The Butcher of Plainfield: The Skin-Sewn Secrets of Ed Gein

In 1957, the quiet farming town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, became the epicenter of one of the most grotesque crimes in American history. Behind the peeling paint of Ed Gein’s farmhouse, authorities uncovered a macabre museum of human remains that shocked the world and forever scarred a community. Join us as we peel back the layers of Gein’s life — his strict and suffocating upbringing, his years of isolation, his grave-robbing obsessions, and the murders that revealed the unimaginable. This is the chilling true story of the man history would call the Butcher of Plainfield.