Netflix has recently released its latest true crime drama in the form of a new Monster offering. The American anthology series, which explores the lives of the most infamous killers and serial killers, zooms in on Ed Gein this time—a murderer and grave robber who used the body parts of his deceased to make household items.
While the eight-episode series focuses on Gein's heinous crimes, it also taps into his personal life. Specifically, his relationship with Adeline Watkins, a neighbor and occasional girlfriend, with whom he reportedly had a 20-year romance.
Despite Gein's odd behavior, she continues to linger around the killer. At one point in the show, she even assists him in a grave robbery. Wild, right? So, as true crime fanatics binge the new series, we take a look into Adeline's life, and her relationship with Gein.
Who was Ed Gein’s girlfriend Adeline Watkins?
In 1957, Watkins was interviewed by the Minneapolis Tribune, where she admitted to dating Gein for two decades. Watkins described him as “good and sweet,” and revealed that she had almost married the serial killer.
Interestingly, she also said that Gein's was “so nice about doing things [she] wanted to do.” She added that, sometimes, she felt like she was “taking advantage of him.”
“I loved him and I still do,” she said in the interview, which was published after Gein admitted to “butchering another Plainfield woman.”
Watkins also claimed she had never been inside Gein's house, which is where evidence from his victims was kept.
