Gary Heidnik

Gary Heidnik was an American murderer and serial rapist 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, Pennsylvania. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999, currently the last person to be executed in the state. Heidnik was one of the inspirations for the Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb character in "The Silence of the Lambs". Heidnik also served as a medic in the U.S. Army in the early 1960s.