Ed Gein was born at the turn of the century into the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Gein lived on his family homestead with a weak, ineffectual brother and domineering mother who taught him from an early age that sex was a sinful thing. Eddie ran the family's 160-acre farm on the outskirts of Plainfield until his brother Henry died in 1944 and his mother in 1945. When she died her son was a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor, …showed first 75 words of 816 total…

…showed last 75 words of 816 total…prisoner - gentle, polite and discreet. He died of respiratory and heart failure in 1984. Eddie Gein, however, would go on to achieve movie screen immortality, as the famous movies Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were modeled after his psychotic character. "Psycho" initiated the craze for "slasher" movies, Gein is revered by horror buffs as the the prototype of every knife-, axe-, and cleaver-wielding maniac who has stalked America's movie screens for the past thirty years