Mary J. Cuvan Hogan

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 ...