The subject of a new Netflix true-crime offering was a quiet, isolated farmer to the outside world in the 1950s, but he was hiding a grisly nightmare house that would go on to inspire horror movies.

The Butcher of Plainfield goes far beyond what Netflix shows on screen. Ed Gein’s name has long been synonymous with ...

Before Dahmer, before Bundy, before Gacy, there was Ed Gein. From the moment in 1957 when he admitted to killing a widowed Plainfield, Wisconsin, shopkeeper − whose butchered body was found in a shed ...

The setting for the horrors perpetrated by killer Ed Gein was a dilapidated farmhouse on an isolated plot of land in rural Wisconsin. Authorities made a grisly discovery there in the small town of ...

The Netflix TV miniseries "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" takes its share of liberties with the story of Ed Gein, a notorious killer from Plainfield, Wisconsin, who skinned and repurposed his victims.

James (Jim) A. Haskins, 84, of Wisconsin Rapids passed away on Thursday, September 11, 2025. Jim was born January 25, 1941 in Plainfield, WI to Frederick Jr. and Martha B. (Szulczewski) Haskins.