Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes dramatizations and discussions of murder and assault

that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Here's a joke. Why did they have to keep the heat up in Edgine's house?

The punchline? So the furniture won't get goosebumps. This was one of the many

children's jokes circulating merely days after Ed Gein's 1957 arrest for the murder of Bernice

Warden in Plainfield, Wisconsin.

These quips became such a hot trend in the state that people gave them a name,

Gieners.

Gien's crimes stirred their own media fascination and uproar in his hometown of Plainfield and beyond.

As we talked about last week, the 51-year-old handyman two local women, robbed at least eight craves from 1947 until

1952, and decorated his home with various body parts of many corpses.

This week we'll explore Gaines trial, his institutionalization, and the public fascination

surrounding his arrest.

His crimes made him the inspiration for several movie villains.

Buffalo, Bill, and Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs,

Norman Bates and Psycho, and Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Upon Gien's arrest in 1957, psychologists diagnosed him with sexual psychopathy and schizophrenia.

Many people have labeled him as a necrophile and cannibal over the years,

but Gien has denied ever eating or having intercourse with a corpse.

Gien collected the heads and vaginas of dead women.

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