15 Best American Horror Story Deaths
6. Shelley - Asylum
Throughout American Horror Story's second season, there was not one single character that didn't have some sort of traumatic experience while at Briarcliffe Manor. Even those who worked there found themselves either possessed or incarcerated, but few could claim to have had a worse experience than Shelley.
Admitted to the institution as a diagnosed nymphomaniac, Shelley quickly became a victim of the purely evil Dr. Arthur Arden and his reprehensible human experiments.
After finding Shelley trying to escape one night, Dr. Arden's solution to the problem was to amputate her legs at the knees. The Nazi's experiments didn't stop there, as he continued to work on the inmate, leaving her mutilated and unrecognisable by the time she was found.
Her torture ultimately came to an end when the Monsignor visited her in hospital and recognised her. Going against every instinct as a religious man, Timothy Howard took mercy on Shelley and strangled her to death. She was made to suffer at Briarcliffe, and was turned into a monster, leaving the Monsignor no choice but to end her life for her own sake, and with his own Rosary Beads no less.