The latest addition to Netflix’s notoriously controversial Monster series just got a release date that promises it won’t be long now until we get new episodes.
Charlie Hunnam is set to star as Ed Gein, the serial killer who inspired the Buffalo Bill character in Silence of the Lambs.
Living alone on a Wisconsin farm in the 50s, Gein gained widespread notoriety when police discovered he had been fashioning trophies and keepsakes from corpses he dug up at cemeteries, as well as from two women he murdered.
Known as the ‘Butcher of Plainfield’, Gein confessed to two murders – of tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957 – and was suspected of seven others. While standing trial he was found to be legally insane and remanded to a psychiatric facility, whe