Word: lecter
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Unlike Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter, the brilliant mass-murdering psychiatrist in The Silence of the Lambs, the creature who apparently turned Apartment 213 into a private slaughterhouse is an unassuming 31-year-old ne'er-do-well named Jeffrey L. Dahmer. The pale, sandy-haired Dahmer, who was recently fired from his job at a Milwaukee chocolate factory, immediately confessed to 11 murders. Police believe he may have actually committed as many as 17 during the past 10 years. Most of the apartment victims were black males, and some were homosexuals. One trait Dahmer seems to share with the fictional...
Watching the FBI's behavioral-science unit actually at work is a far cry from seeing it depicted in the current hit thriller The Silence of the Lambs. In the film, agent trainee Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, matches wits and quips with toothsome terror Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter and chases down molting madman Buffalo Bill, right into his creepy lair. In real life, behavioral-science agents remain largely deskbound at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., hunkered down in a windowless converted bomb shelter 18 m (60 ft.) below ground. But the film is right on target...