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Ed Gein: The Skin-Suit-Wearing Serial Killer Who Inspired Psycho's Norman Bates

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    Ed Gein: The Skin-Suit-Wearing Serial Killer Who Inspired Psycho's Norman Bates

    • Author

      David Horspool

    • Website Name

      aetv.com

    • Year Published

      2017

    • Title

      Ed Gein: The Skin-Suit-Wearing Serial Killer Who Inspired Psycho's Norman Bates

    • URL

      https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/ed-gein-the-skin-suit-wearing-serial-killer-who-inspired-psychos-norman-bates

    • Access Date

      January 24, 2025

    • Publisher

      A+E Networks

There are plenty of murderers who have killed more times than Ed Gein, but few have left a deeper impression on American culture.

In the fall of 1957, police in Plainfield, Wisconsin entered the isolated farmhouse of a quiet loner who had mostly kept to himself in the years since the death of his domineering mother.

Entering a summer kitchen attached to the house, they saw a carcass hanging by its heels from a rafte Ed Gein - A&E RIHA