Ed Gein known as the “Butcher of Plainfield,” was a murderer and body snatcher from Wisconsin whose crimes in the 1950s shocked America. Crimes: Police discovered in 1957 that Gein had murdered two women tavern owner Mary Hogan (in 1954) and hardware store owner Bernice Worden (in 1957). When investigators searched his farmhouse, they found human remains made into household items such as bowls, lampshades, masks, and furniture all crafted from corpses he had exhumed from local graveyards. His ho

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