Ed Gein

Name: Ed Gein

Born: Aug 27, 1906 (La Crosse, Wisconsin)

Died: July 26, 1984

Cause and Effect:
Ed Gein was the product of a Mother who was domineering and continuously preach against the sins of women, and being kept away from others his age as he grew up. After his father died, his brother died four years later. The cause of death was registered as smoke asphyxiation as he and Ed were fighting a fire at the time. The fact his brother was in an unburned area and had bruising to his head was not considered. After his mother died, a year later, Ed took up grave robbing.

Grave Robbery:
When Ed's mother died, he immediately nailed her room shut to keep it as it was the day she died. He became interested in the human anatomy and began reading about the first sex change operation, even considering having one done on himself. He then with a local known as Gus, he went on to begin robbing graves.

He would read obituary columns and look for recently deceased females to rob the fresh graves. Taking souvenirs, he also started taking body parts and sometimes whole bodies.

The Killings:
Their were only two murders that were certain to be at the hands of Ed Gein. The first was a 51 year old Mary Hogan who ran a bar in Pine Grove Wisconsin. They found only blood on the floor and a spent cartridge. Gein was a suspect for the killing, but since there was no hard evidence, the police did not investigate him further.

The second of the two killings was that of Bernice Worden. Another woman in her fifties. Once again there was only blood on the floor to be found, but this time there was more to link Ed Gein to the murder. Her son had witnessed him asking her for a date and was turned down, and another citizen heard Ed say he needed to buy some anti-freeze from her store on the day she died. So the police finally paid Ed's home a visit.

It should be noted that both women he killed had similar looks to that of his mother.

House of Horrors:
The police literally walked into a scene from a horror movie, as Bernice Worden's body hung from rafters with her head and genitalia removed. Her torso was split open and gutted. They found her head being used as a makeshift ornament and her heart was sitting on a sauce pan on the stove. The pistol that matched the cartridge at the first murder was also found.

After his arrest, Gein admitted to the two murders as well as confessed about his grave robbing activities.

The Sentence:
A judge found Ed Gein to be insane and he was sent to a secure mental hospital where he spent the rest of his life.

Ed Gein died of respiratory failure on July 26th, 1984 a month shy of his 78th birthday.

Jeffrey Dahmer

Name: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

Born: May 21, 1960 (Wisconsin)

Died: November 28, 1994

Cause and Effect:
There seems to be no true explanation as to why Dahmer turned to killing and cannibalism. Other than his parents arguing a lot, his home life was by all apparent reasons, normal. At a young age he simply began to become fascinated by dead animals. As a teen he began to ride around on his bike, looking for road kill to dismember.

The Killing:
During the summer of 1978, Dahmer's parents went through a divorce and as he was about to graduate, they both moved out of the house and left Jeffrey there alone. His response was to go out and pick up a hitch hiker, Stephen Hicks, take him home and have sex with him. When the Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer picked up a bar bell and hit him in the head then strangled him to death. Jeffrey then dismembered the corpse and buried it nearby.

Jeffrey had become an alcoholic and trying to stop it, his Father forced him to enlist in the Army in 1979 at the age of 18. His army life did not last however as he was discharged for habitual drunkenness. Jeffrey then moved in to his grandmother's basement. In 1982, Dahmer was arrested for indecent exposure and then again in 1986. The second time, he was ordered to counseling. However, the counseling did not help as the next year he went out and killed three people.

The first of those victims was Steven Tuomi, who he met in a gay bar. He murdered Tuomi in a hotel, put the body in a suitcase, then took it home. At home he had sex with the body then dismembered it. The next victim was James Doxtator, a 14 year old Native American boy. The third was a Mexican youth by the name of Richard Guerrero. Dahmer's grandmother could no longer stand his drunkenness nor the strong smells coming from his living quarters and evicted him.

In 1988, Jeffrey Dahmer moved into his own flat in Milwaukee. The next day after moving in, he lured a 13 year old Loation boy to his place and paid the boy to let him photograph him nude. Dahmer drugged the boy and fondled him, but did not harm him physically. The boy's parents turned Dahmer in and he was sentenced to one year in prison for sexual assault. While Dahmer was waiting for his sentencing date however, he killed Anthony Sears.

Final Killing Spree:
After 10 months in prison, Dahmer was released and he went on to kill some more. Between June of 1990 and July of 1991, Dahmer killed 12 more men. In the end he was killing nearly a victim per week and his treatment of them became stranger as he went. Dahmer would drill holes into his victims heads and pour acid into them. Jeffrey would place some body parts in his refrigerator and their skulls on an altar in his bedroom.

One of the more bizarre stories is the killing of Konerak Sinthasomphone, who was the brother of the Loation boy Dahmer had molested. After being drugged, Konerak was able to escape from Dahmer's home and ran outside where two young African American women found him and called the police. However, Dahmer was able to convince the police officers that the drugged and bleeding Konerak was his boyfriend and the officers released Konerak back into Dahmer's possession. Dahmer took Konerak home and murdered him. Dahmer went on to kill his last four victims inside of the next few weeks.

An End to the Killings:
On July 22, 1991, Tracy Edwards, and adult black man escaped Dahmer's apartment and waved down a police car. Taking the officers back to the apartment, they found a human head in the refrigerator. By August 22, Dahmer was charged with 15 counts of murder and in 1992 he was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences.

Death of the Killer:
In prison, Jeffrey Dahmer refused to be placed in solitary confinement. In 1994, an inmate smashed Dahmer's skull with an iron bar and killed him.