The third season of Ryan Murphy ’s “Monster” anthology series arrives on Netflix on Oct. 3. The eight-part miniseries, this time titled “ Monster: The Ed Gein Story ,” focuses on the eponymous serial killer, who confessed to killing two women in the 1950s and was the culprit in a long list of additional depravities that shocked the nation and redefined notions of American violence.

Portrayed by Charlie Hunnam in the series, Ed Gein was born in La Crosse, Wis., in 1906. The son of an alcoholic named George and a religious zealot named Augusta, Gein was raised alongside his brother Henry in a disturbingly strict household. The family moved to a farm in Plainfield, Wis., when Ed and Henry were children, where Augusta hardly let them leave the property besides going to school. She read

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