There is one crucial figure in the story of grave-robbing killer Edward “Ed” Gein : Adeline Watkins . She claimed to have been Gein’s girlfriend and is played by actress Suzanna Son in Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story. The series prompted viewers’ curiosity in the real-life Wisconsin woman and her alleged connection to the “Butcher of Plainfield.” So, was Watkins really Gein’s girlfriend, and what happened to her?

Hollywood Life has all the details we know so far about Watkins below.

Who Is Ed Gein?

Also called the “Butcher of Plainfield,” Gein was a serial killer and grave robber that committed his crimes in Plainfield, Wisconsin, during the 1950s. Police discovered that he had exhumed buried corpses from their graves and kept their remains in the form of keepsakes in his

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