Another November 1, 1952 mystery regarding certain people missing near Ed Gein's land was the disappearance of two hunters, Ray Burgess and 43 year old Victor Bunk Travis. They were supposed to go squirrel and rabbit hunting on the farm property of Lars Thomsen, right across the road from Ed Gein's property.
Ray Burgess had been flashing $4,000 in $100 bills at a Big Flats, WI bar and buying rounds of drinks and eventually got Victor Travis to take him squirrel hunting.
Gein's farmhouse address:
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When more bones were found on the farm on May 9, 1960, authorities thought they were Ray Burgesses bones because of a gold tooth which Burgess was reported to have. It turns out this skeleton was a woman's.
Sometime after they were seen at the farm, there was no trace of them and Travis' dog was found in the woods. To this day, authorities have NEVER searched the Lars Thomsen farm for Victor Travis.
In 1961, investigators learned that Ray Burgess wasn't the person he said he was and may have been contracted to kill Victor Travis. The new article below explains it better than I can.
As of Dec 1, 1957, the tentative total was 14 bodies/parts, not including the one found in 1960.
So what happened to all the evidence that filled a dump truck that was sent to the state crime lab? From the news article I read, sometime in the 1960's, money was requisitioned for their burial and the body parts were all dumped in a mass grave and buried. No attempt was ever made to determine who was who and to this day no attempt has been made to identify the body parts using DNA. What a sham of justice.
I know most of us here at WS can usually handle morbid murder invstigations, but Gein is a bit much for me.
