Gary Heidnik abducted six black women and shackled them in a hidden dungeon in his basement - subjecting them to a horrifying campaign of physical and mental torment

A serial rapist lured women into his home and trapped them in his torture chamber - killing some of them and forcing the survivors to eat the remains.

Gary Michael Heidnik styled himself as a preacher and founded the United Church of the Ministers of God at his Philadelphia home, ordaining himself as a “bishop”. Between November 1986 and March 1987, he abducted six black women, before shackling them in a hidden dungeon in his basement and turning them into his sex slaves. Inside that basement was a pit - a filthy, dark hole in the floor - where Heidnik imprisoned multiple victims at once. Women were kept naked, chained, depr

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