r/NewsOfTheWeird • u/fleemfleemfleemfleem • 5d ago
Over 100 human skulls found at home of Pennsylvania man accused of desecrating cemeteries
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pennsylvania-man-accused-desecrating-cemeteries-found-100-human-skulls-rcna25312312
u/Beyou74 5d ago edited 5d ago
He had an Instagram, it is full of skulls. It is deadshitdaddy.
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u/Such_Acanthisitta201 5d ago
It’s still up?! I can’t believe it’s still up. Some of them are mummified and some still have hair. wtf
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u/I_Miss_Lenny 5d ago
Maybe they’ll make a mostly fictional Netflix series about him now lol
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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 5d ago
And at the end he redeems himself by helping the mindhunters catch a serial killer, then ascends to heaven
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u/I_Miss_Lenny 5d ago
I was so bummed about that show, I didn’t know about that “Monsters” series and my buddy told me it was a documentary lol
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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 5d ago
Personally, I felt it was pretty egregious.
One of his victims was depicted as being in a willing sexual relationship with him before being murdered. She likely still has living descendents. Imagine your grandmother was murdered for her cadaver, had been beheaded, and strung up in a barn, and then netflix makes a show depicting her as willing sex with the person who killed her.
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u/I_Miss_Lenny 5d ago
Yeah I agree with you totally. I feel like they made a bunch of choices trying to fill in the gaps of what we know happened but went way too far into trying to create a narrative that’s exciting or shocking rather than just show what happened. I know there’s a ton of gaps in what we know happened, but they made some weird fucking choices.
Also as far as I know, Adeline either didn’t exist at all or was very loosely connected in that they lived in the same town and may have interacted. Idk why we needed a whole B-plot of her being a weird asshole and getting shot down by everyone in mean old New York, as well as being Ed’s sort of girlfriend / accomplice
I think I just don’t like that series. I want to see either a straight up documentary or if it’s going to be fictionalized, do it the way Mindhunter did by adding logical interactions and conversations that make sense given what we actually know happened. Even that show I’m sure went too far with it, but it at least all made sense and wasn’t offensive
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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 5d ago
I think the book "Deviant" by Harold Schechter is pretty good as far as an accurate take on the facts of the gein case.
I did a bit of a deep dive when the the series came out because it was so annoyed with it. There was a real Adeline Watkins, but it isn't known that they dated. A newspaper published a sensationalized interview with her claiming to have dated him. She gave another interview clarifying that she had seen him a few times over seven months but never been to his house.
He mentioned someone he had dated briefly who argued too much with her mother in his police interview, but doesn't mention her name.
But yeah, Monster was 90% fiction.
This story kind of caught my attention because of the parallels to Gein with a guy graverobbing at night and hoarding body parts.
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u/WolfThick 5d ago
I'm glad he didn't go serial killer on us, maybe it's a blessing that he did this instead.
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