how many people did ed gein actually kill

Ed Gein actually killed two women: Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957. He confessed to shooting both women and was found guilty of one murder, but was declared insane and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution. Although there was speculation about his involvement in other deaths, including his brother's, no additional murders were definitively linked to him. Gein is also infamous for exhuming corpses from graves and using their body parts for macabre purposes but did not confess to more killings beyond the two women.