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Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) was an American murderer and serial rapist who kidnapped, tortured and sexually violated six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in a self-dug pit in his basement floor in Philadelphia between 1986 and 1987.
Jame Gumb (known by the nickname "Buffalo Bill") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he is played by Ted Levine. In the film and the novel, he is a serial killer who murders overweight women and skins them so he can make a "woman suit" for ...
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel.It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" (), who skins his female victims.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984) This article is about the American killer and body snatcher. For the band named after him, see Ed Gein (band). Ed Gein Gein, c. 1958 Born Edward Theodore Gein (1906-08-27) August 27, 1906 La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. Died July 26 ...
Published August 29, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon, and both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer and brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. This time, however, he is pitted against FBI trainee Clarice Starling as she works to solve the case of the "Buffalo Bill" serial killer. It is the most well-known ...
1991: In this film adaptation of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, Silence of the Lambs, serial killer Jame Gumb is nicknamed Buffalo Bill because he "skins his humps". 1995: Wild Bill , is a film based on legends about "Wild Bill" Hickok , in which Buffalo Bill briefly appears in the play Scouts of the Plains , with Jeff Bridges as Hickok, Keith ...
Altemio C. Sanchez (January 19, 1958 – September 22, 2023), also known as the Bike Path Rapist (and later Killer), [2] was a serial killer, of Puerto Rican descent , who is known to have raped and murdered at least three women, [3] and raped at least 9 to 15 girls and women in and around Buffalo, New York, during a 31-year span from 1975, though perhaps earlier, to 2006.
William Dathan Holbert (born September 12, 1979), alias William Adolfo Cortez and nicknamed "Wild Bill", is an American serial killer/hitman. Originally from North Carolina, he is currently serving a 46-year sentence for the killings of five Americans in Panama.