10 of the world’s stomach-churning cannibal Serial Killers - Part 2

Ed Gein

Also from Wisconsin, Ed Gein only confessed to two murders and was only convicted of one, and it’s disputed whether he ate his victims, but he still fits on this list. You see, he wore people. Gein’s crimes and bizarre behavior would later be borrowed from heavily to create the 1970s slasher film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Many of Gein’s real-life horrors would show up in the character Leatherface, among others.

Gein was a shy, quiet old man who lived on a farm and had some serious issues with his mother and women in general. These issues would drive Gein to kill two women in cold blood and wear their skin as masks. He also kept trophies of female vulvae and made decor from human flesh.^[9]

When police descended upon Gein’s farmhouse after he’d aroused suspicion, they found the body of one of his victims, Bernice Worden, decapitated and gutted. Gein also had a long history of grave-robbing and would use pieces of the bodies he’d dug up. After committing two murders, Gein was found to be insane and sent to a psychiatric institute, where he would die of cancer.