Red Dragon

Dolarhyde reads the Tattler, in which Lounds writes “Hannibal the Cannibal Helps Lawmen—Cops Consult Fiend in ‘Tooth Fairy’ Murders” (111). In the article, Lounds mentions that Graham spent time in a mental health hospital after he caught a serial killer named Garrett Jacob Hobbs. Dolarhyde studies the pictures of Graham and Lecter. He takes the article home and pastes it into a “great ledger” (115) which contains press clippings and pictures, including childhood photographs and news stories about “the disappearances of elderly women in St. Louis and Toledo” (116). Dolarhyde hopes that Lecter “alone among all men, might have the sensitivity and experience to understand the glory, the majesty of Dolarhyde’s Becoming” (117). He writes a letter to Lecter on toilet paper and signs it as an “Avid Fan” (118), biting down on the tissue with a set of dentures that are “identical to [his] Grandmother’s teeth” (119) as a signature.

Graham speaks to Byron Metcalf, the Jacobi’s attorney. Metcalf explains that many of the family’s possessions were destroyed in an accidental fire. He also mentions Mr. Jacobi’s oldest son, who was the product of Mr. Jacobi’s first marriage and was largely estranged from his father’s family. After a recent short stint in jail, Niles Jacobi was in contact with his father and is now studying at college.