119 years ago today, on August 27, 1906 (July 8, 1906 in the lunar calendar), the American serial killer Ed? Gainen was born. Name: Edward. Guy's date of birth: August 27, 1906 Current situation: died, died of natural causes at Mendota Mental Rehabilitation Hospital on July 26, 1984. Number of murders: at least 2 people, the actual number is unknown. It is estimated that there should be nearly 20 people. Method of murder: shooting and dismemberment and skin, making into handicrafts. Location of crime: East Coast Plains Town, Wisconsin Time of murder: December 8, 1954 to November 16, 1957 Date of conviction: From a court conviction, However, on January 6, 1958, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the National Mental Hospital. Related movies: "Shocking","Silence of the Lambs","Inhumane" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre","Edward. Gaines." The experiences of serial killers are twists and turns, and they are indeed very suitable as a subject matter for movies, so they are often moved on the big screen. However, most of them are only B-B horror films. The only serial killer who can become the reference target of two first-class Hollywood masterpieces at the same time is Edward Gain. His life is very similar to what Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock) described of the protagonist Norman Bates in "Shocking". He lives with his brother Henry and his mother in Augusta, Plainfield, a very remote detached bungalow on the outskirts of Wisconsin. He and his brother almost stayed in this building when they were growing up. They had no friends or normal social circles, and they did not know what the opposite sex was. The most important position in their lives had always been occupied by the possessive and women-hating mother, forming his withdrawn and ignorant character. After the deaths of his brother and mother, he began to reveal his potentially distorted character. He first kept his mother's body at home as if she had never died. Then in order to satisfy his desire for women, he dug graves and raised bodies. At first, he just watched or touched them, but later he intensified and skinned the bodies and sewn them into puppets. But the first time he killed a living person with his own hands did not wait until December 8, 1954, when he killed and skinned Mary Hogan, the owner of a nearby bar. His evil deeds were not discovered until three years later. When the police searched for tool store owner Bernice Warden, Bernice's son remembered that he had come to buy snow inhibitors before the crime was committed and became suspicious. As a result, a large number of disgusting "human handicrafts" were found in his home, including lampshades made of human skin, soup bowls made of human bones, skull bedside arrangements and belts made of nipples. The skin and hair of the deceased's face became masks. Although it sounds so outrageous, he also has something to pity for, because his isolation has made him unaware that his actions were wrong. It is said that after he reintegrated into society, his behavior became normal, and he became a kind old man in a mental hospital! In fact, in real life, Ed Gainen was quite quiet, introverted, and shy, and he had only "only" two people killed with his own hands. Compared with other serial killers such as Ted Bundy, his achievements were unmatched; However, during his murder period (the 1950s), people were still very conservative, and his behavior of stealing and eating corpses was also appalling, so he established his eternal status as a serial murderer. Gainen was born in 1906 and moved his family to Plain Town, Wisconsin (Plainfield) as a child. His father was an alcoholic farmer, his mother was an extremely strict and devout Christian, and he also had an older brother. Their family has a small farm located in a very remote countryside. In other words, it is very secretive and usually no strangers visit it often. But this farm is very poor, so the Gaines family can be said to be marginalized people in society struggling in poor days. His mother had the greatest influence on Gain, and it can almost be said to be caused by Gain later committing such a crime... She is an enthusiastic Catholic who regularly teaches Bible classes for her sons every day, constantly advocating the importance of believing in God and the fact that sinners will go to hell. At the same time, she intimidated her sons that women were dangerous, and it was immoral to immerse herself in women's sex. She used various methods to deter her sons from having an interest in the opposite sex. This incident caused Gain to never get married or have sexual relations with a woman until he died of old age. In the first half of his life, he followed the rules. In addition to working on his own farm, he would occasionally go to the town to do odd jobs to earn some pocket money. In the eyes of the townspeople, he was a "very quiet, a little weird, shy and kind" man. But changes began to appear in calm life. First, when he was nearly thirty, his father passed away. Then his brother died in a warehouse fire. Finally, his favorite mother died of a stroke in 1945. In this way, the forty-year-old Gainen suddenly found himself alone all his life. He had no relatives in the world, no companions, no wife, no children, all he had was a poor farm and an empty life. His alienation from the world grew stronger. Since the only "woman" in his life was his mother, Gayin later admitted that his mother's death had left him at a loss. Every night, he would dress up in his mother's clothes and walk around the house dressed as his mother, trying to change this favorite woman back. (This was used in Hitchcock's movie Psycho.) In the end, dressing up as his mother became increasingly unable to satisfy him. In the middle of the night, he began to go to a nearby cemetery to steal female bodies. After returning home, he dismembered them. Some of the body parts, such as breasts and female sexual characteristics, were made into specimens and hung on his bedside as decorations. The skin is peeled off and made into a female leather suit. He often wears this female skin to move around the farm. (This appears in Silence of the Lambs and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.) Because his farm was quite secretive, these activities continued for several years without being discovered. But gradually, skinning dead people no longer satisfied him. He wanted fresh stock... One afternoon, the deputy sheriff of Pingyuan Town discovered that his mother, who was in her fifties, had disappeared. His mother owns a grocery store in the town. On the weekend afternoon, he came back from hunting to pick up his mother, but only saw a large pool of blood on the ground in the store, and his mother disappeared without a trace. There was a shopping list for Gain on the counter, so the deputy police immediately contacted other police officers and planned to go to Gain's farm to see if there were any clues about his mother. The police originally only came with the mentality of "questioning". They never expected that the Gainen Farm that welcomed them would be a hellish scene. As they approached the farm far away, they could smell the strong smell of carrion meat. Gainen's main house was locked and the owner was not at home, so the police went to the nearby toolshed to poke around. Unexpectedly, when they looked in through the gap in the window, they saw a body hanging upside down in the air. At first, police were not sure what it was. The head of the body had been cut off, the front was cut open from the genitals to the neck, the organs were taken out, and the limbs of the body were hung upside down with hooks. The police thought they saw a deer being dissected at first glance. After taking a closer look, they realized that they were facing a human corpse. The police paled in shock, and the entire town was alarmed. Police then arrested Ed Gainen. As usual, there was no resistance. A large number of police forces went to the farm and searched further, but found all kinds of shocking evidence. The hanging body was the deputy sheriff's mother. They found her head and small intestine in a small box and her heart in a dinner plate in the main house. In addition, we found several bowls made of human heads, a belt made of female nipples,"clothes" made of human skin, garbage cans, lampshades, several pairs of female vaginas and uteruses, and more than a dozen pairs of sheathed human scalps and various body parts in the kitchen. After Gain was repaired, he admitted that he had killed another woman, but that was it. The other body parts were stolen from the grave. Police believe he should be involved in several other homicides, but this has never been confirmed. Gainen also emphasized that he just liked to "wear" the body parts and did not eat any bodies. This "quiet and shy" murderer shocked American society at that time, and the media gave him the title of a Plain Town Butcher. Finally, Edward. Gainen was sent to a mental hospital. He was a gentle and shy patient from beginning to end. He did not make any noise, did not cause trouble, and followed the rules. When he was in his seventies, he died naturally in the ward. Comment: A mentally disturbed and cruel killer