New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Netflix's "Monster" anthology is back with a new subject: Ed Gein, the man who came into the spotlight as the "Butcher of Plainfield." The new season, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, premiered on October 3 with Charlie Hunnam essaying the lead role.

Gein's story is as disturbing as it is influential. Residents in Plainfield, Wisconsin, once saw him as nothing more than a quiet farmer. In 1957, that perception changed when police tied him to the disappearance of a hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, and searched his property, the Gein farm. What they found shocked the entire nation. Body parts, masks, and even suits stitched from human skin, among other things.

Gein admitted to grave robbing, saying he often read obitu...