The Room

Ed Gein is not Ada's subject. The sheriff who found the farmhouse is. The intake log records 37 items never entered into the official evidence chain. Ada finds the sheriff's daughter, who has kept them — not as trophies. Her father took them because they were letters: correspondence between Gein and a named law enforcement contact in two other states, dated across five years, bracketing three unsolved homicides. The contact responded. His identity has never appeared in any record.