<P> Gein admitted to stealing from nine graves and led investigators to their locations . Because authorities were uncertain as to whether the slight Gein was capable of single - handedly digging up a grave during a single evening, they exhumed two of the graves and found them empty (one had a crowbar in place of the body), thus apparently corroborating Gein's confession . Allan Wilimovsky of the state crime laboratory participated in opening three test graves identified by Gein . The caskets were inside wooden boxes; the top boards ran crossways (not lengthwise). The tops of the boxes were about two feet (60 cm) below the surface in sandy soil . Gein had robbed the graves soon after the funerals while the graves were not completed . They were found as Gein described: One casket was empty, one Gein had failed to open when he lost his pry bar, and most of the body was gone from the third, but Gein had returned rings and some body parts . </P> <P> Soon after his mother's death, Gein began to create a "woman suit" so that "...he could become his mother--to literally crawl into her skin". Gein denied having sex with the bodies he exhumed, explaining: "They smelled too bad ." During state crime laboratory interrogation, Gein also admitted to the shooting death of Mary Hogan, a tavern owner missing since 1954 whose head was found in his house, but he later denied memory of details of her death . </P> <P> A 16 - year - old youth, whose parents were friends of Gein and who attended ball games and movies with him, reported that Gein kept shrunken heads in his house, which Gein had described as relics from the Philippines, sent by a cousin who had served on the islands during World War II . Upon investigation by the police, these were determined to be human facial skins, carefully peeled from corpses and used by Gein as masks . </P> <P> Gein was also considered a suspect in several other unsolved cases in Wisconsin, including the 1953 disappearance of Evelyn Hartley, a La Crosse babysitter . </P>

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