Lionel Starkweather (1940 - 19 November 2003) was an American former Hollywood director who later became an underground snuff film producer. In November 2003, Starkweather rescued death row inmate James Earl Cash and forced him to be the starring role in his latest snuff film entitled Manhunt. After killing Cash's family, Starweather attempted to kill Cash off by replacing him with a man in a white rabbit costume, but was later brutally murdered in his Detroit mansion by Cash.
Biography[]
Lionel Starweather was born in 1940 Los Angeles, California to a family of English descent. He became a film director in the 1960s and was successful in Hollywood for several years with westerns and crime thrillers until his movies began losing money. Starkweather retired from Hollywood and moved to Detroit, Michigan in the early 1990s where he became involved in an underground snuff ring selling videos to Japanese businessmen. He later became a film producer for Valiant Video Enterprises, a front business for producing and selling snuff movies founded by "Mr. Nasty".