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     ÉÌED GEIN - THE REAL PSYCHOÈË
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"Psycho",    "Friday    the   13th",
"Halloween",     "Texas     Chainsaw
Massacre" and "Silence Of The Lambs"
-  all famous horror-movies.  Movies
that  all  have  been  attacked  for
beeing  immoral,  because  of  their
grotesque  scenes.  But did you know
that  these  movies  are  based on a
true  story  ?   I guess not, but as
the  lucky ÊRAWÈ-reader  you  are, we
will   bring  the  terrifying  story
about a man more creepy than Freddie
Kruger,  Jason  and  Hannibal Lecter
together ! É (Yeah !  And don't blame
us,  if  you wake up with nightmares
every fucking night !  Ed.)È



Frank  Worden had just taken a break
in his annual deer-hunt to visit his
mother's hardware-shop in the little
town  Plainsfield  in Wisconsin.  To
his  great  surprise  it was closed.
The deputy at the gas-station, right
across  the  street,  said  that the
shop  had  almost  been  closed  the
whole   day.    Frank  was  worried.
Inside  the  shop  he  saw  that the
cash-register  was  gone, and on the
floor  there  were  a brownish spot.
Dried  blood.   Frank Worden was now
scared.   Two  receipts  lay  on the
counter,  they  where  both from the
same  day,  16.  November 1957.  One
of  them  was only half-way written,
but  the customers name was visible:
Ed Gein.  Edward Theodore Gein was a
kind  of a handy-man to Plainfield's
600   citizens,   and   he   shopped
frequently at Worden's Hardwareshop.

Frank   Worden  called  sheriff  Art
Schley, who sent his colleague Lloyd
Schoephoerster out to the Gein-farm.
Art himself, drove to a farm not far
from  Gein's,  which  he  knew  Gein
often visited.  His suspicions where
right, Gein sat at the dinner-table.
On  question  from  the  sheriff, he
said  smiling,that  he  didn't  know
anything  about  the  disappearance,
but he would gladly come with Art to
his own farm.

Lloyd  sat  in  his car waiting when
Schley  and  Gein arrived, and while
he  and  Art entered the house, Gein
was  left  in  the  police-car.  The
first   room  they  came  into,  the
kitchen,  was  chaotic  and crowded.
The   two   police-officers  quickly
identified  the  body hanging there,
as   Bernice   Worden,  the  missing
shop-keeper.  But they found more...
Schley   discovered  a  cup  at  the
dining-table  with  four chopped-off
noses.    In   an   old  fridge  lay
human-organs  like lungs and livers,
nicely packed in paper.  On the wall
in   the   living-room   hung   nine
death-masks.     But    by    closer
inspection  they  could  see that it
was  faces  and  hair,  torn off the
skull   of   nine   people.   Schley
recognized one of the faces.  It was
Mary  Hogan  which  disappeared from
her  cafe three years earlier.  Both
of  them  agreed  that they had seen
enough.   Schley let the flash-light
go  over  the  room for a last look,
and  in a string from a blind he saw
a pair of lips hanging...

Back at the station they locked Gein
inside a cell and phoned for skilled
help  to an investigation that would
terrify the whole USA...


ÊÌMOTHER'S BOYÈË

Ed   Gein  himself  sat  silent  and
seemed  as  if  he didn't understand
the  situation  at all.  The 51-year
old  bachelor  had  lived  alone for
over 10 years.  The familyfarm was a
disgrace, the fields were fallow and
the houses were decayed.  His mother
had,  under Ed's childhood, been the
dominating force in the family.  She
came    from    a   strict,   german
immigrant-family  and  practiced  an
"old-testament   dooming"  religion.
Ed's  father was an alcoholic and he
sometimes  used violence against his
wife.   The  two  sons  Henry and Ed
were   helpless   witness   to   the
assaults, and in 1940 their mother's
prayer  for  her  husbands death was
heard.

In  opposition to his elder brother,
Henry,  Ed  nearly  never  met other
people, and their mother warned them
both   about   seeing   girls.   She
frequently quoted from the Bible and
reminded the two sons that they were
sinners,  like  their father.  Henry
wasn't as dominated by his mother as
Ed,  and  he  sometimes indicated to
his  younger brother that his mother
not  always  were  right.   In  1944
Henry died in a fire.  Ed instructed
the   search-crew   to   where   his
brother's  body  laid.   The  police
explained   Henry's   cut   in   the
forehead  as  a wound he got when he
fell.   They never suggested that Ed
had   something   to   do  with  the
"accident".....

His  mothers  domination  now became
total.   She  emphasized  again  and
again    that    all    women   were
temptresses   and  that  Ed  was  an
unworthy sinner.  She launched a new
argument:    in   some  way  one  of
Plainsville   female   citizens  was
responsible  for  Henry's death.  Ed
believed  her.  In 1945 Augusta Gein