LECTER TRIAL BEGINS

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Detail from Dolarhyde’s Ledger

This article is peppered with misspellings and grammatical errors.  I got tired of adding “[sic]” to every one – if you see it and it’s wrong, it was “published” that way.

LECTER TRIAL BEGINS

Courtroom packed as jury hears first evidence

[handwritten] You are greater than them all they cannot understand

 S. Kasparian
Staff Reporter

BALTIMORE – A decades long hunt ended yesterday with the apprehending of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.  Lecter is the FBI’s main suspect in the gruesome Chesapeake Ripper murders that ravaged the area for years.  Officials have suggested that his reign of terror may reach back as far as 15 years.

[highlight] The FBI has never encountered a serial killer who possesses the cunning of the Chesapeake Ripper who has been able to allude poilce for such a long time even though his murders are amongst the most shocking and elaborate on [/highlight] record.  The manhunt creshendoed yesterday afternoon when Dr. Lecter was arrested at the country home of [circle] Will Graham [/circle] – a profiler who worked for the FBI until he himself became suspected of being the Ripper and was arrested and subsequently released only a couple of short years ago.  No word on Graham’s actual involvement in the crimes or arrest has been

of the psychiatric community in the Bay area for nearly 20 years and was most notable  known to the public for his testimonials at the trial for Will Graham.  Dr. Lecter was Graham’s clinical psychologist and played no small part in his incarceration in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Graham was later exhonerated and Dr. Lector himself became the lead suspect.  The attempted arrest of Lecter resulted in the death of one person hospitalization 3 others, 2 of whom were FBI agents.  Dr. Lecter then disappeared until now when agents were able to successfully take him into custody without incident.

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[Caption below photograph] Photograph by R. Cheyne  DR. HANNIBAL LECTER – Makes his first public appearance since his arrest.  Usually quite dapper, Dr. Lecter still remained composed even in prisoner’s attire.


The author “S. Kasparian” is likely a nod to Hannibal‘s art department trainee, Sonia Kasparian.

The photographer “R. Cheyne” is likely a nod to Hannibal‘s art director, Rory Cheyne.

The Buffalo Citizen Tooth Fairy Article

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Tooth Fairy Massacres ‘Perfect Families’

The Leeds Home – in the North Park area of Buffalo where the Leeds family was slaughtered in their beds by a killer whom the press have dubbed the Tooth Fairy because of the deep marks he leaves in his victims.  According to police, Mrs. Leeds and her two sons (8 and 10) were all shot in their beds.  Mr. Leeds dies [sic] of stab wounds.  It is thought that a knife was used on Mr. Leeds because he was murdered first and the killer didn’t want to alert the rest of the family to the horror that was coming.

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According to an FBI profiler, killer may be choosing families not individual victims

M. Cormier
CRIME BEAT

The Tooth Fairy has brutally murdered an entire family while they slept in their home and police are still no closer to even a suspect.  This has lead many to wonder if investigators have dropped the ball on this investigation.  This madman seems to have no M.O. other than the choice of victim.  There is no apparent pattern that could lead police to his next target.  And the killer has left precious few clues on the crime scene.

The one thing that can be said about local police is that they were smart enough to know right away that they were out of their element and called the FBI to take over the scene immediately.  Certainly the national database used by the FBI can more quickly connect the Leeds murder with any potential other cases, but with no apparent pattern, it is hard to see who they will be able to take the investigation much further.

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Killer leaves few clues

The Tooth Fairy has brutally murdered an entire family while they slept in their home and police are still no closer to even a suspect.  This has lead many to wonder if investigators have dropped the ball on this investigation.  This madman seems to have no M.O. other than the choice of victim.  There is no apparent pattern that could lead police to his next target.  And the killer has left precious few clues on the crime scene.

The one thing that can be said about local police is that they were smart enough to know right away that they were out of their element and called the FBI to take over the scene immediately.  Certainly the national database used by the FBI can more quickly connect the Leeds murder with any potential other cases, but with no apparent pattern, it is hard to see who they will be able to take the investigation much further [than it has been taken by local authorities].


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Melissa Cormier was one of the Assistant Art Directors for the show.