![]() ![]() Anonymous early Britons have also been nominated. ![]() When these searches for the “original Hannibal Lecter” have not prospered, reporters have been sent round the world to interview frankly unrelated murderers and, where possible, cannibals, as generic “real Hannibal Lecters”, including, most recently, 29-year-old Jason Ricketts from Caerphilly in South Wales who murdered and eviscerated a cellmate in Cardiff prison, mistaking his spleen for his heart. ![]() It seems likely that he would still have functioned as a bogeyman in the area 10 or 15 years later when Harris was a boy. When he was captured, 200 armed police guarded him he went to the gallows. In 1934, Coyner escaped from an Indiana prison and went on a murder and cannibalism spree in Cleveland. To a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, Harris mentioned a local killer, William Coyner, as his inspiration. The author himself appears to have mentioned a Mexican doctor he interviewed in prison to one of his English publishers. ![]() Many a journalist has been set the task of finding the genuine serial killer on whom Thomas Harris’s character - as he appears, variously, in Red Dragon, The Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal - might have been based. Much print has been expended on attempting to identify “the real Hannibal Lecter”. ![]()
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