The pictures that are supposedly showing his mother when she was young are incorrect. That is actually Evelyn Hartley, a young girl who disappeared in 1953. She had nothing to do with this case and is certainly not Ed Gein's mother. These kinds of mistakes should not happen, Buzzfeed!
The errors that people are claiming in the comments are so outrageous that I just had to verify, and yup...you and others are correct. How did this video get posted and how is it still up? These errors are just egregious
Absolutely. But environment can also load the gun. Not only epigenetics, but complex trauma can change brain biochemistry. If we could prevent complex trauma I think a lot of agressive behaviors could be prevented too.
@@ritabn8910 yes, but severe trauma can affect one person in an innocuous, non-violent way and lesser trauma can affect another person in an explosively violent way. Our brain chemistry and wiring are affected differently by different stimuli. For example, my mother has a long history of severe anxiety and depression, my father does not at all. When my brother and I experienced severe trauma throughout childhood, I developed PTSD, crippling anxiety and depression. He has never suffered from any mental illness and has always thrived. We both were subjected to the exact same environment and trauma, yet due to our different inherited genes, my ‘gun’ was loaded, his was not, so when the ‘triggers’ were pulled, the results were vastly different. It’s fascinating, really, when you see the effects of inherited genes so overtly. There are also instances in violent offenders where parts of their brains like the hippocampus or amygdala have been damaged by physical trauma or substance abuse or they were born with them underdeveloped so their emotional regulation is askew and are prone to poor impulse control which contribute to their violent and erratic behaviour. It’s so interesting!
This video had quite a few discrepancies, Ed Gein was born in LaCrosse, WI, some of the pictures of Augusta (when she was young) were not correct and there was a picture of Bernice Worden shown when they were talking about Ed's death. Ed Gein was not a complete hermit, he had friends and was well liked in the community. He did odd jobs for people and babysat people's children. The night he was caught, he was having dinner with friends and drove down to the hardware store with them. No one ever suspected he was doing what he did. I expected more from Buzzfeed...there was a lot of left out and false information in this video.
Yes, and also the comment toward the end that Gein “became a prolific serial killer.” He’s only believed to have killed two people (possibly three, if you include his brother).
I used to work as a psychotherapist at the Institute Ed lived in most of his life until his death. I think this psychologist is assuming a bit too much that Ed’s motive was sexual in nature. There was no evidence of necrophilia or any other sexually deviant behavior. Also, Ed wasn’t a hermit and did go out of his house and was well known in town as quite friendly albeit a little odd. And, he was a genuinely friendly (not a manipulative charming psychopathic) resident at the institution. He was known to be easy to talk to and did not present as narcissistic. When he was younger Ed was even trusted to babysit children in town and never hurt them. I think he was creating a female person “suit” because he was trying to recreate his deceased mother. Yes, she was quite controlling and abusive and their attachment/bond was pathological. She made herself his entire life. He had cognitive issues and obviously severe mental illness and trauma. Ed was not so much “evil,” as ill and broken by his mother. I do agree with this psychologist tha he was not a sadistic psychopath. But, not all behaviors such as these are created by sexual urges. That’s just the popular theory at this time for crimes like this in general. However, humans are unique and so are their motives. Desperation, fear and grief combined with a lack of coping skills can also create terrifying results.
Nome of the alternatives to psychopathy you suggested do anything to explain why he would be capable of murdering so many people. It's an uphill battle to explain how a serial killer would not be psychopathic. Unless it's a case of delusion, where they don't understand the harm they are causing in reality.
ppl feel guilt over things that other ppl have done too, like when murders kill ppl usually it's their families & friends who feel the most guilty for the murders actions towards the victims & their families. you can also feel shame from the things you've done, it's more context i think like with most things.
Guilt is when you have caused harm to someone Shame is when you've done something you will be judged for. Guilt is built on empathy for the pain of others. Shame is about being attuned to the community and what kind of behavior will hurt your standing in the community.
This young woman on photos - not Ed Gain's mother, but completely different girl - Evelyn Hartley, who vanished in 1953. Is it so difficult to google correct information when you are writing the script or making a video?
She was born to old Lutherans (Lutherans who believe humanity is inherently sinful) who used regular bearings to enforce an inflexible code of conduct, and were extremely work oriented. It’s also super likely she had purity culture drilled into her from day 1
"His mother thought even sex for procreation was abhorrent." "she wanted ed to stay a virgin" "His mother discouraged him from masturbating" "He had to imagine his mother when he masturbated" "His mother was involved with ed sexually" Do you see the contradiction here? It doesn't follow logical consistency.
She was extremely religious as well and this kind of hypocrisy about sex with repressed religious fanatics is not uncommon. Abuse is a mindfvck that doesn't follow consistent rules all the time
@@Flanneryschickens yes but people who are sex adverse in all socially acceptable nay socially required circumstances generally don't go seeking illicit sex. As any sex adverse ace or any number of sexual abuse victims who derive no joy from sex. Hard for others to accept that some people are so broken that sex is not only unwanted but actually repellant.
@@Flanneryschickens So I see the logic in your statement and I would agree normally, but the fact that he says she sees even sex for procreation abhorrent. nspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant. Disgust is an unconscious response. That's like saying someone with arachnophobia would be found cuddling spiders in privacy. It really comes down to how literal he was being but usually being with this type of repression tend to be more violent or she might have abused his genitals or shamed him in a way we would find as sexual abuse without it actually involving sex. That would make more sense in this situation. I've found many inconsistencies in this presenters language and I say that understanding his background. I still don't see her having sex with him. I would agree that it's still sexual abuse though, just without any sexual act.
I just can’t wrap my head around the idea of getting sexually aroused by internal organs. I saw a few other serial killers got off on that too. It’s like 2 totally different areas of life. It’s like feeling a need to brush your teeth because you pruned your apple tree. It’s just unrelated. So strange
Did you watch the Dahmer series? The doctor or psychologist said it’s comparable to the shiny and wet pictures of naked women in a magazine.. yeah it’s weird but I think that’s where it stems from
not really; organs being inside the human body and sex being mostly penetration which can be associated with sort of reaching for them, it kinda makes sense
Humans can attach sexual attraction to anything...common paraphilias,,now called merely "kinks" can be human feet, shoes, anything can be focused on by the brain as a sexual object...this can happen accidentally as outlined on a roller coaster ride when a young boy's fear esponse to a roller coaster ride is accompanied at the same time by an erection. Or it CAN be a concious thought process.
It’s possible that part of the arousal stems from the idea of it being an object when can do whatever sexual acts you want to and it will do nothing to reject you or stop you, unlike a living human
If we could go back in time and give him a new mom or teach his mom to be an actual mom, his crimes would not exist. Parents really do bad numbers on their children.
What a ridiculous comment i have many friends with bad upbringings and parents who have treated them Vile they havnt grown up to rob graves, make nipple belts, skin chairs and murder people😂😂😂 next your be saying bundy killed 35 women due to him thinking his sister was his mum
The best description I ever read of Ed Gein was a ‘pitiful monster’. Also “If he wasn’t crazy nobody ever was”. Btw that is NOT a picture of Augusta Gein. I don’t know where it emerged from and how it ended up in virtually every video about the man but that big and kindly looking lady ain’t her.
Mid-age photo implied to be Ed's mother is NOT. That photo was stolen from a Find A Grave memorial page for a similarly-named woman who lived in Oregon. The owner of the memorial (and descendant of) HAS used legal means to halt unauthorized misuseage.
He wasn't a necrophile or cannibal- that was added for sensational purposes - he didn't want or desire to kill - he just needed the skin and body parts
I work with kids and I have a keen interest in how the environment shapes us as humans. If you think about it, only 3.5% of the population would have a personality characterised as antisocial (the one that we normally call as being psychopaths). A large proportion of this small antisocial population will never commit a murder. They would be leaching, conniving, malicious people, but they never get to actually commit a murder. So, how are all these serial murderers created? We like to think that they were born sick, but were they all born this way? Years of abuse, disturbed love maps, neglect, dissociation from any semblance of normality would do the trick! I see it every day and I am actually terrified of thinking of how many many kids slip through the cracks and no one is common to save them from their own private hell. They stay there until hell actually starts to feel like home.
I have a slight problem with this psychologist. I'm not saying he's wrong, and I even agree with other commenters who say that genetics are like a loaded gun, and conditioning pulls the trigger. But this man did not interview Ed Gein personally. He starts out making assumptions concerning a sexual relationship with his mother. It's an assumption. But later on, in contradiction to the scientific method, he's presenting it to you as a fact. He can't possibly know it was a fact. He even talks about Ed masturbating with thoughts of his mother. There is no way he can possibly know that. Psychology is an imperfect science to say the least. And my experiences are that when psychological assumption is being presented as empirical fact, that is a flaw. It might be nitpicking, and his explanations might be the best available guess, but it's still an assumption and not fact.
I have read more comments below. In addition to the assumptions that I stated before, apparently there are quite a few factual discrepancies that are simply untrue in telling of the story. So not only are factual details incorrect, but a psychologist telling us what Ed gein's mother thought, what Ed Gein thought in his private moments, and their relationship being presented as factual when it's just a clinical gas, is sloppy on several levels.
@lawrenceyoung72 I'm glad someone agrees with me. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure his guesses are better than the average layman. But it's sort of along the same lines as astrophysicists. They know nothing. They are only making educated scientific guesses. We only get into trouble when their guesses and their theories are treated as concrete fact. Keep in mind, so much of their theory is treated as concrete fact. It is not concrete fact
Giving a psychopath a polygraph test is a complete waste of time. The polygraph process relies on the detection of normal human emotional reactions -- which psychos lack.
Not really, it's possibly the most important phase in human development. We can deduce quite confidently then, that there is a high chance of someone who has been through a fucked up childhood, to come out the other side a somewhat fucked up person
Yup, ed gein , Jeffrey dahmer, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Aileen wuornos, Edmund kemper, John Wayne gacy, Albert fish, Henry Lee Lucas, Donald gaskins, Pedro Lopez Gary ridgeway, Joseph kallinger all horrible childhoods. The list goes on I’m sure.
@@BlakielSmithKillers and serial killers are two different things. A lot of people who’ve just killed one or two people (to be serial it has to be 3 or more) did grow up in normal childhoods, but most serial killers do seem to have some type of trauma
@@BlakielSmithAccording to whom? Take into account that really screwed up stuff could be going on in someone's home and if that's all they've ever known or even the parents were raised the same way by their parents, to them that IS normal because they don't know anything else.
This is 90% speculation. Not interviewing Gein, this Dr. has no clue as to what drove Gein to do what he did. Why do they fixate on jacking off? Make it sound like every other minute the guy is rubbin' one out. For all this guy knows he was impotent and that brought on his frustration. He wasn't a serial killer either. He killed 2 people and robbed graves.
The whole Gein story makes me so confused. Some say he desecrated his mother 's grave and some say he could not get at the coffin because she was buried within a concrete vault.
@@gazXspace If that is true then somebody should correct those who claims he did dug her up. I cannot stand when people take the liberty to tell stories in their own way just to give it a little extra twist. Fact is fact.
I was waiting to hear from Dr. Hickey again on this channel! With the way he was talking about Dahmer and made everything so interesting, I could listen to him talk for hours! LOL
It’s interesting seeing this kind of deconstruction of what led to a person’s particular state of being. If you do that with everyone, you stop seeing them with eyes of judgment and instead begin to understand. I can’t tell if it’s a complete way to see someone though, because it doesn’t draw the line for where their particular call to responsibility is. To what degree can a criminal be blamed, and to what degree can they be pardoned? That’s the tough question.
I think this is exactly what's very important to consider. In many cases the foundation of a criminal arise due to outward, often environmental, circumstances, and A LOT of those could potentially be avoided if we ensured people lived better, more stable childhoods. But that being said, it's still no excuse for crimes. Deliberately hurting others shouldn't shouldn't be ignored, it should be unlearned, and once a person is so far in that they can't unlearn, that's when I find life in prison a viable solution. We can have empathy and compassion with those who do horrible things and still hold them accountable for their actions.
Man's justice is not what you have to worry about. Murderers can still be forgiven and go to Heaven. The Holy Spirit will be our witness and Jesus is the ONLY way to LIFE and the HE is the only judge, that counts. Because there won't be any jury and no retrial. Don't get the NKI chip implants! Don't get the mark of the beast! And watch out for 5G and smartphones they have satellites now they can go anywhere and everywhere.
I don't think understanding means we have to pardon them. I think understanding lets us understand people in their situations who can still be helped, and prevent the cycle of abuse from continuing in the future.
@@Flanneryschickens Exactly. It's powerful knowledge to help us better secure our society and support people in need before things turn bad. And sure, we can pity those who's already lost, but if they don't want redemption, for the sake of the rest of us they don't deserve to go free.
A lot of people would argue nature versus nurture. How much of these crimes is Ed's fault? Personally, I would argue that nature had nothing to do with it. Many people grow up in unstable, violent, emotionally damaging environments and don't resort to sick crimes such as Ed did. I do believe he was confused sexually, but that confusion doesn't excuse his actions. I worked in a psychiatric hospital for many years and not ONCE did I ever encounter a soul that was capable of violence or criminal acts, such as this or of lesser extent. Psychiatric illness doesn't create monsters, neither does a person's environment. We all have free will. We all can choose to act in goodness.
5:33 is incorrect. Gein didn't dig up his mother or decapitated her, he attempted to almost immediately after her burial but she was buried in an underground vault because of the sandy dirt and they fear it might breach the coffin because of that he wasn't able to get the his mother's out of the grave but when he confessed he was grave robbing they found evidence that he had tried to dig up his mother's corpse along with the others to take it back to his farmhouse.
1:15 It's so weird to read about Ed Gein's horrible mother who was so abusive she created what is generally believed to be the craziest person ever and then see the pic of what she looked like.
As others are mentioning, Ed was the target for most or all of his mothers abuse. And because his brother died when he was young, we can’t say for sure what happened to him and if he would have potentially grown up with similar issues to Ed, or at least had severe mental health concerns.
I can't take any of this seriously. 1. It's BuzzFeed 2. It's inconsistent & contradictory 3. This is not ed geins psychiatrist 4. Lies like cannabalism 5. Assumptions like necrophilia 6. Assuming he was schizophrenic 7. Assuming he was abused.
That is not true what he said about guilt. I have a guilty conscience when I know I haven't done anything. I just feel like somebody's going to think I'm the guilty one. I am too honest. I'm not saying, I don't lie but, usually when I do lie, I feel so guilty about it, I admit to the person that I lied, right away. And, did anyone notice how the psychiatrist looks a lot like the Killer?
Im the same! I often think if i was taken in for a lie detector id fail. Bc my anxiety and felling so awful about the victims would make me read of the charts!
That sounds like anxiety more than “guilt” because anxiety is the worry that things will go wrong or that people would think bad things about you, cause anxiety tells you lies and stresses you out about things that aren’t happening or aren’t true
...the professional got wrong a key aspect about gein. He was *NOT* a Serial Killer. He would have to have killed 3 people for that. Although, I believe the professional was trying to state Gein's trajectory had him going down that path, and he was only stopped due to law enforcement intervening. Thoughts?
Many people speculate, and I think Dr Hickey is as well, that Ed Gein was a serial killer in the `killed 3 people' sense, because some of the body parts found may very well have come from additional unknown victims. This is addressed briefly at 10:06, though it also says that Gein himself denied having murdered more than the two women he was charged with. I will say that Dr. Hickey, at 13:11, does label Gein as a "prolific serial killer," without much explanation, and I am rather curious as to why he said that.
I've just commented on this. He almost certainly killed his brother. That makes 3 and left alone he would most certainly have gone on to kill many more. In the 70's when the term " serial killer " was born, it was 3 murders with a cooling off process between them that designated you as a serial killer. It's been reduced to 2 now for some unknown reason. Gein was certainly one of if not the most infamous graverobber that ever lived.
These days it does. They've reduced it to 2 with a cooling off period between them. Back in the 70's when the term " serial killer " was created it was 3 killings, separated with cooling off periods. Gein almost certainly killed his brother so yes he was a serial killer. Left to his own devices he would have killed more. Infamous graverobber for sure.
Yes. Have you looked up what the word, prolific means? He likely killed more. He only confessed to two, because they had overwhelming physical evidence. If only they could have tested the things he made from human remains.
Ted Bundy's aunt said she woke up one morning with all the kitchen knives on her bed arranged pointing towards her- and 3 year old Ted standing there watching her - even as a tiny boy Ted knew there was something fascinating about women and knives
But he wasn't a serial killer, double murderer and grave robber, but not a serial killer. This is a label put on Charlie Manson too, and he didn't actually kill anyone
Shucks, no..... Good ole Charlie never killed anyone. He jus whipped those women into a hateful frenzy and got THEM to do it. If Charlie had got th death penalty, as he should have, no tears would have been shed.
@@rimrunz1795 no one is saying that he was not guilty of a crime. Person is simply stating that there's no proof he murdered anyone at all. So you can't be a murderer if you've never killed anyone. That was the only statement made. The rest you filled in yourself.
I think Ed Gein was sent to the right place, that being an insane asylum. I saw him interviewed and he said, their not going to hurt me, or do anything bad to me , are they ? It was like he was completely oblivious to the gravity of the crimes. Actually he came across to me as a very sweet, quiet, sincere man. Something deep down in him snapped, and likely from his upbringing with his mother. I can't say the same for a lot of the other serial killers, that come across as truly evil.
He's technically admitted to 1 murder. And he wasn't born evil, nor did he turn evil so to speak. He had a lot of mental issues, likely all due to his parents. There's a lot here that's being reached... He also wasn't by definition, a Serial Killer.
My aunt Shelley is like 60 something and claims she was a nurse at a facilty in Madison Wisconsin where she had to care for him briefly, the only thing she says about him is that he was a nice man and that he was sweet. So wild.
Children growing up in the families where there is a problem with addiction (in this case father was an alcoholic, sounds like last stage of addiction) need a grown up person that will take charge in handling this situation & unfortunately the mother was unable to take charge (she herself suffered from her husband's alcoholism & she herself needed help) so the children didn't have a support system in order to avoid or at least minimize the trauma.
Living with someone that has an addiction problem (the father was an alcoholic) is a never-ending uphill battle. Let's remember that initially parents are the role models & children identify with father or mother, which means later in life they can become an addicts themselves or they may not. And also the addiction has a huge impact on the rest of the family & it can cause problems in other family members like anxiety, perenoid schizophrenia, depression, panic attacks, aggression, etc. In this case what did the mother suffered of beaceus of her husband's alcoholism was it aggression?
Here to my personal opinion must be a combined model that classifies Ed Gein as a individual with all three triad patterns. His Machiavelli by his roles in possession of furniture in the likeness of his victims to have the most uncommon type of objects. The Incredible amount of solitude and isolated memories might have promoted his identity with neurotic type traits turned into real life horror. His combined historical experience about the past memories that he couldn't feel were true for other's, this past created delusional fixation, that led to his psychotic experience and also promoted his patterns of this abnormal behavior.
They found enough body parts, skin and private parts that there had to be more than 2 victims. Before DNA all they could do was visually match body parts with each other.
@@linusfotograf No, they found all of those parts. It's the 'extra' pieces they were finding scattered in his home. They were seriously creeped out by these, they did a headcount of all the local ladies AND checked the graves of the recently & not so recently deceased ladies in the area. They found they had too many of certain pieces (breasts, vaginas, etc.) and were trying to find the rest of their bodies. Many, many, too many moons ago when I was in college working towards an Admin of Justice degree, I would spend a LOT of time in the Law Library at my University and take advantage of visiting other schools Law Libraries. I was doing course work but I was also just snooping around. I looked up Mr. Gein's case and went through what material was there, I seriously had nightmares for a week or so. Then his name was brought up in class and due to my snooping skills I was able to sound like a knowledgeable law student for a couple of hours.
Many also believe that Ed killed his brother because his brother wanted to move out of the house and in with a divorcee or widower & her kids. He felt that his brother was betraying his mother & going against her preaching.
@WQ59BInv funny, usually the testimonies of others who were around at the time are more reliable sources of information, because, funny, serial killers aren't the most reliable or honest of sources. By your logic Ted Bundy & John Wayne Gacy should both be alive & free today. Did they do it? Are they guilty? Both said, "nope!" Well that settles that then doesn't it? Good enough!
Known fact, Ed Gein tried to dig up his mother but in that area where she was buried, it is known to be sandy so they actually put concrete over her grave and Ed could not get to her like he wanted.
where can we find you professor that I saw years ago in my home territory? hopefully he didn't retire. Gotta be around to satisfy my newfound interest in your field the last 2 years.
am i the only one who doesn't find anything horror, gore or scary related..scary? I find psychological mysteries fascinating edit: why is everyone so pressed? it's my opinion I'm not forcing you to respond lmao.
It's not scary to us because in a way we're desensitized. We know it's serious but we don't feel the way these victims did when they were killed or tortured. And when we watch a lot of these videos it's almost typical behavior we expect from these killers. Many of them have the same psychological trends on why they do this. On the other hand we definitely would feel scared if we were the victims.
I find it weird when mothers say that they want to be the only/most important woman in their sons lives. I want my son to be happy and have healthy relationships. Of course I hope we will remain close but im happy to be a fixture in his life not the focus of it.
The pictures that are supposedly showing his mother when she was young are incorrect. That is actually Evelyn Hartley, a young girl who disappeared in 1953. She had nothing to do with this case and is certainly not Ed Gein's mother.
These kinds of mistakes should not happen, Buzzfeed!
Shut up nerd 🥲
The errors that people are claiming in the comments are so outrageous that I just had to verify, and yup...you and others are correct. How did this video get posted and how is it still up? These errors are just egregious
I see now which you are talking about . Yeah thats not even time appropriate
@@WilliamLyons-ym7ee You gotta admit , it never fit his M/O .
I sure do agree with you...why have a channel if you are doing things incorrectly
Genetics load the gun, environment pulls the trigger
Absolutely. But environment can also load the gun. Not only epigenetics, but complex trauma can change brain biochemistry. If we could prevent complex trauma I think a lot of agressive behaviors could be prevented too.
Wow love that
absolutely
@@ritabn8910 yes, but severe trauma can affect one person in an innocuous, non-violent way and lesser trauma can affect another person in an explosively violent way. Our brain chemistry and wiring are affected differently by different stimuli. For example, my mother has a long history of severe anxiety and depression, my father does not at all. When my brother and I experienced severe trauma throughout childhood, I developed PTSD, crippling anxiety and depression. He has never suffered from any mental illness and has always thrived. We both were subjected to the exact same environment and trauma, yet due to our different inherited genes, my ‘gun’ was loaded, his was not, so when the ‘triggers’ were pulled, the results were vastly different. It’s fascinating, really, when you see the effects of inherited genes so overtly. There are also instances in violent offenders where parts of their brains like the hippocampus or amygdala have been damaged by physical trauma or substance abuse or they were born with them underdeveloped so their emotional regulation is askew and are prone to poor impulse control which contribute to their violent and erratic behaviour. It’s so interesting!
that is perfect, love the wording
This is my professor and he is literally the best person ever!!
Where dose he teach ?
He’s not my professor and I don’t know him but YAAAY!!!!! 🎉😂😂😂
Well done. Who could possibly fail that? Lol
Jokes. I enjoyed his insight. Seems great. Professional empathy that gets to the person but not disregarding the crime or empathy for his victims.
Where does he teach and is it a college course. I want to become a criminal psychologist!
This video had quite a few discrepancies, Ed Gein was born in LaCrosse, WI, some of the pictures of Augusta (when she was young) were not correct and there was a picture of Bernice Worden shown when they were talking about Ed's death. Ed Gein was not a complete hermit, he had friends and was well liked in the community. He did odd jobs for people and babysat people's children. The night he was caught, he was having dinner with friends and drove down to the hardware store with them. No one ever suspected he was doing what he did. I expected more from Buzzfeed...there was a lot of left out and false information in this video.
Yes, and also the comment toward the end that Gein “became a prolific serial killer.” He’s only believed to have killed two people (possibly three, if you include his brother).
Bump for the algorithm
The Casual Criminalist covers this more accurately and in depth
Expect less.
@@mrscarter6279 Thank you for mentioning him. New channel to watch
This criminal psychologist is fascinating to listen to. Are there more videos of his diagnoses? What a brilliant man.
Hm
That picture wasn’t of Augusta! That’s Evelyn Hartley, a murder victim from 1953.
Ed gein was actually considered a suspect in her disappearance but was cleared so maybe that’s why it was in the video?
I was thinking wtf happened to her looks lol
I used to work as a psychotherapist at the Institute Ed lived in most of his life until his death. I think this psychologist is assuming a bit too much that Ed’s motive was sexual in nature. There was no evidence of necrophilia or any other sexually deviant behavior. Also, Ed wasn’t a hermit and did go out of his house and was well known in town as quite friendly albeit a little odd. And, he was a genuinely friendly (not a manipulative charming psychopathic) resident at the institution. He was known to be easy to talk to and did not present as narcissistic. When he was younger Ed was even trusted to babysit children in town and never hurt them. I think he was creating a female person “suit” because he was trying to recreate his deceased mother. Yes, she was quite controlling and abusive and their attachment/bond was pathological. She made herself his entire life. He had cognitive issues and obviously severe mental illness and trauma. Ed was not so much “evil,” as ill and broken by his mother. I do agree with this psychologist tha he was not a sadistic psychopath. But, not all behaviors such as these are created by sexual urges. That’s just the popular theory at this time for crimes like this in general. However, humans are unique and so are their motives. Desperation, fear and grief combined with a lack of coping skills can also create terrifying results.
Can you recommend any channels that discuss psychology and family background without hype or speculation.
The psychologist said "I believe", to be fair. Nobody could ever know for a fact what drives a murderer to murder and whatnot.
Excellent post. Thank you.
There is something wrong is his psyche
Nome of the alternatives to psychopathy you suggested do anything to explain why he would be capable of murdering so many people. It's an uphill battle to explain how a serial killer would not be psychopathic. Unless it's a case of delusion, where they don't understand the harm they are causing in reality.
I like this guy. I've watched a few of his synopses and he explains these ppl in a way that makes them human. He also seems like a very nice person.
Except according to other comments he makes a lot of errors in reporting facts.
He bullshits a lot though
That's why we need friends, uncles, cousins and relatives to give us perspective, options and love. Our environment needs to be livable and Lovable.
No thanks.
@ey67 Atleast we need some companies that brings positivity
I’ve always heard that Guilt is about something you’ve done; Shame is about what you are.
That’s what I was taught too.
ppl feel guilt over things that other ppl have done too, like when murders kill ppl usually it's their families & friends who feel the most guilty for the murders actions towards the victims & their families. you can also feel shame from the things you've done, it's more context i think like with most things.
Guilt is when you have caused harm to someone
Shame is when you've done something you will be judged for.
Guilt is built on empathy for the pain of others. Shame is about being attuned to the community and what kind of behavior will hurt your standing in the community.
That's why parents are ashamed of their kids. Shame doesn't have to be related to your specific actions, it's just about how you will be viewed.
This young woman on photos - not Ed Gain's mother, but completely different girl - Evelyn Hartley, who vanished in 1953.
Is it so difficult to google correct information when you are writing the script or making a video?
the 5:41 indeed. It does not even look like Augusta Gein.
This is buzz feed. You aren't supposed to actually believe them. They're liars.
it's Buzzfeed...what else did you expect?
It would be interesting to see his mother's childhood.
From what I understand, she was brought up in a very religious household where stepping out of line ment beatings.
Lost to the sands of time, I fear.
She was born to old Lutherans (Lutherans who believe humanity is inherently sinful) who used regular bearings to enforce an inflexible code of conduct, and were extremely work oriented.
It’s also super likely she had purity culture drilled into her from day 1
His mother had also been raped and sexually molested by men
@@Theturtleowl There's literally NO true source for that.
"His mother thought even sex for procreation was abhorrent." "she wanted ed to stay a virgin" "His mother discouraged him from masturbating" "He had to imagine his mother when he masturbated" "His mother was involved with ed sexually" Do you see the contradiction here? It doesn't follow logical consistency.
She was extremely religious as well and this kind of hypocrisy about sex with repressed religious fanatics is not uncommon. Abuse is a mindfvck that doesn't follow consistent rules all the time
@@Flanneryschickens yes but people who are sex adverse in all socially acceptable nay socially required circumstances generally don't go seeking illicit sex. As any sex adverse ace or any number of sexual abuse victims who derive no joy from sex. Hard for others to accept that some people are so broken that sex is not only unwanted but actually repellant.
She sexually abused him?
@@Flanneryschickens So I see the logic in your statement and I would agree normally, but the fact that he says she sees even sex for procreation abhorrent. nspiring disgust and loathing; repugnant. Disgust is an unconscious response. That's like saying someone with arachnophobia would be found cuddling spiders in privacy. It really comes down to how literal he was being but usually being with this type of repression tend to be more violent or she might have abused his genitals or shamed him in a way we would find as sexual abuse without it actually involving sex. That would make more sense in this situation. I've found many inconsistencies in this presenters language and I say that understanding his background. I still don't see her having sex with him. I would agree that it's still sexual abuse though, just without any sexual act.
@@cutekoala5492 From what he's saying yea.
I just can’t wrap my head around the idea of getting sexually aroused by internal organs. I saw a few other serial killers got off on that too. It’s like 2 totally different areas of life. It’s like feeling a need to brush your teeth because you pruned your apple tree. It’s just unrelated. So strange
Did you watch the Dahmer series? The doctor or psychologist said it’s comparable to the shiny and wet pictures of naked women in a magazine.. yeah it’s weird but I think that’s where it stems from
not really; organs being inside the human body and sex being mostly penetration which can be associated with sort of reaching for them, it kinda makes sense
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Humans can attach sexual attraction to anything...common paraphilias,,now called merely "kinks" can be human feet, shoes, anything can be focused on by the brain as a sexual object...this can happen accidentally as outlined on a roller coaster ride when a young boy's fear esponse to a roller coaster ride is accompanied at the same time by an erection. Or it CAN be a concious thought process.
It’s possible that part of the arousal stems from the idea of it being an object when can do whatever sexual acts you want to and it will do nothing to reject you or stop you, unlike a living human
If we could go back in time and give him a new mom or teach his mom to be an actual mom, his crimes would not exist. Parents really do bad numbers on their children.
What a ridiculous comment i have many friends with bad upbringings and parents who have treated them
Vile they havnt grown up to rob graves, make nipple belts, skin chairs and murder people😂😂😂 next your be saying bundy killed 35 women due to him thinking his sister was his mum
Psychopath’s are born. He would have been messed up anyway.
@@slconley very true! And even if we could stop him someone else would have committed these horrible crimes.
Or we could have fixed whoever fucked his mom up so bad
@@evil1by1 Yes!
A psychopath is born, a sociopath is made.
Sociopaths and narcissists are born with a predisposition to those traits. Childhood trauma will trigger it.
Not necessarily
@@yerik6034psycopathy is gene specific. Most psychopaths don't kill people.
Psycopath are born and sociopaths are made.
@@terricklacey9198 that’s not necessarily true
Even a psychopath can have a successful life if they are raised with love.
Teddy buddy was raised with love and had a perfectly normal childhood.
@@jenylass1521 Well that depends on if you believe ted and his family members, or the neighbours.
Lmao ok
Define "successful."
@jeny lass I doubt it. Lots of repressed dark stuff in that family.
"His brother died mysteriously" 😂😂😂
The best description I ever read of Ed Gein was a ‘pitiful monster’. Also “If he wasn’t crazy nobody ever was”. Btw that is NOT a picture of Augusta Gein. I don’t know where it emerged from and how it ended up in virtually every video about the man but that big and kindly looking lady ain’t her.
Sick they got the guy from Saw to talk through it. Fair play
Want to play a game?
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@@dominiquechristine you sunk my battleship
@@scottieman2 I knew I'd get ya 😉
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Keep the contents coming Buzzfeed we need more to learn about
Mid-age photo implied to be Ed's mother is NOT. That photo was stolen from a Find A Grave memorial page for a similarly-named woman who lived in Oregon. The owner of the memorial (and descendant of) HAS used legal means to halt unauthorized misuseage.
He wasn't a necrophile or cannibal- that was added for sensational purposes - he didn't want or desire to kill - he just needed the skin and body parts
Frfr I been trying to hip ppl since the 50s.
Needing skin and bone is in fact a desire to kill! Stop your mental pretzels
I work with kids and I have a keen interest in how the environment shapes us as humans. If you think about it, only 3.5% of the population would have a personality characterised as antisocial (the one that we normally call as being psychopaths). A large proportion of this small antisocial population will never commit a murder. They would be leaching, conniving, malicious people, but they never get to actually commit a murder. So, how are all these serial murderers created? We like to think that they were born sick, but were they all born this way? Years of abuse, disturbed love maps, neglect, dissociation from any semblance of normality would do the trick! I see it every day and I am actually terrified of thinking of how many many kids slip through the cracks and no one is common to save them from their own private hell. They stay there until hell actually starts to feel like home.
I have a slight problem with this psychologist. I'm not saying he's wrong, and I even agree with other commenters who say that genetics are like a loaded gun, and conditioning pulls the trigger. But this man did not interview Ed Gein personally. He starts out making assumptions concerning a sexual relationship with his mother. It's an assumption. But later on, in contradiction to the scientific method, he's presenting it to you as a fact. He can't possibly know it was a fact. He even talks about Ed masturbating with thoughts of his mother. There is no way he can possibly know that. Psychology is an imperfect science to say the least. And my experiences are that when psychological assumption is being presented as empirical fact, that is a flaw. It might be nitpicking, and his explanations might be the best available guess, but it's still an assumption and not fact.
I have read more comments below. In addition to the assumptions that I stated before, apparently there are quite a few factual discrepancies that are simply untrue in telling of the story. So not only are factual details incorrect, but a psychologist telling us what Ed gein's mother thought, what Ed Gein thought in his private moments, and their relationship being presented as factual when it's just a clinical gas, is sloppy on several levels.
@@richardbullwood5941 It'd have to improve by a significant amount to be as good as 'sloppy'. It's trash.
I thought I was alone on this island.
@lawrenceyoung72 I'm glad someone agrees with me. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure his guesses are better than the average layman. But it's sort of along the same lines as astrophysicists. They know nothing. They are only making educated scientific guesses. We only get into trouble when their guesses and their theories are treated as concrete fact. Keep in mind, so much of their theory is treated as concrete fact. It is not concrete fact
@@richardbullwood5941 I wouldn't go so far as saying "educated scientific" tho.
The last thing the psychologist guy said was that Gein was a "very prolific serial killer" but he only actually killed two people.
Ed Gein was one of the few serial killers I actually felt a little sorry for. Even as a child he had really sad eyes.
He really wasn’t a serial killer though. He only killed two people. He would really just be considered a murder with necrophilia.
Yeah he never really had a chance
2 people. Not exactly serial killer stuff.
@@futurepainthemaking98212 people is considered serial
No you need a minimum of 3 kills with a cooling period in between.@@blackabivak1583
Giving a psychopath a polygraph test is a complete waste of time. The polygraph process relies on the detection of normal human emotional reactions -- which psychos lack.
I couldn't believe all the dis-information in this video.... but I am glad that others commented already.
cope
I’m an aspiring criminal psychologist and I thank you for your professional opinion on this case!
Wow, you look fantastic! Like a beautiful succubus, if you don't mind me saying. Hope you have a successful career ❤
Weird how EVERY SINGLE serial killers had a sad childhood
Not really, it's possibly the most important phase in human development. We can deduce quite confidently then, that there is a high chance of someone who has been through a fucked up childhood, to come out the other side a somewhat fucked up person
I've looked into a lot of killers, many of them had normal childhoods 🤷
Yup, ed gein , Jeffrey dahmer, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Aileen wuornos, Edmund kemper, John Wayne gacy, Albert fish, Henry Lee Lucas, Donald gaskins, Pedro Lopez Gary ridgeway, Joseph kallinger all horrible childhoods. The list goes on I’m sure.
@@BlakielSmithKillers and serial killers are two different things. A lot of people who’ve just killed one or two people (to be serial it has to be 3 or more) did grow up in normal childhoods, but most serial killers do seem to have some type of trauma
@@BlakielSmithAccording to whom? Take into account that really screwed up stuff could be going on in someone's home and if that's all they've ever known or even the parents were raised the same way by their parents, to them that IS normal because they don't know anything else.
This is 90% speculation.
Not interviewing Gein, this Dr. has no clue as to what drove Gein to do what he did.
Why do they fixate on jacking off? Make it sound like every other minute the guy is rubbin' one out.
For all this guy knows he was impotent and that brought on his frustration.
He wasn't a serial killer either. He killed 2 people and robbed graves.
The FBI changed it to killing two or more people with a cooling down period in-between
Maybe he's projecting. He's said something before about jacking off in Jeffrey Dahmer's video too.
Who knows what this guy's motive is or was for getting into this profession anyway.
For all you know, he was a Playboy bunny.
He was born in Lacrosse. He did not dig up his mother either.
The whole Gein story makes me so confused. Some say he desecrated his mother 's grave and some say he could not get at the coffin because she was buried within a concrete vault.
He wasn't able to raise his mothers grave-
@@gazXspace If that is true then somebody should correct those who claims he did dug her up. I cannot stand when people take the liberty to tell stories in their own way just to give it a little extra twist. Fact is fact.
I was waiting to hear from Dr. Hickey again on this channel! With the way he was talking about Dahmer and made everything so interesting, I could listen to him talk for hours! LOL
He was a great professor. The only class I never missed in college.
It’s interesting seeing this kind of deconstruction of what led to a person’s particular state of being. If you do that with everyone, you stop seeing them with eyes of judgment and instead begin to understand. I can’t tell if it’s a complete way to see someone though, because it doesn’t draw the line for where their particular call to responsibility is.
To what degree can a criminal be blamed, and to what degree can they be pardoned? That’s the tough question.
I think this is exactly what's very important to consider. In many cases the foundation of a criminal arise due to outward, often environmental, circumstances, and A LOT of those could potentially be avoided if we ensured people lived better, more stable childhoods.
But that being said, it's still no excuse for crimes. Deliberately hurting others shouldn't shouldn't be ignored, it should be unlearned, and once a person is so far in that they can't unlearn, that's when I find life in prison a viable solution. We can have empathy and compassion with those who do horrible things and still hold them accountable for their actions.
Man's justice is not what you have to worry about. Murderers can still be forgiven and go to Heaven. The Holy Spirit will be our witness and Jesus is the ONLY way to LIFE and the HE is the only judge, that counts. Because there won't be any jury and no retrial. Don't get the NKI chip implants! Don't get the mark of the beast! And watch out for 5G and smartphones they have satellites now they can go anywhere and everywhere.
I don't think understanding means we have to pardon them. I think understanding lets us understand people in their situations who can still be helped, and prevent the cycle of abuse from continuing in the future.
@@Flanneryschickens Exactly. It's powerful knowledge to help us better secure our society and support people in need before things turn bad. And sure, we can pity those who's already lost, but if they don't want redemption, for the sake of the rest of us they don't deserve to go free.
A lot of people would argue nature versus nurture. How much of these crimes is Ed's fault? Personally, I would argue that nature had nothing to do with it. Many people grow up in unstable, violent, emotionally damaging environments and don't resort to sick crimes such as Ed did. I do believe he was confused sexually, but that confusion doesn't excuse his actions.
I worked in a psychiatric hospital for many years and not ONCE did I ever encounter a soul that was capable of violence or criminal acts, such as this or of lesser extent.
Psychiatric illness doesn't create monsters, neither does a person's environment. We all have free will. We all can choose to act in goodness.
Fascinating insights, thank you for your public service!
More of these pls!
Truly sad how all this happens, some people do not need kids. How disgusting
need more of this series please!!!
great job
He was born in LaCrosse WI. not Plainfield WI. He was approximately 6 years old when the family moved to Plainfield.
That explains a lot
5:33 is incorrect. Gein didn't dig up his mother or decapitated her, he attempted to almost immediately after her burial but she was buried in an underground vault because of the sandy dirt and they fear it might breach the coffin because of that he wasn't able to get the his mother's out of the grave but when he confessed he was grave robbing they found evidence that he had tried to dig up his mother's corpse along with the others to take it back to his farmhouse.
Completely false claim. No 'evidence' of trying to breech the mother's grave, and no suggestion or claim such was attempted. Mis-information.
1:15 It's so weird to read about Ed Gein's horrible mother who was so abusive she created what is generally believed to be the craziest person ever and then see the pic of what she looked like.
Pic in this video is NOT her.
Great video, fantastic insight.
You can see how Gein was the inspiration for so many horror movies😮
his brother was raised by the same mother but he was normal
He was younger. Younger kids always get diff treatment , weather bad or good
Does anyone really know for sure the brother was normal?
I think Ed got more of the abuse from his mum so was more susceptible to mental health problems 😢
As others are mentioning, Ed was the target for most or all of his mothers abuse. And because his brother died when he was young, we can’t say for sure what happened to him and if he would have potentially grown up with similar issues to Ed, or at least had severe mental health concerns.
@@gretasaylor Ed's brother died at the age of 43 - he was not "young" developmentally.
That photo is Evelyn Hartley!!!! Not Augusta! 🤦♀️
I can't take any of this seriously.
1. It's BuzzFeed
2. It's inconsistent & contradictory
3. This is not ed geins psychiatrist
4. Lies like cannabalism
5. Assumptions like necrophilia
6. Assuming he was schizophrenic
7. Assuming he was abused.
He definately was Schizophrenic, but every other item you list is accurate.
Very interesting! TY 😊
He has a striking resemblance to the jigg saw old guy
Dr. Hickey. He was my sociology professor in college. Very interesting himself...
Yeah. He seems like a fake.
I've been waiting to read about him getting away with being a serial killer for years
This is just sad. He wasn't able to live his life. That is why childhood is important.
With a mother like that its no surprise
I'm from Plainfield.... There are a lot mistakes and misinformation in this video
I recently read a biography of Ed Gein and it made no mention of him digging up his mother let alone decapitating her.
That is not true what he said about guilt. I have a guilty conscience when I know I haven't done anything. I just feel like somebody's going to think I'm the guilty one. I am too honest. I'm not saying, I don't lie but, usually when I do lie, I feel so guilty about it, I admit to the person that I lied, right away. And, did anyone notice how the psychiatrist looks a lot like the Killer?
Im the same! I often think if i was taken in for a lie detector id fail. Bc my anxiety and felling so awful about the victims would make me read of the charts!
That sounds like anxiety more than “guilt” because anxiety is the worry that things will go wrong or that people would think bad things about you, cause anxiety tells you lies and stresses you out about things that aren’t happening or aren’t true
Ed was actually born in La Crosse, WI. The family later moved to Plainfield.
These little errors irk me. The photo isn't even of Augusta...a larger error.
...the professional got wrong a key aspect about gein. He was *NOT* a Serial Killer. He would have to have killed 3 people for that. Although, I believe the professional was trying to state Gein's trajectory had him going down that path, and he was only stopped due to law enforcement intervening. Thoughts?
I honestly agree
Many people speculate, and I think Dr Hickey is as well, that Ed Gein was a serial killer in the `killed 3 people' sense, because some of the body parts found may very well have come from additional unknown victims. This is addressed briefly at 10:06, though it also says that Gein himself denied having murdered more than the two women he was charged with. I will say that Dr. Hickey, at 13:11, does label Gein as a "prolific serial killer," without much explanation, and I am rather curious as to why he said that.
He killed 3 people if you include his brother who died under very suspicious circumstances.
They changed it to killing 2 or more people with a cooling down period in-between each murder
I've just commented on this.
He almost certainly killed his brother.
That makes 3 and left alone he would most certainly have gone on to kill many more.
In the 70's when the term " serial killer " was born, it was 3 murders with a cooling off process between them that designated you as a serial killer.
It's been reduced to 2 now for some unknown reason.
Gein was certainly one of if not the most infamous graverobber that ever lived.
Does killing two people make you a prolific serial killer?
These days it does. They've reduced it to 2 with a cooling off period between them.
Back in the 70's when the term " serial killer " was created it was 3 killings, separated with cooling off periods.
Gein almost certainly killed his brother so yes he was a serial killer. Left to his own devices he would have killed more.
Infamous graverobber for sure.
He likely killed his brother too
@@alexisabercrombie133 rubbish.
Yes. Have you looked up what the word, prolific means?
He likely killed more. He only confessed to two, because they had overwhelming physical evidence.
If only they could have tested the things he made from human remains.
Nobody is born evil - monsters make monsters
Ted Bundy's aunt said she woke up one morning with all the kitchen knives on her bed arranged pointing towards her- and 3 year old Ted standing there watching her - even as a tiny boy Ted knew there was something fascinating about women and knives
Not true
@@carolflower8015he was molested so wrong
Dr. Hickey! He was one of my college professors!
But he wasn't a serial killer, double murderer and grave robber, but not a serial killer. This is a label put on Charlie Manson too, and he didn't actually kill anyone
Shucks, no..... Good ole Charlie never killed anyone.
He jus whipped those women into a hateful frenzy and got THEM to do it.
If Charlie had got th death penalty, as he should have, no tears would have been shed.
@@rimrunz1795 no one is saying that he was not guilty of a crime. Person is simply stating that there's no proof he murdered anyone at all. So you can't be a murderer if you've never killed anyone. That was the only statement made. The rest you filled in yourself.
How much time did this guy spend with Ed Gein? Were they simply interviews, or therapy sessions?
I think Ed Gein was sent to the right place, that being an insane asylum. I saw
him interviewed and he said, their not going to hurt me, or do anything bad to
me , are they ? It was like he was completely oblivious to the gravity of the crimes.
Actually he came across to me as a very sweet, quiet, sincere man. Something
deep down in him snapped, and likely from his upbringing with his mother. I can't
say the same for a lot of the other serial killers, that come across as truly evil.
Interesting video
I live in Wisconsin but from Minnesota and he's a popular topic
Sometimes if people's religious/moral beliefs discourage expressing sexuality directly, it ends up coming out sideways.
Beautiful, it is your own thougt or quote?
He's technically admitted to 1 murder. And he wasn't born evil, nor did he turn evil so to speak. He had a lot of mental issues, likely all due to his parents.
There's a lot here that's being reached... He also wasn't by definition, a Serial Killer.
I don't see how you can call him a very prolific serial killer, when he only killed 2 people, and most likely his own brother, as well.
My aunt Shelley is like 60 something and claims she was a nurse at a facilty in Madison Wisconsin where she had to care for him briefly, the only thing she says about him is that he was a nice man and that he was sweet. So wild.
"No one feels guilt" - What is he talking about? Is this man a psycho himself??!
It's a semantic point and he explained it succinctly. Try listening again.
Children growing up in the families where there is a problem with addiction (in this case father was an alcoholic, sounds like last stage of addiction) need a grown up person that will take charge in handling this situation & unfortunately the mother was unable to take charge (she herself suffered from her husband's alcoholism & she herself needed help) so the children didn't have a support system in order to avoid or at least minimize the trauma.
Ed Gein and that Russian Doll Guy were really sick people.
Ed was as sick as Ted Bundy & Jeffrey Dahmer.
I remember this history of Ed Gein
Living with someone that has an addiction problem (the father was an alcoholic) is a never-ending uphill battle. Let's remember that initially parents are the role models & children identify with father or mother, which means later in life they can become an addicts themselves or they may not. And also the addiction has a huge impact on the rest of the family & it can cause problems in other family members like anxiety, perenoid schizophrenia, depression, panic attacks, aggression, etc. In this case what did the mother suffered of beaceus of her husband's alcoholism was it aggression?
Here to my personal opinion must be a combined model that classifies Ed Gein as a individual with all three triad patterns. His Machiavelli by his roles in possession of furniture in the likeness of his victims to have the most uncommon type of objects. The Incredible amount of solitude and isolated memories might have promoted his identity with neurotic type traits turned into real life horror. His combined historical experience about the past memories that he couldn't feel were true for other's, this past created delusional fixation, that led to his psychotic experience and also promoted his patterns of this abnormal behavior.
1:16 I don’t think that’s her mother’s picture
Ahhh Buzzfeed making the viewer responsible for the corrections....
Why would he say Gein was a prolific serial killer? He killed two people that we know of.
They found enough body parts, skin and private parts that there had to be more than 2 victims. Before DNA all they could do was visually match body parts with each other.
@@Phlowermom Wasn’t all that from the fresh bodies he dug up?
@@linusfotograf No, they found all of those parts. It's the 'extra' pieces they were finding scattered in his home. They were seriously creeped out by these, they did a headcount of all the local ladies AND checked the graves of the recently & not so recently deceased ladies in the area. They found they had too many of certain pieces (breasts, vaginas, etc.) and were trying to find the rest of their bodies.
Many, many, too many moons ago when I was in college working towards an Admin of Justice degree, I would spend a LOT of time in the Law Library at my University and take advantage of visiting other schools Law Libraries. I was doing course work but I was also just snooping around. I looked up Mr. Gein's case and went through what material was there, I seriously had nightmares for a week or so. Then his name was brought up in class and due to my snooping skills I was able to sound like a knowledgeable law student for a couple of hours.
@@Phlowermom I see. Thanks for the info
Because he obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
Many also believe that Ed killed his brother because his brother wanted to move out of the house and in with a divorcee or widower & her kids. He felt that his brother was betraying his mother & going against her preaching.
Funny that Ed never stated any such thing about his brother.
@WQ59BInv funny, usually the testimonies of others who were around at the time are more reliable sources of information, because, funny, serial killers aren't the most reliable or honest of sources.
By your logic Ted Bundy & John Wayne Gacy should both be alive & free today. Did they do it? Are they guilty? Both said, "nope!" Well that settles that then doesn't it? Good enough!
"we didn't see serial killers being raised in normal families".. that soo sad. IT looks like they didnt choose this
Known fact, Ed Gein tried to dig up his mother but in that area where she was buried, it is known to be sandy so they actually put concrete over her grave and Ed could not get to her like he wanted.
Exactly, thats what I remember too
Zero evidence that Ed tried to dig his mother up, sorry.
He himself admitted to it
@@tabitharankin5902 He tried to 'raise' her via willpower, but he did not take a shovel to ground. That's what he admitted.
where can we find you professor that I saw years ago in my home territory? hopefully he didn't retire. Gotta be around to satisfy my newfound interest in your field the last 2 years.
am i the only one who doesn't find anything horror, gore or scary related..scary? I find psychological mysteries fascinating
edit: why is everyone so pressed? it's my opinion I'm not forcing you to respond lmao.
Same here. Only thing I find scary is paranormal horror.
Y’all need help then lol
@@TinFamsThoughts thank you kind stranger
It's not scary to us because in a way we're desensitized. We know it's serious but we don't feel the way these victims did when they were killed or tortured. And when we watch a lot of these videos it's almost typical behavior we expect from these killers. Many of them have the same psychological trends on why they do this. On the other hand we definitely would feel scared if we were the victims.
@@cameronsharon9617 and only some at that
Did a physiologist just say that you can’t feel guilt? Get me tf out of here🤦🏽♂️
The narrator is mixing up Gein with Kemper
No one gonna talk about how the criminal psychiatrist kinda looks like the dude from the saw movies 😳
So nobody else thought the criminal psychologist was Jigsaw from the Saw movies?
This was terrific. More please! And even a little longer wouldn't hurt too! 👍🤠
I thought that was the guy who played jigsaw, lol ( the guy that was being interviewed)
I said the same thing and I still think he’s the jigsaw
I truly believe there is a DEEP connection between sons and their mothers.
The criminal psychologist favors the mastermind behind Saw.
I thought the thumbnail was of the Saw actor
"Dr. Hickey"... Ok. We see you John Kramer 🤣
5:28- whoa that escalated quickly
Lots of "probabilities" by this expert to make it sound worse; so not buying that........
How they get jigsaw to do the video?
I find it weird when mothers say that they want to be the only/most important woman in their sons lives. I want my son to be happy and have healthy relationships. Of course I hope we will remain close but im happy to be a fixture in his life not the focus of it.
ed gein was my aunts next door neighbor. his farn was 3 miles from her chicken faem
"3 miles" is not "next door".
@WQ59BInv well his farm was next to her farm sooo kinda next door
@@nancyjones695 What was your aunt's surname?
@WQ59BInv grant, i don't remember her married name because they were called aunt and uncle. they had a chicken farm