Gein stayed to himself. No one knew that he spent hours obsessed with sexual fantasy and reading about the female anatomy. The human experiments performed in Nazi camps also fascinated him. His mind filled with images of sex and dismemberment and as the mental images merged into one, Ed would reach gratification. Gus, another loner, was a longtime friend Gein. Gein told Gus of experiments he wanted to perform but he needed bodies. Together the two began robbing graves for the needed bodies.
This same scenario went on for more than 10 years. This included removing Gein’s mother from her grave. The experiments with the corpses became more gruesome and bizarre over time and included necrophilia and cannibalism. Gein’s obsessive fantasies centralize on his over-powering desire to turn himself into a woman. He would construct items out of the skin of the body that he could then drape on himself such as a female mask and breasts. He even made a complete body-sized female-like jumpsuit.
Gein’s needs escalated into believing to perfect his desired sex change he would need fresher bodies. On December 8, 1954, Gein, now age 48, killed Mary Hogan, owner of a local tavern. The police were unable to solve the strange disappearance of Mary Hogan, but with the blood found at the tavern, they knew she was most likely a victim of foul play. Gus was not involved in the murder. He was institutionalized before the killing began. Only Gein knew for sure how many he women he killed. Crime About online article
November 1957: police in the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, were searching for a missing woman … One of the most gruesome discoveries in US criminal history. The twisted killer was a quiet loner named Ed Gein; hidden inside the 51-year-old’s rural farmhouse was a ghoulish treasure-trove of human remains. World’s Most Evil Killers s1e3: Ed Gein, Pick 2017
An array of human bones, skulls and skin that had been fashioned into furniture and clothing. ibid.
1957, Plainville, Wisconsin: Police officers drove out to Ed Gein’s lonely farmhouse on the outskirts of town hoping he may know something about the disappearance of a local hardware store owner. What they found there would haunt them for ever: furniture upholstered with human skin, gloves fashioned from human fingers, soup bowls crafted from human skulls ... True Crime Recaps: Ed Gein: Real Life Norman Bates, Youtube 15.23, 2022
His descent into madness had already begun: he boarded up his mother’s bedroom and sitting room upstairs to preserve them exactly as she left them, and he let the rest of the farmhouse crumble into squalor. ibid.
A box of female genitalia sat near his bed; they’d been preserved with salt; some of them were painted and decorated with ribbons; a belt made of human skin and accessorized with women’s nipples was discovered; several chairs upholstered with human skin were found; a jar of noses sat on a shelf; he had decorated with masks made from human faces … ibid.
Why didn’t he just dig up his mother and be done with it? ibid.
On November 21st 1957 he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. ibid.
He happily lived out the rest of his days in the prison hospital. ibid.
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A confidential informant said a crime novelist is trying to hire another person to end her husband’s life. Murder for Hire s1e6: A Deadly Imagination, rozzer, CI 2019
November 9 2001 Wednesday 1.30 p.m. Bryan, Texas: ‘One of those informants … There was a lady named Nancy Gelber who was wanting to kill her husband.’ ibid. Lt John Pollock, Brazos county sheriff’s department
I never thought she would stoop so low to have me killed. ibid. husband
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A chilling 911 call about an armed attacker. Lori Jackson, the mother of baby twins, takes desperate action to save her own mother. Within hours law enforcement teams would launch a manhunt as a life hangs in the balance. Meet, Marry, Murder s2e9, Netflix 2022
‘Scott’s controlling nature, the documented physical abuse.’ ibid. prosecutor
‘Domestic violence can spiral out of control very quickly.’ ibid.
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In February 2011 Maksim Gelman unleashed his madness on New York City. He butchered four people. And wounded four others. For twenty-eight hours he rampaged through the city assaulting, car-jacking, stabbing, killing in unpredictable spurts. The Killer Speaks: Maksim Gelman s1e1, A&E 2013
Mad Max stabs his stepfather a total of fifty-five times. ibid.
Maksim Gelman has never shown any remorse for his unspeakable crimes. ibid.
Maksim Gelman is currently serving a 225-year sentence. ibid.
Of the killings, he said: ‘After you kill one person, it gets easier.’
He said he ran over his first two victims when he was driving in Brooklyn.
He claimed he ran them over once before putting the car in reverse and driving back and forth over the men to make sure they were dead.
Gelman said he came to the US from Russia and proudly boasted: ‘My father was a gangster, my grandfather was a gangster.’ Mail online article 16th January 2012, ‘I killed six other people that no one knows about, says the butcher of Brighton Beach’
New York, 12th February 2011 9 a.m.: A killing spree was underway. Detectives were frantically searching for Maksim Gelman, the man who over the last 28 hours had left four dead and three critically injured in a string of vicious stabbings, random car-jackings and indiscriminate assaults. Killing Spree s1e11: NYC Knifings, 2014
After 28 hours Gelman’s cruel killing spree had been brought to an end by the bravery of just one man [Joe Lozito]. ibid.
In court Gelman would show little contrition … Maksim Gelman would plead guilty to each of his thirteen charges … He would be sentenced to a total of 225 years behind bars. ibid.
GENESTIN, ANDRE: Killer in the Family
A typical holiday snap: married couple Andre and Catcha Genestin; a typical crime scene photo: the mallet Andre Genestin then used to kill his wife … a killer who was an habitual fantasist. Killer in the Family s1e5: The Fantasist, CI 2009
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‘Genovese was violent; he liked to have bodies in the street.’ Mobsters s1e7: Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family, Bio 2007
The Genovese family is down but not out. It continues to make millions every year through rackets ranging from labour corruption to extortion to drug trafficking. ibid.
He had finally had enough of the Mob and stepped down as boss. ibid.
It didn’t take long for the drug racket to get Vito into trouble. ibid.
Vito Genovese died in prison of heart failure at the age of 72. ibid.
As Costello entered the lobby a large man [Gigante] stepped out of the shadows, raised his arm and said, ‘This is for you, Frank.’ Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e6: Vito Genovese, ANC 2012
The most dangerous gangster in America – Vito Genovese. ibid.
Genovese was a hitman for the greatest Mafia boss of them all – Charles Lucky Luciano. ibid.
Mussolini gave him [Genovese] an Italian knighthood. ibid.
Frank Costello: the Salvation Army even made him their Vice-Chairman. ibid.
Before a judge could be appointed, it had to be cleared by Frank Costello. ibid.
Costello became known as the Prime Minister. ibid.