THE PAINFIELD BUTCHER

1. It happened in the 1950s in a town called Plainfield (La Crosse County, Wisconsin)
2. Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin,
United States. His father, George P. Gein, was a drunk who ran a grocery store and his
mother, Augusta T. Lehrk, a God-fearing Lutheran housewife. The family was
completed by Henry, his brother four years older.
3. After being a victim of physical and psychological abuse by his father and being raped,
he had a very strong change
4. Rape, murder, kidnapping, He stole the corpses of middle-aged women who could
impersonate his mother.
5. The police officers investigating the disappearance of Bernice Worden, on November
17, 1957, owner of the hardware store in Plainfield, Wisconsin, suspected that Ed Gein
was involved in the case. When they entered his home, they found Worden's naked
body hanging by the ankles, decapitated, split open at the torso and gutted. Among
other macabre finds, they also found ten skulls whose tops had been removed to serve
as bowls and ashtrays, lampshades and seats made of human skin, soup plates made
with skulls, more skulls on the posts of his bed. , Bernice's organs in the refrigerator, a
human nipple belt, a shoebox with nine vulvas, and many more objects made from
human body part
6. Ed Gein suffered a cardiac arrest in 1944 that left her in bed for the next twelve
months, passing away in 1945.
- Two women, Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden, had to die for the authorities to point
to Ed Gein as the murderer