Crime Time Episode 4: Edward Gein
Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was a notorious killer and grave robber. Gein served as the inspiration for writer Robert Bloch’s character Norman Bates in the 1959 novel “Psycho,” which in 1960 was turned into a film starring Anthony Perkins and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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