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Ed Gein and his grisly crimes are the subject of Netflix's latest season of Monster

The Ryan Murphy-directed series explores Gein's murders throughout the 1950s, as well as his crimes involving the dismemberment of human bodies

The series raises several questions, including whether Gein was also a cannibal

Ed Gein may have used human skulls as soup bowls, but was he a cannibal?

That question has swirled recently in the wake of the new season of Netflix’s true-crime drama series Monster , which documents the life and crimes of the infamous killer.

Gein, whose killing spree throughout the 1950s gained global media attention as the grisly details of his perverse murders came to light, ultimately confessed to killing two women and robbing countless graves over the year

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