Museum owner claims only one piece of Ed Gein evidence exists after warning people who look up serial killer
Topics: Netflix, True crime, TikTok
Britt Jones
Featured Image Credit: Netflix
Topics: Netflix, True crime, TikTok
A woman who owns a museum says there is only one artifact left in the Ed Gein case after warning viewers about researching online when watching Monster.
Netflix’s latest true crime drama was viewed for more than 90 million hours within days of its release, but has come up against a lot of controversy as of late.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story saw people equally horrified and obsessed with the details presented in the case.
Like all true crime shows, there was some dramatization for entertainment purposes included, but there were supposedly some inaccuracies too, like the scene where Gein supposedly murdered his brother - something that was never proven.
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Or his speculated relationship with Adeline.
Ed Gein was a real-life killer who murdered two women in the 1950s, robbed graves and used their skins to create his ‘house of horrors’.
He was only discovered after Bernice Worden went missing in 1957, leading police to investigate his home and discover her headless remains, as well as clothes made from human skin.
But while you might be able to see various images online when you look up Gein’s crimes, Chloë Manon, the co-owner of The Graveface Museum in Savannah, said there’s only one artifact left and the rest were ‘burned’.
If you Google 'Ed Gein evidence', you will likely get a host of gruesome images, including clothes and furniture made of human skin, but Manon says none of this is real.
She said ‘a lot of it’s just mocked-up evidence,’ she said, stating that ‘people are basing things off films, not facts'.
There is one piece of evidence which is legitimate, which she keeps at The Graveface Museum.
According to her, it only survived because state investigator Joe Wilimovsky and state crime lab worker Allan Wilimovsky kept it after Gein’s arrest.
It was also never entered into court evidence, which may have saved it from being destroyed afterwards.
What is it?
A keychain with a lock of human hair and scalp attached to it.
It’s also apparently got a little metal tag signed with ‘Ed Gein’ written on it along with his home address on one side and the address of a Shell service station on the other.
It’s not known why the Shell station was mentioned on the tag, but allegedly, the station was across the street from Worden’s hardware store‘a lot of it’s just mocked-up evidence,’ she said, stating that ‘people are basing things off films, not facts.’
So, museums and collectors tend to display ‘mock-ups’ instead..
Speaking in a TikTok video, Manon began by noting how exaggerated Hollywood movies can be when depicting historic crimes.
In the social media video, she said that most of what was pictured of what Gein supposedly did, was destroyed as it was obtained through illegal measures (without a warrant): “So they obtained this illegal evidence, and they weren't able to use it in the courtroom.
“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.”