Netflix has announced who the face of the third season of Ryan Murphy’s true crime series Monster will be, just days ahead of season two's debut on the streaming site.
The news was announced by Murphy last night at a promotional event in Los Angeles for the upcoming second season of the show.
While the first season focused on Jeffrey Dahmer, season two is focusing on the Menendez brothers, and is releasing in just two days time.
Erik and Lyle Menendez are the infamous murderers who killed their parents in 1989, a case which shocked the US.
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The pair received life sentences without the possibility of parole for their crimes.
At the event, Murphy revealed that the third season would star Charlie Hunnam, with the Sons of Anarchy actor playing a famous serial killer.
The third outing will focus on Ed Gein, who was also known as ‘The Butcher of Planfield’.
Warning: contains graphic details
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Gein’s heinous crimes have earned him infamy, with iconic horror villains being based on him such as Norman Bates from Psycho.
As well as this, it is said he also inspired Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Gein killed two people but was perhaps even more well known for his role as a prolific grave-robber.
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The horrific murderer created a ‘house of horrors’ in his home, dismembering dead bodies and turning their body parts into household items and even clothes.
His crimes were discovered after suspicions were raised around the disappearance of a woman named Bernice Worden.
The 58-year-old woman was reported missing from a hardware store in 1957, with her son suspecting Gein.
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This came following multiple disappearances of residents in the area.
When police entered Gein’s home, they discovered her hanging headless from the ceiling.
Upon investigating the house, officials found an assortment of horror, with clothes made from human skin, organs in jars and skulls used as bowls for soup.
When arrested, he not only admitted to the murder of Worden, but a host of other crimes.
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These included the earlier murder of another woman, Mary Hogan, as well as digging up bodies to cut off body parts and necrophilia.
Both Hogan and Worden were said to resemble Gein’s late mother.
Police tried to link him to other recent murders in the area, but were ultimately unable to do so.
While Gein initially pled insanity and was deemed unfit for trial, he later stood trial for the murder of both women.
Though he was found guilty, he was deemed insane at the time of his crimes, and was institutionalised.
Gein died of cancer in 1984 aged 77.
Topics: Horror, Netflix, TV, TV and Film, True Crime, Menendez Brothers
Michael Slavin