The so-called Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein, comes to life in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix contribution, where Charlie Hunnam becomes part of a grim picture to induce horror—but not everything in the series is true.
Gein was born in the early 1900s and was thought of as a quiet Wisconsin farmer as an adult, until he was arrested in 1957 for the shooting of local hardware owner Bernice Worden.
While he would later admit to taking another woman’s life, these were the only slayings authorities could pin on him.
