He is called "The Butcher of Plainfield" "Grandfather of Gore "The Ghoul of Plainfield" and has been a source of inspiration of countless movies that take a small truth about the life of Ed Gein and spin an entire book or movie series designed to scare those who dare read or watch. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go behind the stories and tell the true story of a man who admitted to killing two women in the 50s but is suspected of so much more.

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00:02.83 Introduction

02:11.40 Conversation about Ed Gein

05:02.30 Scary movies using parts of Ed Gein story

10:09.05 Grave Robbing

15:08.53 Body exam done in a mortuary

20:13.24 Deputy sent to Ed Gein's house, finds decapitated victim

25:24.90 Gein admitted killing two women - did he practice on the dead?

30:09.33 Waste basket made of human skin, skulls mounted on bedposts

35:10.80 Gein made belt out of nipples

40:23.39 Movies using parts of Ed Gein story

42:03.25 Conclusion

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Franz and Theresia Kraus are a retired couple. In 2025 he is 92 and she is 83. The problem is that nobody has seen them in several years. Their social security checks are automatically deposited and their adult son, Lorenz Kraus, tends to other matters for them. After years of attempting to contact the couple without success, the social security office asks police to do a "welfare check" on Franz and Theresia Kraus. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack take a look at what happened when police do the welfare check and how their "loving son" Lorenz Kraus ends up on local tv confessing to killing his parents and burying their bodies in the backyard.

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00:00.11 Introduction

01:16.21 Man buries mom and dad in backyard

04:36.12 Mountain Family Comes to big city to transport body of their loved one on a flatbed truck

08:59.11 News Anchor gets son to admit murder during interview

14:37.45 Early Luminol story

20:10.37 Body decomposing in soil will cause sinking

25:11.76 Newsman interviews murderer

30:14.33 Suffocated father

34:31.88 Admits killing in 2017

40:13.36 Skeletal remains can breakdown

44:27.65 Conclusion

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Christa Pike killed a classmate in Job Corps, carved a pentagram in her chest with a box cutter, kept a piece of crushed skull as a trophy, and showed it to friends.

Sentenced to death for the January 1995 murder, she finally gets her date with death, but it is still another year away!

On January 12, 1995, Colleen Slemmer, 19, was lured to her death by Christa Pike, Tadaryl Shipp, and Shadolla Pederson. Pike believed Colleen was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Colleen's friends say she was not involved with Shipp. J

oseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack look at the beating that brought about Colleen's death. And how Christa Pike saved a piece of Colleen's skull as a trophy she shows to other members of Job Corps. Shadolla Pederson turned informant and got probation.

Tadaryl Shipp was sentenced to life but comes up for parole this month. Christa Pike was sentenced to death, and the date of her execution has been set for September 2026.

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00:03.86 Introduction

03:29.97 What Christa Pike did in killing Colleen

08:31.69 Must be death penalty qualified

13:02.52 Job Corps

18:02.64 Christa Pike lured Colleen

23:32.31 Brain coming out of skull

27:37.26 Moving skin around skull

31:37.68 Long cut down Colleen's back

36:29.24 Colleen endured great pain during beating

41:07.05 Crime solved within 36 hours

44:26.51 Conclusion

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