Deceased - Edward Gein beautiful birthday card with the original envelope from 1983

This is a great true crime historical set in great condition! Edward signed this card in full Edward Gein in black in. He has typed the entire card and envelope before sending this to the Purcells family . To Eleonor especially whom he considered to be like a mother figure.

Great looking card with striking vintage Colors to it! The envelope is postmarked from July 1983 and Edward Gein would pass away in JuLy 1984, just a year after sending this card. The envelope is also stamped M.H.S wich is probably because it was sent from where he was at the time , the Mendota State Hospital.

Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, WISCONSIN gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he had EXHUMED corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

Gein died at Mendota mental health institute from respiratory failure resulting from lung cancer, on July 26, 1984, aged 77. He is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery, in a now-unmarked grave.

Gein's story has had a lasting effect on American popular culture as evidenced by its numerous appearances in film, music, and literature. The tale first came to widespread public attention in the fictionalized version presented by Robert Bloch in his 1959 suspense novel Psycho. In addition to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film of Bloch's novel, Psycho, Gein's story was loosely adapted into numerous films, including Deranged (1974), In the light of the moon (2000) (released in the United States and Australia as Ed Gein(2001)), Ed Gein: Thé Butcher of Plainfield (2007), "Ed Gein , the musical (2010), and the Rob Zombie films House of 1000 corpses and its sequel, The Devil’s rejects Gein served as the inspiration for myriad fictional serial killers, most notablyNorman Bates  (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas chainsaw massacre), Buffalo Bill (The silence of the lambs) Garland Greene (Con air) and the character Dr. Oliver Thredson in the TV series American Horror story : Asylum.