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...week Eddie Gein, 51, was the center of one of the century's most gruesome criminal cases?and one of psychiatry's nost extraordinary case histories. He had gone into Plainfield (pop. 680) on a quiet Saturday morning (most of the men were out for the opening of the deer season) and shot Bernice Worden, 58, proprietor of a general store, with a .22 rifle from her own stock. He had loaded the body nto the store's pickup truck, driven it out to his farm. He was finishing a hearty dinner (pork chops, macaroni and cheese, Dickies, coffee...
...Murders. At the Gein farmhouse, filthy and choked with the clutter of a dozen years, police found a chamber of horrors. Bernice Worden's body was strung up by the heels in a summer kitchen. It had been eviscerated and dressed out like a deer. Her severed head was in a cardboard box, her heart in a plastic bag on the stove. Around the house the police also found: ten skins of human heads, neatly separated from the skull; assorted pieces of human skin, some between the pages of magazines, some made into small belts, some used to upholster chair...
...Pheasant, Grouse, Quail, and Grey Squirrel Seasons end in Massachusetts today; the archery season for deer opens tomorrow. The bird hunting thus far this fall has been good for Massachusetts. The pheasant season was quite productive, quails were numerous on the Cape, and the grouse kill, always sparse, was surprisingly high...
...Deer prospects are as good or better in Massachusetts than last year. There is also an exceptionally large deer population in Vermont this year; some may drift south. The archery season for deer lasts from Nov. 21 until Nov. 27; a combined archery and shotgun deer season lasts from Dec. 2 to Dec. 7. It is illegal to hunt deer with a rifle in Massachusetts...
...They spent their days in the woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food"), once observed "a grouse, a muskrat and six deer all in a bunch." The nature lovers encountered a dog, which Lee named Rex. As the second day went by, Lee became weary, pleaded in vain with Bob to take him home...