Inspired by true life cereal murderers

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2019)

What many people do not seem to know is that Thomas Harris' inspiration for the novel "The Silence Of The Lambs" is a mix of real life serial murderers Ted Bundy, Ed Gain, and Garry Leo Ridgeway (aka The Green River Killer).
Ted Bundy was a serial murderer who use his charms and handicap ruse to lure his victims and then he would murder them and dump their bodies. When he got caught, Ted made a deal with the Federal Burau of Investigation to profile Garry Leon Ridgeway in hopes of helping them catch him. Garry was known as the Green River Killer because he would dump the bodies of his victims in the Green River in Washington. Bundy's profile helped capture Garry 11 years after he was executed. Ed Gain is the inspiration behind "The Texas Chainsaw". Ed would make masks, clothes, and table covers and what not out of the skin of his victims.