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Editor’s Note: This content contains spoilers about the Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story .

Netflix’s hit series, Monster: The Ed Gein Story , t ells the tale of one of America’s most notorious killers. Ed Gein , also known as the Butcher of Plainfield, was a gruesome killer and grave robber who terrorized women in and around Plainfield, Wisconsin, in the 1950s.

Monster portrays Gein, played by actor Charlie Hunnam , as an unassuming man who transforms into the Butcher of Plainfield as a result of his isolated upbringing and undiagnosed psychosis, zeroing in on his relationship with his overbearing mother, Augusta.

The show also examines the killer’s impact on pop culture, as his crimes inspired a number of fictional serial killers in films such as

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