Project Cain (Project Cain) by Geoffrey Girard

Author:Geoffrey Girard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Science Fiction, Horror, Young Adult, Thriller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2013-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

The Albaum kid was a clone.

His parents, against my father’s instructions, called their new son Bryce, a middle name they’d added in honor of his adoptive mom’s grandfather.

But his legal name, his REAL name, was Edward.

Edward Bryce Albaum.

The clone of Ed Gein.

• • •

This was another name I did not know. Castillo says he hadn’t heard of him either but the boy had a folder completely filled with information about Gein. (You know, charts, pictures, biographical data. That old story.) Ed Gein only murdered a couple of people. Small-time killing compared to the other guys DSTI had collected. But he is still a deity in the pantheon of serial killers. His nicknames were: “The Plainfield Ghoul” and “The Mad Butcher.” Mostly, he just dug up graves and did stuff with the bodies. Really disgusting stuff. Again, I won’t go into details here. That’s up to you. But here’s a hint:

Ed Gein was the specific inspiration for Norman Bates (the killer in Psycho who dresses like his dead mother and keeps her corpse in the house).

Ed Gein was the specific inspiration for Buffalo Bill (the killer in Silence of the Lambs who abducts overweight women and then uses their skin to make a “woman suit” for himself).

Ed Gein is the specific inspiration for Leatherface (the killer in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre who eats people and keeps bodies hanging on huge hooks in his house, just like dead cows).

That’s three of the most famous serial killer movies EVER made. All from this same guy.

It’s kinda amazing.

The police could simply not believe what they’d found in Gein’s Wisconsin house. In fact, the local sheriff in charge was so traumatized by what he saw that he died of a heart attack less than one month after testifying in court against Gein. This sheriff was just forty-three years old.

Neighbors burned down Gein’s house.

In the early 1980s representatives from DSTI visited Ed Gein at the Mendota Mental Health Institute and took blood and tissue samples with his permission. They told him he’d “live forever.” And though he died a couple of years after, DSTI hadn’t completely lied. There was still a whole lot left of Edward Gein in the world.

Skin, hair, eyes, cells, muscle, brain tissue.

Only now, everyone was calling all that stuff Edward Bryce Albaum.

A rose by any other name . . .

This other-name’s whole family had been murdered.

• • •

Castillo found the boy alone in his house. The kid was only eleven.

His family—mom, dad, and an older brother—were dead. Castillo said the kid had covered their heads with some opened notebooks so he wouldn’t have to see their faces.

The Albaum kid had NOT killed his family.

Some other kids—the kids we were looking for—had done that for him.

• • •

They’d come to his house two days before. Four or five teens. Pulled up in two cars and came into his house like it was their own. They bashed his father in the face with a golf club. They did worse to the others. But they left him completely alone.

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