A Little Something....

  First time posting in, what, a year or two since I started this thing?
  I apologize, gawkers. I'm a bit of a slacker, and I think this should be known about me if we're gonna have any kind of meaningful relationship.
  Hope you derived some sort of pleasure re-reading the same two pages here over and over again. (I know you didn't, I'm a dick, I'm so sorry, I'll do better....)

  I was digging through old newspaper clippings and I found this one from the Chicago Tribune giving some background on Mary Hogan - you remember Mary Hogan. They found her skinned face in a paper bag at Eddie's house? Yes, *that* Mary Hogan, you got it.
  Mary went missing in  December of '54, after Portage County sheriff Harold Thompson forced open the door of the bar she tended at and discovered a pool of blood. Later on a winter night in '57, a cop would stuff his hand into a paper bag and discover the ultimate fate of Mary Hogan.
  "I still don't know why I did it," the officer said years later. "I found the bag and my hand went in...I came up with the mask, just held it there and my mouth said, 'I found Mary Hogan'... it looked exactly like her, there was no denying..."
  Anyway, in the article they tell of a Sherman family who took over the place after Mary's disappearance, quickly tossing a sign out front calling the tavern "Hank's Place" - apparently "That Bar Where That Woman Probably Got Killed" wouldn't fit on the sign.
  The Sherman family discovered a bunch of Mary's stuff still at the tavern, including an X-ray of her head from 1927 (she had some nasal stuff going on then).
  The thing that stands out, though, is is a man's cap stained with blood. Sherman notified Portage County authorities of the X-ray and the cap, offering them over, but they buggered off, saying they had no use for the X-ray and no tests were ever performed on the cap.
  I wanna say "Seriously?!?" here, but by then they had more than enough to put Eddie away forever, be it prison or a mental hospital. And this was right at the point where they just wanted it done and over with.
  Oh, that side article about Adeline Watkins claiming to be Eddie's lover for over twenty years? Complete bullshit. She was a shut-in living with her mother that was trying to hitch her wagon to Gein's morbid infamy. Ed denied it and she later came clean when pushed.
  I like how the scanned newspaper image makes her look like she's drooling, though.