Adeline in relation to Ed Gein refers to Adeline Watkins, a woman who claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the notorious serial killer Ed Gein. According to reports from 1957, Watkins said she and Gein had a relationship spanning about 20 years during which they dated and even shared a deep bond. She described Ed Gein as "good and kind and sweet" and revealed that he had proposed to her, though she declined, fearing she wouldn't live up to his expectations. Despite Gein's horrific crimes, she stated she loved him and continued to have feelings for him. Watkins claimed their relationship involved regular dates, sometimes going to movies or taverns. They shared a common interest in reading and often discussed murder cases, which she found interesting. However, in later clarifications, Watkins retracted some of her earlier claims, stating that their interaction was only intermittent for about seven months and that she had never been inside his house. In popular culture, notably in the Netflix series "Monster: The Ed Gein Story," Adeline is portrayed as a kindred spirit and the only female character with whom Gein shares an intimate bond outside his mother, though the series takes creative liberties and expands her role to explore Ed's psyche. The real nature of their relationship remains ambiguous but is generally understood to have been more limited than initially claimed by Watkins.
