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Book Review of Edward Gein

Edward Gein
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Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who robbed graves and murdered women in order to flay their bodies and make clothing out of them. Gein was the inspiration for Thomas Harris' Jame Gumb in Silence of the Lambs, Norman Bates in the Bloch book/Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho as well as Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.