primary school. Edward, not being the most attractive child, was the subject of children's.
jibes.
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When Edward was 8 years old his mother nagged his father into buying a 275 acre.
farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. The farm was six miles outside town and surrounded by.
woodland.
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One summer day, Augusta and George were working inside a wooden outhouse.
that George had built to store meat and groceries. Augusta had made it very clear that.
Henry and Edward were never allowed to enter. Edward had accepted this, and had.
neither the inclination or the courage to disobey her.
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One day, however, Edward tired of waiting for his mother, peeked through a crack.
in the door. The sight that met him was not what he was expecting. His mother and.
father were slaughtering a pig. At seeing this, it is said, Edward became sexually aroused.
and had his first orgasm.
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On April 1st, 1940 George Gein died of Pneumonia, leaving Augusta with Henry.
aged 38 and Edward 34. The two boys did the work, but there mother ruled their lives. .
She insisted they remain unmarried, and instilled the belief that women would separate.
the family and betray and love given. Four years later Henry died in a forest fire. The.
local sheriff noted that Henry had some injuries to the head, but upon examination it was.
determined that these had not been the cause of death. A point of interest is that only his.
head was seriously burned. .
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Augusta endured an incapacitating stroke in 1944, and Edward nursed her for a.
year before a second attack took her life in December 1945. She was buried on the 31st.
of December. This was the first time Edward was alone. He was 39.
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In this solitude, Edward began to withdraw from reality. He had begun to develop.
a deeply unhealthy interest in the intimate anatomy of the female body - an interest that.
was fed by medical encyclopedias, books on anatomy, pulp horror novels and.
pornographic magazines. He became particularly interested in the atrocities committed.