I Stole Ed Gein's Tombstone - Book

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This isn't a book for the faint of heart. It's a confession.

I'm the man who dug up Ed Gein's grave in the middle of the night and stole his tombstone. It wasn't for money. It was for a story. It was to see what would happen if I took the most notorious ghoul in American history and dragged him back into the light.

This book is the record of what happened next. It’s a story of the national media outrage, but it’s also the story of the quiet, shocking phone call where a member of the Warden family—kin to Gein's final victim—admitted they were glad the stone was gone.

It's the story of how that obsession escalated, culminating in a showdown with the Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, who tried to ban my art and run a truck allegedly owned by Gein out of her city. It's a story of death threats from angry locals and late-night conversations with the families still living in the shadow of the farmhouse.

More than anything, this is a look at the psychology of obsession—mine, and America's. It's about what happens when you spend your life staring into the abyss of true crime and realize the only way to understand the monster is to become a part of its story. This isn't just about a stolen tombstone. It's about the pieces of ourselves we see in the monsters we create.