Ed Gein
Two killings, and half the horror shelf.
- Connected to two killings — Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957. His wider notoriety derives from grave robbing rather than from additional murders.
A house, borrowed by three franchises.
Two. He is third on this shelf on a count of two, which is the purest available demonstration that footprint and body count are unrelated quantities.
What was found in the farmhouse was laundered into fiction so completely that most people who know the imagery have never heard the name attached to it. The property was licensed; the man was not needed.
He is the case where the packaging fully detached from the file and kept selling on its own.
Ed Gein was connected to two killings, those of Mary Hogan (1954) and Bernice Worden (1957); his wider notoriety derives from grave robbing rather than additional murders.
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