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Now that more reviews have come in, the Rotten Tomatoes score of Ed Gein has sunk more than 20%, and now stands at just a 23% critic score. That’s below the previous two Monster entries, and also Netflix’s True Crime serial killer series, Conversations with a Killer. Here’s how the list breaks down:
Gein was arrested in 1957 after he was suspected of killing Bernice Worden, a local hardware store owner. When authorities went to Gein's home to question him, no one answered the door, but investigators saw the body of a woman hanging by the heels, according to the Associated Press.
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Though Gein was charged with the 1957 murder of hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1968 (he also later admitted to killing tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954), he was never sentenced to prison. Rather, he was deemed legally “insane” and was remanded to a psychiatric institution where he remained until his death in 1984, aged 77.
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The Netflix anthology's co-creator Ian Brennan refutes that the series glamorizes the murders: "I don't think this season is sensational at all. I think it's sensationally good," he told THR.
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