Overview
- Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein in the third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology for Netflix.
- Netflix will release all episodes globally on Friday, October 3, 2025, following recent trailers and promotional materials.
- Reporting revisits the verified 1957 investigation at Gein’s Wisconsin farm, where police documented human remains and macabre artifacts.
- Coverage explains how Gein’s crimes influenced Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill in Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.
- Background pieces detail Gein’s confessions to two murders, his grave-robbing, his lifelong institutionalization after a schizophrenia diagnosis, and his formative relationship with his mother Augusta.