![]() ![]() She spent the rest of her childhood in a Lutheran orphanage. Starling was sent to live with her uncle on a Montana sheep and horse farm, from which she briefly ran away in horror when she witnessed the lambs being slaughtered (the title of the book refers to her being haunted by the screaming she heard from the lambs). When she was about 10 years old, her father was shot when responding to a robbery he died a month after the incident. She tells Lecter that she was raised in a small town in West Virginia with her father, a police officer. After another inmate throws semen at her, Lecter offers to help her to catch 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. Lecter, who is pleasant towards Starling, rebuffs her attempt at trying to quantify him, telling her how he killed and ate one victim who did the same. 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. He is housed in a Baltimore mental institution. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. Her mentor, FBI director Jack Crawford, sends her to interview Dr. She hopes to work at the Behavioral Science Unit, tracking down serial killers and ultimately apprehending them. In The Silence of the Lambs, Starling is a student at the FBI Academy. ![]()
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