Ed GEIN once joked that he had a "collection of shrunken heads" at home but no one thought he was dead serious.
As a child Ed grew up under the watch of his dominating mom. Once she died, he masturbated over her cadaver. Ed wasn't sure about his sexuality. First he considered cutting off his penis, then thought about a sex change operation. Finally he settled on grave robbing and a strange type of transvestite necrophilia. To become a woman he would carve out the genitalia of female cadavers and wear them over his own.
He found uses for all parts of the anatomy. He had a belt made out of nipples, a skin vest that he wore on special occasions, mobiles made out of noses, skulls on his bedposts, cranial bowls for soup, drums made out of skin, and the beat goes on. His strangeness was uncovered when police came knocking on his door investigating the disappearance of Bernice Worden, a local store keeper.
Although he was only officially linked to two murders, a couple of "fresh" vaginas were found in his house that could not be matched to his known victims or any cemetery records. He was also suspected of killing his brother and two other men who disappeared near his farm, which would bring his body count to seven. Many have tallied greater numbers than Ed, but few achieved his degree of weirdness.