When police entered Ed Gein’s farmhouse in November 1957, they expected to find a missing woman. What they uncovered was something closer to a nightmare: skulls used as soup bowls, a belt made of human nipples, masks stitched from women’s faces, and a chair upholstered in human skin. And yet, amid the horror, Ed Gein...
Complete List of Crimes Ed Gein Was Suspected of Committing Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein, known as the “Butcher of Plainfield” and the “Plainfield Ghoul,” was suspected of numerous crimes spanning more than a decade. While he was only convicted for one murder and confessed to two, investigators and researchers have connected him to multiple unsolved...