On the basis of Lecter's prediction, Starling believes that he knows who Buffalo Bill really is. Furthermore, autopsy reports indicate that Bill had killed her within four days of her capture, much faster than his earlier victims. Triangular patches of skin have also been taken from her shoulders. Starling finds a moth pupa in the throat of the victim, and just as Lecter predicted, she has been scalped.
When Bill's sixth victim is found in West Virginia, Starling helps Crawford perform the autopsy. The nickname was started by Kansas City Homicide, as a joke that "he likes to skin his humps." Throughout the investigation, Starling periodically returns to Lecter in search of information, and the two form a strange relationship in which he offers her cryptic clues in return for information about her troubled and bleak childhood as an orphan. Lecter is serving nine consecutive life sentences in a Maryland mental institution for a series of murders.Ĭrawford's real intention, however, is to try to solicit Lecter's assistance in the hunt for a serial killer dubbed " Buffalo Bill", whose modus operandi involves kidnapping overweight women, starving them for about three or four days, and then killing and skinning them, before dumping the bodies in nearby rivers. Starling is to present a questionnaire to the brilliant forensic psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter. Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is asked to carry out an errand by Jack Crawford, the head of the FBI division that draws up psychological profiles of serial killers.
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