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Oct 26, 2017 · A macabre genealogy stretches from Mme Debeinche to the reproductions of crime-scene photos that proliferate in true-crime documentaries and dramas today.
- What Life in Ed Gein's House Was Like Before The Killings Began
- When Gein Was Left Alone with Mother
- The Butcher of Plainfield's Grisly Murders Begin
- The Horrors Uncovered Inside Ed Gein's House
- Ed Gein's Trial and Lasting Legacy of Horror
Born Edward Theodore Gein on Aug. 27, 1906, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, his parents were by all accounts a mismatched pair for such a vulnerable young boy. His father, George, was an alcoholic which meant that the boy was largely watched over by his mother, Augusta. Augusta, meanwhile, was a complete religious fanatic. Though Ed grew up alongside his ...
Gein and his brother were attempting to pick up the slack left by their admittedly complacent father after he passed away. The two brothers worked a variety of odd jobs to make ends meet and support their mother lest her wrath be turned against them. In 1944, however, a supposed accident shrank the Gein family even further. Gein and Henry were burn...
Living alone in the sizable house once inhabited by his parents and older brother, Ed Gein started to go off the rails. He kept his mother's room spotless and untouched, presumably in an effort to repress the fact that she'd died. The rest of Ed Gein's house, meanwhile, was utterly neglected. Everywhere, trash piled up. Piles of household items, fu...
Bernice Worden was reported missing on Nov. 16, 1957. The Plainfield hardware store she worked in was empty. The cash register was gone and there was a trail of blood leading all the way out the back door. The woman's son, Frank Worden, was a deputy sheriff and he was immediately suspicious of the reclusive Gein. He focused much of his initial inve...
Ten years after Ed Gein's house was raided and he was committed to Central State Hospital, he was found fit to stand trial. That November he was found guilty of the murder of Bernice Worden. However, since Gein was also found insane during the initial trial, the killer was once again committed to Central State Hospital. In 1974, Gein submitted his ...
Though her murder was never solved, police suspected her chauffeur, Edward Donovan, who owed her $2,000 from a loan.
Eight photographs and 31 negative images related to what was known as the "Pyjama Girl" murder. Agostini was found dead with severe head wounds and a gunshot wound to the head. Her husband, Antonio Agostini, many years later confessed to the killing, but testified that it was by accident.
Mar 20, 2024 · The very first crime scene photographs ever made were taken by a pioneering detective from Paris who realized how useful photography can be in solving a case.
Feb 18, 2018 · The subjects of police photographs range from the seemingly unremarkable – empty rooms, fences, staircases, windows, pathways, roads, kitchen tables, hallways, plates, cups – through to...
Oct 31, 2013 · Eileen Mohan, who lost her son Christopher in the Oct. 19, 2007 slaughter, put her face in her hands when an image of his body, beside those of Michael Lal and Ryan Bartolomeo, was shown on a...
