Overview

• The eight-episode third season premiered on Oct. 3, 2025 on Netflix, exploring Gein’s background and case, with Charlie Hunnam, Laurie Metcalf and Suzanna Son in key roles.
• Police searches of Gein’s Plainfield farm documented Bernice Worden’s body and macabre household items made from exhumed human remains.
• Gein confessed to grave robberies and at least two killings, was convicted only for Worden in 1968, deemed legally insane, institutionalized for decades and died in 1984 from cancer-related respiratory failure.
• Adeline Watkins told newspapers in 1957 she had a years-long romance with Gein, then retracted the story; no police record links her to his crimes, though the series includes her character.
• Gein’s grave in Plainfield remains unmarked after the headstone’s removal due to repeated vandalism, as some coverage also notes criticism that the Netflix dramatization exaggerates elements of the case.