The Perverted Preacher Who Sexually Tortured Six Black Women in A Basement
The narrated story of the survivors
In 1978, a brutal and ruthless man was arrested. The man, Gary Heidnik, was found guilty of kidnapping a mentally disabled black woman. The woman was found in Heidnik’s basement. She was terrified and covered in blood.
Investigations revealed that Heidnik had kept the woman for ten days. He constantly raped, sodomized, tortured, and starved her.
Heidnik was charged with kidnapping, rape, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, and interfering with a committed person’s custody.
But, despite all these charges, Heidnik spent only three years in mental institutions. His release only led to a series of more inhumane acts. A man who possessed a dangerous obsession for control was let loose. And, his main targets were mentally disabled women of color.
Gary Heidnik’s Early Life
Gary Heidnik was born on November 22nd,1943, in Eastlake, Ohio. He was the firstborn of Michael and Ellen Heidnik. His parents divorced when he was just three years old.
At the age of seventeen, Heidnik joined the US Army. Whilst serving in the Army, Heidnik trained as a medic in Texas…
