Living in isolation and loneliness outside the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, Ed Gein lived a horrific double life. Eccentric but friendly handyman and helpful neighbor by day, grave robber and murderer by night. When a local hardware store owner vanished on November 16, 1957, police found themselves digging through Gein’s collection of human remains that filled every room of his dilapidated farmhouse. Every room but his mother’s, which he sealed off and preserved after her death 12 years earlier.