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Feb 7, 2022 · Serial killer Ed Gein may not garner quite the same immediate name recognition as, say, Ted Bundy, but what authorities found in Ed Gein’s house upon his capture was such a shock to 1950s America that his heinous acts reverberate with horror to this day.
Jan 29, 2022 · Edward Gein's grisly crimes became the inspiration behind infamous horror characters like Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, and Leatherface.
Nov 13, 2009 · On July 26, 1984, Ed Gein, a serial killer infamous for skinning human corpses, dies of complications from cancer at the Mendota Mental Health Institute at age 77.
Ever wonder where influences of horror-films such as Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, came from? They were inspired from the infamous case of Edward “Ed” Theodore Gein. Ed was responsible for multiple crimes, including the deaths of Mary Hogan in 1954, and Bernice Worden in 1957.
Initially found unfit to stand trial, following confinement in a mental health facility, he was tried in 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital. The body of Bernice Worden was found in Gein's shed; her head and the head of Mary Hogan were found inside his house.
Explore the life and legacy of Ed Gein, the Plainfield, WI murderer and grave robber whose house of horrors shook the world in 1957.
Jul 20, 2001 · Ed Gein: Directed by Chuck Parello. With Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell, Sally Champlin. The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.
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