People from La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Chapters: People from La Crosse, Wisconsin, Ed Gein, Joseph Losey, Nicholas Ray, Cadwallader C. Washburn, William P. Callahan, Ron Kind, Mark Kellogg, George G. Bingham, James Cameron, Stanley R. Christianson, Don Herbert, Jarrod Washburn, Ed Konetchy, Patrick Lucey, David Ackert, Tim Gullikson, Mike O'Callaghan, Danielle Trussoni, Arthur H. Parmelee, Frederick William Freking, Frank Pooler, Dan Kapanke, Tom Gullikson, John Toland, Andrew Rock, George Wilbur Peck, Don Iverson, Scott Servais, Mathias Harter, Damian Miller, Ford Sterling, Orion Samuelson, George Poage, Brynild Anundsen, John Patrick Treacy, Edwin W. Rice, Gregg Underheim, Kristian Prestgard, Brad Pfaff, Woodrow Swancutt, John Joseph Paul, Val Bettin, Curt Michel, Adolph Gundersen, Alexander Joseph McGavick, Jurgen Wilson, Angus Cameron, Marlin Schneider, Charles M. Palmer, Augustus Herman Pettibone, Lester Trimble, John Medinger, Brian Wrobel, Charles Dierkop, Charles S. Benton, Thea Bowman, Clark W. Thompson, Sharon Weston Broome, Chris Bury, Lee Nerison, William Stobb, Minnie Dupree, Michael Huebsch, Robert Moevs, George Addes, Merlin Hull, Michael Heiss, George Albert Hammes, James Trane, Robert E. Kreutz, Brandon Ratcliff, Timothy Burns, Hal Hanson, Gilbert M. Woodward, W. Peter Gilbertson, Orville Buckner, Frank P. Coburn, Matt Joyce, Clarence Tommerson, George Gale, Nathan Myrick, Hugo Jan Huss, William Richard Griffin, Jim Temp, Erasmus D. Campbell, John Oestreicher, Lalita Pandit, George A. Garrett, Biddy Dolan, Paul Offner, James Schwebach, Tom Newberry, John Shuman, Thomas Benton Stoddard, John Azor Kellogg, Mark Johnsrud, Walter Ristow, William H. Stevenson, Milo Knutson, George Dahlgren, Gysbert Van Steenwyk, Sr., Kilian Caspar Flasch, Reuben Trane, Chuck Hockenbery, Dave Umhoefer, Ty Loomis, Wayne J. Hood, Patrick Zielke, Gideon Hixon, Mark Meyer, Eugene A. Toepel, Bob Fitzke, Edward C. Krause, Chip Dunham, Raymond Bice, Sr., Arthur Kreutz, Harry W. Griswold, Gardner R. Withrow, Gottlieb Heileman, Adolph W. Ewert, Tom Hanneman, Elmer E. Barlow. Excerpt: Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein ( ; August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and grave robber. His crimes, which he committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, garnered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. After police found body parts in his house in 1957, Gein confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, in 1957. Initially found unfit to stand trial, following confinement in a mental health facility, he was tried in 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital. The body of Bernice Worden was found in Gein's shed; her head and the head of Mary Hogan were found inside his house. Robert H. Gollmar, the judge in the Gein case, wrote: "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder - that of Mrs. Worden." With fewer than three murders attributed, Gein does not meet the traditional definition of a serial killer. Regardless, his real-life case influenced the creation of several fictional serial killers, including Norman Bates from Psycho, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs. Gein was born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. His pa...