

When police arrived Eddie lead them directly to his "missing" brother Henry, who was lying dead in an area untouched by the fire with bruises on his head. After the fire had been extinguished, Eddie grew concerned because his brother had not returned. On May 16, 1944, while fighting a brush fire near the farm, Eddie and Henry split up and went in different directions. He worshipped his mother and grew upset when his brother Henry criticized her.


As a result, Eddie turned inward and began to reside in the dark corners of his mind. If he did try to make friends, his mother scolded him. Eddie grew up shy and was ignored by the other kids at school, who saw him as quiet and feminine. She began a grocery business in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and when she had saved enough money she moved the family away from the sin of the city to a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Eddie's father, George, was an alcoholic, and Augusta viewed him as being worthless. She was a strict, hard woman, who never wavered from her own beliefs, which she ingrained into the family. She warned them about the dangers of loose women, in an effort to keep them from being cast down to hell. After a detour to their familys old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. Augusta was a deeply religious woman, who preached the Bible to Eddie and his brother Henry on a daily basis. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) When Sally hears that her grandfathers grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. Who exactly was Ed Gein and why did he commit such atrocities?Įddie Gein was the son of Augusta and George Gein.
