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El macabro caso de Ed Gein, el asesino serial que coleccionaba los restos de sus víctimas y profanaba tumbas

El 16 de noviembre de 1957, la policía del condado de Plainfield, en Wisconsin, entró a la granja de un hombre llamado Ed Gein, de 51 años, y se encontró con una escena escalofriante e imposible de olvidar: del techo colgaba el cuerpo decapitado de una mujer, mientras que en el resto de la casa se encontraron restos humanos que habían sido convertidos en artesanías como lámparas, máscaras y utensilios.
El macabro hallazgo marcó uno de los casos criminales más perturbadores de Estados Unidos y fue la base de películas y libros que décadas después seguirían estremeciendo a la sociedad.
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El inicio de un monstruo
Edward Theodore Gein nació el 27 de agosto de 1906 en La Crosse, Wisconsin, en una familia atravesada por la violencia y el fanatismo religioso. Su padre, George, era alcohólico y maltrataba verbal y físicamente a sus dos hijos, hasta que murió en 1940.
Por otra parte, su madre, Augusta, era religiosa y profundamente dominante. Ella le inculcó a Ed y a su hermano Henry una visión del mundo en la que las mujeres eran “pecadoras” y la vida debía girar en torno a la fe en Dios.
Tras la muerte de Henry en 1944 en un incendio que se produjo en circunstancias sospechosas, Gein quedó solo con su madre, pero cuando ella falleció en 1945, él perdió su único vínculo cercano. De esta manera, quedó aislado en la granja familiar, en donde comenzó a desarrollar una obsesión enfermiza por la anatomía y las mujeres. Fue así que se dedicó a pasar horas leyendo sobre experimentos médicos, canibalismo y relatos de exhumaciones.
En la década de 1950, la obsesión de Gein por estos temas escaló a un siguiente nivel, por lo cual empezó a visitar cementerios cercanos. Allí, profanaba las tumbas y se llevaba los cuerpos de mujeres de mediana edad, con características similares a las de su mamá. Sin embargo, sus incursiones eran meticulosas y específicas: se robaba los cadáveres para luego reconstruir partes de su casa con ellos.
La casa del horror
El 16 de noviembre de 1957, Bernice Worden, dueña de la ferretería del pueblo, desapareció en pleno horario de trabajo. Su hijo, que era ayudante del sheriff, encontró rastros de sangre en el local y una pista que sería clave para develar el misterio: un ticket de venta a nombre de Ed Gein. Este detalle llevó a los agentes a la granja y destapó el caso.
El allanamiento fue impactante incluso para investigadores que ya contaba con amplia experiencia en casos del estilo. Worden estaba colgada de los tobillos en el techo, decapitada y eviscerada como si fuese un animal de caza. Mientras que en la propiedad había restos humanos por todas partes: un cráneo utilizado como cenicero, cortinas hechas con piel, cucharas de hueso y una colección de cabezas momificadas.
Algunos agentes sufrieron crisis nerviosas y no pudieron continuar con la inspección de la casa. La prensa apodó al lugar como la “casa del horror” y durante semanas Plainfield se llenó de periodistas que llegaban desde todo el país. Ed Gein fue detenido en noviembre de 1957 y confesó sus crímenes. (Foto: AP)
Durante la investigación, la policía encontró más elementos que resultaron escalofriantes: sillas tapizadas con piel humana, lámparas hechas con huesos, una caja de zapatos con nueve vulvas, máscaras confeccionadas con caras humanas, un corsé de piel, cráneos convertidos en cuencos y hasta un cinturón hecho con pezones. Había restos de al menos 15 personas.
Si bien la magnitud de la escena hacía sospechar que Gein había matado a más de dos mujeres, la Justicia solo pudo comprobar que cometió los asesinatos de Bernice Worden y de Mary Hogan.
Este último se cree que ocurrió en 1954, cuando la dueña de un bar en Pine Grove desapareció sin dejar rastros. Pese a la falta de pistas durante años, algunos vecinos recordaron que el sospechoso solía decir que “Mary estaba en su casa”. Nadie se imaginó que podía ser real.
Una parte de la cocina en la granja de Ed Gein, en Wisconsin. (Foto: El País)
Con respecto al móvil de los crímenes, uno de los puntos centrales del caso fue la dependencia de Gein hacia su madre Augusta. Los psiquiatras concluyeron que la muerte de ella fue el detonante de sus actos atroces.
Incluso, el llamado “traje de piel” que confeccionó estaba pensado para “convertirse en su madre” y poder vivir dentro de ella, según declaró él mismo más tarde.
Los investigadores también encontraron revistas médicas y libros sobre canibalismo, experimentos nazis y rituales, lo que demostró hasta qué punto había investigado para darle forma a sus actos.
Una confesión escalofriante
Tras su detención, Gein confesó sin oponer resistencia. En ese momento, los agentes lo describieron como un hombre tranquilo, de tono suave, que respondía a las preguntas sin alterarse. Dijo que en muchas ocasiones entraba en “trances” y que después “no recordaba lo que había hecho”.
En principio, reconoció haber asesinado a Mary Hogan y a Bernice Worden, aunque insistió en que en algunos casos solo desenterraba cadáveres porque “necesitaba compañía”. Esa mezcla de frialdad y desconexión con la realidad reforzó la teoría de los psiquiatras sobre su inestabilidad mental.
Ese mismo año, Gein fue declarado no apto para enfrentar un juicio, ya que padecía psicosis y esquizofrenia. Por este motivo, fue internado en el Central State Hospital, un psiquiátrico de máxima seguridad en Wisconsin. Allí permaneció bajo observación durante más de una década.
Ed Gein murió por insuficiencia respiratoria el 26 de julio de 1984. (Foto: Biography)
En 1968, una nueva evaluación determinó que podía ser juzgado, aunque en este caso el proceso se centró solo en el asesinato de Bernice Worden. Gein se declaró inocente por demencia, pero el juez lo encontró culpable aunque mentalmente enfermo. Esto evitó que fuera enviado a la cárcel y volvió a ser enviado a un hospital psiquiátrico.
El 26 de julio de 1984, murió a los 77 años en el Mendota Mental Health Institute y fue enterrado en el cementerio de Plainfield, el mismo lugar que había profanado en vida.
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El caso de Ed Gein inspiró a varios personajes que pasaron a la cultura popular y se convirtieron en un ícono del género de terror, como por ejemplo, Norman Bates en Psicosis, Leatherface en La masacre de Texas y Buffalo Bill en El silencio de los inocentes.
En 1958, la granja fue incendiada en circunstancias que no quedaron claras, aunque se cree que se produjo para evitar que se convirtiera en un punto turístico macabro. Décadas más tarde, su tumba también fue vandalizada y la lápida robada.
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From grief to gold medals, Trump’s SOTU guest list tells a bigger story

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President Donald Trump will deliver his fourth State of the Union address of his presidential tenure Tuesday night, which will include guests stretching from conservative speaker Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, to the parents of the National Guard member fatally shot on the streets of Washington, D.C., in November 2025.
Trump will take the dais at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Tuesday, when he is expected to deliver a data-heavy speech focused on the economy and his administration’s wins lowering cost-of-living woes.
He will be joined by special guests who will help illustrate how his policies have delivered real savings to everyday Americans, those who have been the victims of crimes and tragedy and those embodying American triumph.
Among top names invited to the address are Erika Kirk, who is now leading conservative group Turning Point USA after her husband, the group’s co-founder and executive director, was assassinated in September 2025 while touring college campuses. Trump’s speech will include mentions of the U.S.’ «tremendous revival of faith, Christianity, and belief in God in our country» since Kirk’s death, The Daily Wire reported.
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The U.S. men’s hockey team also is traveling to the speech after winning the gold in the Olympics after defeating Canada 2–1. The team traveled on a blue-and-white Air Force jet from Miami to the nation’s capital Tuesday.
Everyday Americans also will play a large role in Trump’s speech, with the president inviting women such as Catherine Rayner of Norfolk, Virginia. Rayner and her husband have been navigating fertility complications and in vitro fertilization for five years.
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Rayner became the first patient of TrumpRx.gov — a government-run portal designed to steer consumers toward lower-cost prescription drugs offered by manufacturers — earlier in February when it rolled out, and saw pharmaceutical bills drop from about $4,000 to $500, Fox News Digital previously reported.

President Donald Trump will deliver his fourth State of the Union address of his presidential tenure Tuesday night. (Win McNamee/Pool via Reuters)
The president also invited Pennsylvania mom Megan Hemhouser, who homeschools her two children and also works as a waitress in the evenings. Her husband is a heavy machinery operator, with the family showcasing how the president’s «no tax on tips» and «no tax on overtime» policies have benefited everyday families. The Hemhousers have benefited from a $5,000 increase in take-home pay under Trump’s tax plans included in the one «big beautiful bill.»
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Trump also invited the parents of Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old National Guard member who was killed in Washington, D.C., ahead of Thanksgiving 2025.
Dalilah Coleman, 7, will also attend the speech, CBS News reported. Coleman was left seriously injured by a California car crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver in 2024.
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First lady Melania Trump invited guests who the White House said reflect on her «Be Best, Fostering the Future» push, including Sierra Burns, a participant in her Foster Youth to Independence Program, and Everest Nevraumont, a 10-year-old student at an AI-focused private school, Alpha School, an AI advocate and a TedX speaker.
The pair will join the first lady in her box for the 2026 State of the Union, spotlighting her focus on expanding opportunity through education and technology, according to the White House’s website.
Trump additionally invited the U.S. women’s hockey team to the speech after their gold win over Canada, but they declined due to the timing of the speech.
Trump’s speech is expected to focus on economic wins under his leadership, while celebrating the nation’s landmark 250th anniversary of independence.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital ahead of the speech, «President Trump’s State of the Union Address will celebrate 250 glorious years of our nation’s independence and excellence, highlighting incredible stories of American heroes throughout the speech.»
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Iran’s shadowy chemical weapons program draws scrutiny as reports allege use against protesters

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A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) raises concerns about Iran’s opaque chemical weapons program, which argues policymakers have paid little attention to compared with Iran’s more scrutinized nuclear weapons program.
The FDD report outlines how the Iranian regime may have resorted to the unconventional use of chemical weapons while it faced an unprecedented uprising beginning in December 2025, a wave of unrest Tehran has not seen since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Any use of chemical weapons by Iran would be in defiance of their obligations under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
«The United States, its allies and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) should investigate credible claims that Iran’s regime used chemical weapons against its own people,» Andrea Stricker, deputy director of FDD’s nonproliferation program and author of the report, told Fox News Digital.
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Iran’s illicit chemical weapons program is under renewed scrutiny as the Trump administration appears closer to taking military action against Iran and its nuclear weapons program.
While the U.S. has been engaged in indirect talks with Iranian officials mediated by Oman in Geneva, the U.S. has increased its military presence in the Persian Gulf, sending the USS Gerald R. Ford to join dozens of other warships to the region.
On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi posted on X that «Iran will resume talks with the U.S. in Geneva with a determination to achieve a fair and equitable deal—in the shortest possible time.»
The foreign minister claimed that Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons under any circumstances but emphasized that Iran will not forgo its right to harness peaceful nuclear technology.
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The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands, May 5, 2017. (Peter Dejong/The Associated Press)
«A deal is within reach, but only if diplomacy is given priority,» he added.
Despite the optimism and push for continued talks, there remain fears that Iran will not make any meaningful concessions on their nuclear program, which could lead to U.S. military strikes on the nation.
A broader regime change campaign to topple the Islamic republic’s government, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is also not off the table, according to some reports.
«If Washington launches strikes against Iran, it should give serious consideration to targeting the regime’s chemical weapons research and production facilities. Such action would help halt further development and potential use of these weapons while sending a clear message that the regime cannot commit atrocities with impunity,» Stricker said.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which Iran is party to, upholds the norms against state-held chemical weapons, specifically, banning states’ development, stockpiling, production and use of chemical weapons, even for retaliatory reasons, as well as their receipt from or transfer to anyone.
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Israel’s deputy ambassador to the Netherlands, Yaron Wax, said in July 2025 before a special meeting of the OPCW that «over the past two decades Iran has been developing a chemical weapons program based on weaponized pharmaceutical agents.»
These agents, Wax said, impact the central nervous system and can be fatal even in small doses.
The ambassador said at the Shahid Meisami Research Complex, destroyed by Israel in June 2025, Iran’s Shahid Meisami Group (SMG) was working on fentanyl opioid-derived tactical munitions for military use. Israel believes the pharmaceutical-based agents were transferred to Syria’s longtime and now deposed dictator, Bashar al-Assad, and Iraqi Shia militias as well.
Iran began developing its chemical weapons program in 1983 during its war with Iraq in response to chemical attacks from the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to the U.S. Intelligence Community.
As recently as 2024, the U.S. has repeatedly found Iran in noncompliance with its obligations under the CWC.
In a post on X in November 2024, the Iranian mission to the United Nations pushed back on the charges against it. «A victim of Western-donated chemical weapons employed by the Saddam regime, Iran stands as a responsible member of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over the past several decades, not a single instance of Iranian violation has been recorded. The current unfounded reports are merely an outgrowth of psychological warfare propagated by the Zionist regime in the wake of its recent defeat on the Lebanese front.»

Cars burn in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency’s value in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026. (Stringer/West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
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Stricker says the U.S. and international community have failed to hold Iran accountable for its illegal chemical weapons program, and meaningful action must be taken to prevent Iran from transporting banned substances to Iran’s nefarious proxy actors in the Middle East.
The report notes that the U.S. and OPCW should launch a pressure campaign against Iran, calling out the regime and publicizing any violations. The Trump administration, the report recommends, should demand a formal ultimatum to demonstrate compliance with the convention and accept monitoring and verification mechanisms.
FDD also suggests Israel should ratify the CWC and work within the OPCW, which would give Israel more credibility in combating Iranian violations.

Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025, during an attack by Israel. (Getty Images)
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The report says that, as a last resort, the U.S. should consider launching strikes targeting regime chemical weapons facilities, or support Israeli efforts, if actionable intelligence indicates movement on Iran’s chemical weapons efforts or a renewed push by the regime to use such illegal weapons to crack down on anti-government protests.
«The only solution to Iran’s persistent WMD threat is for the United States and Israel to undermine the regime’s grip on power. Until then, the two nations will periodically be forced to play whack-a-mole with Tehran’s capabilities whenever they endanger regional peace,» Stricker said.
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