Ed Gein denied retrieving his mother's body, claiming he was unable.
No one has ever confirmed his account.
The town of Plainfield denied our request to exhume Augusta Gein's grave.
(The strange death of Henry Gein mentioned in a local newspaper)
(Q) Who helped you when you got them out of the graves?
Nobody.
(The_Sheboygan_Press_Fri__Nov_29__1957)
(Chippewa_Herald_Telegram_Fri__Nov_29__1957)
(Q) Did they cave in on you?
They didn't but they should've I guess.
(Q) Well, then how would you, uh... what would you do with the heads?
That, uh, must have been taken from reading about news magazines and these things.
Taking the... the flesh off, like a head-hunter.
(Q) Would you enjoy it when you were doing it?
Well that's the worst part of it, I really didn't think.
(Q) Well then uh, what, what kind of a knife did you use?
Well uh, I made that, uh, from a file once. you know there was a lot of making knives from files.
(Q) Oh yeah?
Put a handle on it, and grind it down.
(Q) Well uh, you've gutted out a deer I suppose haven't you?
No, I never once.
(Q) Never once?
Never once.
(Q) When you'd dig these graves up you were kind of in a haze too, is that it?
That's what I can remember, just uh, how you would…
(Q) And then one time you said you kind of realized what you were doing and you covered her up without taking anything.
That's right.
See I did open that grave up, but I didn't take any head or anything so... 'cause, I know, I came to like, you know, from the digging.
Said, "What am I doing?"
It scared me you know, because I realized then that I was doing wrong, I shouldn't do anything like that.
Really what I was wondering about how could I shoot her?
Or did I shoot her?
(Q) Well, you tell me, I don't uh…
That's what, that's what I'd like, I'd like to find out. I asked them
to check my gun.
(Q) Well, you don't have any trouble remembering other things that…
That's it, that's what I told them, I can't understand it. Course things that happened, like names … Even the folks that I'd seen, I don't yet recognize them, but the farther off it is, back, I can remember good.
(Q) Do you remember killing her?
That's what I can't remember.
(Q) It would be kind of hard to drag her out of the store though, wouldn't it? She was quite a heavy woman, wasn't she?
(Q) Did you throw her over your shoulder?
I'm not sure I believe I could do that.
(Q) Just dragged her, huh?
It must be.
(Q) Oh, did you um, do you remember carrying her in the truck?
That I couldn't uh swear to you.
(Q) Did you remember dressing out her body?
Yeah, I must have.
(Q) Well you, you don't remember undressing her then?
No. That's the, see, if, if I hung her up, nude, then probably I'd have to be stronger than I am.
(Ed Gein was reportedly obsessed with this news in America back then)
(The Gein farm mysteriously burned up in flames)
(Source: Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein)
[My personal opinion, I think that Ed Gein performed many of his activities alone and for his own reasons and delusions. However, I think he definitely had help or was framed in the murders of Bernice Worden & Mrs. Mary Hogan and most likely in some of the gave robbings. They create and use these ''serial killer'' naratives to inform the public with a disturbing/mysterious/elusive portrait of a lone nut which brings out sometimes sympathy (Dahmer, Gein case) and/or a sick fascination (Ted Bundy case) which, of course, sells better then revealing the real motives and history/connections behind all of these murder cases!]
Ed Gein certainly would have had an accomplice in the Worden and Hogan murders. There is no conceivable way he could have subdued those women on his own. I think the grave robbings were likely under the same circumstances but can also see him doing that without any help.