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Murder Was the Least of His CrimesโฆThe truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambsโฆ
From Harold Schechter, โAmerica's principle chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killersโ (The Boston Book Review), comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, whose ghoulish crimes stunned an unsuspecting nation.
The year is 1957. Photographs would show him across the country: a slight, Midwestern man with a twisted little smile, a man who had lived for ten years in his own world of murder and depravity.
Here is the grisly true story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's โPsychoโโthe mild-mannered farmhand bound to his domineering mother, driven into a series of gruesome and bizarre acts beyond all imagining. In chilling detail, Deviant explores the incredible career of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of American crimeโand how he turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into his own private playground of ghoulishness and blood.
From the Heartland of America comes a true story more horrifying than any movie or novelโฆHarold Schechter's acclaimed true-crime chronicle
ISBN:9780671025465
