Netflix’s new series Monster: The Ed Gein Story has given viewers a dark look inside the mind of the ‘most grotesque killer in US history’ who inspired The Silence of the Lambs
Ed Gein gave a bone-chilling response when questioned about what he did with his victims.
Netflix’s new series Monster: The Ed Gein Story offers a chilling insight into the mind of the man dubbed ‘the most grotesque killer in US history’, and gruesome scenes have left true crime enthusiasts utterly horrified.
In this new series Charlie Hunnam takes on the role of Ed Gein, a sadistic murderer who served as the inspiration for fictional killers such as Buffalo Bill from The Silence Of The Lambs and characters in both Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
According to reports, while being questioned by police Gein was asked if he sexually abused the corpses he dug up. The killer denied he ever did this and said: “They smelled too bad”.
Gein was also suspected of being responsible for the disappearance of two children, eight-year-old Georgia Jean Weckler 14-year-old Evelyn Grace Hartley, who both vanished while babysitting. In the Netflix series, Evelyn is played by Addison Rae and she becomes Gein’s second victim.
Before Gein’s arrest several neighbours, including 32-year-old James Walsh, mysteriously disappeared. Despite being questioned about these three cases, Gein passed lie detector tests.
After confessing to the murders of Bernice Worden and May Hogan he was charged with murder in late 1957 but was deemed unfit to stand trial due to a schizophrenia diagnosis.
After spending ten years in mental health facilities, authorities finally deemed Gein capable of defending himself and he appeared in court.
Ultimately the jury found him guilty but legally insane, resulting in a life sentence in a psychiatric institution. Gein died from lung cancer at the ripe age of 77 in 1984.
During Gein’s confession following his arrest, the serial killer reportedly said that he said he wanted a “woman suit” that looked like his mother, who be was disturbingly obsessed with. It was designed to enable him to “become his mother, to literally crawl into her skin,” according to forensic psychologist and author Katherine Ramsland.
Local sheriff Art Schley was reportedly so horrified by what he witnessed that those close to him blamed it for his premature death from heart failure aged 43 in 1968. He did not survive to witness Gein’s trial.
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