adeline watkins what happened to her

Adeline Watkins was a woman who claimed to have been romantically involved with Edward "Ed" Gein, the infamous serial killer and grave robber. She stated that their relationship lasted nearly 20 years and that Gein proposed to her two years before he was arrested. However, shortly after these claims were publicized, Watkins retracted much of her story, saying that the relationship was exaggerated and lasted less than a year, describing the media coverage as blown out of proportion and containing falsehoods. She also clarified that they were not close and that she never entered Gein's home where his crimes took place. Following the publicity of her connection to Gein, Adeline Watkins largely disappeared from public life. She lived a quiet life in Wisconsin and passed away at the age of 81 in 2003. There is no evidence of any dramatic events in her later life; she distanced herself from the media and did not become a victim or involved otherwise in the aftermath of Gein's crimes.