Mindhunter and Monster: The Ed Gein Story had a crossover absolutely no one was expecting. Both shows are based on real-life people and events, which makes the crossover all the more mindblowing. Mindhunter takes place in the 1970s and follows FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Trench as they attempt to examine and understand the psyche of serial killers in the hopes of better understanding the motives that drive these damaged individuals. Along the way, agents Ford and Trench wind up developing what is now modern-day serial killer profiling. The series serves as a dramatization of the 1995 true-crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, written by FBI agent John E. Douglas, the real-life inspiration behind the character Holden Ford. The show employs the true stories of
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