629 // The Life of Hannibal Lecter w/ Brian Raftery
Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries
Crawlspace Media
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | the audience saw that Hannibal Lecter, despite being someone who could stick a stiletto down |
| 0:03.9 | someone's throat and kill them, is also human and also someone who is deserving of some sort |
| 0:09.4 | of empathy, I guess, or at least in the very least understanding. |
| 0:12.1 | And that's what I think Corrice does. |
| 0:13.3 | And I also think Corrice is also, in her own right, a remarkably well-written character |
| 0:17.5 | who I think generally did have an impact on many young women who saw that |
| 0:21.5 | movie and either went into true crime or went to the FBI. I've read a lot of things where people |
| 0:25.9 | say, well, you don't get characters like Corrice Starling in a lot of horror movies or thriller movies. |
| 0:29.8 | And I'm thinking, you don't get a lot of female characters like Corrice Starling in any literature |
| 0:33.6 | or films at this point. So I think she's a very key part to understanding Lecter. In today's new episode of Crawl Space, we speak with Brian Raftery, the author and podcaster from The Ringer. |
| 1:16.2 | He is here because he wrote a brand new book titled Hannibal Lecter, A Life. |
| 1:22.0 | And this is a really interesting conversation about his new book that's kind of a biography of this fictional character, |
| 1:30.0 | Hannibal Lecter. What did you make of this conversation, Lance? |
| 1:32.4 | Well, it was really fun to have Brian on because you had turned me on to the ringer network. |
| 1:36.7 | You were a huge fan of the ringer network. And Brian has a lot of good content that has put out |
| 1:41.2 | on there. So it was really cool to have someone like that, finally have something that is relatable to this show that we can talk about. And while it is |
| 1:49.8 | not exactly true crime, there is a huge crime element to this. Just such a great like moment for |
| 1:56.7 | the listeners to kind of geek out. Anybody who's a movie fan, especially a horror movie fan, |
| 2:02.4 | and a fan of The Silence of the Lambs and the whole Hannibal Lecter lineage, you're going to get |
| 2:07.1 | a big kick out of this conversation, and you're going to love the book, too. Yeah, it's a great |
| 2:11.3 | book. Highly recommend it. It is available now. You can get it and learn about more of Brian's work at Brian raftery.com. And I think |
| 2:22.2 | there's probably a little bit more true crime than most people would expect in this book. So yeah, |
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