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“Enough is enough of wild speculation.” Houston Mayor John Whitmire was frustrated as he stood in front of the cameras alongside the police chief last month, trying to dispel the rumors that have cast a veil of anxiety over the vast network of bayous that crisscross his city. “There is no evidence that there is a serial killer loose on …

When Stephan Smerk called Fairfax County Police Detective Melissa Wallace on Sept.7, 2023, she was shocked to hear what he had to say. “He says, I’m at the police department to turn myself in,” Wallace told “48 Hours” correspondent Anne-Marie Green, in “Closing the Cold Case of Robin Lawrence,” airing Saturday, Oct. 25 at 10/9c on CBS and Paramount+. “And …

One of Netflix‘s buzziest fall titles premiered this past weekend in the form of “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” the third installment of the crime-drama anthology series “Monster,” this time focused on the infamous convicted murderer and graverobber Ed Gein (Charlie Hunnam). The anticipation of that Oct. 3 drop, however, was followed swiftly by a pretty abysmal critical response to …

Charlie Hunnam, 45, shed a whopping 30 pounds to portray infamous serial killer Ed Gein, who inspired the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. The new season of Monster has the Sons of Anarchy actor playing Gein, who went on a killing spree in the 1950s and dug up graves to make household items and clothing out of human remains. “He …

NEED TO KNOW Ed Gein is an American serial killer who inspired films like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre He confessed to killing two women, and police found the remains of at least 10 women in his home Gein — who is portrayed by Charlie Hunnam in Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story — told authorities that he exhumed …

Who Was Ed Gein’s Mother? Inside the “Monster” Serial Killer’s Childhood (and How It Allegedly Inspired His Crimes)  AOL.com This is the true, horrific story of Ed Gein, the ‘Butcher of Plainfield’  USA Today This Season of ‘Monster’ Digs Up an All-American Nightmare  The New York Times Who Was Ed Gein’s Mother? Inside the Monster Serial Killer’s Childhood (and How It Allegedly Inspired …

When Dan Jackson took the reins of the Austin, Texas, police department’s unsolved homicide unit in 2022, his boss approached the detective with a sense of urgency. “My first day on the job, my supervisor asked me to come into his office and shut the door,” Jackson said. “I thought I was already in trouble, for some reason.” Jackson wasn’t …

Officials provided a timeline of the 1991 murders of four teenaged girls in Austin, Texas, after identifying a suspect in the killings last week, and described him on Monday as a potential serial killer who is linked to multiple cases around the country. On Friday, police named Robert Eugene Brashers — who died in 1999 — as a suspect in …

Lock your doors because Netflix’s latest serial killer is on the loose. Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein, a murderer known as “The Butcher of Plainfield” and “The Plainfield Ghoul,” in the third season of Netflix’s anthology series “Monster.” The show premieres on Oct. 3. More from Variety “The Ed Gein Story” logline reads: “Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In …