In November 1957, a woman in Plainfield, Wisconsin, told reporters she'd been dating Ed Gein for 20 years.

She said he proposed. She said they talked about murder all the time. Two weeks later, she changed

her story, said almost none of that was true. So what was real? If you've watched the Netflix series

Monsters about Ed Gein, and you you're wondering who is Adeline Watkins?

Was she really his girlfriend? How much of the story that we saw is made up and how much is real?

This episode is going to clear it up. When police arrived at Ed Gein's house, November 1957, they found something inside his farmhouse

that would rewrite the American understanding of horror. Human remains turned into household objects.

Skin fashioned into clothing. A body hanging in his shed like a deer carcass. The hardware store

owner he'd just killed, Bernice Warden, was only the beginning. Gein confessed to murdering

another woman three years earlier and admitted to robbing graves across Plainfield for nearly

a decade. The nation was desperate for an explanation. How does someone like this exist in this world?

How does a killer, so depraved, live among regular people without anyone noticing? And that's when

Adeline Watkins stepped forward. On November 21st, 1957, just days after Gein's arrest,

newspapers across the country ran a story that stopped everyone

cold. The headline in the Wisconsin State Journal read, Plainfield Woman nearly wedded Gein. Adeline

Watkins, a 50-year-old woman who lived with her widowed mother in a small Plainfield apartment,

told the Minneapolis Tribune that she and Ed Gein dated for 20 years. She said they

went to the movies together. They visited taverns. They bonded over books about lions and tigers

and fireway places like Africa and India. And here's the part that made everyone's skin crawl.

She said they discussed murder cases together. Ed would talk about the mistakes the

killer made and why he thinks they got caught, what they could have done better. And then came the

proposal. According to Watkins, Gein asked her to marry him during their last date in February

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