Serial killer Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield, was the son of a dysfunctional household: an alcoholic father who was all but present in young Geins life while his domineering, hyper-religious mother would fill his head with various Puritan ideals, including that all womenbesides herselfwere promiscuous and instruments of the devil.[27] After her death, Gein went on a ravenous spree, murdering and exhuming the corpses of women who resembled Geins mother, after which he fashioned their skin into various upholstery and other furniture.[28] When Gein was arrested and put on trial, the American public was in a frenzy: the country was fascinated by the type of menace [Gein] represented according to essayist Lindsay Ellis, a sexual deviant, an Oedipal nightmare, depicted in the press as a feminine and gender-confused man.[29] Press and local news were obsessed not only with the horrific nature of his crimes, but took particular interest in the Geins abnormal mother-son dynamic, twisting and morphing Geins own Oedipus complex into something unrecognizable: After an unidentified investigator supplied the Milwaukee Journal with information on Gein, the November 21st issue of the journal ran a story claiming that Gein wish[ed] he had been a woman instead of a man and wonder[ed] whether it would be possible to change his sex.[30] Now, all of these fabrications were merely that, fabrications
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