BONUS 17 - Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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When murder investigators entered the rural farm house of loner Ed Gein just outside the tiny town of Plainfield, Wisconsin on November 16th, 1957, they found a scene like nothing any American investigator had ever seen before. A scene of outlandish, unimaginable horror. Body parts stored in bags and boxes. And so much skin. Human skin crafted into the stuff of nightmares. How could all of this horror come from a slight, soft-spoken, middle-aged local loner and farm-hand? Find out today on a morbidly captivating edition of Timesuck! Today's Timesuck is brought to you by Mack Weldon! A men’s essentials brand that believes in smart design, premium fabrics and simple shopping. Go to www.MackWeldon.com and get 20% off using promo code "timesuck". Today's Timesuck is also brought to you by Simple Contacts! Go to simplecontacts.com/timesuck or enter the code TIMESUCK at checkout to get $30 off your contacts. Simple Contacts lets you renew your prescription and re-order your brand of lenses from anywhere, in minutes, through an online, self-guided vision test. Wanna be a Space Lizard"? Go here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get a download link for a new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	When murder investigators entered the rural farmhouse of Loner Edgene, just outside the tiny town of
0:05.2	Plainfield, Wisconsin, on November 16, 1957, what they found caused the first man to walk into the
0:12.2	home to immediately run back out and vomit into the snow. It was like nothing they had ever seen
0:18.4	before. It was unlike something any police officer in American criminal history had ever seen before,
0:24.6	a scene of outlandish, unimaginable horror. Various body parts stored in various containers,
0:30.4	especially skin, so much skin. Human skin crafted into the stuff of nightmares. How could all of this
0:38.5	horror come from a slight, soft spoken, middle-aged, local Loner and farmhand? The rest of Wisconsin and
0:45.5	then the rest of America would be riveted by the ghoulish deeds of the man who would become to
0:50.5	known as the butcher of Plainfield for the rest of his days. The will of Lucifina is strong in this
0:57.2	dark, disgusting, and captivating addition of Time Suck. What's going on Time Suckers and Space
1:13.3	Lizards? Happy Friday. Thanks to all of you who voted for any of the three topics that ended up
1:20.0	being the bonus Suck vote for today's topic and on At Time Suck podcast this past week. Thanks for
1:26.8	all the recent reviews and ratings as well. I'm Dan Cummins and this is Time Suck and I am truly
1:33.2	sorry for the worst Irish accent ever committed to recorded audio that I did last week on the IRA
1:39.2	episode. Wow. Made the mistake of trying to learn a real Irish accent, but clearly not trying hard
1:44.7	enough. When really I should have just went with the cartoonish first choice I had in mind and that
1:49.2	was the Lucky Charms commercial cartoon, right? But I still lucky Charms the magically delicious.
1:53.5	I should have just went with that dude, but I tried to get more legit and ended up coming out as
1:57.5	crocodile done to your some shit. I got to put more work in the accent yikes. Just just know that
2:02.8	when Bojangles listened to that episode I was beaten severely. I've bite marks I pinned me down
2:09.2	on the floor put me down on my back, you know, made me submit even used a mace on me at one point
2:14.8	beat me with a mace not modern spread in your eyes. Stings for a bit mace. No medieval spiky
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