Who is hannibal lecter

Harris, who was 23 years old at the time, was interviewing another prisoner for his story, a man named Dykes Askew Simmons, who was committed to the mental ward inside the prison.

Simmons had been sentenced to death for a triple murder. While in prison, Simmons bribed a guard, offering him cash in order to escape, but the guard took his money, double-crossed him, and actually shot Simmons during his attempted prison break.

Fellow inmate, Dr. Details of the murder motive are sketchy; there are several different accounts of why Dr. But the next day, another worker saw the suspicious grave and called the authorities. Two Mexican police officers pretended to be patients and arrested the doctor in his office. He will never leave this place. He is insane. A little bit of good emerged from inside an evil man. What remains is that the world is still intrigued by a charming cannibalistic killer inspired by a real-life doctor.

After being genuinely transferred to Memphis, Starling gives Lecter the information about herself that he craves, about her rescuing a lamb from slaughter on her relative's farm. Lecter escapes that evening, killing five in the process. Lecter congratulates her, and hopes that the lambs have finally stopped screaming.

He promises not to come after her. Seven years later, after Starling kills five people in a failed drugs raid, Lecter sends her a letter offering condolences. In his attempt to capture Lecter, Crawford sends her to interview Mason Verger, a sadistic pedophile who survived Lecter but was horrifically disfigured during the ordeal.

Verger, a wealthy pig farmer, uses his fortune to breed vicious boars to eat Lecter alive. He also uses his resources to discredit her, working with her hated enemy Paul Krendler. He is eventually captured by Verger's henchmen and brought to his pied de terre. Ultimately, Lecter is rescued by Starling and Verger's sister Margot, Starling being injured during a shootout. Margot kills several henchmen, then murders her brother, in revenge for years of sexual abuse.

Lecter takes Starling to a rented property in order to treat her injuries. He kidnaps Krendler, and Lecter and Starling eat a meal together, the main course being Krendler's brains while he watches.

After Krendler's death, Lecter attempts to brainwash Starling in becoming Lecter's beloved dead sister Mischa, but fails due to Starling's strong will. The two become lovers and moved to Buenos Aires. It is unknown if Jack Crawford ever met Lecter.

However, the two men despised one another. Like many others, he thought of him as a monster. Crawford warned Clarice Starling to not indulge in any personal information with Lecter. When Lecter escaped custody, Crawford was desperate to recapture him. He was pleased of the thought that should Dr Lecter be caught, he would be executed. Lecter in turn hated Crawford, deeming him untrustworthy, and awful. Lecter was a small and sleek man but was deceptively strong, described as being as strong as an ant.

His left hand had an extremely rare condition called mid-ray duplication polydactyly, i. He also had small white teeth and dark, slicked-back hair with a widow's peak. His voice was described as having a metallic rasp to it, likely from the lack of use during his imprisonment. Due to his imprisonment and lack of natural light, his skin became extremely pale.

Lecter was deceptively strong for his size, being strong enough to lift a body with ease. He has exceptionally developed senses. His sense of smell was perhaps his keenest sense. After his escape, he refused to alter his nose, wanting to keep his keen sense of smell. He had unnerving control over his emotions and bodily readings. He could walk among vicious man eating boars with no fear, he could also control his pulse rate when committing brutal acts, such as his attack on the nurse, and a pulse rate of just over when beating an officer to death.

Perhaps his most incredible attribute was his intellect. His genius was considered immeasurable, being perhaps one of the most intelligent people on the planet. His intellect was on par with Stephen Hawking, being able to understand virtually any subject he wished. He was a criminal mastermind, being able to elude the authorities with his expertise in forensic knowledge, only being caught initially through luck.

He also used his cunning to forge a handcuff key in a maximum security hospital, escape prison and remain on the run. His success on eluding the authorities after his escape was due to minor plastic surgeries, and several excellent fake IDs, as well as not spontaneously moving about. Lecter was unique for a serial killer, as he did not fit any known psychological profile, [4] though Frederick Chilton classified him as a "pure sociopath.

This was shown when Lecter viciously attacked a nurse, and his pulse was noted to have never exceeded 85 beats per minute. When he killed two police officers upon his escape from custody, his pulse exceeded over ; the heightened rate was due to the exertion of beating one of the officers to death with a police baton.

He also wasn't shallow or a drifter, as noted by Will Graham. Those with sociopathy also display superficial charm and glibness, something that Dr. Lecter did not possess. Lecter was genuinely charismatic and hated rudeness, often killing those who were rude. However, he was very manipulative. Lecter also showed no remorse for his actions.

He found it pleasant, remembering killing Benjamin Raspail. Will Graham stated that Lecter enjoyed the hideous crimes he committed. Many in the field of psychiatry, as well as Graham, described Lecter as a "monster". Lecter appears to be perfectly normal to the outside world, but his mind is similar to children born with defects. Another officer labelled Lecter as a "vampire". Lecter himself seemed to live the nomadic lifestyle of the traditional vampire, such as sleeping during the day and always being awake at night.

Lecter was an enigma to medical science, and that the term "sociopath" was only applied to him because it was a convenient label. Lecter himself simply described himself as being evil, stating that psychiatry is "puerile", and was wrong to categorize different kinds of evil as different behavioral conditions, and that people should be responsible for their actions.

Lecter then supported this by stating that the inconsistencies in his behavior were traits of pure evil and that he did not possess a behavioral abnormality.

Lecter often refused to discuss his nature or the reasons behind his crimes. Chilton suspected that Lecter was afraid that if he was "solved" then people would lose interest in Lecter. It is likely that Dr. Lecter suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The memories of his sister's murder and cannibalism triggers strong emotions in Lecter. While on a plane after leaving Florence, the memories cause the usually unflappable Lecter to cry out.

In his memory palace, there is a room that even he cannot enter. Lecter has a deep interest and fantasy of time reversing, in order to bring Mischa to life. This event shaped Lecter's life of murder and cannibalism. As he was forced to eat his sister's remains, in some of his later crimes, he did the same to others. Despite his brutal nature, he was adamant in social graces, frowning on discourtesy and rudeness.

To those who treated him with respect, he extended the courtesy. This was true with Barney, his caregiver in Baltimore. Barney was firm but fair and always treated him with respect. After his escape, Lecter sent Barney a generous tip and a "thank you" note for the decency he was shown at the hospital, and promised not to harm him. He was also fond of Sammie, the man who replaced Miggs in the next cell, showing him kindness and sympathy despite Sammie's crime and fragile mental state.

Lecter was considered to be one of the most brilliant minds in the field of psychiatry, despite his contempt for the subject. Socially, he was considered exceptionally charming and an excellent host, who put on many extravagant dinner parties for his friends.

He indulged in many cultured hobbies and fields of expertise, from art, music, especially opera, literature and of course culinary.

He was an excellent artist, being able to draw with both hands and could draw entire landscapes from memory. His exceptional memory was thanks to the development at a young age of a memory palace. His palace was said to contain at least a thousand rooms, and vast even by Medieval standards. In the physical world, his palace was said to be as large as the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. This allowed him to not only remember virtually anything he had learned, but to retreat to rooms within his mind whenever he was without his books or being tortured.

He was known to be a first class gourmet chef, who cooked delicious meals for friends. During his killing spree, he used his culinary skills to gruesome effect, sometimes serving his victims to others. He was a proficient musician who could play piano to a high level, but showed stiffness in the left hand after having his sixth finger removed. He was an admirer of Glenn Gould, particularly his interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. He held a belief in God when he was young, however he lost that belief after the death of Mischa.

In his later years, he would collect articles on church roof collapses and air disasters, amused by the idea that God would kill devoted followers. However, he did at least entertain the possibility of a God. Since people are traditionally made in God's image, Lecter reasoned that killing is fine, as God also kills all the time. According to Barney, Lecter never lied. However, this was not true, as Lecter often misled the authorities and anyone who tried to categorize him.

When arrested for his murders in America, he lied about his age and that he tortured animals as a child, in order to confuse the authorities. Lecter was feared among his peers for his savage and cruel wit, many of his reviews of other people's work destroyed their reputation, even causing Dr. Doemling to cry. He was always courteous and was described by Barney as having perfect manners.

Unlike many cannibalistic serial killers, Lecter did not kill for sexual or sadistic pleasure, his mentioned victims did not suffer extensive pain. This was likely because torture produces certain hormones that would affect the quality of his victim's flesh. However, Will Graham believed that Lecter did enjoy the hideous things he did to his victims, and likely still does.

His primary motives for murder were discourtesy, inferiority to himself, revenge and public service. Lecter preferred using knives in his murders rather than guns, however he showed skill with a crossbow and was adept with a shotgun in two of his early murders. He also attacked with his teeth at least three times, tearing at a victim's face.

Revenge and retribution was prominent in his murders before moving to America. He first murdered a butcher who was rude to his aunt. He then became obsessed with hunting Mischa's killers and inflicted brutal revenge, often beheading and eating the cheeks.

During his killing spree as a psychiatrist, he murdered those who he deemed inferior to himself or to serve a public justice. This was certainly the case when he attacked Mason Verger, a highly sadistic pedophile. His murder of Benjamin Raspail was to improve the quality of the orchestra and also found the musician to be boring and self-pitying. From his love of art and history, Lecter would inflict poetic justice on some victims.

His sixth American victim, the bow hunter, was murdered and arranged in the style of the medieval drawing Wound Man, which depicted many battle injuries. Rinaldo Pazzi was hanged and disembowelled in the same manner as his ancestor. Pazzi's death also paralleled the death of Judas, who was said to have hanged himself and his bowels spilling out after his betrayal of Jesus. His penultimate victim, Donnie Barber, was arranged in the style of the Blood Eagle, a supposed Norse execution method. Mason Verger's feeding his face to his dogs mirrored the biblical Jezebel, who was thrown out of a window and was eaten by dogs.

Rudeness was especially heinous to Dr Lecter, describing it as "unspeakably ugly". Lecter killed his cellmate by proxy for flinging semen at Starling. Lecter's caregiver Barney Matthews told Starling that Lecter would, whenever feasible, eat the rude, or "free-range rude" as he termed them.

When preparing a victim to be eaten, Lecter used his expertise to create delicious meals from them, either for himself or others. In at least one case, he cooked human flesh for the Baltimore Orchestra. This led Harris to develop an interest in Trevino, and he began seeking permission to interview the doctor. After he did, he learned that Trevino was convicted for murder — he reportedly killed his boyfriend Jesus Castillo Rangel in what was characterized as a "crime of passion" after they had gotten in an argument.

The story goes that Rangel had attacked Trevino with a screwdriver and then the doctor administered anesthetic to Rangel's body. He then dragged Rangel to a bathtub, and slit his throat and drained all of the blood out of his body.

Doesn't really sound like a knee-jerk reaction to someone hitting you with a screwdriver, does it? Trevino then chopped up Rangel's body into small pieces and packed them into a box. He drove to a relative's farm and then asked if he could bury medical waste there, but when another worker on the farm saw the mound, he decided to call the police. Thomas Harris would say that the doctor "had a certain elegance about him," even as he was discussing dismembering his boyfriend in a bathtub.

A prison guard said of Trevino to Harris after their interview, "Hombre! He will never leave this place. He is insane. It turns out that the guard was wrong, however. Trevino was released in the year and continued to practice medicine, providing healthcare for poor families until he died in Many people view Trevino's tale as one of personal penance and redemption.