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Thanks for listening. And now now on to the episode. Every town has a dark side. The following is a story from one of them, but there's still many more to uncover.

Today we traveled to North Philly, Pennsylvania, where we unmask serial killer Gary Heydnick, who is often referred to as the real life Buffalo Bill.

One of the most chilling movie villains that brought terror to the big screen is a character named

James Gumb, most popularly known as Buffalo Bill for the 1991 Academy Award winning psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs.

Created by American writer Thomas Harris for his 1988 novel of the same title,

the fictional character is a serial killer whose

MO is too fiendish.

He relishes kidnapping overweight women,

depriving them of food for weeks,

killing them, and then skinning their bodies,

dumping the victims in nearby rivers.

As for the women's skin, Buffalo Bill makes them into a woman's suit for himself.

This prods want to ask, where did this idea come from, and if there is in fact a real Buffalo Bill who exists

somewhere in the world where and who is he? The answer is partially yes because

it turns out that Harris developed Buffalo Bill as a composite character,

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