When local women go missing in rural Wisconsin, the police suspect the town eccentric.  The unfathomable nightmare they uncover at his dilapidated farmhouse would go on to influence horror writers for decades. The world was not ready for bodysnatcher, cannibal, and necrophiliac Ed Gein.

Sources:

Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original “Psycho” by Harold Schechter

Edward Theodore Gein “American Psycho”: Information summarized by Radford University students Brandie Jenkins, Amanda Clark, Cathleen Duncan, & Lacey Robinson

"The Shambles of Ed Gein" by Robert Bloch