Ed Gein Pt. 2

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.6 • 30.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hi listeners! After this week, we'll be taking a short break for the holiday. We'll be back in December with a special series to close out the year. Until then, here's Ed Gein Pt. 2. After murdering two women, robbing graves, and decorating his home with human body parts, Ed Gein found himself arrested and in the media’s spotlight. We look into his trial, institutionalization, and the public’s fascination with him… a fascination that still lives on today. Stay up to date with changes coming to the feed on @serialkillerspodcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, producer Chelsea back again to share the final part of our Ed Gein deep dive.
0:05.5	As a reminder, these episodes originally aired in 2018, but with Gein in the media again, it felt like a good time to bring them back.
0:13.2	Today, in part two, we're following Gein through his arrest, trial, all the way up to his death in 1984.
0:20.2	After this week, we'll be taking a short break, and we'll be back in your feeds in December.
0:26.5	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.
0:31.8	This episode includes dramatizations and discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive.
0:41.3	We advise extreme caution for children under 13. Here's a joke. Why did they have to keep the heat up in Ed Gein's house?
0:47.3	The punchline? So the furniture won't get goosebumps.
0:51.3	This was one of the many children's jokes circulating merely days after Ed
0:56.0	Gein's 1957 arrest for the murder of Bernice Warden in Plainfield, Wisconsin. These
1:01.8	quips became such a hot trend in the state that people gave them a name, Geiners. Gein's crimes
1:08.9	stirred their own media fascination and uproar in his hometown of
1:12.5	Plainfield and beyond. As we talked about last week, the 51-year-old handyman murdered two local
1:19.4	women, robbed at least eight craves from 1947 until 1952, and decorated his home with
1:26.4	various body parts of many corpses.
1:29.7	This week we'll explore Gein's trial, his institutionalization, and the public fascination
1:35.2	surrounding his arrest.
1:37.0	His crimes made him the inspiration for several movie villains.
1:40.8	Buffalo, Bill, and Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs, Norman Bates and Psycho, and Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
1:49.5	Upon Gein's arrest in 1957, psychologists diagnosed him with sexual psychopathy and schizophrenia.
1:57.2	Many people have labeled him as a necrophile and cannibal over the years, but Gein has denied ever eating or having intercourse with a corpse.
2:05.9	Gein collected the heads and vaginas of dead women. He used their skin as well as other body parts to create a woman's suit that he could wear.
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