(NewsNation) — Netflix's latest series, "Monster: The Ed Gein Story," started streaming last week and spotlights the godfather of all serial killers.

The series follows the story of Ed Gein, a man who killed and desecrated the bodies of multiple women in Wisconsin in the 1950s. Gein's crimes went on to inspire multiple classic horror films, including "The Silence of the Lambs," "Psycho," and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

Asked by NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield why Ed Gein isn't a bigger name among those who study violence, forensic psychologist Kris Mohandie says his killings came at the very beginning of the phenomenon being examined.

"Obviously, there were serial killers before this," he said. "But in terms of the first wave of those that were studied, particularly by the FBI's prof

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