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Topics: Netflix, Film and TV, True crime
Callum Jones
Netflix viewers will have the chance to learn about a chilling true story this week with the release of latest Monster series on the streaming platform.
The first season of the show told the story of serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, while Netflix returned with series two last year focusing on the Menendez brothers, who killed their parents in 1989.
Series three, The Monster: The Ed Gein Story, releases on Netflix later this week, and stars Charlie Hunnam as serial killer Ed Gein.
Gein brutally murdered two women and created a 'house of horrors' in his home after robbing graves and dismembering bodies.
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His dreadful crimes were discovered when a woman named Bernice Worden went missing in 1957, which lead to police investigating Gein's home.
They found the missing woman decapitated and hanging from the ceiling, and further investigations saw officials discover Gein had been turning body parts into clothes made from human skin.
The serial killer also had organs in jars and skulls used as bowls.
Upon being arrested for the killing of Worden, Gein also admitted to taking the life of Mary Hogan, as well as digging up bodies to cut off body parts.
Police tried to link him to other murders in the area, but failed to gather enough evidence to charge him.
Because of the recent success of the Jeffrey Dahmer and Menendez Brother seasons of Monster, Netflix viewers are excited for the next offering - but there's no doubt they will be left terrified watching The Monster: The Ed Gein Story.
"This has the potential to be the creepiest and most horrifying thing to watch on Netflix," one person penned on X.
A second added: "Ed Gein? Really? This could get wild! Are we ready for this level of horror?" while a third remarked: "How about we make documentaries on the victims instead of glorifying serial killers."
Ahead of the release of The Monster: The Ed Gein Story on Friday, October 3rd, writer Ian Brennan told Tudum: "Once we talked about how influential he was and how his crimes, you can find threads of them through pop culture and through horror films — I think that’s when we knew we had a show.
"It’s really mind-blowing how influential one strange man in the middle of Wisconsin in a barn can be. That’s just the world we live in, that he lit this fuse that just continued popping off and set in motion this continuous topping of really intense, bizarre, strange imagery.
"I can’t think of another person who is really that influential to a genre of television and film."