THE KILLER PSYCHE

in history. And you'll definitely want to listen to their recent episode where Candace examines the mind of Ed gain the notorious murderer who inspired the movies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. You won't believe what gruesome details from those movies were inspired by Gaines's real life atrocities. Candace dives deep into Gaines's mind his mental illnesses led

to his obsession with grave robbing and murder. Listening to Killer Psyche, We'll give you a whole new insight into the twisted mind of gain Hollywood's favorite killer. You're about to hear a preview of Killer Psyche while you're listening. Follow Killer Psyche on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

was a murderer or a killer. Norman Bates, and I'm assuming all true crime fans have seen this movie, and if not, you need to. Norman was slightly odd, but he looked like a shy, normal guy. I really did not expect the reveal that happens at the end. I told myself, Oh, come on, this is Make Believes, just a movie right out of Hollywood. No one would ever be that disturbed to keep the dead with them in their house. But Psycho was based on a real story,

on a real man. His name was ed Geen, and the town he lived in in Wisconsin considered him a nice guy, if not slightly odd. He had lived there most of his life and worked odd jobs as a handyman. Most of the families felt sorry for him and invited him over to eat dinner. Some of them even let him baby set their children. What they would later learn about Ed Gean is what the audience learns about Norman Bates.

That looks can be deceiving, and that their nice, quiet neighbor committed crimes far more shocking than any movie from Wondering and Treefort. I'm Candice DeLong and this is Killer Psyche. I've spent five decades studying people's minds through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse. I've interviewed many murderers, serial killers included, and the question I get asked time and time again is why they did what they did. It's difficult to get a satisfying answer without diving deep

into the killer's mindsets. So in this series, I will do just that and give you my best analysis of what made them do what they did. This episode is about Ed Dean, Hollywood's favorite killer. A good friend of mine, Gail, was a counselor at a summer camp in Hayward, Wisconsin, in the late seventies. The psychiatric hospital where Gean was

committed was right across the lake. Around the campfire. At night, the councilors would tell the kids that the swamp man, whose skinned people alive, was right across the lake, and that he frequently escaped. They would claim that you could hear him scratching on the screen windows at night, and then the counselors would go around scratching the windows and terrifying the campers. The swampman was supposed to be ed Gean. Now, of course this was full of hyperbole and misinformation, but

most ghost stories are. Over the last several decades, the story of ed Gean has become twisted by the terrible parts of our imagination. But I have to tell you it's really not necessary, since the truth was horrible enough. After his crimes came to light, the press dubbed him a ghoul and a boogeyman. His murders and his penchant for using human body parts for decoration and furniture horrified

the public. In nineteen fifty seven, the idea that someone would do these things seemed unfathomable and frankly more like movie imagination, and even now he can. She used to be the inspiration for many of Hollywood's scariest killers, including Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface. November is the beginning of hunting season in Plainfield, Wisconsin in the late nineteen fifties.

The town would clear out because most of the men were heading into the woods to hunt, which is why no one heard the shotgun blast that took the life of one of its most beloved residents. On November sixteenth, nineteen fifty seven, Ed Dean, a local handyman, entered Warden's hardware store on the corner of North and Main Streets. The night before he had been there, and he mentioned that he needed to get Annie freeze and that he'd be back the next day. Ed had been hanging around

the store a lot in the previous weeks. Some of the locals thought he paid a lot of attention to missus Warden Bernice, and some said he seemed even a little obsessed with her, but this was all written off as typical Ed behavior. He was considered by most in town to be odd but a nice guy, So that day he came in for half a gallon of anafreeze, and after Bernice poured it for him, he took it out to his truck. He returned just as she was writing the receipt and asked to see a rifle that

was in the window. When she went to retrieve it, Ed came up behind her and shot her in the back of the head, and then he slit her throat. He then loaded her in the back of his truck and drove off. It was not until hours later that someone reported Bernice was not in her store. Her son, Frank, was also the local deputy sheriff. He went there to check on her. When he entered, he found the store empty, the cash register opened, and a pool of bloe ud

on the floor. Frank immediately suspected Ed Dean because of his recent preoccupation with his mother. When investigators arrived, they discovered the last receipt written for the day was for Ed's enafries, and that confirmed Frank's suspicions.