On November 16th, 1957, Ed Gein was arrested in the tiny town of Plainfield Wisconsin. Suspected of a single murder, what authorities found in his isolated farmhouse would shock the nation. Jenn and Joe tackle their second case by unraveling the twisted life and crimes of the Butcher of Plainfield in the latest episode of Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction Podcast.
This story would go on to inspire some of horror’s most iconic films, but who was the real person behind the cinematic mask?
It’s a grisly story full of macabre details including necrophilia, suspected cannibalism, dismembered corpses, and furniture made from human skin
They’ll also discuss Gein’s troubling relationship with his mother Augusta and what really happened to his older brother Henry. Jenn walks Joe through all the disturbing details of this astounding story that changed the way we view monstrosity.
And if you want even more Murder Made Fiction, be sure to check out the pod’s Patreon feed, where Jenn and Joe have ~10 hours of bonus content.
Episodes in this month include a full-length primer detailing Gein’s crimes, in-depth discussion of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, and episode by episode coverage of Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein.
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