![]() ![]() In the case of the fourth victim, he shoots rather than strangles her. In the case of Gumb's first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, he weighs down her body, so she ends up being the third victim found. One officer quipped it was because he "skins his humps." He also inserts a Death’s-head Moth into the victim's throat because he is fascinated by the insect's metamorphosis, a process that he wants to undergo by becoming a woman. This MO caused the homicide squad to nickname him Buffalo Bill ( Buffalo Bill's Wild West show typically claimed that Buffalo Bill Cody had scalped a Cheyenne warrior). He then skins parts of their body (a different section on each victim), and then dumps each body into a different river, destroying any trace of evidence. In the first two cases, he leads the victims upstairs, slips nooses around their necks and pushes them from the stairs, strangling them. He takes her to his house and leaves her in a well in his basement, where he starves her until her skin is loose enough to easily remove. Gumb's modus operandi (MO) is to approach a woman while pretending to be injured, ask for help, then knock her out in a surprise attack and kidnap her. He thinks of his victims as things rather than people, often calling them "it"-hence one of his most famous lines from the film, "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again." The only living thing he feels real affection for is his dog, a toy poodle named "Precious". He kills women so he can skin them and create a "woman suit" for himself, completing his "transformation". Gumb wants to become a woman-or at least believes he does-but repeatedly fails to qualify for gender reassignment surgery. In the novel, multiple examples of how Gumb does not fit the psychological profile of a real transsexual are given. ![]() He was made one through years of systematic abuse."īoth the novel and film depict Gumb as hating his own identity, though multiple characters state that Gumb is not transsexual. In the film, Hannibal Lecter summarizes Gumb's life thus: "Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. The screenplay omits Gumb's backstory, but does imply that he had a traumatic childhood. After Raspail leaves him, he kills Raspail's new lover, Klaus, and flays him. Later, Gumb has a relationship with Benjamin Raspail. He is institutionalized in Tulare Vocational Rehabilitation, a psychiatric hospital, where he learns to be a tailor. The novel goes on to tell of Gumb living in foster homes until the age of 10, when he is adopted by his grandparents, who become his first victims when he impulsively kills them at age 12. It is stated that "The 'Jame' on his birth certificate apparently was a clerical error that no one bothered to correct." Gumb's mother, an aspiring actress, went into an alcoholic decline after her career failed to materialize, and Los Angeles County placed Gumb in a foster home when he was two. Gumb was born in California in 1948 or 1949. In the television series Clarice, he is portrayed by Simon Northwood. ![]() In the film and the novel, he is a serial killer who murders overweight women and skins them so he can make a "woman suit" for himself. Jame Gumb (known by the nickname " Buffalo Bill") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1991 film adaptation, in which he is played by Ted Levine. Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. ![]()
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