Serial Killer Ed Gein
Hometown Rejects Association With Atrocities
Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” has put Plainfield, Wisconsin on the map … but not in the way the town was hoping for.
The small town’s Clerk Treasurer, Emily Schaut, tells TMZ … “Just like so many places, Plainfield has dark moments in its history. We acknowledge this, and we have worked diligently to become more than a single story.”
Gein confessed to killing 2 women in the 1950s. Authorities also discovered he exhumed corpses from local graveyards, creating keepsakes from their bones and skin. He was later found guilty of murder and sentenced to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Schaut says they don’t anticipate any significant problems, but “law enforcement is equipped to handle any public safety issues that may arise.”
