The new Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story is today streaming and it’s the new installment from Ryan Murphy‘s series about notorious killers.
After previously focusing on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez Brothers in the first two seasons, Monster puts Ed Gein under the microscope. His story is what inspired the villains in movies like Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.
While the series is indeed based on a true story, the show does take creative liberties and not everything is exactly how it happened in real life.
In the first episode of the series, Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein is seen killing his older brother Henry, but did that actually happen?
Keep reading to find out more…
Hudson Oz portrays the character Henry in the series and is killed in the first episode of the series.
The series depicts Ed accidentally murdering his brother Henry and then covering up the death. After getting into an argument about their mother, Ed strikes Henry in the head with a log and Henry falls to the ground and bleeds out. In his own version of reality, Ed thought he saw Henry get up and say that he would apologize to their mom, but that didn’t happen.
Ed later finds Henry’s dead body in the barn and realizes what he’s done. He drags the body outside and sets a fire in the woods. After running home, he tells his mother that the fire spread quickly and that he couldn’t find Henry. They call the police and after the fire is put out, Henry’s dead body is found. Henry’s death is determined to be by asphyxiation, though there’s suspicion over the bruises on his body.
So, what happened in real life? And did Ed actually kill Henry as seen in the series?
There’s no evidence that Ed killed Henry, but we do know that he died in a similar way.
Henry’s dead body indeed was found in a marshland near the family home after a fire broke out. Asphyxiation was the official cause of death in real life, but it was reported that there were no burn injuries on his body, which caused suspicion over how he really died, but officials ruled out foul play.
Ed never confessed to killing his brother.
movie the trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story, in which Charlie goes full frontal.
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