The location of serial killer Ed Gein's farm. After his 1957 arrest, authorities discovered numerous artifacts made from human body parts throughout the property, which were destroyed. The house was destroyed by a fire in 1958 amid concerns that the farm may draw unwanted attention. It is suspected that the fire was intentional, though no official investigation ever took place.
Ed Gein died in 1984 at the Mendota Mental Health Institute.
In 2025, Gein's story received national attention once again when Netflix released "Monster: The Ed Gein Story".
Serial killer Ed Gein's farm
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By LancelotLink @ 2009-12-31 07:04:22
(updated 2025-11-03)
Parabellum
@ 2011-06-14 05:10:49
Old photos from Life magazine: http://www.life.com/gallery/39992/inside-a-serial-killers-house#index/0
Anonymous
@ 2019-08-05 14:46:47
The serial killers house didn't just "burn down." It was burned down by angry neighbors who wanted to erase the evil that sat in their area. Nobody blamed them. It was felony vandalism but an understood vandalism. The killer was so demented that he was admonished by the justice system as a candidate to go down in history as the most heinous criminal of all time. Later, when asked by a reporter about that, Gein responded very seriously that he would be remembered that way. He didn't understand the grim aspect of it. He died in an insane asylum in 1984. Some VERY LAME commentator blamed an abusive woman for his insanity,.... and his digging up corpses and murdering. We have some very mentally ill people posting online. lol.
Anonymous
@ 2019-09-23 08:50:02
What the other anonymous person doesn’t realize is that the abusive person was Ed Gein’s own mother. She was apparently very strict and highly religious. She is likely the cause for Gein’s actions and behaviors. The only mentally ill person was Ed Gein.