Gary Heidnik, dubbed the “House of Horrors” killer, remains the last prisoner excuted by the state of Pennyslvania, in 1999. The state’s new governor wants to keep it that way.

When Josefina Rivera finally got to a Philadelphia phone booth on March 24, 1987, she had a frantic message for police. Rivera and five other women had been kidnapped and held captive by Gary Heidnik, ...

Gary Heidnik, a self-ordained preacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, kidnapped a total of six black women from November 1986 to March 1987. ... Victims of 'monster preacher' who kidnapped, ...

Nearly four decades after his grisly crimes, Gary Heidnik remains a part of pop culture. ... The sister of one of his victims has mixed feelings about his execution. March 20, ...

Gary Heidnik was arrested in 1987 after one of his victims finally managed to escape. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault and involuntary ...

Action News spoke with one of the survivors of what came to be known as Gary Heidnik's House of Horrors. We also talked with others who took part in Heidnik's trial, which captivated Philadelphia.

Gary Heidnik, widely known as the Bishop, abducted six women between November 1986 and March 1987. He held the women in his basement until one of the victims managed to call the authorities.

It’s been 25 years since Josefina Rivera escaped from convicted kidnapper and killer Gary Heidnik. After earning her captor’s trust, Rivera fled from his grasps in March 1987 and led the police to ...

By Faith Karimi, CNN Tracey Lomax watched from the viewing room of a state prison in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, as her sister’s killer received a lethal injection. Convicted murderer Gary Heidnik ...

Surviving victims testified he said that he wanted the women to have his children. To sire his ideal family, he repeatedly raped the victims, according to the special. “He wanted to have a perfect ...

Gary Heidnik, dubbed the “House of Horrors” killer, remains the last prisoner excuted by the state of Pennyslvania, in 1999. The state’s new governor wants to keep it that way.

By Faith Karimi, CNN Tracey Lomax watched from the viewing room of a state prison in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, as her sister’s killer received a lethal injection. Convicted murderer Gary Heidnik ...