Ed Gein Case

Ed Gein

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as The Butcher of Plainfield, was an American murderer and body snatcher. He committed crimes in his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, and obtained widespread notoriety after authorities discovered that Gein had taken corpses from graveyards and fashioned trophies from their bones and skin.

Ed Gein confessed to killing two women: Mary Hogan in 1954, and Bernice Worden in

1957. Gein was found unfit to stand trial and sent to a mental health facility. In 1968, Ed Gein was found guilty but legally insane during the murder of Worden,and was sentenced to psychiatric institution. He died of cancer-induced liver and respiratory failure at age 77 in the year 1984. He is now buried next to the rest of his family at the Plainfield Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

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The cash register was gone and a trail of blood lead to the back of the store. Bernice Worden’s son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, found Gein suspicious as he had been hanging around the store days prior, and the sick man was soon caught and arrested at a neighbor's home. The local authorities who were sent to Gein's farm that night were met by the horrific sight of Bernice Worden's decapitated body hanging upside down from the ceiling. The body was hung in a way that hunter would hang deer. After more investigation, further gruesome discoveries, such organs preserved in jars and skulls fashioned soup