Gary Heidnik captured the woman conventionally cited as his first victim, Josefina Rivera, in 1986. And it’s hard to imagine, but he actually turned her, by many acco… See more

“Anytime that you’re cut off from the world outside,” Josefina Rivera admitted after she escaped her captor’s clutches, “whoever’s holding you captive… you’re going to grow to like him r… See more

After Dudley’s brutal murder, another horrific death occurred in the basement: the murder of Sandra Lindsay, a mentally disabled woman whom Gary Heidnik had lured in sho… See more

Ultimately, accomplice or not, Josefina Rivera saved the surviving victims. Toward the end, Heidnik was using her as bait to catch more women. He’d let her enter the outside wor… See more

Despite his attempts to get off on an insanity defense, Gary Heidnik was convicted in July 1988 and sentenced to death. He tried to kill himself in prison, and his family tr… See more