Saturday, April 23, 2011

the mask of sanity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity

thom gumb and friends

Harris based Gumb on six real-life serial killers:[2][3]

* Jerry Brudos, who would dress up in his victims' clothing and keep their shoes.
* Ed Gein, who fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also made a female skin suit and skin masks.
* Ted Bundy, who pretended to be injured (specifically, wearing an arm-brace) in a ploy to ask his victims for help or assistance. He subsequently incapacitated and killed them.
* Gary M. Heidnik, who kidnapped six women and held them prisoner as sex slaves.
* Edmund Kemper, who, like Gumb, killed his grandparents as a teenager "just to see what it felt like."
* The Green River Killer, who like Gumb dumped women's bodies in rivers and inserted foreign objects into their corpses.