The morbid crimes of Ed Gein have provided the material for some of the most famous horror films in history. Gein is the figure lurking behind Norman Bates and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. While not a prolific killer, Gein was a devoted necrophile who dug up bodies and decorated his dilapidated farmhouse with bones and human skin.
There is some evidence that Gein may have abducted and murdered a fifteen-year-old girl named Evelyn Hartley. On October 15, 1953, Hartley was busy babysitting a young girl in La Cross, Wisconsin. After failing to reach his daughter via telephone, Hartley’s father went to the house where Hartley was babysitting. He found signs of a violent struggle, along with Hartley’s damaged eyeglasses and shoe. A second shoe was found near a broken window in the basement.
After Gein’s arrest, police discovered the sexual organs of two young girls in his house. At the time, there was no record of such young girls being buried in La Crosse. More circumstantial evidence can be located in the fact that Gein was known to visit an aunt who lived just two blocks away from the house where Hartley was abducted.
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah is not one of the more famous serial killers in American history, but he is easily one of the vilest. He was an overweight pedophile who cannibalized many of his victims. One of those victims may have been ten-year-old Zach Ramsay.
On a frigid Montana morning in February 1996, Ramsay left his home in order to go to school. That morning, one family of three testified that they saw Ramsay not far from his home at about 7:30 am. They also admitted to seeing an off-white vehicle almost run Ramsay down. Other eyewitnesses claim that they saw Ramsay crying and being followed by a strange man at about 7:45 am.
Bar-Jonah would be charged with Ramsay’s murder in 2000, but because of the dogged determination of Ramsay’s mother, who still believes that her son is alive, the police’s case could not hold up in court. Bar-Jonah was ultimately convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting boys in Great Falls, Montana. Some investigators who had access to Bar-Jonah’s disgusting journals believe that Bar-Jonah may have killed and cooked Ramsay.
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