taking her place. As far as the circumstances to the comment left by you in the grading section. I just explained what really happened as she didn't know what had occurred between Linda & I. It's been 3 weeks since we haven't had a director and we are managing to get by but nobody can make any decisions on anything until we hire a new Director maybe a Rachel Loucks is a possibility but who knows.
2. Do you feel you are getting adequate feedback? If not, what can you do to get more feedback. Yes, for the circumstances that the Parent resource Center is going through with all the employee changes.
2. Do you feel you are getting adequate feedback? If not, what can you do to get more feedback. Yes, for the circumstances that the Parent resource Center is going through with all the employee changes.
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