What the Movies Invented About Ed Gein #shorts #truecrime

In November 1957, Plainfield hardware-store owner Bernice Worden went missing. That night police arrested Ed Gein. Within days the case was on front pages — and within a few years pieces of that reporting had been turned into fiction: Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Silence of the Lambs. This Short is about what the court record actually shows, and what the movies invented.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/Em_kdmYefcA

Sources: Judge Robert H. Gollmar, State of Wisconsin v. Edward Gein (14 Nov 1968); History.com / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summaries; Collider / Mental Floss on Psycho, Texas Chain Saw, Silence of the Lambs links.
Images: Ed Gein news photo c.1958 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain) as credited on screen; film publicity stills used for criticism as labelled. Narration is a synthetic voice.
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