The Ed Gein Story,’ the character of Ilse Koch is fantastically referenced. Koch, the wife of a Nazi officer from Germany, becomes known to Gein through books and stories about her horrific crimes and is introduced to him by a friend.

Frau Ilse Koch, wife of a commander of the Buchen wald death camp and a notorious war criminal in her own right, will be arrested on now charges when she is released from the women’s prison at Augsberg on October 17, U.S. Army officers said yesterday.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story,' now on Netflix, is about the serial killer who inspired 'Psycho' and 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.'

Ilse Koch was a Nazi war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch served as the commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Despite not having an official role, she became an infamous figure and was given the moniker the ‘Kommandeuse of Buchenwald’ and the ‘B**** of Buchenwald’.