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Like Kemper, Buffalo Bill fatally shoots his grandparents as a teenager.
In Thomas Harris's novel, Buffalo Bill/Jame Gumb kills his grandparents at age 12, not as a teenager.
Full reasoning
The article's comparison to Kemper is incorrect on age. In The Silence of the Lambs, Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) is described as having been taken from foster care by his grandparents when he was 10, and as having killed them two years later. That makes him 12 years old, not a teenager.
Because this is stated in the primary source for the character, the sentence "Like Kemper, Buffalo Bill fatally shoots his grandparents as a teenager" is inaccurate at least on that key point. The novel directly contradicts the age claim.
2 sources
- The Silence of the Lambs
"Gumb's grandparents retrieved him from an unsatisfactory foster home when he was ten, and he killed them two years later."
- The Silence of the Lambs
"he killed his grandparents when he was twelve and did six years in Tulare Psychiatric"