Monster Preacher

Gary Michael Heidnik was an American murderer and serial rapists who kidnapped, tortured and raped 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. He was sentenced to death and executed by in 1999, currently the last person to be executed in the state of Pennsylvania. Heidnik was one of the inspirations for the character of Jamie “Buffalo Bill Gumbo” in 1991’s Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme.