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| “ | I could hardly risk body parts floating up and down the East River. | „ |
| ~ Allan Shaye rationalizing his keeping a nine-year-old boy's mutilated body in his basement. |
Allan Shaye is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Ritual". He is a pedophile who buys, rapes, and murders a young boy from Nigeria, and then dismembers the boy's corpse.
He was portrayed by Michael Emerson, who also portrayed William Hinks in The Practice, Zep Hindle in Saw, Benjamin Linus in Lost, Dr. Venom in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Alpha in Ben 10-Generator Rex: Heroes United, the Joker in The Dark Knight Returns, Cayden James in Arrow, and Brainiac in My Adventures with Superman.
Biography[]
Shaye is an art history professor at Hudson University who specializes in the study of ancient Tibetan artifacts. He is well-respected in his field and adored by his wife, Maggie, but hides a dark secret: He is a pedophile who sexually abuses pre-pubescent boys, particularly ones who emigrated from African and Middle Eastern countries.
When Maggie goes on a trip to Ghana to buy artifacts for her art gallery, Shaye pays human trafficker Martin Bosa to bring him a young African boy to use as his sexual plaything while she is away. Bosa brings him nine-year-old Adjani Haruna, whom he had kidnapped from his native Nigeria, and Shaye molests and rapes the boy for days. When Maggie calls him unexpectedly to tell him she is coming home early, Shaye panics and kills Adjani by slitting his throat. He then dismembers the body and dumps the remains in a park to make it look like Adjani was killed during a Santeria ritual sacrifice. He also keeps a few of the boy's limbs in the storage room of his house as souvenirs.
"Ritual"[]
After Adjani's remains are found, the NYPD's Special Victims Unit investigates his murder, at first believing it to have been a human sacrifice. They soon find, however, that Adjani and his sister Na'imah were kidnapped and sold by human traffickers - Na'imah to a wealthy white woman to use as free labor, and Adjani to a white man to exploit for sex. They deduce that the killer bought Adjani and murdered him in such a way that it would look like Santeria, meaning that he is knowledgeable about the religion.
Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler question the head of a local Santeria center about white people in the area who have bought artifacts from him, and he directs them to Maggie. When Benson, Stabler, and Detective Fin Tutuola notice that she has one of the Nigerian good luck charms that Adjani and Na'imah's mother had given them, she tells them it was a present from her husband. When Benson and Stabler question him, he says that he bought the charm from a flea market, but they believe that he bought and killed Adjani, a suspicion confirmed when they search his office and find a beaded pouch that Adjani had brought from Nigeria.
They arrest Shaye in the middle of one of his class lectures on murder and child sexual abuse charges, which he vehemently denies. When Benson shows her the evidence against her husband, a horrified Maggie tells them that when she called him, he had asked her where he could find the key to their storage room. Tutuola and his partner Detective John Munch search the storage room and find a crate containing Adjani's missing limbs.
Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak threatens Shaye with the death penalty unless he tells them how and from whom he bought Adjani. Defeated, Shaye tells them where to find Bosa, whom Tutuola later arrests. Shaye, meanwhile, is sentenced to life in prison.
External links[]
- Allan Shaye on the Law & Order Wiki
