Monsters: The Ed Gein Story,” the third season of Ryan Murphy’s serial killer Netflix anthology series is here, and it offers the show’s most unsettling and riveting cast of characters to date. Across eight episodes that debut on Oct.

It tells the chilling real-life tale of the Wisconsin farmer and handyman turned grave robber and killer. The Netflix series' first episode introduces a surprising character into Gein's life, however. She is a young neighbor by the name of Adeline Watkins ...

Here is a rundown of all the characters in Monster: The Ed Gein Story, who are based on real life people. Let’s get the obvious one out the way first, Ed Gein unfortunately was real. The unassuming man became known as the Butcher of Plainfield, a serial killer and grave robber. Charlie Hunnam plays him.