The Butcher of Plainfield
True Crime
20 Episodes
Ed Gein grew up on an isolated Wisconsin farm under the total control of his mother Augusta, a religious fanatic who taught him that all women except her were sinful. After his brother Henry's suspicious death (a suspected first murder) and Augusta's death in 1945, Ed was left completely alone and began robbing graves of middle-aged women who resembled his mother, using the remains to craft macabre objects, including a "woman suit." He murdered Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957, the latter crime leading to his arrest when police found her body hanging, gutted, in his summer kitchen. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in psychiatric institutions, dying in 1984 without apparent remorse. His story inspired iconic horror figures like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.
The Butcher of Plainfield
True Crime
20 Episodes
Ed Gein grew up on an isolated Wisconsin farm under the total control of his mother Augusta, a religious fanatic who taught him that all women except her were sinful. After his brother Henry's suspicious death (a suspected first murder) and Augusta's death in 1945, Ed was left completely alone and began robbing graves of middle-aged women who resembled his mother, using the remains to craft macabre objects, including a "woman suit." He murdered Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957, the latter crime leading to his arrest when police found her body hanging, gutted, in his summer kitchen. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in psychiatric institutions, dying in 1984 without apparent remorse. His story inspired iconic horror figures like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.
