Ed Gein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ed Gein

American murderer and human trophy collector

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1906

Place of Birth: La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1984

Profession: criminal

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Edward Theodore Gein (; August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American convicted murderer and body snatcher.
His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, in 1957.
Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility.
In 1968, Gein was found guilty but legally insane of the murder of Worden, and was remanded to a psychiatric institution.
He died at Mendota Mental Health Institute of liver cancer and respiratory failure, on July 26, 1984, age 77.
He is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery, in a now-unmarked grave.