If you’ve been glued to the new season of Netflix’s MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story like I have, you know just how horrifying this real-life tale gets. But, did you know that an important piece of Ed Gein infamy used to call Rockford, Illinois home?
Ed Gein Madness
In case you aren’t a true crime addict like I am, let’s fill you in on the most famous, and disturbing facts about Ed Gein, aka The Butcher of Plainfield or The Plainfield Ghoul.
Ed Gein was born and raised on a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin, but his crimes shocked the entire nation in the 1950s.
Ed Gein only confessed to murdering two women, but he also admitted to exhuming corpses from local cemeteries and making furniture, clothing, masks and more from their skin and bones…