The Butcher of Plainfield
Inside Psycho
Wondery
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A mild and meek man who was unusually attached to his domineering mother. That’s the story of Ed Gein, who murdered numerous middle-aged women in and around Plainfield, WI in the 1950’s, and whose story inspired the character of Norman Bates.
The story of Psycho begins in a dingy, remote cabin, where Gein collected bits and pieces of his subjects and fashioned them into chairs, lampshades, or worse. All his victims were chosen because they reminded him of his mother. When he was buried, this was engraved on the headstone beside his: “Augusta Gein: Mother.” Gein’s story is a chilling beginning to one of the most famous stories in movie history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Psycho, ad free on Amazon Music, download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | The following contains mature content. |
| 0:12.0 | You've been... The following contains mature content. |
| 0:12.6 | You've been warned. |
| 0:16.5 | From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is part one of Inside Psycho. December 8, 1954, a local farmer, Seymour Lester, was doing what he always did at this time in the afternoon. |
| 0:52.0 | He walked into a tavern in the tiny hamlet of Pine Grove, Wisconsin, |
| 0:57.0 | looking for a drink. |
| 1:01.0 | This time of day, it was rarely crowded. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello? |
| 1:07.0 | But it was never empty. |
| 1:10.0 | The tavern was run by Mary Hogan. |
| 1:15.0 | 51 years old, 200 pounds, a woman who could swear a blue streak and arm wrestle half the county, the male half, and when. |
| 1:25.0 | But where was Mary? |
| 1:28.5 | Seymour knew his way around the place. |
| 1:30.9 | Best thing to do is wait, but why wait thirsty? |
| 1:34.0 | He reached around the bar, |
| 1:37.0 | grabbed a glass, and poured himself a tall cool one. |
| 1:42.0 | Ah, that tasted good. |
| 1:45.0 | When you're sitting alone on a bar stool |
| 1:49.0 | in a tavern that's never deserted it's an odd feeling. |
| 1:53.4 | It feels off, wrong. |
| 1:58.1 | From his stool Seymour scanned the room. |
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