Grave of "Cannibal" Ed Gein

While not technically a serial killer, the terror Ed Gein wrought throughout the Plainfield, Wisconsin area has been fodder for American nightmares ever since.



Upon his capture by authorities for the murder of two women, Gein admitted to a whole slew of unimaginable practices commited after digging up the graves of recently deceased middle-aged women whom he thought bore a resemblance to his beloved, dead mother. Found in his shed were keepsakes and personal ornamentation Gein had fashioned from the bodies of his victims, including death masks, lampshades of stretched human skin, salted genitalia in a box, a “woman suit” which Gain donned when pretending to be female, and an “arm chair” constructed out of actual human arms.



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