Ed Gein, American serial killer (born 1906)

Ed Gein

American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984)

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…