After the West Virginia caper Clarice Starling continues to work on the Buffalo Bill case and Lecter wants a transfer to get away from Dr. Chilton who he considers his enemy instead of his jail keeper. The Lake Oneida offer was found out to be a fake dreamed up by Jack Crawford.
In the meantime Buffalo Bill has kidnapped another girl, a Senators daughter, and is keeping her in a pit in his house until she drops enough weight so he can use her skin for the human cover that he's making.
Hannibal Lecter has been transferred to Memphis, Tennessee and is visited again by Clarice Starling. This is the session where Clarice becomes more familiar with him and tells him about her young life living on a sheep ranch in Montana. She tells him how she was awakened one night by the screaming of the spring lambs as they were being slaughtered. She tried to save one but he was too heavy and she was caught and sent to an orphanage in Bozeman.
It was either in this session or the next that Hannibal tells her how to catch Buffalo Bill. I mentioned this earlier in the blog on how to catch the Zodiac. Hopkins mentions the Roman orator Marcus A. of the Roman Senate. You first have to understand the M. O. of Buffalo Bill. Simplicity--- What does he do? Buffalo Bill COVETS! What does he covet! He covets what he sees every day. All of these girls he sees every day or most every day. That is the secret of catching him. It must be that in ancient Rome they must have been bothered by serial killers or those of a similar nature.
Clarice Starling goes to the home of one of the last victims and by trial and error happens upon the home of Jamie Gumm, (Buffalo Bill). She arrests him and in the process he turns off the power in the house. She hears a click, a pistol being cocked, and shoots and kills him.
In the meantime Lecter escapes and takes a plane for Argentina and that's the end of the story.
Next time I'll mention more about the Zodiac and possible tips within his paragraphs.
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