7th Period Ed Gein (F25) by Gia Mallet

Instructions & Success Criteria

gia_mallet — 2025-09-10 13:39:08 UTC

Read "The Macabre Story Of Ed Gein..." (linked here). In the aftermath of his crimes, his neighbors said that there were “clues” all along. Choose a category & discuss the “clues” that a professional would recognize as indicators of his criminal behavior or at minimum, criminal/murderous ideations. Simply click the + under the category you'd like to add to. See my example below

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gia_mallet — 2025-09-10 13:39:08 UTC

Here I would write about how certain biological factors may have been early clues to what Ed Gein would become. I am getting this information from "The Macabre Story of Ed Gein.." article. I chose a picture that is appropriate, not too grotesque or inappropriate.

Delilah Ortega- his interests

2680621_1 — 2025-09-10 19:15:55 UTC

Know as the butcher from Plainfield

Police found skulls, human organs, and gruesome pieces of furniture like lampshades made of human faces and chairs upholstered with human skin. Gein’s goal was to create a skin suit to “ resurrect” his dead mother to impersonate her, he’d been obsessed with her for years.

Juan Alvarez

2025-09-10 19:20:31 UTC

Ed was raised by his mother Augusta. She raised Ed and his brother Henry to believe that the world was full of evil, that women were “vessels of sin,” and that drinking immorality were instruments of the devil.

Alexa Castor

2680321_1 — 2025-09-10 19:20:50 UTC

As a child, he was raised by a mother who was not in a good state of mind, and raised Ed and his brother to believe the world is full of evil, especially women. This, added to the isolation from townspeople and school bullying, helped shape Gein’s state of mind.

Chantelle Dompreh - Childhood Circumstances

2025-09-10 19:20:52 UTC

Ed Gain faced some social isolation as a child. He was raised on a remote farm and had limited social interactions. He was socially awkward, was often bullied because of his lazy eye and speech impediment, and overall failed to establish impactful connections with children his age. The isolation most likely contributed to his detachment from social norms.

Childhood

2025-09-10 19:23:02 UTC

Ed Had a rough upbringing from a young age Ed’s Father was an aggressive drunk verbally and physically abusive towards Ed and his brother. Ed was taught that sex was evil and to never be did even though it’s apart of life. Multiple members of his family started dying in a short amount of time. This leaving Ed all alone this is believed to to be his early childhood trigger that caused him to grow up and do such evil things

Samantha Sheehan

2025-09-10 19:25:45 UTC

Ed Geins dad was an alcoholic and both verbally and physically abusive to Ed and his brother. Augusta’s death(his brother)in 1945 left Ed alone and appears to be the catalyst that drove his descent into full-blown psychotic behavior.Investigators suspected Ed killed his brother.

Zuri Echols

2025-09-10 19:27:26 UTC

As a child, he grew up with an alcoholic and abusive father and a mother with religious psychosis which had an impact on him from an early age and caused damage that would become more harmful later in the years following his entires family’s death.

Paige Flaws

2025-09-10 19:27:49 UTC

Ed Gein was raised differently then most and that had the biggest inpact on him, because of the way his mom was frantic and anxiously running form the devil and evil, he was majorly inpacted thinking she was a hero for keeping him safe. There for, he became obsessed with her and planed to make a human suit do he can become her.

Plainfield Wisconsin

2025-09-10 19:28:10 UTC

Ed Gein moved with his family to Plainfield Wisconsin from La Crosse. They also settled on the outskirts of this small town. This isolated gein from seeing other people and making relationships. The text states “ Ed gein only left his family’s isolated farmhouse to go to school.” This prevented him from meeting new people and discovering new things and ideas. Even after his mothers and brothers deaths he continued to live on the family farm house in isolation.

Shada akarah

2025-09-10 19:28:45 UTC

As a child he was bullied because he was quiet and had questionable outfits. He only left his house to go to school. He lost his brother at a young age from a fire. Just a year later he lost his mother. Having two deaths within a year could definitely ruin a person emotionally, it ruined ed gein. His mother always taught him that the world was evil and after her death he started learning about the Nazi medical experiments. Later on when police interrogated him and asked him questions he said that he would go to the graveyard to look for women that looked like his mother. This shows the obsession that he had with his mother since she’s the only woman he’s really ever talked to. He also told police that he wanted to create a woman suit so he can become like his mother. That shows that he was really attached to his mother .

Being isolated and bullied

2680429 — 2025-09-10 19:30:34 UTC

Because Gein was raised alone by his mother and their house was isolated from the rest of the world, Gein never made any significant connections with people from the outside world other than his family. With Gein also having a lazy eye and speech impediment caused him to get bullied and even more isolated from his classmates. With this he began to idolize his mother and later cause him to most likely kill his older brother and kill more women and grave rob to get the parts to make his mother.

Shirley Noah

2680464_1 — 2025-09-10 19:31:22 UTC

Ed Gein and his brother were raised by a mother who allowed them to believe that the outside world was full of evil and sin so she kept them separate. In childhood isolation is an extremely harmful thing although he went to school, he was easily a victim for bullying and would return home to an alcoholic and abusive father and a mother who manipulated the children’s view of their environment.

Interest and behavior

2025-09-10 19:32:21 UTC

Socially awkward, and obsessed with his mother “Ed filled his days by learning about Nazi medical experiments, studying human anatomy, consuming porn — though he never attempted to date any real-life women — and reading horror novels.”

Ed Gein’s Childhood.

2025-09-10 19:34:12 UTC

Ed Gein had a strange relationship with his mother at a young age. His mother wanted to protect him from different evils of the world so he isolated Ed Gein and his brother, Henry from the world. In school he was bullied in school due to his anti social personality and unexplained bursts of laughter.

Ed Gein Childhood

2025-09-10 21:10:26 UTC

the early influences that shaped Ed Gein's notorious legacy, particularly his childhood experiences. It highlights the impact of his mother, Augusta Gein, whose strict religious beliefs fostered a worldview that viewed society as corrupt and women as sinful. This led to the family's isolation in Plainfield, significantly affecting Ed's development and creating an unhealthy loyalty to her. The post also discusses Ed's social isolation and bullying during school, which contributed to his psychological issues and odd behaviors. The tragic death of his brother, Henry, marked a turning point, deepening Ed's isolation as he lived alone with Augusta and intensifying his psychological decline. In summary, the post illustrates how Ed Gein's childhood, influenced by his mother, social isolation, and family tragedy, foreshadowed his descent into darkness, emphasizing the critical role of early influences in shaping behavior.

Amani H

Ed Gein childhood

2025-09-10 23:53:38 UTC

Ed Gein grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. His mom was very strict and religious. She told him that women were bad and kept him away from other people, especially girls. His family was very isolated and lonely. His dad died when Ed was young, and later his brother died too, so it was just him and his mom. This made Ed scared and confused about the world. His strict and lonely childhood helped shape the strange and sad things he did later in life.

Behavior and Interest

2025-09-11 00:17:14 UTC

Ed weirdly was obsessed of his mother for quite some time and created a skin suit to quasi-resurrect his dead mother with whom he’d been obsessed for years. He boarded up rooms that she’d used, keeping them in pristine condition, and moved into a small bedroom off the kitchen.

Ed Geins early life with his mother

2025-09-11 00:54:10 UTC

Ed Gein originally stayed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and has always been under the influence of his religious mother Augusta. His mother has always believed their own town in La Crosse was full of evil and sin, calling it a “sinkhole of filth” and decided to move Ed Gein and his brother Henry just outside of Plainfield. Close by the town was a farm house his mother bought to raise the family in. Since Ed Geins father was an alcoholic he became strictly obsessed and close to his mother, feeling tensions form between him and Henry who argued with his mother often. Since the farm was so isolated, Ed Gein only ever went to town for school, making him easily a victim of bullying. Gein felt so close to the farm house that he kept it in adulthood and even organized all the rooms his mother stayed in after her passing, killing all his victims in the rooms that were open, including his brother during early childhood in the farms open field, making Henry his first suspected victim.

Kira May

2025-09-12 18:12:05 UTC

Ed Gein had a strange obsession with his mother that continued even after her death. When Gein was caught he admitted that 2 years after her death he went to graveyards looking for bodies he thought looked like his mom. He intended on making a “woman suit” so that he could become his mother.

Jax knor

2025-09-15 18:36:32 UTC

Ed gein was described as erratic and odd when he was a child, other children noting how he would have fits of unexplained laughter. These fits of laughter were signs of something deeper.

9/'15 Pt 2 Example

gia_mallet — 2025-09-15 18:40:05 UTC

Today, you'll learn more about Ed Gein via a new source of your choosing (from the materials I posted on GC). You will then add another post to this Padlet under the provided categories BUT THIS TIME YOU WILL ADD A FULL-LENGTH MLA WORKS CITED ENTRY to the end

Ex.) "Free Mental Health Support Available." YouTube, uploaded by ProvinceofBC, 15 Dec. 2020, https://youtu.be/K8qo-e9Jexc. Accessed 9 Sept. 2021.

Ed Gein

2025-09-15 18:51:30 UTC

Ed Gein’s actions can be explained in part by biological factors. His father struggled with alcoholism, which could point to genetic issues. He also may have had brain problems that affected his judgment and self-control. These factors, combined with his abusive home life, likely influenced his violent behavior.

Biographics. “Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield.” YouTube, uploaded by Biographics, 24 Jan. 2019, https://youtu.be/Q66Bmvw5x_4.

Chantelle Dompreh - Interests / Behaviors

2025-09-15 19:02:38 UTC

Ed Gein had a disturbing interest in death and human anatomy. He took corpses from cemeteries and collected body parts, eventually using them to make items like clothing and household objects from them. These behaviors reflected his obsession with recreating his mother and “controlling death”.

MLA CITATION: Whistler, Simon. “Ed Gein: The Real-life Leatherface.” Youtube, uploaded by Biographics, 29 April. 2019, https://youtu.be/Q66Bmvw5x_4si=17WxLYr0clgLpGv6 . Accessed 15 Sept. 2025.

Anthony Holiday

2025-09-15 19:03:35 UTC

Ed Gein behavior is explained through the mental things he had to go through as to having an drunk abusive dad and then a mother who just died can do a lot to a kid.

Plum, Ashley and Plum, Ricky. “The Butcher Of Plainfield: Ed Gein” Crime Salad. August 12, 2020

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-butcher-of-plainfield-ed-gein/id1457141569?i=1000613447423, August 15th, 2025

Dionna M.

2025-09-15 19:06:20 UTC

Biographics. “Ed Gein: The Real-Life Leatherface.” YouTube, uploaded by Biographics, c. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66Bmvw5x_4

MLA works cited

2025-09-15 19:08:21 UTC

“Ed Gein: The Real- Life Leatherface” YouTube, uploaded by Biographics, 29th, April 2020 Host Simon Whistler Author Jennifer Da silva Executive Producer Shell Harris

Alexa Castor

2680321_1 — 2025-09-15 19:08:40 UTC

Ed gein grew up in a household full of abuse, both verbal and physical from his mother, and his father was an alcoholic. His mother, from the beginning, fed him lies about they outside world and essentially brainwashed him into believing the same things as her, that the world was full of sin and that everyone was out to get their family. He also experienced lots of bullying at school, as well as the death of his father in his early thirties.

Whistler, Simon. “Ed Gein: The Real-Life Leatherface.” YouTube, uploaded by Biographics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66Bmvw5x_4. Accessed 15 Sept 2025.

Metal hospital

2025-09-15 19:10:42 UTC

After his arrest he was sent to hospital for the criminal insane. The video states “gained a reputation of being mild mannered he worked as a carpenter then as a medical orderly people found him polite and even kind”(Silva 15:05-15:15). This shows that it would have been hard to see there was something wrong with this guy. He would act a little weird but nothing that would draw attention to him. He would stay at this hospital for 10 years till he went on trial.

Silva, Jennifer. Ed Gein: the real life Leatherface. YouTube,Biographics, 29 April 2019. https://youtu.be/Q66Bmvw5x_4?si=BhToK_H6uYhkob1q.

Accessed 15 September 2025

Ed Gein: The Real-life leather face

2680621_1 — 2025-09-15 19:11:45 UTC

He was born into an awful childhood, his father was an alcoholic his mother was a hardcore religious person.

They were taught that they were completely worthless.

His mother would bully her drunken mother., Ed came to idolize her.

They moved to Plainfield, Wisconsin

His mother taught her children that women were creatures who corrupted men and defiled Christ.

His father passed away from a heart attack, Ed was left with his mother, his mother suffered from a massive stroke that left her disabled.

He would go to cemetery’s rubbing graves and digging them up to cut their bodies up and take body parts.

He would practice taxidermy on women.

Whistler, Simon “Ed Gein: The Real-life Leatherface” Biographics YouTube,uploaded by Biographics, 29 Apr. 2019, https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q66Bmvw5x_4&feature=shared Accessed 15 Sep. 2025

Shada akarah

2025-09-15 19:13:03 UTC

Ed gein was a really quiet kid growing up and he had interest in only what his mom taught him. His mom taught him and his brother about religion and he followed what his mom said about women. He created a “women suite” with women skin that he would wear so he can be like his mom. His interest in women really stemmed from the way his mom talked about women. He never tried to talk to any other woman other than his mom. He also would collect body parts from his victims that he had murdered and he put them around his house.

Plum, Ashley. Plum. Ricky. “The butcher of Plainfield: Ed Gein.” Crime Salad, 12 aug 2020, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crime-salad/id1457141569?i=1000613447423

Accessed 15 September 2025.

Ed Gein Behavior/interest

2025-09-15 19:15:10 UTC

Ed Gein was well-known for his social isolation as his life was sad and lonely. As Morris said his mother, Augusta, strictly forbade him from making friends outside of school and preached against what she called the immoral nature of women and sex. Following the deaths of his entire family—his brother in 1944 and his mother in 1945—he became completely isolated, leading to a profound deterioration of his mental state.

M, Morris. “Ed Gein: The Real-Life Leatherface.” YouTube, Biographics, 29 Apr. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66Bmvw5x_4.

Accessed 15 September 2025

Ed Gein

2025-09-15 19:16:43 UTC

Gein was born in a very strange situation. His mom taught him that the whole entire world was full of evil and woman are lustful sinners at a very young age. His mother isolated him for years until her death. After her death, Gein unwittingly went grave hunting. He was looking for mostly dead bodies that belonged to woman. He would use their body parts as decoration. After sometime, Gein would become a murderer and use body parts for things like furniture, clothes, food, items, and even collection.

Biographics. “Ed Gein: The Real-Life Leatherface.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1

Isolation with his mother and brother

2680429 — 2025-09-15 19:16:52 UTC

Ed Gein was raised in Plainfield Wisconsin in practically no where and was raised my his mother. where he lived, he was isolated from the rest of the world , only going out when he had school. But with school he was constantly bullied and an outcast leading him to not make any significant connections with others. This led him to have a opsession with his mother and mostly likely led him to kill his older brother. When his mother died it left an impression on him causing him to want to be her. This led him to grave rob and killing to women to try and be his mother.

Whistler, Simon.

"Ed Gein: The Real-life

Leatherface." Youtube, uploaded by Biographics, 29 April. 2019, https://youtu.be/Q66Bmvw5x_4si=

17WxLYrOclgLpGv6. Accessed 15

Sept. 2025.

Kira May

2025-09-15 19:18:17 UTC

When Ed Gein and his brother were younger their mother instilled the thought that women were creatures who corrupted men and defiled Christ. Around the age of 30 their father died and their mothers teachings intensified, she forced the harsh idea that women are evil incarnates and that the entire world was against them.

Whistler, Simon. "Ed Gein: The Real-Life Leatherface." YouTube, uploaded by Biographics, 24 Jan 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66Bmvw5x_4. Accessed 15 Sept 2025.

Ed Gein

2025-09-15 19:18:20 UTC

Ed Geins father was an alcoholic with little to none self worth, and his mother was very religious and sin and evil everywhere. His mother was very verbally abusive, and made sure that him and his brother knew they were worthless. The only time that they would let out of her sight was to go to school and she made it very prominent that they weren’t allowed to have friends, this led to Ed being bullied and beat during school. She also taught the boys that all women were evil and lustfull, which made their perspective, see her as the only good woman and to idolize her. His brother died and his death is still unsolved with out Ed being questioned. All of these little things add up to the understanding and the red flags of why Ed is the person we know today.

Biographics. “Ed Gein The Real Leather-Face” YouTube 29 Apr 2019

Ed and his building mentality

2025-09-15 19:18:31 UTC

Ed Gein at a young age was forced to believe that the world held many sins and was forced to avoid most of the outside world. He was naturally not very social because of this, even in school he was known as a quiet kid who did what he was told. People started to show some concern when he wasn’t traumatized by his brother’s death and was never held for questioning when they found Henry’s body. As a teenager, he got a job for babysitting so he could make some money and support his mother with the home following the incident, but when left alone for too long with the kids, Ed Geins mind would begin to wonder and start to experimenting on what exactly he could convince thee kids to take.

Biographics “Ed Gein: the real life leather face”

https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1

Posted 6 years Ago, April 29

ed gein's childhood

2025-09-15 21:26:55 UTC

Ed Gein was born on August 27, 1906, in Wisconsin, and grew up with his older brother Henry. His father, George, was an alcoholic who struggled to keep work, while his mother, Augusta, was extremely religious and very strict. She taught her sons that women and alcohol were evil, and she kept them isolated on a farm in Plainfield, away from the outside world. Ed only left the farm to attend school, where he was quiet, strange, and often bullied for a growth on his eye. Despite Augusta’s harshness, Ed adored her and saw her as the most important person in his life. At home, she gave daily religious lessons, reading dark passages from the Bible and warning about sin. This strict, lonely, and isolated childhood left Ed with almost no social skills and a deep dependence on his mother.

Plum, Ashley, Plum, Ricky hosts. "The Butcher of Plainfield: Ed Gein", crime salad, BLACKCAT, 12 august 2020, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-butcher-of-plainfield-ed-gein/id1457141569?1=1000613447423. Accessed 15 september 2025

Jaden

2680600 — 2025-09-16 01:14:53 UTC

Ed Gein is believed to have murdered 27 young boys in addition to committing several other gruesome and disturbing crimes

Whistler, Simon. "Ed Gein: The Real-life Leatherface."Youtube, uploaded by Biographics, 29 April.

2019, https://youtu.bel.

Q66Bmvw5x_4si=17Wx-

LYrOclgLpGv6. (https://.

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Accessed 15 Sept.

2025.

Dionna McDaniel

2025-09-22 18:58:43 UTC

During their childhood, Ed Gein, and his brother were raised under their mother’s strict and extreme beliefs. She preached that women were immoral, corrupting forces who desecrated Christ. When their father passed away around the time Ed turned 30, her influence only became stronger. She frilled into her some the idea that women represented evil itself and that the rest of society was hostile towards them. Then his other died, which led him to grave robbing and killing other women.

Whilster, Simon. “Ed Gein: The Real-Life Leatherface.” YouTube, uploaded by Biographics, 24 Jan. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch.

Victoria Akintomide

2025-09-22 20:22:33 UTC

Ed Geins Life was shaped by possible inherited mental health issues, social isolation from childhood, and symptoms of psychological disorders such as psychosis and personality disturbances, which suggest he might have gotten it from his parents.

The Infographics Show. “Ed Gein: The Real Life Leatherface”. YouTube, 30 Sept.2019, v=Q66Bmvw5x_4

2025-09-24 06:12:40 UTC

Ed geins violent behavior likely came from a mix of mental illness and toxic home life. He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia,meaning his brain didn’t work normally . As a kid , he quiet , awkward , and overly attached to strict mom , which were early warnings signs . When those issues combined with his abusive upbringing , it helped shape the killer he became

True crime . Ed gein - The mind of a monster/ true crime documentary, YouTube , 25 oct 2022,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_HWPBjQ2w .