When police first entered the home of Ed Gein they had no idea what they were about to discover. What they would find would shock and terrify a nation. A complete search of the property took place and hundreds of gruesome items of interest were entered into evidence. You can see an entire list of...
Complete List of Evidence Found in Ed Gein’s Farmhouse On November 16, 1957, authorities investigating the disappearance of hardware store owner Bernice Worden entered the isolated farmhouse of Edward Gein near Plainfield, Wisconsin. What they discovered inside would become one of the most shocking crime scenes in American crime history, revealing a macabre collection of...
Ed Gein’s Grave Robbing: The Hard Evidence Ed Gein is remembered for the murders of Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan, but the killings were only part of his story. What truly horrified the public in 1957 was the revelation that Gein had spent years slipping into local cemeteries at night, digging up freshly buried bodies,...
Horrific Discoveries at Local Farm Shock County Residents PLAINFIELD, Wis. – Edward Theodore Gein, 51, a reclusive bachelor who lived alone on his late parents’ farm just outside Plainfield, was arrested Saturday in connection with the sudden disappearance of Mrs. Bernice Worden, 58, the longtime proprietor of Worden Hardware on Main Street. The shocking arrest,...