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Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story depicts the life and crimes of Ed Gein, but it also features other real killers like Richard Speck

Speck, a.k.a. the Birdman, has been called "the first mass murderer" in American history

Before Monster , Speck was also dramatized in another Netflix original series, Mindhunter

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is filled with fictional killers like Norman Bates , Leatherface and Buffalo Bill, but the Netflix original also features real murderers from American history, like Richard Speck, a.k.a. the Birdman.

Speck was a mass murderer who went on a rampage and killed eight nursing students in 1966. The killer, played by Tobias Jelinek in season 3 of the Monster anthology series, appears in the eighth and final episode of The Ed Gein

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