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Discussion on Serial Killers, Spree Killers, Mass Killers, And single event killers.

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To start. I have always found Serial Killers fascinating. What makes them do what they do?. I know I am not the only one. This is the place to talk about it. I'll start. Who do you find the most fascinating and why?.
 
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Mel70 said:
Another thing people get wrong about "Gein". He was not a cannibal. He was a grave robber. There wasn't A heart simmering on the stove. I read the book by an Officer that was on scene.
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I never knew that I don't think until you said it in this thread. I think because of what he did being so very odd and way out of the norm and more than one body, etc., people just categorize him as sick and with multiples, even though he may not have murdered them? I take your word for it as I have never heard this nor read the book you refer to.
 
GrandmaBear said:
I never knew that I don't think until you said it in this thread. I think because of what he did being so very odd and way out of the norm and more than one body, etc., people just categorize him as sick and with multiples, even though he may not have murdered them? I take your word for it as I have never heard this nor read the book you refer to.
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He killed 2. A hardware store owner and a bartender. "Bernice Worden" and "Mary Hogan". But from the grave robbing made bowls from skulls, A nipple belt. A chair seat, stuffed faces with newspaper and hung them on the wall and made a Woman suit from several victims and lips used as a shade pull. When the police arrived he had a victim hanging in the garage trusses up like a deer. The house was squallor except his mother's room which was just covered in dust. This was 1958. Some people wanted to buy the house as an attraction but the town didn't look kindly on that. A man did buy his car and toured with it at slideshows for years. Mysteriously the house burned down. And it had no electricity. He spent the rest of his life in an asylum where he died in 1984. Someone stole his headstone once. The police got it back and it is currently and forever stored at the Police station.
 
Mel70 said:
He killed 2. A hardware store owner and a bartender. "Bernice Worden" and "Mary Hogan". But from the grave robbing made bowls from skulls, A nipple belt. A chair seat, stuffed faces with newspaper and hung them on the wall and made a Woman suit from several victims and lips used as a shade pull. When the police arrived he had a victim hanging in the garage trusses up like a deer. The house was squallor except his mother's room which was just covered in dust. This was 1958. Some people wanted to buy the house as an attraction but the town didn't look kindly on that. A man did buy his car and toured with it at slideshows for years. Mysteriously the house burned down. And it had no electricity. He spent the rest of his life in an asylum where he died in 1984. Someone stole his headstone once. The police got it back and it is currently and forever stored at the Police station.
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Yes, the parts I remember the most are the things made out of skin and/or body parts. One wonders what he would have done if continued, more of the same or would he do more killing than the two, etc.

Aside from who is or was not a serial killer, he is so different than like Ted Bundy. From what you say, he sounds like he may have been seriously mentally ill. The fact that he had a victim hanging and furniture out to see shows a lack of hiding his crimes? Since I am sure you know, I can't recall, what brought the police to the home to begin with? Back to types like Bundy, they clearly knew right from wrong and another big difference is the difference in taking body parts, etc. although who knows what he may have done at some point in time if he continued but they seem vastly different. Dahmer and Gein seem more alike because of body parts... Again I realize as you say that Gein was not a true serial killer, I am just talking about killing, what they get out of it and what they do with the bodies, etc. in general.
 
GrandmaBear said:
Yes, the parts I remember the most are the things made out of skin and/or body parts. One wonders what he would have done if continued, more of the same or would he do more killing than the two, etc.

Aside from who is or was not a serial killer, he is so different than like Ted Bundy. From what you say, he sounds like he may have been seriously mentally ill. The fact that he had a victim hanging and furniture out to see shows a lack of hiding his crimes? Since I am sure you know, I can't recall, what brought the police to the home to begin with? Back to types like Bundy, they clearly knew right from wrong and another big difference is the difference in taking body parts, etc. although who knows what he may have done at some point in time if he continued but they seem vastly different. Dahmer and Gein seem more alike because of body parts... Again I realize as you say that Gein was not a true serial killer, I am just talking about killing, what they get out of it and what they do with the bodies, etc. in general.
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Well Gein kept his 2. There is a strong belief he was a necrophiliac. But on occasion said they smelled too bad. He usually robbed fresher graves.
 
Mel70 said:
That's where Gein lived.
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Why is it I think of Illinois with him? Or both states? It is interesting that it is a town I have hardly heard of and the county is not way familiar either and as you know I was a Wisconsin native, that says to me it is a nowhere place or nothing most would know of. And yet I have been through a ton of small towns and remote areas in the state. Perhaps I have even been through there but never registered it as anything nor what county it was in.
 
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