This chilling detail left out the Ed Gein show makes his crimes feel even more sinister

The serial killer who inspired some of the world’s biggest horror characters is everywhere right now thanks to Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story, but it left out one chilling detail about him.

It follows the eerie life of Ed Gein, an American serial killer and body snatcher who committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin in the 1950s.

The show goes into grotesque detail about his disturbing hobbies, famous for making furniture out of human corpses and skin, and makes out that Ed was a lonely man who spent most of his time at home.

However, this wasn’t actually the case. In reality, Gein was close with people in the community, including a couple called Mr and Mrs Hill and their 16-year-old son, who he went to baseball games and movies with.

It wasn’t in the Netflix show, but the 16-year-old once went round Gein’s house and found some of the human heads he kept. However, the killer told him they were old relics sent by a cousin who served in World War II.

A 1957 report in the Stevens Point Daily Journal after Gein’s arrest says: “Sixteen-year-old Bob Hill, a junior at Tri-County High School at Plainfield, said Tuesday that he had seen two of the heads found in the Ed Gein home some time ago.”

“The youth said Gein told him they had been sent to him from the Philippines by a cousin, explaining they were shrunken heads. He said he had not noticed any of the other grisly items found by investigators in Gein’s home.”

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The article goes on to reveal the couple ran a petrol store with a grocery store attached, and Gein had eaten an evening meal with the family the Saturday before he was arrested. So, he was social right up until his arrest.

While the show makes out that it was only Gein’s girlfriend Adeline who went into his home, people were actually going in and out of the house far more often and seeing his crimes firsthand without even realising it.

The fact he was doing it right in front of people’s eyes makes his crimes feel even more sinister.

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