As Charlie Hunnam’s new Netflix show, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, dominates the Netflix chart, what about his life off-screen?

The 45-year-old actor is the next star of Ryan Murphy’s controversial Monster anthology, telling the story of America’s most notorious murderers one season at a time.

After bringing the infamous tale of the Menendez brothers back into the public psyche in 2024, in the new season, Hunnam portrays Ed Gein, who is believed to be the inspiration behind several classic horror villains.

Known as the ‘Butcher of Plainfield’ for exhuming recently buried bodies and creating horrifying keepsakes from his local graveyard in the mid-20th century, he also confessed to two murders and was suspected of seven others.

Discussing his preparation to get into the mindset of such a

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