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Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) 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.
Sep 27, 2023 · Gary Michael Heidnik kidnapped, raped, and tortured six women starting in 1986, keeping them prisoner in the basement of his Philadelphia home. Gary Heidnik was every bit as twisted as the infamous movie character he inspired: Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs.
Jan 16, 2021 · Rivera and five other women had been kidnapped and held captive by Gary Heidnik, a Philadelphia preacher who raped and tortured them in the basement of his home. He ended up murdering two. Rivera was able to gain Heidnik’s trust and convince him to let her speak to her family.
Jul 23, 2007 · Gary Heidnik was a deranged killer from Philadelphia. In this oral history, his victims, his attorney, his relatives speak.
May 25, 2024 · On November 25, 1986, Gary Heidnik took the 25-year-old woman into his home at 3520 North Marshall Street in North Philadelphia by promising her a handsome amount of cash, but after they engaged in sex, he choked her until she was unconscious.
Mar 20, 2023 · Convicted murderer Gary Heidnik had received his last meal – black coffee and two slices of cheese pizza – shortly before he was executed on July 6, 1999. Applause broke out and one witness...
Nov 3, 2023 · Eleven years after being sentenced to death for the two murders, Heidnik was executed on July 6, 1999. Here's the truth behind the "House of Horrors Killer," Gary Heidnik, and his descent into a life of crime.
Jan 14, 2021 · When Philadelphia police arrested Gary Heidnik in 1987, they found a dismembered head in a stockpot of water on his stove—and three more women chained up in a basement prison pit, where he’d been torturing and raping them.
Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) 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.
Jul 6, 2020 · Gary Heidnik was dead, more than a dozen years after he had started kidnapping women and holding them captive in his basement where he tortured and raped them.
