Ed Gein
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title:
Ed Gein
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Edward Theodore Gein, 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 discovered that he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and hardware store owner Bernice
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American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
date created:
2002-08-13T22:33:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T05:31:16Z
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