Ed Gein's mother Augusta created his psychosis through decades of religious fanaticism and psychological abuse. After her death in 1945, he began grave-robbing, fashioning furniture and a "woman suit" from human skin, trying to literally become his mother. Mary Bell was eleven years old when she strangled four-year-old Martin Brown and three-year-old Brian Howe in 1968, carving an "M" into Brian's stomach. Sexually abused from age four, she killed without remorse or empathy. Dennis Rader had violent sexual fantasies from age eight. As BTK Killer, he murdered ten people between 1974-1991, living as church president and Cub Scout leader while binding, torturing, and killing. This episode examines minds twisted from childhood—by abuse, by trauma, or born fundamentally wrong.
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