Ed Gein

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Edward Theodore Gein. The name itself whispers of the macabre, of a darkness that festered in the quiet corners of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Known as the Butcher of Plainfield, the Plainfield Ghoul, he was a murderer, a suspected serial killer, and a body snatcher whose crimes shocked a nation in 1957. Authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards, crafting ghastly keepsakes from their very bones and skin. He confessed to two murders: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957. Found unfit for trial, Gein spent years in mental health facilities. By 1968, he was judged competent, found guilty of Worden's murder, but legally insane, leading to his lifelong confinement. He died in 1984, aged 77, from respiratory failure, buried in an unmarked grave beside his family. Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1906, Ed Gein was the second son of George and Augusta Gein. His mother, Augusta, a fervent Lutheran, instilled in her sons a deep-seated fear of the world's immorality and the devilish nature of women. Their days were filled with Bible readings, often from the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation, filled with tales of death, murder, and divine retribution. Ed idolized his mother, his affection growing into an obsession. His father, a carpenter, tanner, and firefighter, also owned a grocery store. The family eventually moved to a secluded 155-acre farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. George Gein was a violent alcoholic, often beating his sons. Augusta, seizing the farm's isolation, kept outsiders away, shielding her sons from any influence. Ed, shy and prone to seemingly random laughter, spent his days on farm chores, only leaving for school. His classmates and teachers noted his peculiar mannerisms. Augusta punished him for any attempts at friendship, yet Ed excelled in school, particularly in reading. The deaths in his immediate family were pivotal. In 1940, his father died of heart failure. Ed and his older brother, Henry, took on odd jobs to make ends meet, earning a reputation for honesty. Henry, however, worried about Ed's unhealthy attachment to their mother and often spoke ill of her, which deeply hurt Ed. Then, in May 1944, a marsh fire on their property got out of control. After it was extinguished, Henry was reported missing. His body was found face down, apparently having died of heart failure, though later reports revealed bruises on his head. Police dismissed foul play, citing asphyxiation as the cause, but no official investigation or autopsy was performed. Years later, during questioning about Bernice Worden's murder, Henry's death was brought up, with one investigator suggesting a "Cain and Abel" scenario. With Henry gone, Ed and his mother were alone. Augusta suffered a debilitating stroke. Ed devoted himself to her care. A year later, in 1945, Augusta suffered a second stroke after witnessing a disturbing incident involving a neighbor and a woman she deemed a "harlot." Her health rapidly declined, and she died on December 29, 1945. Ed was devastated, having lost his "only friend and one true love." Gein remained on the farm, earning money through odd jobs. He sealed off rooms his mother had used, keeping them pristine while the rest of the house fell into disrepair. He lived in a small room near the kitchen, finding solace in pulp magazines and adventure stories, particularly those involving cannibals and Nazi atrocities, like the infamous Ilse Koch. He also received a farm subsidy and worked for the local road and crop-threshing crews. The confirmed crimes of Ed Gein began to surface on November 16, 1957, with the disappearance of Bernice Worden, owner of the Plainfield hardware store. Her son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, found the store's cash register open and bloodstains on the floor. Gein had been in the store the previous evening, expected to return for antifreeze. A sales slip for this antifreeze was the last entry in Bernice Worden's log. That evening, Gein was arrested, and a search of his farm revealed Bernice Worden's decapitated body in a shed, hung upside down and "dressed out like a deer." She had been shot and then mutilated. Inside Gein's house, authorities discovered a horrific collection: human bones and skin fashioned into wastebaskets and chair coverings, skulls mounted on bedposts, bowls made from skulls, a corset from a human torso, leggings from human skin, masks made from facial skins, Mary Hogan's face and skull, Bernice Worden's entire head and heart, vulvas, nipples made into a belt, noses, lips, a lampshade made from a human face, and fingernails. Gein confessed to exhuming bodies from local graveyards between 1947 and 1952, in a "daze-like" state, targeting middle-aged women who resembled his mother. He admitted to stealing from nine graves, leading investigators to corroborate his story. He also confessed to shooting Mary Hogan, whose head was found in his house. He denied sexual contact with the bodies, stating they "smelled too bad." Shrunken heads, later determined to be human facial skins, were also found, believed by a youth to be relics from a cousin in the Philippines. During questioning, Sheriff Art Schley reportedly assaulted Gein, leading to his initial confession being ruled inadmissible. Schley died of heart failure in 1968, a death many attributed to the trauma of Gein's crimes. Beyond the confirmed murders, Gein was suspected in several other unsolved cases. Lie detector tests cleared him of further homicides, and psychiatrists concluded his violence was directed only at women resembling his mother. Cases like the disappearance of Georgia Jean Weckler, Evelyn Grace Hartley, and Victor Harold Travis, along with the disappearance of neighbor James Walsh, were considered. Gein was arraigned on one count of first-degree murder, pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was deemed mentally incompetent and sent to a state hospital. In 1968, he was declared able to stand trial. His trial, held without a jury, revealed he claimed Worden's death was an accident, a result of a gun discharging as he examined it. Found guilty of murder, a second trial determined his sanity, and he was ruled "not guilty by reason of insanity," committed to a mental institution for the rest of his life. He was tried for only one murder due to prohibitive costs, though he admitted to killing Mary Hogan. Gein's house and property were appraised and scheduled for auction. However, on March 20, 1958, the house burned down under suspicious circumstances, the cause of the fire never officially determined. Gein, in detention, reportedly shrugged it off. His car, used to transport victims, was sold to a carnival sideshow operator, its current whereabouts unknown. Ed Gein died on July 26, 1984, at the age of 77, from respiratory failure due to lung cancer. Souvenir seekers chipped away at his gravestone, eventually stealing it. Recovered in 2001, it now rests in storage. He is buried in Plainfield Cemetery, his grave unmarked but not forgotten. Gein's story has left an indelible mark on popular culture. Robert Bloch's 1959 novel *Psycho*, and Alfred Hitchcock's subsequent film, were inspired by his crimes. Numerous other films, including *Deranged*, *In the Light of the Moon*, and Rob Zombie's *House of 1000 Corpses*, drew from his story. He became the inspiration for fictional serial killers like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. Filmmakers Errol Morris and Werner Herzog attempted to collaborate on a film about Gein, but their project was abandoned. Bands like Tad, Slayer, and Mudvayne have written songs inspired by him, as has Blind Melon. The character of Patrick Bateman in *American Psycho* mistakenly attributes a quote about women to Gein. A stage play, *Kannibale und Liebe*, was written about his case. News reports of his crimes spawned a subgenre of black humor called "Geiners." Gein has been portrayed in films and television series, including Netflix's *Monster*, and a docuseries titled *Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein* aired in 2023.

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Edward Theodore Gein ( GEEN; August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. His 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 was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility. By 1968 he was judged competent to stand trial; he was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but was found legally insane and thus was remanded to a psychiatric institution. 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. == Early life == === Childhood === Edward Theodore Gein was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1906, the second of two sons to George Philip Gein (1873–1940) and Augusta Wilhelmine Gein (née Lehrke; 1878–1945). Gein's only sibling was an older brother named Henry. Augusta, who was fervently religious and nominally Lutheran, frequently preached to her sons about the innate immorality of the world, the evils of drinking and her belief that all women were naturally promiscuous and instruments of the devil. She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the Bible, usually selecting verses from the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation concerning death, murder and divine retribution. Gein idolized and eventually became obsessed with his mother. In La Crosse, Gein's father worked as a carpenter, tanner and firefighter. He also owned a local grocery store but soon sold the business and left the city with his family to live on a 155-acre (63-hectare) farm in the town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, which became their permanent residence. Gein's father was also known to be a violent alcoholic who regularly beat both of his sons, this would cause Ed's ears to ring when his father beat him on the head. Augusta took advantage of the farm's isolation by turning away outsiders who could have influenced her sons. Gein left the farm only to attend school. Outside of school, he spent most of his time doing chores on the farm. Gein was shy; classmates and teachers remembered him as having strange mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. Augusta punished Gein whenever he tried to make friends, according to family acquaintances. Despite his poor social development, Gein did fairly well in school, particularly in reading. === Deaths in immediate family === On April 1, 1940, Gein's father died of heart failure at age 66. Gein and his brother Henry began doing odd jobs around town to help cover living expenses. The brothers were generally considered reliable and honest by the rest of the community. While both worked as handymen, Gein also frequently babysat for neighbors, seeming to relate more easily to children than to adults. Henry began dating a divorced mother of two and planned to move in with her. He worried about his brother's attachment to their mother and often spoke ill of her around Gein, who responded with shock and hurt. On May 16, 1944, Gein was burning away marsh vegetation on the property; the fire got out of control, drawing the attention of the local fire department. By the end of the day—the fire having been extinguished and the firefighters gone—Gein reported Henry missing. With lanterns and flashlights, a search party searched for 43-year-old Henry, whose dead body was found lying face down. Apparently, Henry had been dead for some time, and it appeared that the cause of death was heart failure since he had not been burned or injured otherwise. It was later reported by biographer Harold Schechter that Henry had bruises on his head. Police dismissed the possibility of foul play and the county coroner later officially listed asphyxiation as the cause of death. The authorities accepted the accident theory, but no official investigation was conducted and an autopsy was not performed. Questioning Gein about the death of Bernice Worden in 1957, state investigator Joe Wilimovsky brought up questions about Henry's death. George Arndt, who studied the case, wrote that, in retrospect, it was "possible and likely" that Henry's death was "the 'Cain and Abel' aspect of this case." With Henry deceased, Gein and his mother were now alone. Augusta suffered a paralyzing stroke shortly after Henry's death, and Gein devoted himself to her care. Sometime in 1945, he later recounted, he and his mother visited a man named Smith, who lived nearby, to purchase straw. According to Gein, Augusta witnessed Smith beating a dog. A woman inside the Smith residence came outside and yelled for him to stop, but Smith beat the dog to death. Augusta was extremely upset by this scene; however, what bothered her did not appear to be the brutality toward the dog but, rather, the presence of the woman. Augusta told Gein that the woman was not married to Smith and so had no business being there, angrily calling her "Smith's harlot." She suffered a second stroke soon after, and her health deteriorated rapidly. Augusta died on December 29, 1945, at the age of 67. Gein was devastated by his mother's death; in the words of Schechter, he had "lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely alone in the world." == Work == Gein held on to the farm and earned money from odd jobs. He boarded up rooms used by his mother, including the upstairs, downstairs parlor and living room, leaving them untouched. While the rest of the house became increasingly squalid, these rooms remained pristine. Gein lived thereafter in a small room next to the kitchen. Around this time, he became interested in reading pulp magazines and adventure stories, particularly those involving cannibals or Nazi atrocities, specifically concerning Ilse Koch, who had been accused of selecting tattooed prisoners for death in order to fashion lampshades and other items from their skins. Gein received a farm subsidy from the federal government starting in 1951. He occasionally worked for the local municipal road crew and crop-threshing crews in the Plainfield area. Sometime between 1946 and 1956, he also sold an 80-acre (32 ha) parcel of land that Henry had owned. == Crimes == === Confirmed === On the morning of November 16, 1957, 58-year-old Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared. The hardware store's truck was seen driving out from the rear of the building at around 9:30 a.m. The store saw few customers the entire day; some area residents believed that this was because of deer hunting season. Worden's son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, entered the store around 5:00 p.m. to find the cash register open and blood stains on the floor. Frank Worden told investigators that on the evening before his mother's disappearance, Gein had been in the store and was expected to return the next morning for a gallon of antifreeze. A sales slip for the antifreeze was the last receipt written by Bernice Worden on the morning that she disappeared. That evening, Gein was arrested at a West Plainfield grocery store, and the Waushara County Sheriff's Department searched the Gein farm. A sheriff's deputy discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed on Gein's property, hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar at her ankles and ropes at her wrists. The torso had been "dressed out like a deer". Worden had been shot with a .22-caliber rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death. Searching Gein's house, authorities found: Whole human bones and fragments A wastebasket made of human skin Human skin covering several chairs Human skulls mounted on bedposts Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off Bowls made from human skulls A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist Leggings made from human leg skin Masks made from the skin of female heads Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag Mary Hogan's skull in a box Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack Bernice Worden's heart "in a plastic bag in front of Gein's potbelly stove" Nine vulvas in a shoebox A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old" A belt made from female human nipples Four noses A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring A lampshade made from the skin of a human face Fingernails from female fingers These artifacts were photographed at the state crime laboratory and then "decently disposed of." When questioned, Gein told investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he had made as many as forty nocturnal visits to three local graveyards to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a "daze-like" state. On about thirty of those visits, he said that he came out of the daze while in the cemetery, left the grave in good order and returned home emptyhanded. On the other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skins to make his paraphernalia. Gein admitted to stealing from nine graves and led investigators to their locations. Allan Wilimovsky of the state crime laboratory participated in opening three test graves identified by Gein. The caskets were inside wooden boxes; the top boards ran crossways (not lengthwise). The tops of the boxes were about two feet (61 centimeters) below the surface in sandy soil. Gein had robbed the graves soon after the funerals while the graves were not completed. The test graves were exhumed because authorities were uncertain as to whether the slight Gein was capable of single-handedly digging up a grave during a single evening. They were found as Gein described: one casket was empty; another casket was empty but contained a few bones and Gein's crowbar; and the final casket saw most of the body missing, yet Gein had returned rings and some body parts. Thus, Gein's confession was largely corroborated. Soon after his mother's death, Gein began to create a "woman suit" so that "he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin." He denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining: "They smelled too bad." During state crime laboratory interrogation, Gein also admitted to shooting 51-year-old Mary Hogan, a tavern owner missing since December 8, 1954, whose head was found in his house, but he later denied memory of details of her death. A 16-year-old youth, whose parents were friends of Gein and who attended baseball games and movies with him, reported that Gein kept shrunken heads in his house, which he had described as relics sent by a cousin who had served in the Philippines during World War II. Upon investigation by police, these were determined to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from corpses and used by Gein as masks. During questioning, Sheriff Art Schley reportedly assaulted Gein by banging his head and face into a brick wall. As a result, Gein's initial confession was ruled inadmissible. Schley died of heart failure in 1968 at age 43, before Gein's trial. Many who knew Schley said he was traumatized by the horror of Gein's crimes and this, along with the fear of having to testify (especially about assaulting Gein), caused his death. === Suspected === In addition to the murders of Hogan and Worden, Gein was also considered a suspect in several other unsolved cases in Wisconsin. In November 1957, authorities confronted Gein with a list of missing persons cases that had occurred between the death of his mother and that of Worden. Their suspicions were further aroused after the discovery of Hogan's remains. However, lie detector tests exonerated Gein of any other murders, and his psychiatrists concluded that his violence was only directed to women who physically resembled his mother. Georgia Jean Weckler (8) disappeared near her home in Fort Atkinson at approximately 3:30 p.m. on May 1, 1947. She was given a lift home from grade school in Jefferson by a neighbor who dropped Weckler off at the lane that led from U.S. Highway 12 to the Weckler farm. Weckler was last seen pausing to open the family mailbox and removing a stack of mail. Witnesses reported seeing a dark-colored, possibly black, 1936 Ford sedan with a gray plastic spotlight in the vicinity that afternoon; Gein owned a black 1937 Ford. Evelyn Grace Hartley (14) went missing while babysitting a 20-month-old girl at the home of La Crosse State College (now University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) professor Viggo Rasmussen on the evening of October 24, 1953. That evening, her father Richard called the Rasmussen residence several times after she failed to check in as planned at 8:30 p.m.; he received no answer. Concerned, he drove to the Rasmussen house to find the doors were locked, the lights and radio on and items scattered all over the house. The living room furniture had been moved around to different places, as were Evelyn's school books. Richard found her shoes in different rooms, one shoe upstairs and one downstairs. He also found his daughter's broken glasses upstairs. Richard did not find Evelyn in the house. After his arrest, Gein was questioned regarding Hartley's disappearance, but he denied involvement and passed two lie detector tests; police found no trace of Hartley's remains during a search of Gein's property. Victor Harold Travis (42) a resident of Adams County, went off to hunt deer in the company of acquaintance Raymond Burgess on November 1, 1952. In the late afternoon, the pair stopped for refreshments at Mac's Bar in Plainfield for several hours. At around 7 p.m., they both left the bar, got into Burgess’ car and drove away. The hunters, along with the car Burgess was driving, were never seen again and no trace of them was ever found. Travis and Burgess had been hunting on the property next to Gein's farm, despite his objections to them hunting on the day of their disappearance. In addition, Gein has also been tentatively linked to the June 1954 disappearance of neighbor James Walsh (32); Walsh and his wife lived near Gein, who performed chores for Mrs. Walsh after her husband went missing. == Aftermath == === Trial === On November 21, 1957, Gein was arraigned on one count of first-degree murder in Waushara County Court, where he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and found mentally incompetent, thus unfit for trial. Gein was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (now the Dodge Correctional Institution), a maximum-security facility in Waupun, and later transferred to the Mendota State Hospital in Madison. In 1968, doctors determined Gein was "mentally able to confer with counsel and participate in his defense." The trial began on November 7, 1968, and lasted one week. A psychiatrist testified that Gein had told him that he did not know whether the killing of Worden was intentional or accidental. Gein had also told him that while he examined a gun in Worden's store, the weapon discharged and killed Worden. He claimed to have had not aimed the rifle at Worden, and did not remember anything else that happened that morning. At the request of the defense, Gein's trial was held without a jury, with Judge Robert H. Gollmar presiding. Gein was found guilty by Gollmar on November 14. A second trial dealt with Gein's sanity; after testimony by doctors for the prosecution and defense, Gollmar ruled Gein "not guilty by reason of insanity" and ordered him committed to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Gein spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. Judge Gollmar wrote, "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder—that of Mrs. Worden. He also admitted to killing Mary Hogan." === Fate of Gein's property === Gein's house, the outbuildings and his 195-acre (79 ha) property were appraised at $4,700 (equivalent to $51,000 in 2024). His possessions were scheduled to be auctioned on March 30, 1958, amidst rumors that the house and the land it stood on might become a tourist attraction. Early on the morning of March 20, the house was destroyed by fire. A deputy fire marshal reported that a garbage fire had been set 75 feet (23 m) from the house by a cleaning crew who was given the task of disposing refuse; that hot coals were recovered from the spot of the bonfire, but that the fire did not spread along the ground from that location to the house. Arson was suspected, but the cause of the fire was never officially determined. It is possible that the fire was not considered a matter of urgency to Fire Chief Frank Worden, son of Gein's victim, Bernice Worden. When Gein learned of the incident while in detention, he shrugged and said, "Just as well." Gein's Ford sedan, which he used to haul the bodies of his victims, was sold at public auction for $760 (equivalent to $8,300 in 2024) to carnival sideshow operator Bunny Gibbons. Gibbons charged carnival-goers 25¢ admission to see it. The current whereabouts of the car are unknown. === Death === Ed Gein died at the Mendota Mental Health Institute due to respiratory failure, secondary to lung cancer, on July 26, 1984, at the age of 77. Over the years, souvenir seekers chipped away pieces from his gravestone, until the stone itself was stolen in 2000. It was recovered in June 2001, near Seattle, Washington, and was placed in storage at the Waushara County Sheriff's Department. Gein is interred between his parents and brother in Plainfield Cemetery; his gravesite now unmarked, but not unknown. == In popular culture == 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 adaptation of Bloch's novel of the same name, 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: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007), Ed Gein, the Musical (2010) and the Rob Zombie film House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects (2005). Gein served as the inspiration for myriad fictional serial killers, most notably Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs), Garland Greene (Con Air) and the character of Dr. Oliver Thredson in the TV series American Horror Story: Asylum. American filmmaker Errol Morris and German filmmaker Werner Herzog attempted unsuccessfully to collaborate on a film project about Gein from 1975 to 1976. Morris claimed to have interviewed Gein several times and ended up spending almost a year in Plainfield interviewing dozens of locals. The pair planned secretly to exhume Gein's mother from her grave to test a theory, but never followed through on the scheme, and eventually ended their collaboration. The aborted project was described in a 1989 New Yorker profile of Morris. Gein's story inspired American grunge band Tad to write the song "Nipple Belt" for their 1989 album, God's Balls. Gein also inspired American thrash metal band Slayer to write the song "Dead Skin Mask" for their 1990 album, Seasons in the Abyss. Also, Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon stated in interviews that the song "Skinned" off their 1995 album, Soup, was directly about Gein, and explained many of the crimes he committed. Additionally, Gein was the inspiration and namesake for the song "Nothing to Gein," by American heavy metal band Mudvayne; released in 2000 on their album, L.D. 50. The character Patrick Bateman, in the 1991 novel American Psycho and its 2000 film adaptation, mistakenly attributes a quote by Edmund Kemper to Gein saying, "You know what Ed Gein said about women? ... He said, 'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right ... [the other part wonders] what her head would look like on a stick'." In 2012, German director Jörg Buttgereit wrote and directed a stage play about Gein's case titled Kannibale und Liebe, at Theater Dortmund in Germany. The part of Gein was played by actor Uwe Rohbeck. According to George W. Arndt, news reports at the time of Gein's crimes spawned a subgenre of black humor called "Geiners." Gein was portrayed in flashbacks by Michael Wincott in the 2012 biographical film Hitchcock. In 2022, Gein, portrayed by Shane Kerwin, appears in the first season of Netflix's anthology series Monster as a possible inspiration for the crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. However, a direct connection between the two is seen as speculation. In 2024, it was announced that Charlie Hunnam would portray Gein in The Ed Gein Story, the third season of Monster, where Gein will be the primary focus of the season. In 2023, a multi-part docuseries aired about Gein's life and upbringing titled Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein. On September 15, 2025, Tudum announced the release of Monster: The Ed Gein Story on October 3 on Netflix. == See also == Grave robbery Body snatching Anatoly Moskvin Carl Tanzler General: List of homicides in Wisconsin List of serial killers in the United States == Notes == == References == === Bibliography === == External links == Ed Gein at IMDb Schechter, Harold (November 21, 1957). "Obsessive Love for His Mother Drove Gein to Slay, Rob Graves". Milwaukee Journal. ISBN 9781439106976. {{cite news}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) "Obituary: Judge Robert H. Gollmar, 84; Presided Over 'Psycho' Trial". The New York Times. October 22, 1987. Miller, Francis & Scherschel, Frank (December 2, 1957). "House of Horror Stuns the Nation". Life. Vol. 43, no. 23. pp. 24–32. Carleton, Lee A. (November 18, 2006). "A Productive Palimpsest: Ed Gein's Textuality of Terror". Academia.edu. "Halloween Special! Ed Gein and Slasher Movies". You're Wrong About (Podcast). October 17, 2018.

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