According to David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, Harris once told a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by William Coyne, a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism.

Under the advice of their captain, they meet Dr. Harold Leacher ( a comical reference to Dr. Hannibal Lecter ) who informs Jack that the case has something to do with General Mortars under whom Jack had worked during his days in Vietnam.

They disappear together, only to be sighted again three years later entering the Teatro Colón opera house in Buenos Aires by former orderly Barney Matthews, who had befriended and respected Lecter while he was incarcerated in Baltimore.

Graham had previously captured Garrett Jacob Hobbs and Dr. Hannibal " The Cannibal " Lecter, a cannibalistic psychiatrist and serial killer, whom Dolarhyde idolizes.

During their retreat, however, a German Stuka destroys a Soviet tank that had stopped at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water.

Graham had retired after being attacked and nearly killed by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a Baltimore psychiatrist who had helped the FBI on several occasions before, after Graham intuited that Lecter was the serial killer the FBI sought.

The Lithuanian militiamen then loot Lecter Castle as the Soviet Red Army draws nearer, and soon before killing the wounded commanding officer of the Waffen-SS squad they had requested to join, Grutas announces their plan to " Go into business for themselves ".

Grutas claims that Lecter too had consumed his sister in broth fed to him by the deserters, and he was killing them to keep this fact secret.

In the 1991 sequel The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter assists an FBI agent-in-training named Clarice Starling in catching a serial killer known as " Buffalo Bill ".

The famous was Jonathan Demme's highly-acclaimed Best Picture-winning crime thriller The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ) where a young FBI agent Jodie Foster in a psychological war against a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ), while tracking down transgender serial killer Buffalo Bill and David Fincher's crime thriller Se7en ( 1995 ), which was about the search for a serial killer who re-enacts the seven deadly sins.

As time passes, Lecter gives Starling information about Buffalo Bill, a currently active serial killer being hunted by the FBI, but only in exchange for personal information, which Crawford has specifically warned her to keep secret from Lecter.

During the investigation, Starling is assigned to coax Lecter into revealing Buffalo Bill's identity ; Lecter gives her clues in the form of cryptic, riddling information designed to help Starling figure it out for herself.

When Crawford gets stumped in trying to determine who Buffalo Bill is, he is forced to once again call upon Lecter for assistance.

In the novel The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal Lecter makes a deal in which he is to be transferred to the prison in exchange for information about the serial killer Buffalo Bill that would enable authorities to rescue his latest victim, Katherine Martin, the daughter of junior state senator Ruth Martin.

In The Silence of the Lambs, Chilton allows an FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, to interview Lecter about another serial killer, " Buffalo Bill "; he makes a clumsy pass at Starling at their first meeting, but is quickly rejected.

From this, he learns of Crawford's offer to transfer Lecter to a better prison facility in exchange for Buffalo Bill's identity.

However, Lecter gives Starling the real information needed to track down Buffalo Bill.

The Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon includes a scene where the imprisoned psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter mocks a previous attempt to administer the test to him while Michael Crichton included the TAT in the battery of tests given to the disturbed patient and main character Harry Benson in his novel, The Terminal Man.

* Thomas Harris, author of Hannibal Lecter novels ; he was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but raised in Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Coahoma County.

In the backstory, FBI special agent Will Graham initially consulted Lecter about a series of murders before realizing Lecter was the culprit ; Lecter realizes that Graham is on to him, sneaks up behind him and stabs him, nearly disemboweling him, but not killing him.

After his uncle dies, Lecter forms a close, pseudo-romantic relationship with his step-aunt ; during this time he also shows great intellectual aptitude, entering medical school at a young age.

Upon arriving at the asylum for her first interview with Lecter, the asylum manager Frederick Chilton makes a crude pass at her, which she rebuffs ; this helps her bond with Lecter, who also despises Chilton.

Krendler attempts to frame Starling in a scheme planned by Verger, alleging she sent coded newspaper messages to Lecter ; this only results in her being suspended, but she is now powerless to stop Verger's men.

Julianne Moore as Starling in Hannibal ( film ) | Hannibal ; Lecter is in the background.

She is wounded in the ensuing gunfight ; Lecter rescues her and nurses her back to health.

Then, in the novel's most controversial sequence, she opens her dress and offers her breast to Lecter ; he accepts her offer and the two became lovers.

Michael was characterized lending to the understanding of insanity, being ranked second to Hannibal Lecter in this category ; he also placed first as the character who shows audiences the " dark side of human nature ".

In an attempt to provoke Dolarhyde out of hiding, Graham gives an interview to Freddy Lounds of The Tattler, in which he refers to the " Tooth-Fairy " as impotent, homosexual, and possibly the product of incest ; he also implies that Lecter is offended that the killer considers himself Lecter's equal.

* Vladis Grutas – Has large letter ' M's carved in his chest and body ; is reduced to ash when Lecter rigs his yacht to explode.

* Enrikas Dortlich – His head is ripped off after Lecter ties his neck to a horse ; his cheeks are then cut off.

When Dolarhyde learns of Graham's visits with Lecter, the two killers attempt to correspond through the classifieds of a tabloid ; a cleaning crew finds one of Dolarhyde's letters, hidden within Lecter's toilet paper spool.

Lecter is transferred, but gives false information ; he claims that the killer's name is " Billy Rubin ," a reference to bilirubin, a pigment found in feces — and the exact shade of Chilton's hair.

Like Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Calendar Man knows who the killer is and keeps this information to himself, choosing instead to taunt the heroes with cryptic clues.

By way of information obtained from Lecter, Crawford and the FBI attempt to track down the killer, Jame Gumb.

In the 2001 film adaptation, Starling attempts to apprehend Lecter, who escapes after cutting off his own hand to free himself from her handcuffs.

Lecter does not attempt to feed Starling Krendler's brain ( though he does feed portions of it to Krendler himself ).

Pootie Tang, with the help of Biggie Shortie, defeats all of these henchmen and Lecter himself.

In an attempt to recall the names of those responsible for his sister's death, Lecter injects himself with the solution while listening to Glenn Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations ( The same music is also heard in Silence of the Lambs ).

Despite his seemingly comfortable life, however, Lecter is consumed by a savage obsession with avenging Mischa's death.

Thanks in part to Murasaki's intervention, however, Lecter escapes responsibility for the crime.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

Lecter goes there and threatens Kolnas ' children, forcing him to give up the location of Grutas ' boat.