Did Ed Gein actually kill a nurse in the hospital? The truth behind shocking Netflix scene

Netflix’s new true crime drama Monster has shocked the world, and many are wondering whether the notorious serial killer killed a nurse in real life when he was admitted to the mental hospital.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story tells the true story of Edward Theodore Gein, a 1950s American serial killer and body snatcher from Wisconsin, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield, who inspired many famous horror movies.

In the last episode, Gein finds a chainsaw in a cupboard at the asylum where he has been sent and waits for the head nurse, Roz Mahoney, in the bathroom. He then jumps out and murders her in a brutally shocking scene.

Did Ed Gein really kill a nurse when he was admitted to the mental hospital?

No, this didn’t happen in real life – or the show, for that matter. The killing is actually a hallucination as part of one of Gein’s schizophrenic episodes, added in by producers to show just how bad his mental state really was.

After thinking he killed Nurse Ros, Gein sees her walking down a corridor and is confused about why she’s still alive. The character truly believes that he murdered her, and the hallucination was real.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened while the serial killer was at the mental asylum, and he was actually a model patient who was reportedly non-violent.

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The serial killer committed two confirmed murders: bar owner Mary Hogan in 1957 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957. There are also seven other suspected murders.

Gein was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1958 and sent to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Waupun, Wisconsin, before being relocated to Wisconsin State Hospital in Mendota.

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He remained there until his death in 1984, aged 77. Gein died from respiratory failure, caused by lung cancer, and was buried on his family’s plot in Plainfield Cemetery in Wisconsin.

Over the following years, people started chipping away pieces from his gravestone, and it was eventually stolen in 2000. The stone was recovered the following year near Seattle and placed in storage at the Waushara County Sheriff’s Department. 

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