The Bundy Tapes - Netflix doc

I did enjoy this series but on reflection I felt it was quite exploitative.

There was very little detail of the horrific nature of his crimes. If you look into it elsewhere, the brutality and torture is off the scale. Also very little talk of the impact and devastation so many families went through. The victims were brushed over (I guess because there were so many) and Bundy was made out more like a travelling fraudster than a an absolutely sadistic necrophiliac.

Bundy was almost painted as a bit of an anti-hero. The filmmakers seemed as charmed as everyone else who came in contact.

Does anyone know if the FBI talking to him on death row was the inspiration for Robert Harris' Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs?
 
MookJong said:
Does anyone know if the FBI talking to him on death row was the inspiration for Robert Harris' Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs?
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According the Wiki (not the greatest source though) Hannibal Lecter was mostly based on a Doctor that Harris came across in a prison in Mexico in the 60's

Thomas Harris has given few interviews and did not explain where he got inspiration for Hannibal Lecter until mid-2013. Harris revealed that the character was inspired by a real-life doctor and murderer he met while visiting a prison in the city of Monterrey during a trip to Mexico in the 1960s when he was a 23-year-old reporter.[37] The doctor was serving a life sentence for murdering a young man, supposedly a "close friend", mutilating his body into several body parts, and putting them in a very small box. Harris, who would only refer to the surgeon by the fake name "Dr. Salazar", described him as a "small lithe pale man with dark red hair". He added: "There was certain intelligence and elegance about him."[38] Harris had gone to Mexico to interview Dykes Askew Simmons, a US citizen on death row for murdering three young people in the country, but he ended up also speaking to "Salazar", who saved Simmons' life after a guard shot him during an escape bid. "Salazar" revealed his dark side as he began discussing Simmons' disfigured face, tormented upbringing and how attractive his victims had been.


Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño, the real-life inspiration for Lecter, according to Thomas Harris.
Several reporters and investigators have traced the records and whereabouts of the Mexican prison doctor in later years and discovered that "Salazar" was in reality Alfredo Ballí Treviño, a physician from an upper-class Monterrey family who was found guilty of murdering a close friend (and lover) and mutilating his body; he was also suspected of killing and dismembering several hitchhikers in the city outskirts during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Harris also incorporated some of these details into Buffalo Bill's development as a killer in Silence of the Lambs. Ballí was initially condemned to death, but his sentence was later commuted to 20 years and he was released in 1981. After his release, Ballí continued working as a physician in an austere office until his death by natural causes in 2009.
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