Ed Gein, “The Butcher of Plainfield”
Villains
English - November 15, 2019 08:01 - 44 minutes - ★★★★★ - 580 ratingsArts History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A house of horrors that served as inspiration for the book and film, Psycho: After his mother’s death in 1945, Ed Gein was left totally alone in his family’s isolated Wisconsin farmhouse. To fill the void, he began robbing graves and crafting things out of human corpses.