Edward Gein: The Butcher Of Plainfield Ghoul

The “Butcher of Plainfield” or “The Plainfield Ghoul” were Edward Geins nicknames for all the grave robbing he did and for the notorious killer he was. Edward Gein was born August 27th,1960. Around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, garnered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Edward Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and made, what he called, “trophies” from their bones and skin. He was also into necrophilia, which he claimed to love, and cannibalism, which gained him national attention. The movies, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, and, Silence of the Lambs, were based on this famous killer.
Gein was born and raised in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, with his two parents George and Augusta Gein. Together they had

Edward would cut off body parts and keep them as “trophies” using them as decoration in the house. When Edward and Gus were done with the bodies they would return them to their graves without a trace. When he was done with grave robbing, he came up with four noses, whole human bones and fragments, nine mask of human skin, bowls made from human skulls, ten female heads with the tops sawed off nine vulvas, and hundreds of organs. Edward made a mask for his face, bowls from skulls, seat covers made from human skin, drawstring made of pairs of lips for the window shade, a belt made from female nipples, and a lampshade made out from a human face. Edward Gein had made 40 trips to three local grave yards between 1947 and 1952. On about 30 of those visits, he came out of a daze while in the cemetery, left the graveyard in good order, and returned home empty handed. On the visits he had made, he dug up graves of middle-aged women he thought represented his mother and ended up taking some of the bodies home. After he got home he would tan their skins to make his paraphernalia. Gein had decided after years of grave robbing that he wanted a sex change. He began to create a “woman suit” so he could pretend to be female. Gein practice of donning the tanned skins of the women was described as an “insane transvestite ritual.” Gein denied having sex with the bodies he exhumes, explaining, “They smelled to bad.” Geins needs started to escalate into believing perfect his desired sex change he would need fresher bodies. On December 8th,1954, Gein killed Mary Hogan. She was the owner of the local tavern. The police were unable to solve the strange disappearance of Mary Hogan, but with the blood at the scene, they suspected that she was a victim of foul play. A couple years later, Gein killed Bernice Worden. Bernice was the owner of the local