Robert Maudsley Englands real Hannibal Lector

(Robert Maudsley's Picture)

Robert Maudsley was one of Twelve siblings born in Liverpool, England. He spent his first eight years in an orphanage until his abusive parents retrieved him.

In 1974 Robert Maudsley's first victim was slowly strangled to death. The police caught him shortly after and Maudsley was sent to Boardmoor hospital for the Criminally Insane.

In 1977 Maudsley and another inmate held a Boardmoor prisoner hostage. When the police finally bashed there way in the room they found the hostage's skull cracked open with a spoon wedged inside the brain. Maudsley claimed to have eaten part of the brain.

It was then when Maudsley was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to Wakefield Prison. He did not like the transfer and made it clear he wished to go back to Boardmoor.
In 1978 Maudsley claimed his last two victims. He stabbed each of the to death on the same day. Maudsley told the prison guards the he adored the sight of blood. after the two stabbing incidents Maudsley was put in solitary confinement.
Maudsley's crimes were ignored by the press until 1993 when they claimed Maudsley was the real life Hannibal Lector from the 1991 move Silence of The Lambs.