Editing Ed Gein (section)

===Trial===
On November 21, 1957, Gein was arraigned on one count of [[first degree murder]] in Waushara County Court, where he pleaded [[not guilty by reason of insanity]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Gein Pleads Innocent By Reason of Insanity|date=November 21, 1957|publisher=Stevens Point Daily Journal|page=1, cols. 7–8}}</ref> He was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]] and found mentally incompetent, thus unfit for trial. He was sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (now the [[Dodge Correctional Institution]]), a maximum-security facility in [[Waupun, Wisconsin|Waupun]], and later transferred to the [[Mendota State Hospital]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Moira|last=Martindale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgaTQ7eJOFMC |title=Cannibal Killers |location=New York City|publisher=[[St. Martin's Press|St. Martin's]] |year=1993 |access-date=November 30, 2013|isbn=978-0312956042}}</ref>

In 1968, doctors determined Gein was "mentally able to confer with counsel and participate in his [[defense (law)|defense]]".{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=95}} The trial began on November 7, 1968,<ref>{{cite news|title=Gein Trial Under Way|newspaper=[[Oshkosh Daily Northwestern]]|date=November 7, 1968|page=1|quote=Circuit Judge Robert Gollmar of Baraboo ruled today that the murder trial of Ed Gein of Plainfield will be heard without a jury. ... The first trial witness called by the prosecution this morning was Leon Murty of Wild Rose.}}</ref> and lasted one week. A psychiatrist testified that Gein had told him that he did not know whether the killing of Worden was intentional or accidental. Gein had told him that while he examined a gun in Worden's store, the weapon discharged and killed Worden.<ref>{{cite news|title=Psychiatrist Tells Gein Account of Worden Death|newspaper=[[Oshkosh Daily Northwestern]]|date=November 12, 1968|page=1}}</ref> He said he had not aimed the rifle at Worden, and did not remember anything else that happened that morning.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gein Takes Stand, Remembers Little|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegram]]|location=Eau Claire, Wisconsin|date=November 13, 1968|page=1}}</ref>

At the request of the defense, Gein's trial was held without a jury,{{sfn|Schechter|1989|p=227}} with Judge Robert H. Gollmar presiding. Gein was found guilty by Gollmar on November 14.<ref name="guilty"/> A second trial dealt with Gein's sanity;<ref name="guilty"/> after testimony by doctors for the prosecution and defense, Gollmar ruled Gein "not guilty by reason of insanity" and ordered him committed to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=172}} Gein spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.<ref name="guilty">{{cite news|title=Ed Gein Found Guilty of 1957 Murder in Plainfield|newspaper=The Capital Times |place=Madison, Wisconsin |date=November 14, 1968 |page=2, col. 4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wisconsin Killer Gein Ruled Guilty, Insane |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 15, 1968}}</ref> Judge Gollmar wrote, "Due to prohibitive costs, Gein was tried for only one murder—that of Mrs. Worden. He also admitted to killing Mary Hogan."{{sfn|Gollmar|1981|p=81}}