ON a dark November night in 1957, two sheriffs sped to a remote midwest American farmhouse to make a murder arrest.

Their target, oddball loner Ed Gein, was out having dinner with a neighbour — but what the two men discovered inside his ramshackle home would shock a nation.

His crime would also spawn terrifying movies such as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence Of The Lambs .

Strung upside down in the rafters of a wood shed — her head cut clean off and her torso split open — was hardware store owner Bernice Worden, 58.

Walking into Gein’s adjoining house of horrors, cops found a human heart sitting in a pan on the stove, skulls mounted on bedposts and masks made from women’s faces.

Worse still was a corset and leggings that had been fashioned from human skin and Bernice’s

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