Third Season Of Netflix’s 'Monster' Has Killer Confirmed - With Charlie Hunnam Announced For Role

Netflix has just announced who the face of the third season of its true crime series ‘Monster’ is going to be.

Just days ahead of season two's debut on the streaming service, the news was announced by show writer Ryan Murphy at a promotional event in Los Angeles.

While the first season focused on Jeffrey Dahmer, season two is focusing on the Menendez brothers, Erik and Lyle, the infamous murderers who killed their parents in 1996 - a crime for which the pair received life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Murphy revealed that season three of the hit show will star Sons of Anarchy favourite Charlie Hunnam, as infamous serial killer Ed Gein.

Warning: graphic details below.

Known as ‘The Butcher of Planfield’, Gein’s crimes have spawned various on-screen horror villains including Noman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic, Psycho,Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.

Convicted of killing two people, but perhaps better known for his role as a prolific grave-robber, Gein created a ‘house of horrors’ in his home, dismembering dead bodies and turning their body parts into household items and even clothes.

His crimes were discovered after suspicions were raised around the disappearance of 58-year-old Bernice Worden who was reported missing from a hardware store in 1967, with her son suspecting Gein.

When police entered Gein’s home, they made the horrifying discovery of Bernice’s headless body hanging from the ceiling.

On investigating the house, officers found a litany of horror including clothes made from human skin, organs in jars and skulls used as bowls.

On being arrested, Gein admitted to the murder of Worden, as well as a host of other crimes including the earlier murder of Mary Hogan, as well as digging up bodies to cut off body parts and necrophilia.

Both Hogan and Worden were said to resemble Gein’s late mother.

Amid a number of other local disappearances, police tried, but ultimately failed, to link him to other recent murders in the area.

While Gein initially pled insanity and was deemed unfit for trial, he did later stand trial for the murder of both women. Although he was found guilty, the court deemed him to have been insane at the time of his crimes, and he was institutionalised, dying of cancer in 1984 aged 77.

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