Chapter 60 Chapter Fifty-Nine

Jaime Garm remained in the news for weeks after he was sent to his grave. Reporters pieced together the events of his life, starting with the Sacramento County records: His mother had been pregnant with him for a month when she lost the Miss Sacramento contest in 1948.The "Jame" on his birth certificate was an obvious typo, but no one bothered to correct it. When his mother's dream of an acting career didn't materialize, she fell into alcoholism.Los Angeles County placed him in foster care with a family when Gumm was two years old. At least two academic journals have explained that this unfortunate childhood was the reason why he killed and flayed women in his basement.The words "crazy" and "evil" do not appear in either article.

The beauty pageant film that Jaime Garm watched as an adult was actually a set of shots of his mother, but the comparison of measurements shows that the woman in the swimming pool film is not his mother. The family in which he was fostered was not satisfactory, so when Gumm was ten years old, his grandparents took him back.Two years later, he had his grandparents killed. During Gumm's years in the psychiatric hospital, he was taught tailoring at the Tulare Vocational Rehabilitation Institute.He showed obvious talent for this work. Gumm's memory of working experience is incoherent and incomplete.Reporters found at least two restaurants where he worked without accounting records, and he also worked intermittently in the apparel business.Whether he killed anyone during this time has not been confirmed, but Benjamin Raspail said he did.

He was working at the antique shop that made butterfly ornaments when he met Raspail, and for a while his life depended on the musician.It was at that time that Gumm became fascinated with moths, butterflies and the transformations they undergo. After Raspail left him, Gaum killed Raspail's next lover, Klaus, beheaded him, and part of his skin. Later, he stopped by to see Raspail in the East.Raspail, always fascinated by bad boys, introduced him to Dr. Lecter. This was confirmed in the week after Gumm's death, when the FBI seized tapes from Raspail's closest relatives of Raspail's consultation with Dr. Lecter.

Years ago, when Dr. Lecter was declared insane, the tapes from his treatment were given to the victim's family for destruction.But Raspail's relatives kept the tapes, and they quarreled among themselves, hoping to use them to challenge Raspail's will.They had no interest in listening to the early tapes, which were merely Raspail's dull memories of school life.After the Jaime-Gum story was reported in the news, the Raspail family listened to the rest of the tapes.The relatives called attorney Everett Yoo, threatening to use the tapes to re-challenge the validity of Raspail's will.At this time, Yu called Clarice Starling.

The tapes included the last session, in which Lecter killed Raswall.More importantly, the tapes reveal how much Raspail told Lecter about Jaime-Gum: Raspail told Dr. Lecter that Gumb was fascinated by moths, that he had skinned people in the past, that he had killed Klaus, and that he had worked for the "Mr. Leather" fur company in Calumet.Just money from an old lady from Belvedere, Ohio who lined Mr. Leather, Inc.Raspail predicted that one day Gaum would take everything the old lady had. “When Lecter saw the first victim was from Belvedere and skinned again, he knew who was doing it,” Crawford told Starling; they listened to the tape together. "If Chilton's out of it, he'll tell you about Gumm and make himself look like a genius."

"He did hint to me, in the case file, that the locations were chosen at random," Starling said. "Ask me in Memphis if I could make clothes. What did he want?" "He's trying to entertain himself," Crawford said. "He's been entertaining himself for a long, long time." No tapes of Jaime Gumm have ever been found, and Raspail's activities in the years after his death are traced through his business correspondence, petrol bills and conversations with boutique owners. Mrs. Lippmann and Gumm went to Florida once, and the old lady died on the way, and he inherited everything—the old building with her living quarters, the empty storefront and the huge basement, and a considerable amount of land. A lot of money.He no longer worked for "Mr. Pie," but kept a house in Calumet for a while, and used the business's address to pick up mail in John Grant's name.He still keeps in touch with his favored customers, and continues to hang out at boutiques across the country, taking measurements for custom-made garments and returning to Belvedere, as he did when he was working for Mr. Leather.He used his outings to scout for victims, and he used them to scatter bodies when he was done -- the brown van rumbled down the interstate for hours, on the rack in the back. The finished leather suits were hanging, shaking and shaking, and there were glued body bags on the floor of the car below.

The basement is at his disposal, and it's wonderful to have a place for him to work and play!At first, he was just playing games - chasing and killing young women in the dark hunting garden, using living people to make shapes that he found amusing in the corner rooms, and then sealing the rooms, and going to Opening the door is nothing more than throwing lime in there. Frederica Bemer started working for the old lady in the last year of Frau Lippmann's life.She was learning to be a tailor in Mrs. Lippmann's shop when she met James Garm.Frederica-Zimeier was not the first young woman he killed, but to kill and skin her, she was the first.

Among Gumm's relics, a letter from Frederica Bemer was found. These letters Starling could hardly read because of their hope, because of their dreadful longing, because of Gumm's admiration for her, implicit in her reply to him: "In my heart Dearest secret friend, I love you!—I never thought I would say such a thing, and the best thing to do now is to say it in answer." When did he reveal the truth?Did she find that basement?What was the look on her face when he revealed the truth?How long did he keep her alive? Worst of all, Frederica and Gumb were really friends till the end; she wrote him a note in the pit.

It's disgusting that the tabloids have changed Gumm's nickname to "Mr. P," because they didn't come up with the name, but they're actually telling the story all over again. Starling was safe and sound in the center of Kundik, and she didn't have to be involved with the press, but the tabloid journalists found her. "National Secret" purchased the tapes of Starling's meeting with Dr. Hannibal Lecter from Dr. Frederick Chilton. "Secrets" expanded their conversation into a series of stories called "The Bride of the Vampire King Dracula", suggesting that Starling had made it clear to Lecter that she had exchanged sex for his information, which inspired "Soft Oh" Whispers: Calling Sex magazine reached out to Starling.

People magazine did publish a delightful short profile of Starling, using several photos of her from the University of Virginia senior yearbook and from the Bosman Lutheran Home, the best of which is the A horse, Hannah, in its old age, and a child pulling a cart. Starling cut out the picture of Hannah and put it in her wallet.It was the only thing she kept. Her wounds are healing.