So far the research I have done has taken me on a journey through Ed Gein’s childhood, adulthood, crimes, arrest, and death. Currently I have determined that the further in depth I go into my research the more questions I seem to run into. It seems that my primary focus of “why did Gein keep specific artifacts from his grave robbing quests and murder” has evolved into what motivated and inspired him to become a necrophilia and sexual psychopath? In my research a majority of Gein’s decisions he made in his adulthood stemmed from the emotional and verbal abuse he received in his childhood from his mother, the physical abuse he received from his alcoholic father, and the verbal abuse from children he went to school with due to his abnormalities. Gein had an abnormally magnified attachment to his mother where he idolized everything she did. She was his entire world. Augusta Gein was a strong Christian and preached to both Ed and his brother Henry every day about all women (except for herself) being prostitutes and about the evils that filled the world. She tactfully controlled every aspect of the families life and in doing so moved them to a secluded farm house in the small town of Plainfield where she discouraged any sort of friendship among her boys and the outside world. This action taken by Augusta turned the boys, especially Ed, into silent, introverted and mentally unbalanced. Ed wanted nothing more then to please his mother who so dearly wanted a girl that she could relate to and connect with because she was unsatisfied with her marriage. This unhealthy bond with his mother contributed to Ed’s unstable mental stage which dominated his life after his mother passed away. Ed was in love with his mother so when she died it tore him apart and he desperately tried to find ways to keep her alive with him. This involved visiting the cemetery she was buried in. As time passed his visits turned into excavations of elderly women’s graves that resembled his deceased mother. During his grave robbing days he would take flesh and organs that he would use to make furniture as well as a full body suit. These actions allowed him to become like his mother and to still connect with her.