Swap Coordinator: | VivaLaDiane (contact) |
Swap categories: | Artist Trading Card (ATC) |
Number of people in swap: | 5 |
Location: | International |
Type: | Type 3: Package or craft |
Last day to signup/drop: | November 26, 2010 |
Date items must be sent by: | December 11, 2010 |
Number of swap partners: | 1 |
Description: | |
Serial Killer ATC Swap::::: Good old Ed Gein. Here is his wikipedia...but basically he was fucked in his head. (Clinical term, I assure you.) (August 27, 1906 Γ’β¬β July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, which he committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, garnered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. After police found body parts in his house in 1957, Gein confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, in 1957. Initially found unfit to stand trial, following confinement in a mental health facility, he was tried in 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital. The body of Bernice Worden was found in Gein's shed; her head and the head of Mary Hogan were found inside his house. Robert H. Gollmar, the judge in the Gein case, wrote: "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murderΓ’β¬βthat of Mrs. Worden." With fewer than three murders attributed, Gein does not meet the traditional definition of a serial killer. Regardless, his real-life case influenced the creation of several fictional serial killers, including Norman Bates from Psycho and Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs. |
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