The third season of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series arrives on Netflix on October 3rd. This time, an eight-part miniseries entitled “Monster: Edgain Story” added American violence as they confessed to killing two women in the 1950s, confided for not adding American violence.
Ed Gaine, depicted by Charlie Hunnam in the series, was born in 1906 in La Cross, Wisconsin. Gain, the son of an alcoholic named George and a religious enthusiast named Augusta, grew up in an ominously strict family along with his brother Henry. The family moved to a farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin. When Ed and Henry were kids, Augusta didn’t let her leave her property except to go to school. She taught them to read the Bible and to fear the outside world as a sinful and dangerous place.
George passed away in 1940, leaving Ed and Henry as family earners. Both began work on the farm, and Henry eventually married a woman from town. Meanwhile, Ed only became more obsessed with his mother as he ages.
Four years later, Henry died on his family’s farm by pen. Ed was trying out a controlled, uncontrollable burn after the firefighters fired the flames. Henry’s body was not burned or injured, so heart failure was determined as the cause of death, but some people suspected intentionality on Ed’s behalf.
Shortly after Henry’s death, Augusta suffered two paralyzing strokes, strengthening her and Ed’s isolated codependent relationship before her death in 1945.
Ed then rode into the farmer’s mother’s room to keep them untouched as he began living in Scalor. He even babysitting local kids did some odd jobs around Plainfield. However, in his isolation, he was fascinated by pulp magazines and nurtured violent stories about the Nazis and cannibalism. He was particularly interested in Ilse Koch, the Nazi wife who created lampshades from the skins of Holocaust victims.
Gein was relatively enigmatic until 1957 when he was suspected and later arrested in 1957 as the owner of a local hardware store that disappeared shortly after Bernice Worden: Gein purchased it in the store. When law enforcement searched Gein’s property, they discovered Worden’s body was skinned and beheaded, hanging in Gein’s barn. In the house they discovered that her severed head and heart were preserved in a bag. Around the property they discovered that additional bones, body parts and human skin were secured to masks, furniture and other trinkets.
During the questioning, Gein not only confessed to killing Worden, but also admitted that he had excavated the bodies from various cemeteries nearby. He led investigators to the cemetery he exclaimed, which confirmed the evidence.
At Gain’s home, investigators also found Mary Hogan’s skull and an amputated face. The owner of a pub that went missing in 1954. Gaine admitted that he shot her.
Gain said he was motivated by his desire to make full-body suits out of these women’s skins, and plans to occupy them and become a mother.
Apart from Hogan and Warden, all Gain subjects were excavated with bodies, but he is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of additional women and girls from the area. Some in particular suspect that he invited and killed 8-year-old Georgia Jean Weckler and 14-year-old Evelyn Grace Hartley. Nevertheless, there is no substantial evidence of Gein’s fault.
Gein’s trial was just as dramatic. One police officer questioning Gain assaulted him during questioning and failed to grant his first confession in court. When the trial finally happened, Gain was tried for first-degree murder and found guilty on grounds of insanity. He was arrested and diagnosed with schizophrenia, and felt unsuitable for trial.
He spent the next 11 years at a state hospital due to criminal madness before finally going to trial in 1968. He was ultimately considered guilty on grounds of insanity, but was forced to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital before dying of breathing at the age of 77 in 1984.
Before trial, Gein Farmhouse was destroyed in a fire, making his case infamous. Alfred Hitchcock has implemented story elements in “Psycho.” He is based on the film’s murderous Odipal antagonist, Gain’s Norman Bates, and solidified Gain as a new image of the American jiggest serial killer.
After the trial, Gein also served as the inspiration behind Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and since his death he has influenced Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs,” Garland Green in “Con Air” and Dr. Oliver Thredson in “The American Horror Story: Asiram” by Ryan Murphy. Other films are based more directly on Gein’s stories, including “Ed Gein” in 1974’s “Dedged” 2001, “Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield” in 2007, “Ed Gein, The Musical, The Musical of 1000 Corpses” in 2010, and “The Devil’s Declatss” in 2005’s.
Clearly, “Monsters” are far from the first attempt at popular culture to recreate the story of Ed Gaine, but like Murphy’s previous “Monsters” installments about Jeffrey Dahmer and Eric and Lyle Menendez, the series explores a man with unprecedented depth, strength, and (better or worse) value of entertainment.
Alongside Hannam, the show will also star Auger Metcalf, Augusta Gaine, Leslie Manville as Bernice Warden, Vicki Creeps as Ilse Koch, Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock’s wife and collaborator Alma Ribaille, Norma Bates actor actor and collaborator Alma Leville as Anne Perkins and Will Hooper.
The show also appeared as sheriffs who attacked Gaine’s romantic partners Adeline Watkins, Robin Weigart, Adeline’s mother Enid, Charlie Hall, Warden’s son, Gaine and Mimi Kennedy as Tyler Jacob Moore as Perkins’s renowned psychologist Dr. Mildred Newman as Addison Lae
Obviously, this show is more than just an event of Gein’s terrible crime. We analyze the origins, influences and aftermath of this true American horror story.
