SHOCKING! Human Head Bowl, Human Skin Lampshade: Truth About Ed Gein

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

He is called "The Butcher of Plainfield" "Grandfather of Gore "The Ghoul of Plainfield" and has been a source of inspiration of countless movies that take a small truth about the life of Ed Gein and spin an entire book or movie series designed to scare those who dare read or watch. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the stories and tell the true story of a man who admitted to killing two women in the 50s but is suspected of so much more.

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00:02.83 Introduction

02:11.40 Conversation about Ed Gein

05:02.30 Scary movies using parts of Ed Gein story

10:09.05 Grave Robbing

15:08.53 Body exam done in a mortuary

20:13.24 Deputy sent to Ed Gein's house, finds decapitated victim

25:24.90 Gein admitted killing two women - did he practice on the dead?

30:09.33 Waste basket made of human skin, skulls mounted on bedposts

35:10.80 Gein made belt out of nipples

40:23.39 Movies using parts of Ed Gein story

42:03.25 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.0	I'd say after, out of all of the Looney Tune characters, for me personally, having been a child of the 60s and 70s and grown up watching the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour for those many
0:23.0	years. My favorite adversary for Bugs Bunny was probably Yosemite Sam. And the reason I liked
0:32.9	Yosemite Sam was because he had a temper that was unlike any other character. He could just go off at the drop of the hat.
0:44.3	Not so over the top, but still willing to shoot Bugs Bunny was Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd didn't exactly have the same
1:02.3	charisma as Yosemite Sam, and certainly Bugs Bunny could fool him constantly, somewhat of adult.
1:13.4	But you know, in true crime, and specifically as it applies to serial perpetrators, there's one person that has always reminded me of Elmer Fudd. And that's because it would seem that everywhere this one perpetrator went,
1:23.5	he always wore a hat, just like Elmer's. He always seemed kind of dim and he always seemed lost.
1:34.3	Today, given all of the current news about a recent television program,
1:43.3	I wanted to step back just for a moment
1:46.4	and have a conversation.
1:48.5	A conversation about the forensics of Ed Gein,
1:54.3	otherwise known as the butcher of Plainfield.
1:58.7	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
2:05.5	Dave, who was your, I know, I know for fact, you watched Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner Hour.
2:11.8	At some point in time, I got to tell you, drifting back all those years.
2:16.8	Did you, did you have a favorite adversary of Bugs Bunny?
2:21.2	You know, I liked all of them.
2:25.7	I mean, I like bugs because he outsmarted everybody.
2:29.3	They made the bad guys into idiots.
2:31.2	I loved that.
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