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" Final Resting Place of Ed Gein"

Edward Theodore Gein
27th August 1906 - 26th July 1984 
Serial killer & cannibal. Thought to have killed a total of six people (4 women & 2 men) and opened and took body parts from over 40 graves. 
After the death of his mother in 1945 he lived alone on his farm where he began his bizarre deeds. This life came to a sudden end in 1957 when he was arrested for the murder of Bernice Worden. On searching his farm the police found inside his woodshed, Bernice Wordon. Her body had been butchered and strung up like a deer. Bernice's severed head, found nearby, showed that she had been killed by a gunshot. The farmhouse search uncovered nine masks of human skin. One proved to be the remains of Mary Hogan, a saloon keeper who had disappeared nearly three years before. The police also found that Gein had used parts of his female victims to decorate the house, sculls on the bedposts, a chair made of skin, bowls made from skull-caps, a shade-pull with a pair of woman's lips attached, nine vulvas in a shoe-box, the grisly list went on. The police determined that 15 women had ended up as souvenirs in Gein's house of horrors. Police were unable to match body parts for two women found at the house to bodies, and it is believed that he killed at least four women and two men during his time, in addition to the forty odd bodies that he dug up. He was declared criminally insane and sent to the Central State Hospital for the insane at Waupun, Wisconsin, where he died on July 26, 1984. His crimes inspired such movies as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" in 1960 and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in 1974.
He is buried next to his mother at Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield, Waushara, Wisconsin.