Ed Gein

Type: Person

As of November 2026, Ed Gein has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Two Hot Takes (Nov 2025). Used as a dark comparison when imagining what the prankster husband ‘looks like,’ reinforcing the true-crime framing and the idea that the behavior is psychopathic.

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.