Today, we discuss Ed Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, who was an american convicted murderer and body snatcher. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
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