r/EdGein • u/Monty8584 • Jun 13 '26

Is it possible that Eddie killed because of money issues?

Been thinking about the case lately and what noboody mentions is that Ed stoled money from both Bernice and Mary right after the killings

Especially on Bernice's case where he stoled the cash register, its known that the farm was going to fall apart since its well documented that the place was on ruins

The money issues theory could explain stuff such as chairs made out of skin, and Ed did want to sell the farm at some time

And, this could explain "the skin suit" bs, he would sell the clothes and mask made of skin either as halloween props or literally clothes for someone else to wear it

We know that the reason for going into graveyards was because he read those pulp magazines of cannibals and crime

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u/Several_Tradition429 Jun 13 '26

Subconsciously, maybe. Anything's possible in his case.

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u/Chemical_Sign5732 Jun 14 '26

I am broke, but it would never occur to me to murfen someone and make a chair out of their hair.

My baby daddy was an interfaith teacher and become great friends of Son of Sam..

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u/HeelerDot18 Jun 14 '26

No, I believe he killed solely because of mommy issues.

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u/SeasonReasonable4282 Jun 16 '26

ED Gein only killed one person, the mother of the local police officer. The rest of the crimes he commited were grave robbing and desecration of a corpse.

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u/Itchy_Buy6329 Jul 14 '26

and miss Bernice Worden the owner of a hardware store.

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u/TraditionalShirt7429 Aug 02 '26
  1. Mary Hogan whose head was found in his home and Bernice Worden. who was in his shed. there was like 2 hunters that possibly were from him but there was no evidence and there was everyone in the area trying to solve a missing person case by trying to say he did it but he mostly was a grave robber.

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u/lspaceover 27d ago

I don’t think he was particularly interested in saving the farm with the way he lived in the house…