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In 1981, author Thomas Harris published his second novel "Red Dragon", he reveals the world Hannibal Lecter. This was followed by three more novels, five films and one TV series - the world was obsessed with charismatic killer-cannibal. But the question remained: Harris came up with Lecter, or took as a basis for the character of a real person? And if so, who?

In 2013, the year of the 25th anniversary of the novel "The Silence of the Lambs," Harris said that the prototype Lecter was the killer from Mexico named Dr. Salazar. They met in 1960 when Harris, who was then working as a journalist, collecting material about the American killer Daykise Askew Simmons, who is serving a prison sentence in Monterrey.



Harris learned that Simmons tried to escape, and received serious bullet wound. He was taken to Dr. Salazar, who did the operation and saved the offender. Intrigued, Harris wanted to take an interview with the surgeon, determined that Salazar was a prison doctor. The assumption is quite reasonable - we Salazar had a medical education, and even his own Cabinet in prison.

They began to talk, but soon Harris lost the thread of conversation. Salazar began to ask questions about the victims Simmons Harris and read lectures about the nature of suffering. When the interview ended, Harris asked the supervisor about medical careers Salazar. He said, "The doctor? Yes, it's a killer! He is a surgeon, so was able to pack his victim in a tiny box. Salazar had not come here - he crazy ».

It is thought that his real name Dr. Salazar - Bally Alfredo Trevino. Trevino was a surgeon and convicted murderer. But what would make a good doctor to get a lifetime behind bars?



October 9th, 1959, the year Trevino and his lover, Jesus Castillo Rangel fought. Whatever was the cause of the quarrel, Trevino stunned Rangel, cut his throat with a scalpel, cut into small pieces and put them in a box. Then, with the help of an accomplice Trevino buried the remains, but in the end, he was caught and sentenced to death.

As a result, the sentence was replaced by imprisonment, and in 2000, the surgeon came out of prison. Until his death in 2009, the year Trevino continued medical practice and help the poor. Was he a man-eater, it is not known. Rather no than yes.

via factroom.ru