Who Was Augusta Gein? All About Ed Gein’s Mother in ‘Monster’

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Key Takeaways:

Ed Gein’s mother, Augusta Gein, was a domineering, strict, and very religious matriarch who largely isolated her two sons from the outside world.

Experts have hypothesized that her overbearing nature led Ed to develop an unhealthy obsession with Augusta.

After her death, Ed preserved areas of the family’s farmhouse as a macabre shrine to his mom. He fell further and further into a deadly and disturbing psychosis that was eventually uncovered in 1957.

Before he became etched in history as the “Butcher of Plainfield,” Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farm child devoted to his mother, Augusta. But as Ed grew older and his devotion turned to obsession, it became clear Augusta’s hold over him had spun out of control—with deadly results.

Augusta’s inescapable in