Ed Gein led a reclusive life inside a cluttered house on a farm in rural Plainfield, Wisconsin, in the 1950s. It was a house of horrors. Authorities later determined that Gein's house was filled with ...

Wisconsin is known not only as the America's Dairyland, but also has the unfortunate reputation of being the home to a couple of high-profile American serial killers. The first season of Netflix's ...

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.

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

The Plainfield Saints 9U Pop Warner football team has won the 2025 State Championship. The Saints are the Chicago area's only ...

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.