Satan-worshipers may have snatched the headstone marking the grave of Ed Gein – the serial killer who inspired the movie shockers “Psycho,” “Silence of the Lambs” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
Cops say 💦the 200-pound gray granite marker wasꦚ stolen last week from a peaceful country cemetery near Plainfield, Wis.
Investigators are looking at occult groups who worship the devil as possible culprits, ac🌠cording to Waushara County Sheriff Patrick Fox.
And po🉐lice have askꩲed computer users to keep an eye out for any messages about the stone on Satan-themed Web sites.
Gein was buste✃d in 1957, after the body of missing hardware-store owner Bernice Worden was found in his farmhouse. She h🎃ad been gutted like a deer and her head was mounted on a wall with hooks through the ears.
Police also discovered body parts from 12 other women – their heads preserved in plastic bags, and lampshades and chair seats upholstered with their skin.
🐼 Cops said Gein was frying a human heart in a pan on the stꦛove and kept human organs in his refrigerator.
Gei🌸n had been in mental institutions from the time of his arrest in 1957 until he was brought to trial in 1968 for the murder of Worden. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
He remained in mental🐻 hospitals until his death🤪 at age 77 in 1984.
Gein was first fictionalized as Norman Bates in “Psycho,” the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock flick that made Anthony Perkins a star.
He hit the screen again in 1974 as “Leatherface,” a maniac with a house full of corpses in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
In 1991, Anthony Hopkins portrayed another Gein knockoff, cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
For years, Gein’s grave has drawn morbid curiosity-seekers, some who chipped pieces off the headstone for souvenirs.
Unless the marker turns up, Gein’s final resting place will be unmarked, said cemetery caretaker Betty Petrusky, who dug his grave after he died.
“That spot will be filled up with black dirt and we’ll seed it with some grass. There will never be another stone put there,” she insisted.