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Ryan Murphy’s latest series of Monster has dropped on Netflix, chronicling the crimes of Ed Gein.
The third season dramatises the life of Gein, played by Charlie Hunnam in what has already been hailed as a truly chilling performance.
Known as the ‘Butcher of Plainfield’, Gein confessed to two murders – of tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957 – and was suspected of seven others.
He admitted to frequenting local graveyards between 1947 and 1952, during which time he exhumed recently buried bodies and took them home to make keepsakes from their remains, which police later found at his home.
He was arrested and later deemed fit