Who are the serial killers at the end of Netflix’s The Ed Gein Story? Here are their crimes

A major theme throughout Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story was the lasting effect of the serial killer’s crimes, not only on the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, but on the killers and lunatics that followed him.

In the new Netflix show, we learned how Ed Gein’s crimes inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.

“He is probably one of the most influential people of the 20th century, and yet people don’t know that much about him,” Ryan Murphy told Tudum. “He influenced the Boogeyman and Psycho. Norman Bates was based on him. He influenced The Silence of the Lambs. He influenced The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. He influenced American Psycho.”

But Ed Gein’s unique proclivities transcended the bounds of pop culture, at least they did according to Monster: The Ed Gein Story. During the final episode, Ed is wheeled down a hallway where he is greeted by a few other serial killers who allegedly admired him.

Charles Manson

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Though there are no reported links between the real-life Ed Gein and Charles Manson, the Netflix show certainly posed it as such, as Charlie confessed, “I dig you, man. I’m a big fan.”

Charles Manson should need no introduction. The musician turned cult leader officially orchestrated the deaths of seven people, but his actual kill count is thought to be much higher. Even now, decades after his crimes, Charlie serves as a constant source of inspiration in pop culture and conspiracy theories.

Ed Kemper

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Ed Kemper was the next man to thank Ed Gein, saying, “I’m just like you” as he confessed to decapitation, dismemberment, and necrophilia. Edmund Emil Kemper III, nicknamed the Co-ed Killer, was convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. He’d also murdered his own grandparents at the age of 15.

After being convicted, Ed himself requested the death penalty, but he was instead granted eight concurrent life sentences because capital punishment was illegal at the time in California. He is still alive today, remanded to California Medical Facility.

Jerry Brudos

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Next up was Jerry Brudos, named the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer. Between 1968 and 1969, Jerry committed the kidnapping, rape, and murder of four young women and the attempted abduction of two others. He reportedly had a special interest in feet and was accused of acts of necrophilia after post-mortem dismemberment.

Jerry was sentenced to three consecutive life terms, but he died in prison from cancer back in 2006.

Richard Speck

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The final killer in Ed Gein’s walk of fame was Richard Speck, a serial killer who was nicknamed Birdman for the two sparrows he kept as pets while behind bars. Richard killed eight young women in one night in 1966, and he died from a heart attack while incarcerated in 1991.

Again, there are no confirmed links between Richard Speck/Birdman and Ed Gein.

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