Gary Heidnik - Signed Envelope
Envelope mailed from prison and signed by Gary Heidnik.
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 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 2025. Heidnik later became one of the inspirations for the character of Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs.
Envelope mailed from prison and signed by Gary Heidnik.
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 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 2025. Heidnik later became one of the inspirations for the character of Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs.

