Ryan Murphy's "Monster" series returns to Netflix Friday with "The Ed Gein Story." Ed Gein's 1957 arrest revealed gruesome murders that inspired horror classics. Gein's story influenced films like ...
In November 1957, police in the aptly named Plainfield, Wisconsin, entered the remote farmhouse of 51-year-old handyman Ed Gein after he’d been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a local ...
Ed Gein's true crimes became a template for the modern-era serial killer in a string of horror movies. The horror novel and film "Psycho" were the first to draw upon Ed Gein's grisly murders. The ...
Director Tobe Hooper terrified audiences in 1974 with "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" featuring an iconic horror movie villain who wears a mask made out of his victims' skin. While the chainsaw-wielding ...
PLAINFIELD, Wis. (WMTV) - On November 16, 1957, Ed Gein, better known as “The Butcher of Plainfield,” was arrested. Ed Gein was born on August 27, 1906, to an alcoholic father and overbearing mother.