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Plainfield: The Night Visits

Plainfield: The Night Visits

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 When Augusta Gein died in 1945, she left behind a son with no identity beyond devotion to her—and a psyche about to shatter in unimaginable ways. This episode chronicles Ed Gein's forty nighttime cemetery visits between 1947 and 1952, examining the methodical grave-robbing expeditions that revealed his desperate, delusional attempt to resurrect his mother by literally becoming her. From the psychiatric reasoning behind his gruesome creations to how he maintained a façade of normalcy in plain sight, we explore the haunting question of how a small-town handyman could harbor such darkness undetected for a decade.

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