# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-gein
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:02:59.593Z

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description: "He murdered two women and dug up graves across central Wisconsin to build household objects from human remains—a case so viscerally strange that it seeded the DNA of American horror fiction for decades."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Edward Theodore Gein was born August 27, 1906, and spent most of his life on a failing farm outside Plainfield, Wisconsin. In 1957, after hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared, police traced her to Gein's property and found her body dressed like a deer carcass in his shed—along with furniture, clothing, and keepsakes made from exhumed corpses and human skin. He confessed to killing Worden and tavern owner Mary Hogan three years earlier. Declared unfit for trial, he was confined to a mental health facility until 1968, when he stood trial, was convicted of Worden's murder, found legally insane, and returned to psychiatric custody. He died in the institution on July 26, 1984.