Robert Mauldsley - The Real Hannibal Lecter?

What happens when a monster only hunts other monsters? This week on Homocidal Tendency, we descend into the subterranean basement of HMP Wakefield to unlock the terrifying, tragic truth behind Britain's most isolated prisoner: Robert Maudsley.

​For over 40 years, Maudsley has lived inside a custom-built, bulletproof glass cage. The British tabloids branded him "Hannibal the Cannibal" and "The Brain Eater," painting him as a boogeyman so lethal he couldn't be housed with other human beings. But the truth is far more complicated, and deeply rooted in the marginalized, vulnerable queer underground of 1970s London.

​From the grim streets of Piccadilly Circus to a horrific nine-hour barricade inside the gothic walls of Broadmoor Hospital, we are tracking the violent escalation of a severely traumatized young man who the system refused to help. Was his brutal, vigilante-style murder spree against child abusers a calculated act of evil, or the inevitable explosion of a broken system?

​Step into the Monster Mansion, and don't trust the shadows.

​Case Resources & Mentions:

• ​HMP Wakefield (The Monster Mansion)
• ​Broadmoor High-Security Psychiatric Hospital
• ​The "Cyanide or Cockatoo" Petition Letters (2000)
• ​Red Dragon & The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (Timeline debunking)

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