Thursday, December 20, 2007

The Cellar of Horror "The story of Gary Heidnik" by Ken Englade

First of all this book is crazy! Right away the story begins by placing you with Gary's first victim. You follow the women's intense, disgusting, and terrifying ordeal throughout the entire book. But the author does break up the story by giving you background information about Gary, like what his childhood was like, and why he was the man he was.

I found it very interesting that he only kidnapped, mentally challenged black women. For part of his life, he lived with his mother and black step-father. So that's just what he considered himself. But he was indeed a White man. Anyways, he picks up these women, some of them were friends of his, others prostitutes, and he would take them back to his place. That's where things got crazy! Let's put it this way; he kidnapped women in hopes of having them start his own little community in the basement. They would have his children and they would live happily ever after together. However, his treatment towards the girls, prevented his ultimate goal. The women were beaten, tortured, raped on a daily basis, and chained naked in his basement. He wanted to leave behind children in this world, but according to Ken Englade, "rape, toruture and cannibilism was his legacy." I don't want to spoil anything for you, so if you're interested in reading this book, I promise you will not be disappointed.


F.Y.I.
One of his girlfriends names was Jewel. I thought that was funny. =]

1 comment:

Lisha R. said...

woah...um kurtney i am a little concerned about you reading this psychotic stuff...hmmm....lol j/k... but this sounds really interesting. This guy must be really crazy to think his little plan would work. I actually want to read this so i will be borrowing it from you.