By 1945, Ed Gein lived alone inside that farmhouse near Plainfield, Wisconsin. His abusive father died some years earlier; his brother perished in a fire under mysterious circumstances, and his troubled mother, whom Gein was close with, also died. Her death changed Gein forever. Once police entered the Gein family home in search of missing Bernice Worden, what confronted them was a litany of unspeakable horrors: Furniture made from human remains, clothing made from human skin, miscellaneous bones and body parts, evidence of necrophilia, and Worden's headless, gutted, corpse. The list only goes on from there (via History).

In total, the remains of 10 women were found. Most had already died and were dug up by Gein. He admitted he killed two women on his own: Worden and Mary Hogan, with intentions to use her body as part of a skin suit (per The U.S. Sun). Gein confessed to his crimes, leading police to the gravesites where he dug up the remains for his gruesome menagerie. He also admitted he killed both women. All of this occurred over the course of many years, beginning around the same time Gein's mother died. What could motivate such behavior? Gein intended to make himself a new mother out of other women's remains — like clothing he could wear in the night outside that farmhouse near Plainfield (per A&E).

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