Editing Ed Gein (section)

==Criminal history==
On November 16, 1957, Bernice Worden, the owner of a local hardware store in Plainfield, disappeared. Her son informed authorities that Gein had been spotted in the store the evening before his mother disappeared and informed her he would return the following morning to purchase an item. When authorities searched Gein's property, they discovered Worden's decomposing body in a shed, hung upside down by her wrists and a crossbar at her ankles; she had been shot by Gein and her torso had been dressed out, a tactic often performed by hunters after killing their desired prey. When authorities searched Gein's home, what they found were much more shocking than Worden's dead body; they discovered:
* Whole human bones and fragments
* Wastebasket made of human skin
* Human skin covering several chair seats
* Skulls on his bedposts
* Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off
* Bowls made from human skulls
* A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist
* Leggings made from human leg skin
* Masks made from the skin from female heads
* Mary Hogan's face mask in a paper bag
* Mary Hogan's skull in a box
* Bernice Worden's entire head in a burlap sack
* Bernice Worden's heart "in a plastic bag in front of Gein's potbellied stove"
* Nine vulvae in a shoe box
* A young girl's dress and "the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old"
* A belt made from female human nipples
* Four noses
* A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring
* A lampshade made from the skin of a human face
* Fingernails from female fingers
After being photographed, the items were destroyed. When questioned, Gein denied murder, but admitted between 1947 and 1952 he had made about 40 nocturnal visits to three local graveyards and exhumed the remains of recently buried victims, but stated he was in somewhat of a "dazed state". However, Gein remarked that on approximately 30 of his occasions he had managed to come out of the dazed state and put the bodies back and left the grave in good order. Gein admitted to making nine grave robberies and subsequently lead investigators to them; authorities were skeptical as to whether or not Gein could rob a grave within the space of an evening and dug up two of the graves Gein had informed them about; in one instance there was a crowbar in place of the body, which contradicted Gein's story. He also confessed that following his mother's death in 1945 he wanted to become her, and began these gruesome acts due to his mother's psychotic hatred of women.
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