Edward Theodore Gein, popularly known as Ed Gein was a Serial killer, murderer and body snatcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin. He was the inspiration for the villains of several gruesome horror films, including Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, and Norman Bates in Psycho.Click to see full answer. Also asked, what serial killer made a belt out of nipples? Ed Gein Also, what was found in Ed Geins home? Read More...
By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World News@KattyKayBBC
Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential hopefuls (from left) Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth WarrenWith US Senator Elizabeth Warren withdrawing from the race for the White House, what began as a diverse field of Democratic presidential hopefuls has turned into a familiar contest between two white men. Katty Kay explains why America won't have its first female president just yet.
Tulsi Gabbard has many distinctive qualities. She's a Hawaiian Army National Guard Major, the first Hindu member of Congress and the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress but she is not going to be president of the United States. Read More...
I confess, it took me a while to warm up to Maisie Dobbs, the up-by-her-bootstraps private eye of Jacqueline Winspear’s bestselling British cozy mysteries. She was a little too bland and goody-goody for my taste at first — never mind that Hillary Clinton is a fan. But Maisie grew on me.
Her creator, on the other hand — now that’s a whole different story. I fell in love with Jackie Winspear almost at once, right there on Page 24 of her engaging, amusing and moving memoir of growing up in the post-World War II English countryside. Read More...