ON a dark November night in 1957, two sheriffs sped to a remote midwest American farmhouse to make a murder arrest. Their target, oddball loner Ed Gein, was out having dinner with a neighbour — but what the two men discovered inside his ramshackle home would shock a nation. His crime would also spawn terrifying movies such as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Silence Of The Lambs. Strung upside down in the rafters of a wood shed — her head cut clean off and her torso split open — was hardware store owner Bernice Worden, 58. Walking into Gein’s adjoining...