Hey listeners, producer Chelsea here. For the next two weeks, we're revisiting our episodes on Ed Gein.

They first aired in 2018, but if you follow true crime in the media, you know he's been in the spotlight again.

Today, in part one, you're going to hear about Gein's origins, who he was before he became the butcher of Plainfield,

and all about his descent into grave

robbing and murder. Next week, we'll finish out his story with everything that happened

after his arrest. Let's dive in.

Hi, I'm Greg Polson, and this is serial killers, a podcast diving into the minds and motives of the world's most notorious serial killers.

Today we're going to take a look at the life of Ed Gein, the butcher of Plainfield, a murderer, grave robber, and the inspiration behind many notorious movie villains.

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Now let's get back to the case of Ed Gein.

Gein's neighbors in Plainfield, Wisconsin mostly knew him as weird old Eddie, but there was

way more to that innocent nickname than they ever thought.

When he was arrested in 1957, he also confessed to the 1954 murder of Mary Hogan and admitted to making around

40 visits to graveyards to exhum buried bodies between 1947 and 1950.

Initially, the court ruled that Gein was legally insane and he was institutionalized.

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