PLAINFIELD, Wis. -- Ed Gein, whose bizarre life was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie, 'Psycho,' has been buried next to the mother he could not bear to part from in life.
Gein, known as the 'Butcher of Plainfield,' was buried in an unmarked grave in Spiritland Cemetery Saturday between his mother, Augusta, who died in 1945, and his brother Henry, state officials said Tuesday.
Gein died of repiratory failure last week at the Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, at age 77.
Psychiatrists said Gein's behavior was caused by an abnormal love for his mother.
Gein was charged with killing two women who looked like his mother and with grave robbing. Parts of human bodies were found throughout his dilapidated farm house during the 1957 investigation. But he was never convicted and spent the last quarter century in mental institutions.
The abnormal love of his dead mother, whose room he kept locked and unchanged for years, was the basis for a book by Robert Bloch, that Hitchcock turned into the film classic, 'Psycho.'
Journalists from around the world converged on Gein's tiny central Wisconsin hamlet after his grisly actions were discovered and made the Plainfield, Wis., a household word nationwide.
