EDGEINmodusoperandi

MODUS OPERANDI

Name - Edward 'Ed' Gein.
AKA - The Butcher of Plainfield, The Plainfield Butcher, The Mad Butcher, The Plainfield Ghoul.
DOB/DOD - 1906 - 26 July 1984.
Family - Mother 'Augusta 1878-1945', Father 'George 1873-1940', Brother 'Henry 1901-1944'.
Residence (at Time of Murders) - 160-Acre Farm Seven Miles Outside Plainfield, Wisconsin. USA.
Murder Type/Practices - Serial Killer / Grave robbery, Necrophilia, Cannibalism, Sadism, Death Fetishism.
Method/Weapons Used - Shooting / .22, .32.
Organisation - Mixed.
Mobility - Stable.
Victim Vicinity - Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Murder Time Span - 1954 - 1957.
Victim Type - Old Women.
Victims - Mary Hogan (Died 8 Dec 1954), Bernice Worden (Died 16 Nov 1957) (+?).

MYSTERY

The mystery that remains behind Ed Gein however, is the death of his brother, Henry. It is thought that Gein may have in fact been the reason for his brother�s demise so that he would be able to get closer to his mother. This motive though, is not substantiated, although it is quite possible that he did. Despite the fact that Ed killed older women who resembled his mother, it is possible that he could have killed his brother in 1944.
Whatever happened, Ed was definitely a strange character and there were some events in the early 1940�s that were most probably Ed�s work. In 1942, Ed was invited over to his nearest neighbour�s house, the Banks�. A female relative of the Banks� was in the house at that time, wearing shorts; Ed was unable to remove his eyes from her legs. Later that night, a mysterious male figure broke into the woman�s house, grabbing her young boy by the throat asking where his mother was. The intruder however, fled before the child could tell him anything. The boy had recognised the intruder to be Ed Gein.
There are also some other stories that concern Ed�s possible involvement. One involved an eight-year-old girl who disappeared in 1947 and a fifteen-year-old who disappeared in 1953 after walking home from babysitting. No body was found, but bloodstained clothes were found. The evidence for this suspicion of the extra murderous activities of Ed Gein are based upon some body parts being found that were clearly not from the grave robberies or his 2 known murders.