Gary Heidnik's Stories: about His Victims As Well As All the Stories That Show Their Will to Survive

Gary Michael Heidnik was an American murderer who kidnapped, tortured and raped six women, killing two of them, while holding them prisoner in a pit in his basement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Heidnik was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999. On March 24, 1987, the Philadelphia Police Department received a phone call from a woman who stated that she had been held captive for the last four months. When police officers arrived at the payphone from...
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Gary Michael Heidnik was an American murderer who kidnapped, tortured and raped six women, killing two of them, while holding them prisoner in a pit in his basement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Heidnik was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999.
On March 24, 1987, the Philadelphia Police Department received a phone call from a woman who stated that she had been held captive for the last four months. When police officers arrived at the payphone from which the call was made, Josephina Rivera told them that she and three other women had been held captive in a basement by a man named Gary Heidnik.
This is a shocking story of kidnapping, rape, torture, mutilation, dismemberment, decapitation, and murder.