Encore - Ed Gein: Hollywood’s Favorite Killer

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong takes a look at Ed Gein, the muse behind some of Hollywood’s most famous horror films. Though Ed only murdered two women, he was more known for his graverobbing and his macabre collection and use of body parts. Ed’s case was one of the most talked about of his generation, and his crimes were the inspiration for the famous onscreen killers Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.

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0:09.5	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:15.5	Please be advised.
0:23.9	When I was 14 years old, my brother Keith took me to see the movie Psycho
0:29.6	at the Marina Theatre on Chessma Street in San Francisco.
0:33.6	It was the first time I'd seen a horror movie in a theater and what a movie to start with.
0:40.2	I was so terrified I didn't take a shower for weeks.
0:44.6	This was really the first time I'd ever seen a movie in which the bad guy was not overtly evil looking,
0:51.4	where they were not constantly telegraphing the fact that the character was a murderer or a killer.
0:58.4	Norman Bates, and I'm assuming all true crime fans have seen this movie.
1:03.4	And if not, you need to.
1:05.4	Norman was slightly odd, but he looked like a shy normal guy.
1:10.4	I really did not expect the reveal that happens at the end.
1:14.9	I told myself, oh come on, this is Make Believes, just a movie right out of Hollywood.
1:19.9	No one would ever be that disturbed to keep the dead with them in their house.
1:26.4	But Psycho was based on a real story, on a real man.
1:31.4	His name was Ed Geen.
1:34.4	And the town he lived in in Wisconsin considered him a nice guy, if not slightly odd.
1:41.4	He had lived there most of his life and worked odd jobs as a handyman.
1:46.4	Most of the families felt sorry for him and invited him over to eat dinner.
1:51.4	Some of them even let him babysit their children.
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