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Topics: News, US News, Netflix, Film and TV
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: News, US News, Netflix, Film and TV
A woman who owns a museum she says houses several authentic artefacts from the Ed Gein case has issued a warning to those doing a deep dive after watching Monsters.
Netflix’s show Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the latest TV series added to the mountains of crime dramas out there, and things are going as expected.
While the show admits to filling in some unknown gaps and dramatizing real events, it has sparked interest in many viewers.
For those out of the know, Ed Gein is the real-life killer who went on to inspire many of the most evil and creepiest individuals in popular media.
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In reality, Gein murdered at least two women in the 1950s, robbed graves and dismembered bodies to create a ‘house of horrors’.
His dreadful crimes were discovered when a woman named Bernice Worden went missing in 1957, which led to police investigating Gein's home.
Authorities found Worden decapitated and hanging from the ceiling and discovered that Gein had actually been turning body parts into clothes made from human skin.
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While this all sounds rather disturbing, Chloë Manon, the co-owner of The Grave Face Museum in Savannah, has warned against people doing deep dives regarding the real cases online.
Speaking in a TikTok video, Manon argued that much of the information found online pertaining to the case is false, exaggerated and shaped by decades of misinformation from Hollywood movies.
She noted that while it can be easy to find images of supposed physical artefacts from the case, many were actually destroyed after being illegally obtained, with very few of them surviving today.
In the social media video, she said: “So they obtained this illegal evidence, and they weren't able to use it in the courtroom.
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“It was inadmissible. So he was charged for the murder of Bernice, found not guilty by reason of insanity, and went back to the psychiatric ward.
“And you might be wondering now, or maybe you're not, what happened to all of the inadmissible evidence? It was destroyed. So it was burned, it was incinerated, or it was buried.”
Manon also questioned the accuracy of many of the reports from the time of the murders in the late 50s and ultimately argued that much of the information found online should be taken with a grain of salt.
She added: “There were also more reporters and journalists than people who actually lived in Plainfield when all of this was happening.
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“Not to mention that these initial news reports were happening as the case was still ongoing. Typically, you don't report on an ongoing investigation and state things as facts until they're found to be factual. That didn't happen here.”