Image Credit: ullstein bild via Getty Images Few true crime stories have cast as long a shadow over Hollywood as Ed Gein's. The Wisconsin murderer and grave robber horrified the nation in the 1950s and went on to inspire some of the most iconic horror films ever made. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) famously drew from Gein's twisted crimes, transforming real-life terror into cinematic history. But Psycho was only the beginning.