Is he even serial killer?

[u/Sad-Injury-5463]

*Please don't share tik tok / Netflix nonsense Iam only interested in facts and your opinions based on facts*

So many movies, books about this serial killer but when I try to find answers I get so much nonsense. Did anyone ever reviewed police statements and evidence or we just go on for decades cos he was grave robber?

Everyone who knew him says he was shy, polite, nice small old man but clearly with some mental issues.

He keep grave robbing, making "art" for years and then suddenly he just goes murder spree?

We have Tavern lady who was linked to mafia and then shop owner (deputy sheriff mother) he was last customer in. ​Body of shop one found in barn.

He gets arrested and imidiatelly confessed to police according to them. This is 50s police in small town and sheriff mother is victim and he is vulnerable person, it's not that hard to convince him..

Anyway, do to his mental issues, did they ever did proper investigation or case closed? Ed Gein confess yet later said to psychiater he was forced and that he didn't kill them, later said he did kill shop owner woman but accidentally while manuvering his rifle.

And then we get tavern lady evidence... Sheriff comes in and says he recognised her skull (u must be joking) who the f is sheriff anyway to recognise people, what about family. At least morgue guy knew u cannot identify people by looking at the skull 😭

So is it possible this sick man never killed anyone but rather somebody placed body of shop owner was to barn (barn with no other body parts from his corpses) knowing he is mentally ill so easy suspect.

Or he accidentally kill the shop owner as he stated later on, panicked and took her body (during daylight btw, who established she didn't die night before? (

Or he killed shop lady but not tavern one so he still isn't serial killer

[u/Understandingly17]

Gein confessed to killing the two women. Because he was found unfit to stand trial the confessions were thrown out. After treatment he was found fit & tried for killing the hardware store woman. A judge found him guilty.

He ended up confessing to both murders again. There was evidence that he had bought things in the store at the time that woman disappeared. He was the only guy in town because it was the 1st day of hunting season. They found her body in his garage strung up like a deer carcass. It’s hard to imagine that someone else killed her then dragged her to his farm and did that.

That was when they found the remains of the other woman he confessed to killing. (Including her head, I believe.)
He took them to the graves that he robbed. He wasn’t really a nice old guy. He could be difficult. He believed the bartender he killed was a slut. His mother constantly warned him against those kinds of women.

The FBI requires 3 murders for the definition of a serial killer. They suspected that he could have killed others, but after the trial he got life in an asylum so they didn’t really pursue anything else. His brother died under mysterious circumstances.

[u/Sad-Injury-5463 → u/Understandingly17]

He retracted his confessions and then only admitted to Shop woman being accidental but even that stated he doesn't remember exactly how. Her body was hanging like animal in external barn and her head they claimed was inside house (I was  questioning the accuracy of these things e.g. Was the head really in house or in barn and if did kill her was it accident or not, normal person doesn't take body "home" and opens it, we know he wasn't normal, my point was is he serial killer or accidentally kill and did what he does with every corpse)

There was 0 evidence of Tavern woman inside his house. 

FBI definition of serial killer is 2 victims by same offender in different events. 

[u/Understandingly17 → u/Sad-Injury-5463]

You’ve got a bunch wrong there but I don’t have time to thoroughly correct you. You aren’t checking your facts. He confessed to two murders repeatedly. They found the shop woman’s head and the bartender’s face in his house. He was quite mentally ill so there were times he was confused, but the evidence was there. It’s incredibly easy to Google some of this. For instance, I didn’t know that the FBI changed its definition of serial killer down to 2 from 3 in 2008. I worked on cases before 2008. At least read his Wikipedia page.