Unveiling the Truth: Ed Gein's 'Girlfriend' and the 'Nurse Killed in Asylum' as Netflix Series Faces Backlash for Being 'Hollywood Fiction'

NETFLIX’S latest series about the twisted killer and grave robber Ed Gein has been criticized as a “travesty” and an affront to his victims due to its excessive dramatization by an author closely associated with the case.

His heinous acts left residents traumatized in the secluded town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, back in 1957.

Ed Gein being escorted by Sheriff Arthur Schley near Plainfield, Wisconsin, in 1957, after he confessed to murdering two women and robbing graves. Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein and Suzanna Son as Adelina Watkins, his rumored girlfriend for 20 years. The show also claims he aided in capturing serial killer Ted Bundy, who was ultimately convicted in Florida.

Authorities were directed to his home, where he lived alone after his mother’s death, following the disappearance of a local hardware store owner, .

They uncovered her dismembered body along with the remains of several others, as he had crafted furniture and clothing from human skin and body parts in his house of horrors.

He only confessed to murdering two women, Worden and Mary Hogan, a tavern owner, stating that the other bodies were obtained by exhuming corpses from local cemeteries.

However, the new Netflix series depicts him killing his brother Henry in 1944, whose death in reality was officially deemed an accident.

The program also shows Gein, portrayed by Charlie Hunnam, murdering a babysitter, Evelyn Hartley, along with two hunters, Victor Travis and Raymond Burgess.

Additionally, a scene in the series portrays Gein killing a nurse as part of a schizophrenic delusion.

In truth, he was only ever questioned about Hartley, Travis, and Burgess, and was described as a model, non-violent patient in mental health facilities after being committed.

The U.S. Sun interviewed author Harold Schechter, whose book *Deviant* first brought Gein’s story to public attention in the 1980s.

He condemned the series as pure Hollywood fiction and expressed his shock that the producers, who never consulted him, chose to tell Gein’s story in such a manner.

“I found the series to be a travesty,” he said after viewing it.

“Much of it was entirely fabricated and bore no resemblance to reality. It saddens me that so many viewers will mistakenly believe they know the truth about Gein when, in fact, they are witnessing almost complete fiction.”

The series features several scenes of Gein with a woman named Adeline Watkins, a neighbor and occasional girlfriend, with whom he allegedly had a 20-year relationship.

Actress Suzanna Son plays Watkins in the show and is depicted sharing photographs of deceased individuals from a Nazi concentration camp, which captivate him months prior to his murders.

She is also shown feeling uneasy after visiting his home while his controlling mother, Augusta, was still alive.

In reality, although Watkins initially claimed they had a romantic relationship, she later retracted her statement, admitting she had exaggerated her connection to him.

*Monster* also includes a fictional plotline where Gein assists the FBI in capturing serial killer Ted Bundy, but this never occurred.

Schechter stated, “I was astonished that the creators took such outrageous and shameless liberties, fabricating so much of the show and portraying Gein as a crazed serial killer, which he was not.

“It is true that Ed killed Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden, violated graves, created grotesque items, including a ‘mammary vest’ from body parts, and had an unhealthy attachment to his mother. As far as I can tell, that’s about it.

“The rest is pure … Hollywood, forgive the vulgarity, nonsense.”