Charlie Hunnam to Lead Netflix’s ‘Monster’ Season 3 as Grave-Robbing Murderer Ed Gein

The third season of Netflix’s true crime anthology series “Monster” will star Charlie Hunnam as the notorious 1950s grave robber, murderer and suspected serial killer Ed Gein.

Production on the season begins in October, Netflix announced Monday night. further details will be announced at a later date.

“Monster” co-creator Ryan Murphy announced the news at a promotional event for “Monster” Season 2, which focuses on the Menendez Brothers.

Ed Gein, born in 1906, became nationally infamous after he was arrested in his Wisconsin home town for the murder and postmortem mutilation of a local shopkeeper. When police searched his home, they discovered that for at least a decade he had been exhuming bodies in nearby graveyards and stealing various body parts, which he then used to create household decorations, items of clothing, jewelry and other grisly trophies.

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