Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story, starring Charlie Hunnam, explores the Plainfield Ghoul's crimes.
In 1957, police searching Gein's home for Bernice Worden's murder uncovered horrors: wastebaskets, chairs, skulls as decor, bowls from skulls, corset from torso, lips on drawstring, nipple belt, vulvas in box, Worden's heart and head, face masks, leggings from skin.
Gein confessed 40 graveyard visits 1947-1952, exhuming middle-aged women resembling his mother Augusta, crafting a 'woman suit' to become her.
He admitted killing Mary Hogan.
Upbringing: abusive father, fanatic mother instilling woman-fear.
After Augusta's 1945 death, Gein preserved her rooms, lived in squalor.
Arrested, unfit for trial due to schizophrenia; institutionalized decade, then guilty but insane, died 1984.
House burned suspiciously; car auctioned.
Series examines mental health system, legacy inspiring Psycho, Texas Chainsaw, Silence of the Lambs.
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