

During his time in La Crosse, George owned a local grocery shop, but he soon sold the business and left the city with his family to live in isolation on a 155-acre (63-hectare) farm in the town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, which became the Gein family's permanent residence. She hated her husband, an alcoholic who was unable to keep a job he had worked at various times as a carpenter, tanner and insurance salesman. She reserved time every afternoon to read to them from the Bible, usually selecting verses from the Old Testament and Book of Revelation concerning death, murder and divine retribution.

She preached to her sons about the innate immorality of the world, the evil of drinking, and her belief that all women (apart from herself) were naturally promiscuous and instruments of the devil. Īugusta was fervently religious, and nominally Lutheran. Gein had an elder brother, Henry George Gein (1901–1944). Gein was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1906, the second of two boys of George Philip Gein (1873–1940 ) and Augusta Wilhelmine ( née Lehrke) Gein (1878–1945). He is buried next to his family in the Plainfield Cemetery, in a now-unmarked grave. He died at Mendota Mental Health Institute of respiratory failure, on July 26, 1984, aged 77.
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By 1968, he was judged competent to stand trial he was found guilty of the murder of Worden, but he was found legally insane and was remanded to a psychiatric institution. Gein was initially found unfit to stand trial and confined to a mental health facility. Gein also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957. Gein's crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Edward Theodore Gein ( / ɡ iː n/ Aug – July 26, 1984), also known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher.
