Deviant: The shocking true story of Ed Gein [N.F. - True Crime] by Schechter Harold

Author:Schechter, Harold [Schechter, Harold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychopaths, True Crime, Nonfiction, Serial Killers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1989-01-08T04:00:00+00:00

22

“It seems this item is from a leg, or probably from two. Is that sewed in two places?”

“That’s from a person from the grave.”

“What about the face masks?”

“When I made those masks, you see, I stuffed them all out with paper so that they would dry. On the vagina I did, you know, sprinkle a little salt….”

“Was there a resemblance in some of these faces to that of your mother?”

“I believe there was some.”

From Edward Gein’s confession

Altogether, Gein was questioned for just under nine hours. The first part of the interrogation, conducted at the Crime Lab headquarters, commenced at one-forty on Tuesday afternoon and continued until seven-twenty-five P.M., when Eddie was removed to the Madison city jail. There he spent the night under double guard in a special seventh-floor detention cell. At eight-forty-five the next morning, the questioning resumed.

Various investigators were present during these sessions, though the interrogation itself was conducted by the Crime Lab’s polygraph specialist, Joe Wilimovsky. The actual testing time was brief—Eddie was hooked up to the “lie box” for only nineteen minutes on Tuesday and eleven more on Wednesday. The rest of the time, Wilimovsky alternately conversed with and quizzed the prisoner, delving into those details of the crimes that Eddie was able, or willing, to recall.

Though Gein displayed no signs of remorse or, indeed, any awareness at all of the enormity of his deeds, he did not come across as a cold-blooded killer. On the contrary, he seemed so friendly and cooperative—so childishly eager to please—that Wilimovsky had to be careful not to put words into his mouth. Eddie would cheerfully admit to the most extreme perversions.

Do you have any recollection, Eddie, of taking any of those female parts, the vagina specifically, and holding it over your penis to cover the penis?

I believe that’s true.

You recall doing that with the vaginas of the bodies of other women?

That I believe I do remember; that’s right….

Would you ever put on a pair of women’s panties over your body and then put some of these vaginas over your penis?

That could be.

On the other hand, Eddie was much less forthcoming about the murders he had committed, a sign to some observers that he was not as crazy as he seemed. Clearly, looting graves and violating corpses are mad and odious crimes—abominations in the eyes of God and man. But from a legal point of view, they are not exceptionally serious ones compared to first-degree murder. Eddie did finally confess to Mary Hogan’s killing, though the evidence against him was so overwhelming that he had very little choice. And though he acknowledged once again his responsibility for Bernice Worden’s death, he continued to maintain—as he would throughout his life—that the shooting was accidental.

To some of those present at Gein’s interrogation, the prisoner seemed like an obedient, if hopelessly demented, little boy. But others saw in his answers the signs of a cunning criminal intelligence. For the rest of Gein’s life, people who met him would come away with the same paradoxical impression, struck by both his childlike simplicity and his monstrous criminality.

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