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and yelled for him to stop, but Smith beat the dog to death. Augusta was extremely upset by this scene; however, what bothered her did not appear to be the brutality toward the dog but, rather, the presence of the woman. Augusta told Ed that the woman was not married to Smith and so had no business being there, and angrily called her "Smith's harlot". She had a second stroke soon after, and her health deteriorated rapidly. Augusta died on December 29, 1945, at the age of 67. Ed was devastated by her death; in the words of Schechter, he had "lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely alone in the world."
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were about two feet (61 centimeters) below the surface in sandy soil. Gein had robbed the graves soon after the funerals while the graves were not completed. The test graves were exhumed because authorities were uncertain as to whether the slight Gein was capable of single-handedly digging up a grave during a single evening; they were found as Gein described: one casket was empty; another casket contained Gein's
818:". The trial began on November 7, 1968, and lasted one week. A psychiatrist testified that Gein had told him that he did not know whether the killing of Worden was intentional or accidental. Gein had told him that while he examined a gun in Worden's store, the weapon discharged and killed Worden. He said he had not aimed the rifle at Worden, and did not remember anything else that happened that morning. 1917:, p. 192, "Judge Gollmar relied on the detailed report of state crime lab investigator Allan Wilimovsky who searched the Gein house, inventoried the evidence and interviewed Edward Gein. Gollmar also quotes other contemporary investigators, including Captain Lloyd Schoesphoester (Green Lake Sheriff's Dept.) who assisted the investigation of the Worden murder and search of Gein's home.". 1154: 831:
the house was destroyed by fire. A deputy fire marshal reported that a garbage fire had been set 75 feet (23 m) from the house by a cleaning crew who was given the task of disposing of refuse, that hot coals were recovered from the spot of the bonfire, but that the fire did not spread along the ground from that location to the house.
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state. On about thirty of those visits, he said that he came out of the daze while in the cemetery, left the grave in good order and returned home emptyhanded. On the other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skins to make his
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Gein's house and 195-acre (79 ha) property were appraised at $ 4,700 (equivalent to $ 50,000 in 2023). His possessions were scheduled to be auctioned on March 30, 1958, amidst rumors that the house and the land it stood on might become a tourist attraction. Early on the morning of March 20,
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In addition, Gein has also been tentatively linked to the June 1954 disappearance of neighbor James Walsh, age 32; Walsh and his wife lived near Gein, who performed chores for her after her husband went missing. Gein was also investigated for potential involvement in the August 1956 disappearance of
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Gein admitted to stealing from nine graves and led investigators to their locations. Allan Wilimovsky of the state crime laboratory participated in opening three test graves identified by Gein. The caskets were inside wooden boxes; the top boards ran crossways (not lengthwise). The tops of the boxes
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These artifacts were photographed at the state crime laboratory and then "decently disposed of". When questioned, Gein told investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he had made as many as forty nocturnal visits to three local graveyards to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a "daze-like"
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Gein held on to the farm and earned money from odd jobs. He boarded up rooms used by his mother, including the upstairs, downstairs parlor and living room, leaving them untouched. While the rest of the house became increasingly squalid, these rooms remained pristine. Gein lived thereafter in a small
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as the cause of death. The authorities accepted the accident theory, but no official investigation was conducted and an autopsy was not performed. Questioning Gein about the death of Bernice Worden in 1957, state investigator Joe Wilimovsky brought up questions about Henry's death. George Arndt, who
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Gein left the farm only to attend school. Outside of school, he spent most of his time doing chores on the farm. Gein was shy, and classmates and teachers remembered him as having strange mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. To make matters
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At the request of the defense, Gein's trial was held without a jury, with Judge Robert H. Gollmar presiding. Gein was found guilty by Gollmar on November 14. A second trial dealt with Gein's sanity; after testimony by doctors for the prosecution and defense, Gollmar ruled Gein "not guilty by reason
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was suspected, but the cause of the fire was never officially determined. It is possible that the fire was not considered a matter of urgency by fire chief Frank Worden, son of Gein's victim Bernice Worden. When Gein learned of the incident while in detention, he shrugged and said, "Just as well."
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Soon after his mother's death, Gein began to create a "woman suit" so that "he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin." He denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining: "They smelled too bad." During state crime laboratory interrogation, Gein also admitted to shooting
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shortly after Henry's death, and Ed devoted himself to taking care of her. Sometime in 1945, he later recounted, he and his mother visited a man named Smith, who lived nearby, to purchase straw. According to Ed, Augusta witnessed Smith beating a dog. A woman inside the Smith residence came outside
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at age 66. Ed and his brother Henry began doing odd jobs around town to help cover living expenses. The brothers were generally considered reliable and honest by the rest of the community. While both worked as handymen, Ed also frequently babysat for neighbors. He enjoyed babysitting, seeming to
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In addition to the murders of Hogan and Worden, Gein was also considered a suspect in several other unsolved cases in Wisconsin. In November 1957, authorities confronted Gein with a list of missing persons cases that had occurred between the death of his mother and Worden. Their suspicions were
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to Gein, saying: "You know what Ed Gein said about women? ... He said 'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right ... what her head would look like on a stick'."
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to the Weckler farm. Weckler was last seen pausing to open the family mailbox and removing a stack of mail. She was never seen again. Witnesses reported seeing a dark-colored, possibly black, 1936 Ford sedan with a gray plastic spotlight in the vicinity that afternoon; Gein owned a black 1937
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about Gein from 1975 to 1976. Morris claimed to have interviewed Gein several times and ended up spending almost a year in Plainfield interviewing dozens of locals. The pair planned secretly to exhume Gein's mother from her grave to test a theory, but never followed through on the scheme and
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of insanity" and ordered him committed to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Gein spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. Judge Gollmar wrote, "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder—that of Mrs. Worden. He also admitted to killing Mary Hogan."
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Gein received a farm subsidy from the federal government starting in 1951. He occasionally worked for the local municipal road crew and crop-threshing crews in the Plainfield area. Sometime between 1946 and 1956, he also sold an 80-acre (32 ha) parcel of land that Henry had owned.
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During questioning, Sheriff Art Schley reportedly assaulted Gein by banging his head and face into a brick wall. As a result, Gein's initial confession was ruled inadmissible. Schley died of heart failure in 1968 at age 43, before Gein's trial. Many who knew Schley said he was
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A 16-year-old youth, whose parents were friends of Gein and who attended baseball games and movies with him, reported that Gein kept shrunken heads in his house, which he had described as relics sent by a cousin who had served in the Philippines during
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relate more easily to children than adults. Henry began dating a divorced mother of two and planned to move in with her; he worried about his brother's attachment to their mother and often spoke ill of her around Ed, who responded with shock and hurt.
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Beginning in 1947 – He saw a newspaper article of a woman who had been buried that day. The first corpse came from a grave very near the grave of Gein's mother. Indeed, one report is that among the first grave robbing incidents was that of his own
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Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility. By 1968, he was judged competent to stand trial; he was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but he was found legally insane and was
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Circuit Judge Robert Gollmar of Baraboo ruled today that the murder trial of Ed Gein of Plainfield will be heard without a jury. ... The first trial witness called by the prosecution this morning was Leon Murty of Wild
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on July 26, 1984, at the age of 77. Over the years, souvenir seekers chipped pieces from his gravestone at the Plainfield Cemetery, until the stone itself was stolen in 2000. It was recovered in June 2001, near
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a.m. The hardware store saw few customers the entire day; some area residents believed that this was because of deer hunting season. Worden's son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, entered the store around 5:00
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on the property; the fire got out of control, drawing the attention of the local fire department. By the end of the day—the fire having been extinguished and the firefighters gone—Ed reported his brother
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On the morning of November 16, 1957, 58-year-old Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared. The hardware store's truck was seen driving out from the rear of the building at around 9:30
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Frank Worden told investigators that on the evening before his mother's disappearance, Gein had been in the store and was expected to have returned the next morning for a gallon of
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as evidenced by its numerous appearances in film, music, and literature. The tale first came to widespread public attention in the fictionalized version presented by
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seemingly exonerated Gein of any other murders, and his psychiatrists concluded that his violence was only directed to women who physically resembled his mother.
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51-year-old Mary Hogan, a tavern owner missing since December 8, 1954, whose head was found in his house, but he later denied memory of details of her death.
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worse, Augusta punished him whenever he tried to make friends. Despite his poor social development, Gein did fairly well in school, particularly in reading.
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Gein's Ford sedan, which he used to haul the bodies of his victims, was sold at public auction for $ 760 (equivalent to $ 8,000 in 2023) to carnival
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Obsession: The FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Back
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by the horror of Gein's crimes and this, along with the fear of having to testify (especially about assaulting Gein), caused his death.
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body in a shed on Gein's property, hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar at her ankles and ropes at her wrists. The torso was "
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and found mentally incompetent, thus unfit for trial. He was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (now the
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Irene Keating, age 30, who was last seen in Plainfield, and in the attempted abduction of Judy Rodencal, age 16, from
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Augusta hated her husband, an alcoholic who was unable to keep a job; he had worked at various times as a carpenter,
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West Plainfield was an unincorporated community three miles (4.8 km) west of the center of Plainfield at
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Lehrke; 1878–1945). Gein had an elder brother named Henry. Augusta, who was fervently religious and nominally
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to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.
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studied the case, wrote that, in retrospect, it was "possible and likely" that Henry's death was "the '
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In 1968, doctors determined Gein was "mentally able to confer with counsel and participate in his
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A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
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According to George W. Arndt, news reports at the time of Gein's crimes spawned a subgenre of "
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at approximately 3:30 p.m. on May 1, 1947. She was given a lift home from grade school in
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This article is about the American killer and body snatcher. For the band named after him, see
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rifle, and the mutilations were made after her death. Searching the house, authorities found:
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and instruments of the devil. She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the
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In 2023, a multi-part docuseries aired about the life and upbringing of Ed Gein titled
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at Theater Dortmund in Germany. The part of Gein was played by actor Uwe Rohbeck.
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eventually ended their collaboration. The aborted project was described in a 1989
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of the world, the evil of drinking and her belief that all women were naturally
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Gein's vandalized grave marker as it appeared in 1999 before thieves stole it.
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room next to the kitchen. Around this time, he became interested in reading
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Horror, Humor and Human Nature: Community Reactions to a Horrifying Event
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Gollmar, Robert H.; Arndt, George W. (1989). "Appendix A: Gein Humor".
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p.m. to find the cash register open and blood stains on the floor.
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Got Murder?: Shocking True Stories of Wisconsins Notorious Killers
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With Henry deceased, Ed and Augusta were now alone. Augusta had a
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The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime
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further aroused after the discovery of Hogan's remains. However,
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A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
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by a neighbor who dropped Weckler off at the lane that led from
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Georgia Jean Weckler, age 8, disappeared near her farm home in
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wrote and directed a stage play about the case of Gein titled
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Miller, Francis & Scherschel, Frank (December 2, 1957).
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Bernice Worden's heart "in a plastic bag in front of Gein's
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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original 'Psycho'
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In 2022, Gein, portrayed by Shane Kerwin, appears in the
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to write the song "Dead Skin Mask" from their 1990 album
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On November 21, 1957, Gein was arraigned on one count of
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Gein died at the Mendota Mental Health Institute due to
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American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984)
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Kerr, Gordon (2009). "Ed Gein". In Kerr, Gordon (ed.).
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to write the song "Nipple Belt" from their 1989 album
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9 corpses mutilated (obtained from desecrated graves)
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Williams, Anne; Head, Vivian; Williams, Amy (2007).
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and adventure stories, particularly those involving
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fashion lampshades and other items from their skins
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Simon and Schuster. p. 177. 2556:"Baby Sitter Abduction Shocks Town" 2554:Edmonds, Chris (October 27, 1953). 1650: 1083:, mistakenly attributes a quote by 48: 3539:"House of Horror Stuns the Nation" 3093:Eidell, Lynsey (October 7, 2015). 3046: 2845: 2667: 2275:Bell, Rachael; Bardsley, Marilyn. 1792:from the original on March 4, 2017 1742:from the original on March 3, 2017 1717: 1485:from the original on March 4, 2017 1464: 1278:"Birth Index Record: Gien, Edward" 1020:Ed Gein's story inspired American 930:Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield 799:), a maximum-security facility in 608:Human skin covering several chairs 349:corpses from local graveyards and 49: 3703: 3667:People from Plainfield, Wisconsin 3622:American people of German descent 3597:1957 murders in the United States 3484: 3360:Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein 3302: 3130:Singer, Mark (February 2, 1989). 2469:"1727DFWI – Georgia Jean Weckler" 2128:from the original on June 3, 2018 1140:Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein 626:Leggings made from human leg skin 386:Edward Theodore Gein was born in 3351: 3337: 3311: 3296: 2576: 2100:. November 20, 1957. p. 13. 1788:. November 18, 1957. p. 1. 1738:. November 17, 1957. p. 1. 1515:Alex Flaster (producer) (2004). 1152: 789:not guilty by reason of insanity 605:A wastebasket made of human skin 288: 3642:Deaths from respiratory failure 3602:20th-century American criminals 3392: 3278:(3rd ed.). New York City: 3267: 3236: 3182: 3160: 3086: 3005: 2974: 2949: 2914: 2889: 2876: 2816: 2775: 2771:. November 12, 1968. p. 1. 2758: 2750:. November 7, 1968. p. 1. 2737: 2687: 2676: 2661: 2610: 2601: 2547: 2522: 2497: 2479: 2461: 2443: 2317: 2264:. November 26, 1957. p. 1. 2253: 2249:. November 25, 1957. p. 1. 2238: 2189: 2104: 2089: 1842: 1804: 1772: 1754: 1690: 1675: 1644: 1450: 1207: 905:'s 1960 film of Bloch's novel, 803:, and later transferred to the 677:Fingernails from female fingers 602:Whole human bones and fragments 367:Mendota Mental Health Institute 128:Mendota Mental Health Institute 1686:, by Laurence A. Rickels, 2016 1651:Noe, Denise (April 27, 2007). 1555:Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 1436: 1422: 1310: 1190:List of homicides in Wisconsin 1123:as a possible inspiration for 1034:. Gein also inspired American 797:Dodge Correctional Institution 658:A belt made from female human 13: 1: 1762:"Signs of 10 Victims at Farm" 1408:. London: Futura Publishing. 1260: 992:American Horror Story: Asylum 420:concerning death, murder and 376: 80: 3572:(Podcast). October 17, 2018. 3464:& Brucato, Gary (2019). 2864:. March 21, 1958. p. 16 1282:Wisconsin Historical Society 970:The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 773: 717: 559: 381: 7: 3400:Gollmar, Robert H. (1981). 3251:(in German). Archived from 2872:– via Newspapers.com. 2326:Stevens Point Daily Journal 2287:Turner Broadcasting Systems 2262:Stevens Point Daily Journal 2247:Stevens Point Daily Journal 2098:Stevens Point Daily Journal 1800:– via Newspapers.com. 1766:Stevens Point Daily Journal 1750:– via Newspapers.com. 1521:A&E Television Networks 1519:. 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He was diagnosed with 778: 507:' aspect of this case". 498:later officially listed 31:latest accepted revision 3647:Human trophy collecting 3612:American male criminals 3191:Slayer – Dead Skin Mask 2670:"THE CONVENIENT MADMAN" 2655:Sarasota Herald-Tribune 1233:44.213931°N 89.552818°W 826:Fate of Gein's property 521: 3380:: CS1 maint: others ( 2956:Hintz, Martin (2007). 2530:"Evelyn Grace Hartley" 2451:"Georgia Jean Weckler" 1697:Mark, Timothy (2015). 1060:from their 2000 album 859: 805:Mendota State Hospital 617:Bowls made from human 611:Skulls on his bedposts 458: 341:, gathered widespread 163:The Plainfield Butcher 3018:Guilford, Connecticut 3012:Bie, Michael (2007). 2981:Reavill, Gil (2007). 2921:Woods, Paul Anthony; 2566:, Quebec, Canada. AP. 2491:The Victoria Advocate 2121:. Radford, Illinois. 1853:. Amherst, New York: 1663:on September 27, 2013 1460:. 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