Real-life Leatherface's horror house with belts made from nipples and vaginas in boxes

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murderer took his love of keepsakes to a whole new macabre level.Ed Gein's crimes shocked the world when he was eventually caught in the 1950s and locked up in an asylum for life.He was dubbed the real-life 'Leatherface' after his love of wearing the faces of his victims as a mask inspired the character in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies.READ MORE: Life of Ian Huntley before he turned killer - from school bullying to grooming teensBut the true horror of what Gein had done only came to light when police went inside his house for the first time - which was so shocking it left even experienced coppers disgusted.As well as murdering people, Gein had also dug up women from the local cemetery and turned their body parts into decorations, furniture and crockery for his home.Police found women's genitalia and noses stashed around the house, faces turned into lampshades and a belt made fashioned from women's nipples.There were also human skulls used as decorative bedposts and lips as a curtain drawstring.It was also thought that Gein had sex with the corpses of women he'd dug up from graves but he denied this - saying he wasn't into necrophilia because "it was too smelly".Gein's crimes were so shocking they helped to inspire several movies, including Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence of the Lambs.When Gein was arrested in 1957 for the murder of store owner Bernice Worden in Wisconsin, USA, police went to his house to search it and were unprepared for the horrors that lay behind the doors.Inside among the items they found were:A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waistA pair of lips on a window shade drawstringFour nosesA belt made from female nipplesTwo vulvas from teenage girlsNine.