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Ed Gein admitted to killing two women, Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan

He also exhumed local graves to collect body parts

Gein is the subject of Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Ed Gein is one of the United States' most infamous killers.

In the 1950s, Gein, nicknamed " The Butcher of Plainfield ," was a killer and grave robber who used his victims' skin and other body parts to make clothing, masks, chairs, a lampshade and more household items. Gein's crimes are dramatized in the Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story , which premiered on Oct. 3.

Gein was ultimately arrested in 1957 after he was linked to the disappearance of a local hardware store owner named Bernice Worden, per History . Authorities later found Worden's dismembered body — and his grues

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