Serial Killer Museum-
I went to a really great museum today on serial killers. It documented 8 of history's most notable killers, including Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Andrei Chikatilo, John Wayne Gacy, Elizabeth Bathory, Gilles de Rais and Charles Manson. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to take pictures of the amazingly detailed and graphic displays for each of these people. For each serial killer there was a wax representation of him or her, along with a gory setup showing something about them. By far the best was Ed Gein, who was the inspiration for the killer in Silence of the Lambs, the guy from Psycho! and the house/situation from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He had all the “best” characteristics from these three movies. 1) He lived in a creepy old house in the middle of nowhere, 2) He was obsessed with his mom and went crazy when she died. 3) He made a suit from women's skin that he killed. The display showed his house just as it was when police found it, which was gruesome scene of body parts (including his mom's head), some nailed to the wall and some just hanging from chains. He had a lamp with a spinal cord for its post, and a bowl made from a human skull. Some body parts were obtained via gravedigging, and some were from people he killed.
Another really good display was for John Wayne Gacy, who was this crazy guy who would dress as a clown and do children's parties and then often lure one unsuspecting kid home. The display was of Gacy's house, cross-sectioned so you could see the normal living room above the floorboards, with a couch and pictures and everything looking normal and then below the floorboards which showed skeletons and random body parts partly buried in the dirt. In the corner of the display, with his top half above the floorboards and his bottom half below them, was Gacy in full clown suit looking very real and very disturbing.