The Plainfield Ghoul | Ed Gein

Craving Crimes

On November 16, 1957 hardware store owner Bernice Worden went missing after an everyday interaction with a not-so-everyday man, named Ed Gein. Ed Gein had a fascination with his late mother due to the abuse he suffered as a child, and this fascination would lead him to taking the body parts of women who apparently looked like her, in order to fashion a flesh suit Gein could wear. To this extent he would go to the graves of women and exhume their parts, with, in his opinion, the "less-useful" parts becoming furniture in his house, such as bowls, chairs, soap containers, etc. What he would do to her, and Mary Hogan, another missing woman, were some of the most graphic and heinous acts known to man–that would later go on to inspire several famous horror movies.