Ed Gein

The grisly story of the deranged killer who inspired characters in such films as Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ed Gein made chairs and lampshades out of human skin, cut soup bowls from human skulls, and wore a female torso as he wandered his property on moonlit evenings. His crimes became a case study in media frenzy, psychoanalysis, and criminal profiling.