Possible Clues:

• *Figure used for counting
• Aviary anesthetist?
• Cleric, comparatively dull one perhaps
• Church official, less sensitive figure
• Murder: cannibal is suspect, for one, among others
• Red, indigo's second, then brown one, perhaps?
• Brutal murder, cannibal producing one, perhaps
• Maybe one church dignitary's less sensitive
• It could be one songbird with a musical item
• One is the first churchman with less feeling