In the small town of Bancroft, Wisconsin, Mary J. Cuvan Hogan, a 54-year-old White/Caucasian woman, ran a tavern where she was a familiar, if somewhat coarse, figure to the locals. On the evening of December 8, 1954, after the last patron had departed and the doors were closed, her life came to a violent and unexpected end. A local handyman named Ed Gein entered her establishment and shot her with a. 32 caliber Mauser pistol. Afterward, he placed her body in his Ford pickup truck and drove away
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