America's Famous Serial Killers!
Serial killers — you'd be hard-pressed to spot them in a crowd. They look just like everyone else. In fact, most of them are soft-spoken and polite. Their monstrous nature comes through only when you delve deeper into their personalities, action and habits.
Reading the gruesome tables of serial killers sends a chill up the spine. Most of them seem to have had a dysfunctional family setting and were abused as children — emotionally, sexually or verbally. It's as if this activates some psychological trigger in their minds. Increasing the feeling of inadequacy of worthlessness, and causing them to seek out their own heinous form of release.
There have been hundreds of serial killers in the history of America, and there are a few that tend to stay in the minds of citizens, becoming (in)famous ones.
Here are just a few of the (in)famous serial killers that have walked the streets of our nation, in no particular order. There may be many others that are notorious or have killed more pepole, but we picked a few of the more famous killers that truly shocked us.
Ed Gein (Killing between 1947 and 1957)
Known as history's most inspirational killer, his character became a central element in many films, including Alfred Hichcock's thriller Psycho and the character of Buffalo Bill's in The Silence of the Lambs, among others.
Modus Operandi
Gein was serial killer who skinned his victims, exhumed corpses, and decorated his home with parts of this victims' bodies. Human skin was used to make dust bins, furniture, and even clothes.
Background
Gein was born in 1906 as the younger of two boys. He had a weak alchoholic father and a domineering mother who are deeply religious. He was said to be very attached to her. She taught them about immorality and the evil of women and sex and discouraged their sexual desires. He turned into an effeminate and shy boy.
His father died as a result of his alcoholism and later his brother Henry, who used to criticize his mother about Gein's unhealthy attachment to her, died in a mysterious fire. The younger boy was later suspected.
Fantasies
With nobody to control him after his mother passed away, Gein became obsessed with sexual fantasies and female anatomy. Fascinated by the human experiments performed in Nazi camps, he started robbing graves to perform experiments of his own, including exhuming his own mother's body. The experiments of his own, including exhuming his own mother's body. The experimetns became gruesome and cannibalistic. he had the desire to turn himself into a woman and would create breasts out of human skin and drape them over himself. He believed that for a sex change, he would need fresh bodies and thus started his killing spree, which was said to be because of his love-hate relationship with his mother.
House of Horrors
When police finally caught up with him, they found a variety of gruesome sights - hanging corpses with their throats and heads missing, bowls made of skulls, pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, and masks made of facial skin and vulva (including this mother's) that were painted silver. The most shocking discovery was perhaps his mother's heat, which was found in a pan on the stove.
Killing and Sentence
Police counted 15 women as his victims. Gein told the police that he never has sex with any of the dead women as they smelled too bad. His fascination with women was because of the power they held over men. Gein was admitted to Waupan State Hospital and died of cancer at the age of 78.
Reading the gruesome tables of serial killers sends a chill up the spine. Most of them seem to have had a dysfunctional family setting and were abused as children — emotionally, sexually or verbally. It's as if this activates some psychological trigger in their minds. Increasing the feeling of inadequacy of worthlessness, and causing them to seek out their own heinous form of release.
There have been hundreds of serial killers in the history of America, and there are a few that tend to stay in the minds of citizens, becoming (in)famous ones.
Here are just a few of the (in)famous serial killers that have walked the streets of our nation, in no particular order. There may be many others that are notorious or have killed more pepole, but we picked a few of the more famous killers that truly shocked us.
Ed Gein (Killing between 1947 and 1957)
Known as history's most inspirational killer, his character became a central element in many films, including Alfred Hichcock's thriller Psycho and the character of Buffalo Bill's in The Silence of the Lambs, among others.
Modus Operandi
Gein was serial killer who skinned his victims, exhumed corpses, and decorated his home with parts of this victims' bodies. Human skin was used to make dust bins, furniture, and even clothes.
Background
Gein was born in 1906 as the younger of two boys. He had a weak alchoholic father and a domineering mother who are deeply religious. He was said to be very attached to her. She taught them about immorality and the evil of women and sex and discouraged their sexual desires. He turned into an effeminate and shy boy.
His father died as a result of his alcoholism and later his brother Henry, who used to criticize his mother about Gein's unhealthy attachment to her, died in a mysterious fire. The younger boy was later suspected.
Fantasies
With nobody to control him after his mother passed away, Gein became obsessed with sexual fantasies and female anatomy. Fascinated by the human experiments performed in Nazi camps, he started robbing graves to perform experiments of his own, including exhuming his own mother's body. The experiments of his own, including exhuming his own mother's body. The experimetns became gruesome and cannibalistic. he had the desire to turn himself into a woman and would create breasts out of human skin and drape them over himself. He believed that for a sex change, he would need fresh bodies and thus started his killing spree, which was said to be because of his love-hate relationship with his mother.
House of Horrors
When police finally caught up with him, they found a variety of gruesome sights - hanging corpses with their throats and heads missing, bowls made of skulls, pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, and masks made of facial skin and vulva (including this mother's) that were painted silver. The most shocking discovery was perhaps his mother's heat, which was found in a pan on the stove.
Killing and Sentence
Police counted 15 women as his victims. Gein told the police that he never has sex with any of the dead women as they smelled too bad. His fascination with women was because of the power they held over men. Gein was admitted to Waupan State Hospital and died of cancer at the age of 78.
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