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Wife of Crime

"Got ya nose!"- Ed Gein

Wife of Crime

Jess & Russ

True Crime, Comedy

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week I tell Russ all about the killer and body snatcher, Ed Gein a.ka. The Butcher of Plainfield. This bizarre and tortured soul was the inspiration for 3 of the most infamous horror film characters of all time. Ed had an extremely dysfunctional and unhealthy relationship with his mother Augusta. In the end he was obsessed with the idea of embodying her....literally. Moral of this story... Moms, GET IT TOGETHER! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.1

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entertainment.

0:27.0

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0:29.0

Russ, I know you love scary movies.

0:35.0

So today I'm going to tell you all about the man who inspired three of the most

0:40.0

infamous horror film characters to ever grace the silver screen.

0:45.0

And possibly Lady Gaga's meat dress.

0:49.0

That's right, I'm going to tell you all about the body snatcher known as Ed Gee. Oh, Okay, welcome to Wife of Crime. A True Crime Podcast out every week where I needed somebody to talk about

1:28.6

true crime with and Russ was here so I was like, eh, he'll do. That's me. I'll do. You'll do. But you have some good

1:38.4

insight sometimes. Yep. Shut up.

1:44.0

All right, so I'm going to tell you the story of Ed Gein.

1:49.0

And you're a big horror film guy.

1:52.0

You like horror films. I do why do you like

1:55.2

them um I can't always predict what's gonna happen next as opposed to um the

2:01.8

romantic comedies that you watch that you know exactly what's

2:04.9

going to happen next. So they're a little less predictable. Fun fact when I

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