Gary Heidnick

Type: Person

As of November 2026, Gary Heidnick has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Twisted Minds (Jan 2023). Mentioned as another Philadelphia-area serial killer arrested months earlier; used by media as contextual comparison due to proximity.

Gary Michael 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 between 1986 and 1987. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999, the last person executed in the state of Pennsylvania as of October 2026. Heidnik later became one of the inspirations for the character of Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence of the La