Overview
- New reporting features survivor Jackie Askins describing daily assaults, electrocution in a water-filled pit, and being forced to dismember a body.
- Between November 1986 and March 1987, Heidnik abducted six women and kept them chained in a concealed Philadelphia basement.
- Sandra Lindsay died from starvation and abuse, and Deborah Dubley was electrocuted and buried in woods, according to contemporaneous accounts.
- Heidnik posed as a self-ordained preacher with the United Church of the Ministers of God, and his lawyer said he aimed to breed captives to create a “perfect race.”
- Josefina Rivera’s escape prompted a police raid that rescued three women; Heidnik was executed in 1999, and the case has been linked in commentary to The Silence of the Lambs as relatives voice conflicted feelings about his death.