Hear ‘Mad Butcher’ Ed Gein’s eerie voice for first time in MGM+ docuseries

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Ed Gein offers fresh insight into the mind of “The Mad Butcher” — told, in parts, by Gein himself in never-before-heard audiotapes.“Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein,” premiering Sept.

17 on MGM+, uses the tapes, unearthed in 2019, to delve into the mind of Gein, who was arrested in November 1957 in desolate Plainfield, WI.

Authorities entering his woodshed and adjoining house discovered a horrific scene: human heads; furniture, lamps and mugs fashioned out of human skin and skulls; human face masks; a heart in a frying pan; a belt made of nipples; and the body of a local woman, Bernice Worden, hanging in Gein’s woodshed — gutted and dismembered like a dead deer.“Put yourself back in 1957,” said “Lost Tapes” director/executive producer James Buddy Day (“Fall River”). “Ed Gein is arrested and the sheriff and deputies go into his house and never comprehended anything like what they were seeing … so they take him back to the jail and don’t know what to do so they call a local judge who lives down the road and he walks over with a recorder.”“They start recording Ed as all this was happening and, when they were done, the judge didn’t know what to do with the tapes so he left them in his office in his safe and they made their way into a safety deposit box,” Day said. “Years after he died, his family felt they should do something with them because they’re history.

That’s how they came to light in 2019.”The docuseries includes interviews with experts in necrophilia, psycho-criminal behavior, two authors who’ve written books about Gein and others: they all say that hearing the killer’s voice is a major breakthrough in the much-documented case.“It’s a game-changer for me,” Day said.