His crimes were discovered after suspicions were raised around the disappearance of a woman named Bernice Worden.
The 58-year-old woman was reported missing from a hardware store in 1957, with her son suspecting Gein.
This came following multiple disappearances of residents in the area. When police entered Gein’s home, they discovered her hanging headless from the ceiling.
Upon investigating the house, officials found an assortment of horror, with clothes made from human skin, organs in jars and skulls used as bowls for soup. When arrested, he not only admitted to the murder of Worden, but a host of other crimes.
These included the earlier murder of another woman, Mary Hogan, as well as digging up bodies to cut off body parts and necrophilia.
