Captive Humans. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – UNITED STATES. Gary Heidnik wanted children, but every intimate relationship he had with women disintegrated. He needed to find a way to make sure they would never leave him, so he decided to keep females in his basement. His sadistic desires were the stuff of horror movies, and would become part of the inspiration behind serial killer Buffalo Bill, portrayed in The Silence of the Lambs. Lead up to Crime. Michael Heidnik pushed his tyrannical nature and racism onto his two boys. He devised punishments for his sons: forcing them to wear bulls- eyes on the seats of their pants so their schoolmates would kick them; hung their sheets out for their neighbours to see after they wet the bed; and hung Gary by his ankles from a third storey window. When he was six, Gary fell out of a tree and suffered brain damage. The injury led him to have a misshapen skull, and the other children called him “football head.” It was then that his unusual behaviour began to take hold and he would torture his once loved pets by hanging them. Gary Heidnik’s father disinherited and renounced him in the mid- 1. He joined the army in his late teens, but was later discharged when he was diagnosed as schizophrenic. He would spend much of his adult life in and out of 2. His alcoholic mother, Ellen Vandervoort, was married five times, twice to African- American men. She committed suicide on Mother’s Day 1. She was found in the basement. In 1. 97. 6, Heidnik owned a house in Cedar Avenue, Philadelphia. He had an argument with his girlfriend and shut off the electricity to the building. Another tenant, Robert Rodgers, climbed through a basement window to find Heidnik sitting on a child’s mattress. Heidnik shot at him, grazing his face. ![]() ![]() Charges were laid, but dropped a week later. When he sold the rubbish filled house, the couple cleaning the premises found a large amount of pornography. They also found a pit where Heidnik had dug through the concrete basement floor. On May 2. 2, 1. 97. Heidnik’s girlfriend, Anjeanette Davidson, gave birth to their daughter. Anjeanette had an IQ of only 4. Their child was placed in foster care after Heidnik barely allowed Davidson to eat during her pregnancy. While the couple visited Anjeanette’s sister, Alberta Davidson, 3. Selingrove Centre for the mentally retarded on May 7, 1. ![]() Heidnik held Alberta in her sister’s basement for 1. Officials from the centre visited the house with a police escort, after a previous attempt failed to find the missing woman. She was found in a coal bin in the basement. Heidnik was charged with a string of offences, including kidnapping, rape, and false imprisonment. The more serious charges had to be dropped, as Alberta was too mentally handicapped to testify. Captives is a 1994 British romantic crime drama film directed by Angela Pope and written by Dublin screenwriter Frank Deasy. It stars Julia Ormond, Tim Roth and Keith. Reuters investigates Europe’s migration crisis: Millions of people, billions of dollars – and the struggle to cope. He was found guilty of interfering with the custody of a committed person, unlawful restraint, and recklessly endangering another person. He was sentenced to three to seven years, and spent just over four years moving through a series of mental institutions. He was released on April 1. Gary Heidnik would impregnate several women, including a mail- order bride from the Philippines. He would not have access to any of his children, with them either placed in foster care or living with their mothers. If he wanted to raise a family of his own, he would have to make sure neither the mothers nor his children could ever leave. Held Captive. Josefina Rivera, 2. North Philadelphia, where she would inject cocaine at local flophouses. On November 2. 6, 1. She stormed out of the house to prostitute on the corner of Third Street and Girard Avenue, hoping to turn a $2. Gary Heidnik cruised by in his Cadillac Coupe de Ville, the mother of three children hopped inside, and he took her back to his house at 3. North Marshall Street. New International Version "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the. Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped at age 10 by and spent eight years in captivity. Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests. Pareto Captive Services, LLC Cira Center 2929 Arch Street, Suite 1175 Philadelphia, PA 19104-7342. Phone: 215.240.6529 [email protected]. True Crime Cases of People Held Captive. When a young boy kicked a football over a neighbour’s garden fence, he could not have comprehended what was occurring on. Article Details: The Amistad Slave Rebellion, 175 Years Ago. SETTING CAPTIVES FREE – 2.0. Setting Captives Free exists to help men and women to freedom in Christ through the gospel. Please select a course of interest below. After they completed their deal in an upstairs bedroom, Heidnik choked Rivera, and took her to the dank and dark basement. He fastened a muffler clamp around her ankle and secured the bolt with glue. He left her alone, chained up in the basement. When Heidnik returned three days later, he brought down his next captive, Sandra Lindsay, 2. She was mentally disabled and went missing while walking to the store. He chained her up in the same fashion as Rivera. He forced the women to watch each other be raped, and used a shovel handle to beat them into submission. Lindsay’s mother visited Heidnik’s house multiple times over the next few days, searching for her daughter, but there was never an answer at the door. Lisa Thomas, 1. 9, was a single mother on welfare, who had dropped out of high school to have her baby. As she walked down Lehigh Street on December 2. Heidnik offered her a lift. She hopped in the car with the stranger. He bought her lunch, where she took an allergy pill. Afterwards, he took her clothes shopping at Sears. Captive definition, a prisoner. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition. Promising her a trip to Atlantic City, he drove her back to his house and gave her a wine. As the wine reacted with the pill, she passed out. He took her upstairs and had sex with her. When she asked to go home, he choked and cuffed her, then pushed her down the stairs into the basement. Heidnik uncovered a pit — a deep hole burrowing through the concrete that he had spent nine months excavating — where Rivera and Lindsay were confined. He introduced the women, had sex with Thomas again, and then prepared the women sandwiches. On New Year’s Day 1. Deborah Dudley was brought into the cellar. She made a poor captive for Heidnik — feisty and confrontational. She refused to submit. The cramped and putrid conditions caused Heidnik to do some refining. He bought them a portable toilet, tampons, and allowed them to bathe over consecutive days. Along with the regular rapes, humiliations, and starvation, Heidnik devised a serious of punishments for any perceived slight he believed the women to be guilty of. He beat them with a shovel handle while stretched on a pool table, forced them into the pit, and suspended them from an eyehook. To prevent them from hearing him move around upstairs, he pushed screwdrivers into their ears to deafen them. Music blared continuously so no one could hear their desperate cries. The already substandard diet was reduced to dog food. On January 1. 4, while the women were held captive, Heidnik attended court as his Filipino mail- order bride — who fled after only three- and- a- half months marriage and who sent only a postcard alerting him of her pregnancy — sued him for child support. He became evasive when questioned about the finances of the United Church of the Ministers of God, which he ran from his home, estimated to be worth over $5. The church provided services to mentally and physically disabled people who didn’t feel comfortable attending regular church. Jacquelyn Askins, 1. She met Heidnik around noon on January 1. West Girard Avenue in Poplar. She soon joined the other women in the cellar. Heidnik thought his plan was unfolding perfectly, believing Rivera and Lindsay were pregnant after they missed their periods, ready to supply him with two of the ten babies he desired. Heidnik was mistaken and the women were not pregnant, which left him disappointed. Sandra Lindsay was suspended by her wrists from a ceiling beam as punishment for trying to climb out of the pit. A week later, on February 7, she died. Heidnik thought she was faking, so he threw her body back in the pit. He made Rivera, Thomas and himself bowls of ice cream. He retrieved Lindsay’s body and carried her upstairs, where he dismembered her with a power saw. He bagged some parts and placed them in the freezer, gave some bones to his dogs, and minced up flesh and mixed it with dog food to feed his captives and pets. Neighbours soon called the police as the sweet- awful smell of roasting flesh crept its way through the city block. Police responded, but soon left after Heidnik told them, “I just burnt my dinner.”Besides providing a meal, Lindsay would also serve as a warning. Dudley refused to comply with Heidnik’s authority, so he took her upstairs to show her Lindsay’s head boiling away in a pot. When this made little difference to her attitude, Heidnik came up with another plan. Rivera had been working on Heidnik, attempting to befriend him so she could plot an escape. The favour she garnered from Heidnik had a price. On March 1. 8 he sought to punished Lisa, Jacquelyn, and Deborah, using Josefina to carry out the act. He ordered Josefina to partly fill the pit with water and he lowered the three women into the sludge. He fetched a stripped electrical cord, and made Josefina electrocute the women by touching the bare wires on their chains. On the final jolt, the wires touched the chain around Deborah Dudley’s neck, killing her instantly. Dudley’s body was placed in a freezer. A week later Heidnik and Rivera transported the body to New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, where they dumped her in the forest. The next day the pair kidnapped Agnes Adams, 2. Like all the other victims, she was also African- American. However, with two women dead and none pregnant, Heidnik would have to work harder to see his plan come to fruition. Escape and Rescue. Josefina Rivera convinced Gary Heidnik that if he let her out she would visit a friend and bring her back as the next slave. But, first she needed to visit her family. Heidnik had forced Rivera to write a confession, claiming responsibility for Dudley’s death. He believed this protected him from Rivera escaping, as she would incriminate herself. Parked at a gas station on Sixth and Girard Street, Heidnik left the car running as he waited for Rivera to return. She ran four blocks to the house she shared with her boyfriend, that she had left on a cold November night four months earlier. As Rivera unloaded the details of her ordeal, her boyfriend listened in disbelief. They decided to go an attack Heidnik, but changed their minds, fearing he might return to North Marshall Street and kill the other women. Instead, they called 9.
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