Not Even Suzanna Son Knows If Her Monster Character Is Real or Not

Following the release of Ryan Murphy’s latest Monster series, The Ed Gein Story, searches around the infamous serial killer who inspired some of Hollywood’s most notorious horror films—think Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs—spiked. But it wasn’t just Gein himself who drew increased interest from audiences. It was the surrounding characters too, like Gein’s neighbor and rumored girlfriend Adeline Watkins, played by rising actress and musician Suzanna Son.

In real life, Watkins claimed to be Gein’s longtime lover of 20 years following his arrest in 1957, describing the killer as “good, kind, and sweet” before later claiming her words were exaggerated and clarifying that she and Gein were simply acquaintances for nearly two decades and only dated for about a year.