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Killer Who Inspired Iconic Horror Films and New Netflix Series
Netflix's series blends fact and fiction, showing how Ed Gein's crimes inspired horror and falsely linking him to Ted Bundy's case, with expert insights from FBI agents.
- On Friday , Netflix launched Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the third instalment in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monsters anthology starring Charlie Hunnam.
- Ed Gein admitted to killing two women, Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan, and gained notoriety for digging up graves and crafting household items from human remains, inspiring Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs.
- The finale portrays Ed Gein aiding FBI agents John Douglas and Robert Ressler to catch Ted Bundy, but this plotline is a dramatized delusion since Gein never knew Bundy.
- Netflix viewers have reacted with fascination and debate, as audiences split over what is genuine and what is fabricated in Monster: The Ed Gein Story.
- Gein was declared legally insane, remanded to Central State Hospital, and remained there until his death at age 77, while Monster: The Ed Gein Story blends fact with psychological fiction.
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Did Ed Gein help catch Ted Bundy?
Netflix has dropped a new Monster series, based on the life and crime of notorious American serial killer, Ed Gein. Here, we look at whether the criminal helped to catch Ted Bundy, another infamous murderer. The new Netflix show explores the crimes of the notorious serial killer
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