Ed Gein who was also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul was actually an American convicted murderer and body snatcher. Ed Gein’s crimes that committed around his own hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and also skin. Gein also confessed to killing two women.
In particular, Ed Gein’s grisly crimes were the actual inspiration behind many horror characters including Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, and also Leatherface. His teachers and classmates at his elementary school recall him being shy but having strange mannerisms. His school blamed his own mother who has been punishing him every time when he tried to make friends for himself. Because of that, for the most part, his own childhood was relatively solitary.
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After a long torturing life during childhood, he then eventually lived alone in the farmhouse. While living in seclusion on his own farm, Ed Gein has become interested in a lot of death-cult magazines, and also Nazi-cannibal-adventure stories. However, as decrepit as he had become, he mostly kept to himself. Then in November of 1957, a local hardware store owner disappeared. Bernice Worden had last been seen the previous night and had been reported missing after her hardware store remained closed all day. Her son Frank, who happened to be the deputy sheriff, entered the store and discovered the cash register open and bloodstains on the floor.
Investigators headed to Ed Gein’s home, arresting him and searching the property. They had been prepared to find Bernice Worden’s body on the farm. However, nothing could prepare the police for what was inside. While searching the house, authorities found countless bones, both whole and fragmented, skulls impaled on his bedposts, and bowls and kitchen utensils made from skulls. Worse than the bones, however, were the household items made from human skin.
Authorities found chairs upholstered in human skin, a wastebasket made of skin, leggings made from human leg skin, masks made from faces, a belt made of nipples, a pair of lips being used as a window shade drawstring, a corset made of a female torso, and a lampshade made from a human face. Along with the skin items, police found various dismembered body parts, including fingernails, four noses, and the genitals of nine different women.
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Sources: TikTok When Killers Get Caught, Britannica.
