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Edward Theodore Gein (/ ɡ iː n / GEEN; August 27, 1906 [1] – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities ...
Gein killed his first victim, Mary Hogan, the owner of a local bar, in 1954. He murdered his second victim, Bernice Worden, the owner of a hardware store, in 1957.
Kemper has influenced many works of film and literature. He and fellow serial killers Ted Bundy, Gary M. Heidnik, Jerry Brudos, and Ed Gein were used as an inspiration for the character of Buffalo Bill in Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs. [86] [87] Like Kemper, Buffalo Bill fatally shoots his grandparents as a teenager. [88]
In the case of the fourth victim, he shoots rather than strangles her. [1] At the start of the novel, Gumb has already murdered five women. Behavioral Science Unit Chief Jack Crawford assigns gifted trainee Clarice Starling to question incarcerated serial killer Hannibal Lecter about the case. (Lecter had met Gumb while treating Raspail.)
Ed Gein of Plainfield, Wisconsin, is followed by a guard as he's taken from the Waushara County Jail on Nov. 18, 1957. Gein had admitted killing Bernice Worden; more grisly details surfaced soon ...
The movie’s inspiration was serial killer and graverobber Ed Gein. He filled his home with body parts he collected from corpses and because he often kept genitals, many believe he likely was a ...
Murphy, whose first "Monster" series told the stylized story of Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, had disclosed last month that his next project's focus would be Gein, the Plainfield man who ...
Ed Gein was an American murderer and body snatcher, active in the 1950s in Wisconsin, who made trophies from corpses he stole from a local graveyard. When he was finally arrested, a search of the premises revealed, among other artifacts, a lampshade made out of human skin. [24]