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{{Short description|American murderer and body snatcher (1906–1984)}}
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{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Ed Gein
| image             = Ed-Gein.jpeg
| caption           = Gein, {{Circa|1958}}
| alias             = {{Hlist
  | The Plainfield Ghoul
  | The Plainfield Butcher
  | The Butcher of Plainfield
  }}
| birth_name        = Edward Theodore Gein
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1906|8|27}}
| birth_place       = [[La Crosse County, Wisconsin]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1984|7|26|1906|8|27}}
| death_place       = [[Madison, Wisconsin]], U.S.
| criminal_status   = Deceased
| resting_place     = Plainfield Cemetery
| resting_place_coordinates =
| victims           = {{ubl
  | 2 murders confirmed
  | 7 others suspected
  | 9 corpses mutilated (obtained from desecrated graves)}}
| beginyear         = 1947
| endyear           = 1957
| country           = [[United States]]
| states            = [[Wisconsin]]
| apprehended       = November 16, 1957
| conviction        = [[Murder (United States law)|First degree murder]] (later found [[legally insane]])
| penalty           = Institutionalized in the [[Mendota Mental Health Institute]]
| occupation        = Handyman, farmer
}}

'''Edward Theodore Gein''' (August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984), also known as the '''Butcher of Plainfield''' and the '''Plainfield Ghoul''', was an American murderer, [[serial killer]], and [[Body snatching|body snatcher]]. His crimes, committed around his hometown of [[Plainfield, Wisconsin]], gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

Gein was initially found [[Competence (law)|unfit to stand trial]] and confined to a [[Psychiatric hospital|mental health facility]]. By 1968 he was judged competent to stand trial. He was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but was found [[legally insane]] and thus was [[remand (court procedure)|remanded]] to a [[Psychiatric hospital|psychiatric institution.]]

==Early life==
=== Childhood ===
Edward Theodore Gein was born in [[La Crosse County, Wisconsin]], on August 27, 1906,<ref name="birthrecord">{{cite web |date=January 2012 |title=Birth Index Record: Gien, Edward |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Birth/BR2625292 |website=Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref> the second of two sons to George Philip Gein (1873–1940)<ref name="Schechter2010">{{cite book |first=Harold |last=Schechter |author-link=Harold Schechter|title=Deviant |year=2010 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York City|isbn=978-1-4391-0697-6 |page=50}}</ref> and Augusta Wilhelmine Gein ([[Birth name|née]] Lehrke; 1878–1945),{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=59}} both of German descent. Gein's only sibling was an older brother named Henry.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=54}} Augusta, who was fervently religious and nominally [[Lutheran]],<ref name="autogenerated2007">{{cite book |first1=Anne |last1=Williams |first2=Vivian |last2=Head |first3=Amy |last3=Williams |title=Fiendish Killers: Perpetrators Of The Worst Possible Evil |publisher=Futura Publishing |location=London|date=2007 |isbn=978-0708807255}}</ref> frequently preached to her sons about the innate immorality of the world, the evils of drinking and her belief that all women were naturally promiscuous and instruments of the devil. She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the Bible, usually selecting verses from the [[Old Testament]] and the [[Book of Revelation]] concerning death, murder, and [[divine retribution]].<ref name="autogenerated2007"/> Gein idolized and eventually became obsessed with his mother.<ref>{{cite web | first=Amy | last=Beeman |url=https://www.grunge.com/372470/the-truth-about-ed-geins-obsession-with-his-mother/ | title=The Truth About ed Gein's Obsession with His Mother | website=[[Grunge.com]] | date=April 2, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Gein | title=Ed Gein &#124; Biography, Story, Movie, Crimes, & Facts | website=[[Britannica.com]] | date=April 26, 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | first=Austin | last=Harvey |url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/augusta-wilhelmine-gein | title=Inside the Twisted Relationship of Serial Killer Ed Gein and His Mother — Which Helped Inspire 'Psycho' | website=All That's Interesting |date=September 18, 2023 }}</ref>

In La Crosse, Gein's father worked as a carpenter, tanner, and firefighter. He also owned a local grocery store but soon sold the business and left the city with his family to live on a {{convert|155|acre|ha|adj=on|abbr=off}} farm in the town of [[Plainfield (town), Wisconsin|Plainfield, Wisconsin]],<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/58945/Plainfield+Township/Waushara+County+1924/Wisconsin/ |title=Plainfield Township, Atlas: Waushara County 1924, Wisconsin Historical Map |website=Historic Map Works |access-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304040855/http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/58945/Plainfield+Township/Waushara+County+1924/Wisconsin/ |archive-date=March 4, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> which became their permanent residence.<ref name="biography">{{cite AV media|people=Alex Flaster (producer)|title=Biography: Ed Gein|date=2004|publisher=[[A&E Television Networks]]|location=Los Angeles, California}}</ref> Gein's father was known to be a violent alcoholic who regularly beat both of his sons. This caused Ed's ears to ring when his father beat him on the head.<ref>{{cite web |title=Infamous Murderer & Serial Killer Profiles – #4 Ed Gein |url=https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/infamous-murderer-serial-killer-profiles-4-ed-gein |website=Murder Mile UK True Crime Podcast |publisher=Michael J. Buchanan-Dunne. |access-date=September 23, 2025}}</ref> Augusta took advantage of the farm's isolation by turning away outsiders who could have influenced her sons.<ref name="biography"/>

[[File:1930 census Gein.jpg|thumb|190px|The [[1930 United States census|1930 US census]] with Gein, 13th name from the top, in Plainfield, Wisconsin]]
Gein left the farm only to attend school. Outside of school, he spent most of his time doing chores on the farm. Gein was shy. Classmates and teachers remembered him as having strange mannerisms, such as seemingly random laughter, as if he were laughing at his own personal jokes. Augusta punished Gein whenever he tried to make friends, according to family acquaintances. Despite his poor social development, Gein did fairly well in school, particularly in reading.<ref name="biography"/>

===Deaths in immediate family===
On April 1, 1940, George Gein died of heart failure at the age of 66. Ed and his brother Henry began doing odd jobs around town to help cover living expenses. The brothers were generally considered reliable and honest by the rest of the community. While both worked as handymen, Ed frequently babysat for neighbors, seeming to relate more easily to children than to adults. Henry began dating a divorced mother of two and planned to move in with her. He worried about his brother's attachment to their mother and often spoke ill of her around Ed, who responded with shock and hurt.<ref name="biography"/>

On May 16, 1944, Henry was burning vegetation on the property.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=85}} The fire got out of control, requiring intervention by the local fire department. By the end of the day—the fire having been extinguished and the firefighters gone—Ed reported Henry missing. With lanterns and flashlights, a search party searched for 43-year-old Henry, whose dead body was found lying face down.<ref name="Wisconsin Rapids Page 1">{{cite news |title=Rites Today For Man Who Died in Roche-a-Cri Fire |newspaper=[[Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune]] |publisher=Thomsen Newspapers, Inc.|location=Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin|date=May 19, 1944|page=1}}</ref> Apparently, Henry had been dead for some time, and it appeared that the cause of death was heart failure, since he had not been burned or injured otherwise.<ref name="Wisconsin Rapids Page 1"/>

It was later reported by biographer [[Harold Schechter]] that Henry had bruises on his head.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=30}}{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=31}} Police dismissed the possibility of foul play and the county coroner later listed [[asphyxia]]tion as the cause of death.<ref name="biography"/>{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=30}}{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=31}} The authorities accepted the accident theory, but no official investigation was conducted and an autopsy was not performed.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=86}} Questioning Ed about the death of Bernice Worden in 1957, state investigator Joe Wilimovsky brought up questions about Henry's death.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=85}} George Arndt, who studied the case, wrote that, in retrospect, it was "possible and likely" that Henry's death was "the '[[Cain and Abel]]' aspect of this case."{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=8}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=9}}

With Henry deceased, Ed and his mother were now alone. Augusta suffered a paralyzing stroke shortly after Henry's death, and Ed devoted himself to her care. Sometime in 1945, he later recounted, he and his mother visited a man named Smith, who lived nearby, to purchase straw. According to Gein, Augusta witnessed Smith beating a dog. A woman inside the Smith residence came outside and yelled for him to stop, but Smith beat the dog to death. Augusta was extremely upset by this scene; what bothered her did not appear to be the brutality toward the dog but, rather, the presence of the woman.<ref name=":3">{{cite web |first=Denise|last=Noe |url=http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/04/27/augusta-gein-the-woman-who-drove-a-man-psycho/ |title=Augusta Gein, the woman who drove a man Psycho |work=Men's News Daily |date=April 27, 2007 |access-date=September 25, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927193955/http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/04/27/augusta-gein-the-woman-who-drove-a-man-psycho/ |archive-date=September 27, 2013 }}</ref>

Augusta told Gein that the woman was not married to Smith and so had no business being there, angrily calling her "Smith's harlot." She suffered a second stroke soon after, and her health deteriorated rapidly.<ref name=":3" /> Augusta died on December 29, 1945, at the age of 67. Gein was devastated by his mother's death. In the words of Schechter, he had "lost his only friend and one true love. And he was absolutely alone in the world".{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=30}}{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=31}}

==Work==
Gein held onto the farm and earned money from odd jobs. He boarded up rooms used by his mother, including the upstairs, the downstairs parlor, and the living room, leaving them untouched. While the rest of the house became increasingly squalid, these rooms remained pristine. Gein lived in a small room next to the kitchen. Around this time, he became interested in reading [[pulp magazine]]s and adventure stories, particularly those involving cannibals or Nazi atrocities,<ref name="biography"/> specifically concerning [[Ilse Koch]], who had been accused of selecting tattooed prisoners for death to fashion [[Lampshades made from human skin|lampshades]] and other items from their skins.<ref>''The Psycho Records'', p.2, by Laurence A. Rickels, 2016</ref> In 1951, Gein started receiving a farm subsidy from the [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]]. He occasionally worked for the local municipal road crew and crop-threshing crews in the Plainfield area. Sometime between 1946 and 1956, he sold an {{cvt|80|acre|ha|adj=on}} parcel of land that Henry had owned.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mark |first1=Timothy |title=The "Ed Gein" Story |date=2015 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-1312995697 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6m2pCQAAQBAJ&q=80+acre }}</ref>

== Crimes ==
===Confirmed===
On the morning of November 16, 1957, 58-year-old Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared. The hardware store's truck was seen driving out from the rear of the building at around 9:30{{nbsp}}a.m. The store saw few customers the entire day; some area residents believed that this was because of deer hunting season.<ref name="Schechter2010"/> Worden's son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, entered the store around 5:00{{nbsp}}p.m. to find the cash register open and blood stains on the floor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-widow-58-found-slain-in-w/186246792/|title=Widow, 58, Found Slain in Wisconsin|date=November 17, 1957|work=[[Star Tribune]]|access-date=March 3, 2017|page=1|language=en|via=Newspapers.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303202401/http://www.newspapers.com/image/183986412/|archive-date=March 3, 2017|url-access=limited|url-status=live}}</ref>

Frank Worden told investigators that on the evening before his mother's disappearance, Gein had been in the store and was expected to return the next morning for a gallon of [[antifreeze]]. A sales slip for the antifreeze was the last receipt written by Bernice Worden on the morning that she disappeared.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/wisconsin/stevens-point/stevens-point-daily-journal/1957/11-18?tag=ed+gein&rtserp=tags/?pc=28055&psi=103&pci=7&pf=ed&pl=gein/ |title=Signs of 10 Victims at Farm |date=November 18, 1957 |newspaper=Stevens Point Daily Journal |page=1, cols. 7–8 }}</ref> That evening, Gein was arrested at a West Plainfield{{Efn|West Plainfield was an unincorporated community {{convert|3|mi|spell=in}} west of the center of Plainfield at {{coord|44.213931|-89.552818|name=West Plainfield, Wisconsin}},<ref name=":1"/> which has since diminished and disappeared.}} grocery store,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-oshkosh-northwestern-gein-admits-kil/186246881/|title=Gein Admits Killing Woman, Kileen Reveals|date=November 18, 1957 |work=[[The Oshkosh Northwestern]] |access-date=March 3, 2017 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304193508/http://www.newspapers.com/image/246086117/ |archive-date=March 4, 2017 |url-access=limited |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Waushara County, Wisconsin|Waushara County]] Sheriff's Department searched the Gein farm.<ref name=":0"/>

A sheriff's deputy discovered Worden's decapitated body in a shed on Gein's property, hung upside down by her legs with a crossbar at her ankles and ropes at her wrists. The torso had been "dressed out like a deer".<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglas |first1=John E. |author-link1=John E. Douglas |first2=Mark |last2=Olshaker |title=Obsession: The FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Back |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York City|year=1998 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/obsession00john/page/367 367–368] |isbn=0-671-01704-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/obsession00john/page/367}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Michael H.|last1=Stone|first2=Gary|last2=Brucato|title=The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime|publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|location=Amherst, New York|date=2019|isbn=978-1633885325|page=8}}</ref> Worden had been shot with a [[.22 Long Rifle|.22-caliber]] rifle, and mutilations were made after her death. Searching Gein's house, authorities found:
* Whole human bones and fragments<ref name="necrophile">{{cite web |last=Ramsland |first=Katherine |authorlink=Katherine Ramsland|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/necrophiles/index_1.html |title=A True Necrophile |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224429/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/necrophiles/index_1.html |archive-date=December 2, 2013 |work=[[Crime Library]]}}</ref><!--Do not add to this list or modify it without adding a reliable source to your changes.-->{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=192|loc="Judge Gollmar relied on the detailed report of state crime lab investigator Allan Wilimovsky who searched the Gein house, inventoried the evidence and interviewed Edward Gein. Gollmar also quotes other contemporary investigators, including Captain Lloyd Schoesphoester (Green Lake Sheriff's Dept.) who assisted the investigation of the Worden murder and search of Gein's home."}}
* A wastebasket made of human skin{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=44}}
* Human skin covering several chairs{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=20}}
* Human skulls mounted on bedposts{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=22}}
* Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=44}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=20}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=18}}
* Bowls made from human skulls{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=44}}
* A [[corset]] made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=20}}
* [[Leggings]] made from human leg skin{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=44}}
* Masks made from the skin of female heads{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=20}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=22}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=18}}
* Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=22}}
* Mary Hogan's skull in a box{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=17}}
* Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=25}}
* Bernice Worden's heart "in a plastic bag in front of Gein's potbelly stove"{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=92}}
* Nine [[vulva]]s in a shoebox{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=24}}
* A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=87}}
* A belt made from female human nipples{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=46}}
* Four noses<ref name="necrophile"/>
* A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring<ref name="necrophile"/>
* A lampshade made from the skin of a human face<ref name="necrophile"/>

These artifacts were photographed at the state crime laboratory and then "decently disposed of."{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=48}} When questioned, Gein told investigators that between 1947 and 1952, he had made as many as forty nocturnal visits to three local graveyards to exhume recently buried bodies while he was in a "daze-like" state.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=97}} On about thirty of those visits, he said that he came out of the daze while in the cemetery, left the grave in good order, and returned home empty-handed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gein Also Admits He Killed Mary Hogan; Results of Lie Tests Announced |date=November 20, 1957 |newspaper=Stevens Point Daily Journal |page=13}}</ref> On the other occasions, he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skins to make his [[paraphernalia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Gein,%20Ed.pdf |title=Edward Theodore Gein, American Psycho |website=Department of Psychology, Radford University |location=Radford, Illinois |quote=Beginning in 1947 – He saw a newspaper article of a woman who had been buried that day. The first corpse came from a grave near the grave of Gein's mother. Indeed, one report is that among the first grave robbing incidents was that of his own mother. |access-date=August 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603003708/http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Gein,%20Ed.pdf |archive-date=June 3, 2018|url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Schechter|1989}}

Gein admitted to stealing from nine graves and led investigators to them.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://hannemanarchive.com/tag/augusta-gein/|title=Augusta Gein |website=The Hanneman Archive |date=November 4, 2014 |access-date=December 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822213921/https://hannemanarchive.com/tag/augusta-gein/ |archive-date=August 22, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19571126&id=buUKAAAAIBAJ&pg=2954,2739537 |title=Prescott Evening Courier |via=Google News Archive Search |access-date=October 16, 2017 |website=news.google.com}}</ref> Allan Wilimovsky of the state crime laboratory participated in opening three test graves identified by Gein. The caskets were inside wooden boxes. The top boards ran crossways, not lengthwise. The tops of the boxes were about {{convert|2|feet|cm|spell=in|abbr=off|sp=us}} below the surface in sandy soil. Gein had robbed the graves soon after the funerals, while the graves were incomplete. The test graves were exhumed because authorities were uncertain as to whether the slight Gein was capable of single-handedly digging up a grave during an evening. They were found as Gein described: one casket was empty; another casket was empty but contained a few bones and Gein's crowbar, and the final casket had most of the body missing yet Gein had returned rings and some body parts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbpHAAAAIBAJ&dq=Find+2+Gein+Graves+empty&pg=PA1&article_id=6343,2632601|title=Warsaw Times Union November 26,1957|via=Google News Archive Search |access-date=November 29, 2024 |website=news.google.com}}</ref>{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=48}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=49}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=50}} Thus, Gein's confession was largely corroborated.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Empty Coffins Discovered in Graves at Plainfield; Appears To Back Up Gein's Story |date=November 25, 1957 |newspaper=Stevens Point Daily Journal |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=DA Convinced Gein Actually Raided Graves |date=November 26, 1957 |newspaper=Stevens Point Daily Journal |page=1}}</ref>

Soon after his mother's death, Gein began to create a "woman suit" so that "he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin."<ref name="necrophile"/> He denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining: "They smelled too bad."<ref name="psycho">{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Rachael |first2=Marilyn |last2=Bardsley |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gein/weird_3.html |title=Seriously weird |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130062755/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/gein/weird_3.html |archive-date=January 30, 2009 |work=[[Tru TV]] |access-date=July 24, 2018 |publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting Systems]]|location=Atlanta, Georgia}}</ref> During the state crime laboratory interrogation, Gein admitted to shooting 51-year-old Mary Hogan, a tavern owner who had been missing since December 8, 1954. Her head was later found in his house, though he denied any memory of the details surrounding her death.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981}}

A 16-year-old youth, whose parents were friends of Gein and who attended baseball games and movies with him, reported that Gein kept [[shrunken head]]s in his house, which he had described as relics sent by a cousin who had served in the Philippines during World War II.<ref>{{cite news |title=Youth Tells of Seeing Gein's Heads |date=November 20, 1957 |newspaper=Stevens Point Daily Journal |page=1, col. 6}}</ref> Upon investigation by police, these were determined to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from corpses and used by Gein as masks.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=128}}

During questioning, Sheriff Art Schley reportedly assaulted Gein by banging his head and face into a brick wall. As a result, Gein's initial confession was ruled inadmissible.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|pp=30–31}}{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|pp=31–34}} Schley died of heart failure in 1968 at the age of 43, before Gein's trial.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=34}} Many who knew Schley said he was traumatized by the horror of Gein's crimes and this, along with the fear of having to testify, especially about assaulting Gein, caused his death.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|pp=30–31}}

===Suspected===
Gein was considered a suspect in several other unsolved cases in Wisconsin.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|pp=95, 100}} In November 1957, authorities confronted Gein with missing persons cases that had occurred between the death of his mother and that of Worden. Their suspicions were further aroused after the discovery of Hogan's remains. [[Lie detector test]]s failed to implicate Gein of any other murders, and his psychiatrists concluded that his violence was only directed to women who physically resembled his mother.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|pp=105, 177}}
* Georgia Jean Weckler (8) disappeared near her home in [[Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin|Fort Atkinson]] at approximately 3:30&nbsp;p.m. on May 1, 1947.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Georgia Jean Weckler|language=en-US|work=The Charley Project|url=https://charleyproject.org/case/georgia-jean-weckler}}</ref> She was given a lift home from grade school in [[Jefferson, Wisconsin|Jefferson]] by a neighbor, who dropped Weckler off at the lane that led from [[U.S. Highway 12]] to the Weckler farm. Weckler was last seen pausing to open the family mailbox and removing a stack of mail.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1727DFWI – Georgia Jean Weckler|language=en-US|work=The Doe Network|url=https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1727dfwi.html}}</ref> Witnesses reported seeing a dark-colored, possibly black, [[Ford Model 48|1936 Ford sedan]] with a gray plastic spotlight in the vicinity that afternoon. Gein owned a black [[1937 Ford]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19571121&id=a6pTAAAAIBAJ&pg=7001,2194001 |title=Sanity Trial Due Farmer in Murders |newspaper=The Victoria Advocate |date=November 21, 1957 |via=[[Google News]]}}</ref>
* [[disappearance of Evelyn Hartley|Evelyn Grace Hartley]] (14) went missing while babysitting a 20-month-old girl at the home of [[University of Wisconsin-La Crosse|La Crosse State College]] professor Viggo Rasmussen on the evening of October 24, 1953.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1388dfwi.html |title=The Doe Network: Case File 1388DFWI |website=www.doenetwork.org|access-date=August 30, 2016}}</ref> That evening, her father Richard called the Rasmussen residence several times after she failed to check in as planned at 8:30&nbsp;p.m.; he received no answer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nampn.org/cases/hartley_evelyn.html |title=Evelyn Grace Hartley |website=www.nampn.org|access-date=August 29, 2016}}</ref> Concerned, he drove to the Rasmussen house to find the doors were locked, the lights and radio on and items scattered all over the house. The living room furniture had been moved around to different places, as were Evelyn's school books.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=957&dat=19531027&id=Y_sLAAAAIBAJ&pg=1328,1920148 |title=Baby Sitter Abduction Shocks Town |first=Chris |last=Edmonds |agency=AP |newspaper=Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph |location=[[Quebec City]], Quebec, Canada |date=October 27, 1953 |via=[[Google News]]}}</ref> Richard found her shoes in different rooms, one shoe upstairs and one downstairs. He found his daughter's broken glasses upstairs. Richard did not find Evelyn in the house.<ref name=Charley>{{Cite web |url=http://charleyproject.org/cases/h/hartley_evelyn.html |title=The Charley Project: Evelyn Grace Hartley |last=Good |first=Meaghan Elizabeth |website=charleyproject.org |access-date=August 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103172012/http://charleyproject.org/cases/h/hartley_evelyn.html |archive-date=January 3, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After his arrest, Gein was questioned regarding Hartley's disappearance, but he denied involvement and passed two lie detector tests. Police found no trace of Hartley's remains during a search of Gein's property.<ref>Schechter, p. 177.</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQvYtm-EPTEC&pg=PA177 |title=Deviant |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4391-0697-6 |first=Harold |last=Schechter |author-link=Harold Schechter |page=177}}</ref>
* Victor Harold Travis (42) a resident of [[Adams County, Wisconsin|Adams County]], went off to hunt deer in the company of acquaintance Raymond Burgess on November 1, 1952. In the late afternoon, the pair stopped for refreshments at Mac's Bar in Plainfield for several hours. At around 7 p.m., they both left the bar, got into Burgess' car and drove away. The hunters, along with the car Burgess was driving, were never seen again and no trace of them was ever found. Travis and Burgess had been hunting on the property next to Gein's farm, despite his objections to them hunting on the day of their disappearance.<ref name=Sarasota>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19571121&id=bbcqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_WQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374,4166939&hl=en|title=Butcher of Humans Admits Two Killings |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |date=November 21, 1957 |via=[[Google News]]}}</ref>
* Gein has been tentatively linked to the June 1954 disappearance of his neighbor James Walsh (32). Walsh and his wife lived near Gein, who performed chores for Mrs. Walsh after her husband went missing.<ref name=Sarasota/>

==Aftermath==
===Trial===
On November 21, 1957, Gein was [[arraignment|arraigned]] on one count of [[first-degree murder]] in [[Waushara County, Wisconsin|Waushara County]] Court, where he pleaded [[not guilty by reason of insanity]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Gein Pleads Innocent By Reason of Insanity|date=November 21, 1957|publisher=Stevens Point Daily Journal|page=1, cols. 7–8}}</ref> He was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]] and found mentally incompetent, thus [[United States federal laws governing defendants with mental diseases or defects#Incompetence to stand trial|unfit for trial]]. Gein was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, now [[Dodge Correctional Institution]], a [[maximum-security]] facility in [[Waupun, Wisconsin|Waupun]], and was later transferred to the [[Mendota Mental Health Institute]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Moira|last=Martindale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgaTQ7eJOFMC |title=Cannibal Killers |location=New York City|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press|St. Martin's]] |year=1993 |access-date=November 30, 2013|isbn=978-0312956042}}</ref>

In 1968, doctors determined Gein was "mentally able to confer with counsel and participate in his defense".{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=95}} The trial began on November 7, 1968,<ref>{{cite news|title=Gein Trial Under Way|newspaper=[[Oshkosh Daily Northwestern]]|date=November 7, 1968|page=1|quote=Circuit Judge Robert Gollmar of Baraboo ruled today that the murder trial of Ed Gein of Plainfield will be heard without a jury. ... The first trial witness called by the prosecution this morning was Leon Murty of Wild Rose.}}</ref> and lasted one week. A [[psychiatrist]] testified that Gein had told him that he did not know whether the killing of Worden was intentional or accidental. Gein told him that while he examined a gun in Worden's store, the weapon discharged and killed Worden.<ref>{{cite news|title=Psychiatrist Tells Gein Account of Worden Death|newspaper=[[Oshkosh Daily Northwestern]]|date=November 12, 1968|page=1}}</ref> He claimed to not have aimed the rifle at Worden, and did not remember anything else that happened that morning.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gein Takes Stand, Remembers Little|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegram]]|location=Eau Claire, Wisconsin|date=November 13, 1968|page=1}}</ref>

At the request of the defense, Gein's trial was [[bench trial|held without a jury]],{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=227}} with Judge Robert H. Gollmar presiding. Gein was found guilty by Gollmar on November 14.<ref name="guilty"/> A second trial dealt with Gein's sanity.<ref name="guilty"/> After testimony by doctors for the prosecution and defense, Gollmar ruled Gein "not guilty by reason of insanity" and ordered him committed to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=172}} Gein spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.<ref name="guilty">{{cite news|title=Ed Gein Found Guilty of 1957 Murder in Plainfield|newspaper=The Capital Times |place=Madison, Wisconsin |date=November 14, 1968 |page=2, col. 4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wisconsin Killer Gein Ruled Guilty, Insane |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 15, 1968}}</ref> Judge Gollmar wrote, "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder—that of Mrs. Worden. He also admitted to killing Mary Hogan."{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=81}}

===Fate of Gein's property===
Gein's house, the outbuildings, and his {{cvt|195|acre|ha|adj=on}} property were appraised at $4,700, {{Inflation|index=US|value=4700|start_year=1958|r=-3|fmt=eq}}.<ref name=":2">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28673333/the_la_crosse_tribune/ |title=Trash Embers Sparked Gein Fire, Theory |date=March 21, 1958 |work=[[La Crosse Tribune]] |access-date=February 21, 2019 |page=16 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> His possessions were scheduled to be auctioned on March 30, 1958, amidst rumors that the house and the land it stood on might become a tourist attraction. Early on the morning of March 20, the house was destroyed by fire. A deputy fire marshal reported that a garbage fire had been set {{convert|75|ft}} from the house by a cleaning crew which was given the task of disposing refuse; that hot coals were recovered from the spot of the bonfire, but that the fire did not spread along the ground from that location to the house.<ref name=":2"/> [[Arson]] was suspected, but the cause of the fire was never officially determined.<ref>Gollmar, ''Edward Gein'', 1989, p. 80.</ref>

It is possible that the fire was not considered a matter of urgency to Fire Chief Frank Worden, the son of Gein's victim Bernice Worden.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kerr |first=Gordon |chapter=Ed Gein |editor-first=Gordon |editor-last=Kerr |date=2009 |title=Evil Psychopaths |location=London|publisher=Futura |pages=190–198 |isbn=978-0-70880-210-6}}</ref> When Gein learned of the incident while in detention, he shrugged and said, "Just as well."<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3X5WwY-hvKQC&pg=PT99 |date=October 15, 1995 |page=90 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York City|title=Ed Gein – Psycho! |last1=Woods |first1=Paul Anthony |last2=Morris |first2=Errol |author2-link=Errol Morris |isbn=978-0-31213-057-2}}</ref> Gein's Ford sedan, which he used to haul the bodies of his victims, was sold at public auction for $760 ({{Inflation|index=US|value=760|start_year=1958|r=-2|fmt=eq}}) to carnival [[sideshow]] operator [[Bunny Gibbons]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hintz|first=Martin |title=Got Murder?: Shocking True Stories of Wisconsins Notorious Killers|publisher=Big Earth Publishing |location=Boulder, Colorado|year=2007 |page=62 |isbn=978-1-931599-96-2}}</ref> Gibbons charged carnival-goers 25¢ admission to see it.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reavill|first=Gil|title=Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home|publisher=Gotham|location=Hollywood, California|year=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781592402960/page/228 228]|isbn=978-1-59240-296-0|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781592402960/page/228}}</ref> The current whereabouts of Gein's Ford sedan is unknown.

===Death===
[[File:Ed Gein Headstone.jpg|thumb|190px|Gein's vandalized grave marker as it appeared in 1999 before thieves stole it]]
Gein died at the Mendota Mental Health Institute due to [[respiratory failure]], secondary to [[lung cancer]], on July 26, 1984, at the age of 77.{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=30}}{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=31}} Gein is interred between his parents and brother in Plainfield Cemetery. Over the years, souvenir seekers chipped away pieces from his gravestone, until the stone itself was stolen in 2000. It was recovered in June 2001, near [[Seattle]], Washington, and was placed in storage at the Waushara County Sheriff's Department. Since then, his gravesite has remained unmarked.<ref>{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Bie |title=It Happened in Wisconsin |publisher=TwoDot |location=[[Guilford, Connecticut]] |year=2007 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AfsoOl6qmiwC&pg=PA97 97] |isbn=978-0-7627-4153-3 |oclc=76820808}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
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Gein's story has been depicted widely in [[American culture|American popular culture]] via numerous appearances in film, music, and literature. The tale first came to widespread public attention in the fictionalized version presented by [[Robert Bloch]] in his 1959 suspense novel, ''[[Psycho (novel)|Psycho]]''. In addition to [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1960 film adaptation of Bloch's novel [[Psycho (1960 film)|of the same name]],<ref name="PM">{{cite web | url=http://www.popmatters.com/column/167248-no-texas-no-chainsaw-no-massacre-the-true-links-in-the-chain/ | title=No Texas, No Chainsaw, No Massacre: The True Links in the Chain | work=[[PopMatters]] | date=February 4, 2013 | last=Maçek III |first=J.C. | access-date=October 30, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208051707/http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/167248-no-texas-no-chainsaw-no-massacre-the-true-links-in-the-chain/ | archive-date=February 8, 2013 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Gein's story was loosely adapted into numerous films, including ''[[Deranged (1974 film)|Deranged]]'' (1974),<ref name=PM/> ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' (1974), ''[[In the Light of the Moon]]'' (2000) (released in the United States and Australia as ''Ed Gein'' [2001]), ''[[Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield]]'' (2007), ''[[Ed Gein, the Musical]]'' (2010) and the [[Rob Zombie]] films ''[[House of 1000 Corpses]]'' (2003) and ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]'' (2005).

Gein served as the inspiration for myriad fictional serial killers, most notably [[Norman Bates]] (''Psycho''), [[Leatherface]] (''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (franchise)|The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]''),<ref name=PM/> [[Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs)|Buffalo Bill]] (''[[The Silence of the Lambs (novel)|The Silence of the Lambs]]''),<ref name=PM/> Garland Greene (''[[Con Air]]''), and the character of Dr. Oliver Thredson in the TV series ''[[American Horror Story: Asylum]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Glamour (magazine)|Glamour]]|title=All the Real-Life Scary Stories Told on American Horror Story |first=Lynsey|last=Eidell|date=October 7, 2015|url=http://www.glamour.com/story/all-of-the-real-life-scary-sto|access-date=October 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021141008/http://www.glamour.com/story/all-of-the-real-life-scary-sto|archive-date=October 21, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

American filmmaker [[Errol Morris]] and German filmmaker [[Werner Herzog]] tried to collaborate on a [[Errol Morris#Unfinished project on Ed Gein|film project]] about Gein from 1975 to 1976. Morris claimed to have interviewed Gein several times and ended up spending almost a year in Plainfield interviewing dozens of locals. The pair planned secretly to exhume Gein's mother from her grave to test a theory, but never followed through on the scheme, and eventually ended their collaboration. The aborted project was described in a 1989 ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' profile of Morris.<ref name="singer1">{{cite magazine|title=Predilections |last=Singer |first=Mark |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=February 2, 1989 |url=http://www.errolmorris.com/content/profile/singer_predilections.html |access-date=December 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211045415/http://www.errolmorris.com/content/profile/singer_predilections.html |archive-date=December 11, 2014 |url-status=live |via=Errolmorris.com}}</ref>

Gein's story inspired American [[grunge]] band [[Tad (band)|Tad]] to write the song "Nipple Belt" for their 1989 album, ''[[God's Balls]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sprague |first=Deborah |title=Tad |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/tad/ |access-date=February 18, 2025 |website=[[Trouser Press]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Gein also inspired American [[thrash metal]] band [[Slayer]] to write the song "Dead Skin Mask" for their 1990 album, ''[[Seasons in the Abyss]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |date=October 9, 2023 |title=34 Years Ago: Slayer Release 'Seasons in the Abyss' |url=https://loudwire.com/slayer-seasons-in-the-abyss-album-anniversary/ |access-date=February 18, 2025 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}</ref> Also, [[Blind Melon]] singer [[Shannon Hoon]] stated in interviews that the song "Skinned" on their 1995 album, ''[[Soup (Blind Melon album)|Soup]]'', was about Gein, and many of the crimes he committed.<ref>{{cite web | title=Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon from 1995 | url=https://www.thetapesarchive.com/shannon-hoon/ }}</ref> Additionally, Gein was the inspiration and namesake for the song "[[Nothing to Gein]]", by American [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Mudvayne]]; released in 2000 on their album, ''[[L.D. 50 (album)|L.D. 50]].''

The character [[Patrick Bateman]], in the 1991 novel ''[[American Psycho]]'' and its [[American Psycho (film)|2000 film adaptation]], mistakenly attributes a quote by [[Edmund Kemper]] to Gein saying, "You know what Ed Gein said about women? ... He said, 'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out, talk to her, be real nice and sweet and treat her right ... [the other part wonders] what her head would look like on a stick'."<ref name="nypost">{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2016/02/10/serial-killer-quoted-in-american-psycho-doesnt-want-to-leave-jail/ |title=Serial Killer quoted in American Psycho doesn't want to leave jail |first=Jamie |last=Schram |date=February 10, 2016 |work=[[New York Post]] |publisher=[[News Corp (2013–present)|News Corp]]|location=New York City|access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

In 2012, German director [[Jörg Buttgereit]] wrote and directed a stage play about Gein's case titled ''Kannibale und Liebe,'' at Theater Dortmund in Germany. The part of Gein was played by actor Uwe Rohbeck.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.derwesten.de/kultur/kannibale-liebe-und-der-ganz-authentische-horror-im-theater-dortmund-id7222838.html |title=Kannibale, Liebe und der ganz authentische Horror im Theater Dortmund |first=Arnold |last=Hohmann |date=October 23, 2012 |access-date=March 8, 2019 |work=Derwesten |language=de |archive-date=July 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725065014/https://www.derwesten.de/kultur/kannibale-liebe-und-der-ganz-authentische-horror-im-theater-dortmund-id7222838.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to George W. Arndt, news reports at the time of Gein's crimes spawned a subgenre of [[black humor]] called "Geiners."<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Appendix A: Gein Humor|first1=Robert H.|last1=Gollmar|first2=George W.|last2=Arndt|title=Edward Gein: America's Most Bizarre Serial Killer|publisher=[[Pinnacle Books]]|location=New York City |date=1989|edition=3rd|isbn=978-1-55817-187-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=George W.|last=Arndt|title=Horror, Humor and Human Nature: Community Reactions to a Horrifying Event|publisher=Menninger School of Psychiatry|location=Topeka, Kansas}}</ref> Gein was portrayed in flashbacks by [[Michael Wincott]] in the 2012 biographical film ''[[Hitchcock (film)|Hitchcock]]''.<ref name="INDIE">{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 3, 2013 |title=Oh, That Guy: 15 Character Actor Villains You Love To Hate |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2013/07/oh-that-guy-15-character-actor-villains-you-love-to-hate-96358/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120224205/http://www.indiewire.com/2013/07/oh-that-guy-15-character-actor-villains-you-love-to-hate-96358/ |archive-date=November 20, 2017 |access-date=June 1, 2018 |website=[[IndieWire]] |publisher=[[Penske Business Media]]}}</ref>

In 2022, Gein was portrayed by Shane Kerwin in the first season of [[Netflix]]'s anthology series [[Monster (American TV series)|''Monster'']], where he was suggested as a possible inspiration for the crimes of serial killer [[Jeffrey Dahmer]]. However, any direct connection between the two remains speculative.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Radcliffe |first=J. R. |title=What's real and what's fiction in Netflix's Jeffrey Dahmer series, 'Monster' |url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/09/23/whats-real-fiction-monster-jeffrey-dahmer-story-netflix/8083469001/ |access-date=September 28, 2022 |website=Journal Sentinel |language=en-US}}</ref> The third season of the [[Ryan Murphy (producer)|Ryan Murphy]] series, titled ''[[Monster: The Ed Gein Story]]'', focused on Gein's life and crimes, with [[Charlie Hunnam]] cast in the lead role.<ref>{{cite web|first=Joe|last=Otterson|url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/monster-season-3-charlie-hunnam-ed-gein-1236147000/ |title='Monster' Season 3 to Star Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein|date=September 17, 2024 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> The season was released on Netflix on October 3, 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.netflix.com/tudum/monster-the-ed-gein-story|title=Monster: The Ed Gein Story|website=Netflix|accessdate=September 19, 2025}}</ref><!---
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==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [[Anatoly Moskvin]] – Russian body snatcher
* {{annotated link|Body snatching}}
* {{annotated link|Carl Tanzler}}
* {{annotated link|Grave robbery}}
* [[List of homicides in Wisconsin]]
* [[List of serial killers in the United States]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book |first=Robert H. |last=Gollmar |title=Edward Gein: America's Most Bizarre Murderer |url=https://archive.org/details/edwardgeinameric00goll/page/270 |location=Delavan, Wis |publisher=C. Hallberg |year=1981 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/edwardgeinameric00goll/page/270 270] |isbn=978-0873190206}}
* {{cite book |first=Harold |last=Schechter |author-link=Harold Schechter |title=Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original 'Psycho' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AZePgAACAAJ |location=New York |publisher=[[Pocket Books]] |year=1989 |page=274 |isbn=978-0671644826 |oclc=40002199}}
* {{cite book |first1=Michael H. |last1=Stone |first2=Gary |last2=Brucato |author1-link=Michael H. Stone|name-list-style=amp |date=2019 |title=The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime |location=Amherst, N.Y. |publisher=Prometheus Books |pages=78–83 |isbn=978-1-63388-532-5}}
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* “Ed Gein | [[Monster: The Ed Gein Story|Story, Movie, Netflix, Crimes, & Facts.]]” (2025). 
* “[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/reimagining-the-victim-in-post1970s-horror-media/beyond-binaries-the-position-of-the-transgender-victim-in-horror-narratives/E04AC54BC1ABADB4B9A0B74E5F384ED2?utm_source=chatgpt.com Beyond Binaries: The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives.]” (2024). In ''Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media'' (pp. 61–78). 

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