Away Game: Ed Gein - The Butcher of Plainfield

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Episode 051 - After a long stint of playing at home in Canada, this week we take you to Plainfield, Wisconsin where in the late 1950's the entire town was shocked to find there was a depraved monster in their midst. Small in stature, shy, but somewhat odd, Ed Gein was the last person townsfolk would peg as a murderer, grave robber and necrophile. Gein's horrific crimes went on to inspire writers to create some of the most memorable Hollywood villians of all time, namely Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs and more.** EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: LISTENER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED ** Sources:Wikpedia's entry on Ed GeinHarold Schecter's book Deviant: The True Story of Ed Gein, the Original PsychoRobert Keller's book Unhinged: The Shocking True Story of Ed GeinEd Gein's psychological profileArticles on Ed Gein's murders at newspapers.comGeneration Why's blog post about Georgia Jean WecklerJewish Virtual Library article on Bitch of Buchenwald Ilse KochDocumentarian Errol Morris talks about Ed Gein Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Mike here, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Dark Poutine early and
0:04.7	add free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. You're about to listen to a historical episode
0:10.8	of Dark Poutine. After episode 149, you will find Scott is no longer with the show.
0:16.9	In an effort to maintain continuity and offer listeners as many episodes as possible,
0:22.1	we are leaving the episodes in which he co-hosted intact. Thank you.
0:30.4	Welcome to Dark Poutine. My name is Mike Brown. I am the creator and host. With me as usual is my
0:48.8	good friend Scott Hemmanway. Say hello, Scott. What's pop and y'all? Dark Poutine is not for the
0:54.8	fate of harder squeamish. Listen to discretion is strongly advised. We're not experts on any of
0:59.8	the topics we present nor are we professional journalists. We're just two regular Canadians.
1:04.2	Interested in crime in the darker side of history? Let's get to it. Put on your tuk. Grab
1:09.2	yourself a double double and in the Nymobar it's time to scarf down some Dark Poutine.
1:30.0	Music,
1:50.7	So we've made it over the hump. Episode 51. Yeah, right. So now we're
1:56.2	about 49 away from 100. Well, when you phrase it like that, it doesn't seem very close.
2:01.5	It's pretty far. It's pretty far. Well, it took us over a year to get to 50. So by my math,
2:07.0	we'll get to 107.4 years. No, no, that is incorrect. Sounds like a math, bro.
2:14.9	Our first away game was in two parts, so we didn't do one for a while and I kind of missed doing
2:21.2	them. Yeah, they're fun. We didn't want to lose our unique focus on Canadian crime and history,
2:26.6	but I really, really, really, really wanted to do this episode. Yeah, yeah.
2:32.2	Emmy is well. I know I was going to say it's a fun one, but murder isn't something you should
2:38.0	label fun. Well, especially the way that this dude does. Yes. Yes. So I guess I should say it's
2:44.3	a hot one. No, no, maybe not. Yeah. The subject of this episode has been
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