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Ed Gein is the latest infamous figure featured in Netflix’s hit anthology series Monster , with Charlie Hunnam playing the reclusive killer and grave robber in season 3’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story .
But unlike previous Monster subject Jeffrey Dahmer , as well as other notorious criminals such as Ted Bundy , Dennis Rader , and Richard Ramirez , it’s debatable whether Gein is actually a serial killer.
Under the traditional U.S. legal definition , serial murder is considered “a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors.”
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