Ed Gein did not kill the babysitter Evelyn Hartley. Although Evelyn Hartley was a real person who disappeared in 1953 while babysitting in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Ed Gein was questioned about her disappearance because he was known to be in the area at the time. However, Gein denied any involvement, no evidence linked him to her case, and he passed a lie detector test. He was ultimately cleared of any connection to Hartley's disappearance in 1957, and her case remains unsolved. The portrayal of Gein abducting, torturing, and killing Hartley in the Netflix series "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" is dramatized fiction and not based on facts. Gein was only confirmed to have killed two women: Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden, and the other murders shown in the series are fabrications for dramatic effect.
