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(Original Caption) Plainsfield, Wisconsin: Edward Gein, 51-year-old farmer is surrounded by newsmen and officers on his 160-acre farm after discovery of the mutilated and headless body of a 58-year-old woman and ten skulls on his property. authorities said today that parts of 15 separate human female bodies have been found in Gein's ramshackled farm house where he lived alone for the last 12 years. The grisly figure jumped to 15 when the remains of more bodies were uncovered after a new search of the dilapidated home. Gein, who underwent four hours of questioning in Madison yesterday, is scheduled for another lie detector test today. Meanwhile Sheriff Herbert Wanerski said he recognized one of the 10 skulls as that of Mrs. Mary Hogan, 54, who vanished in 1954 from her rural tavern near Bancroft. The tavern is six miles from Gein's farm where Deputies found the mutilated body of Mrs

(Original Caption) Plainsfield, Wisconsin: Edward Gein, 51-year-old farmer is surrounded by newsmen and officers on his 160-acre farm after discovery of the mutilated and headless body of a 58-year-old woman and ten skulls on his property. authorities said today that parts of 15 separate human female bodies have been found in Gein's ramshackled farm house where he lived alone for the last 12 years. The grisly figure jumped to 15 when the remains of more bodies were uncovered after a new search of the dilapidated home. Gein, who underwent four hours of questioning in Madison yesterday, is scheduled for another lie detector test today. Meanwhile Sheriff Herbert Wanerski said he recognized one of the 10 skulls as that of Mrs. Mary Hogan, 54, who vanished in 1954 from her rural tavern near Bancroft. The tavern is six miles from Gein's farm where Deputies found the mutilated body of Mrs