# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-m-heidnik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:01:51.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-m-heidnik"
name: "Gary M. Heidnik"
slug: "gary-m-heidnik"
description: "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 January 2026. Heidnik later became one of the inspirations for the character of Jame \"Buffalo Bill\" Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs."
tagline: "American Serial Killer (1943–1999)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Var_behindscenes_hist_04.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1943-11-22"
deathDate: "1999-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.84
  momentum:             17.01267770775319
  historical:           13.38026
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gary Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيري هيدنك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary M. Heidnik"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Michael_Heidnik"
    title: "Gary Michael Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik"
    title: "Gary M. Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Heidnik"
    title: "Gary Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik"
    title: "Gary M. Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Michael_Heidnik"
    title: "Gary Michael Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik"
    title: "Gary M. Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Heidnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Heidnik"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump