what happened to ed gein girlfriend

Ed Gein's "girlfriend," Adeline Watkins, was a real person who initially claimed to have had a 20-year romantic relationship with Gein. However, she later retracted much of that claim, clarifying that they had a more casual connection that lasted about seven months around 1954 and denied any involvement in Gein's crimes. After Gein's arrest in 1957, Adeline Watkins gave interviews describing Gein as kind and gentle but later stated the earlier portrayal of their relationship was exaggerated. She eventually lived a quiet, ordinary life, married a man named Torqulson, settled in Monroe, Wisconsin, and passed away in 2003 at age 81. She did not spiral into obsession or danger as sometimes dramatized in media portrayals.