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Carleton Wynne is the overarching antagonist of the Rizzoli & Isles novel "Vanish". Wynne is an American federal intelligence executive, guilty of conspiring with corrupt officials to rape and traffic Eastern European women and girls. Wynne later orders numerous murders and cover-ups to hide his complicity in the crimes.
Biography[]
Little is known about Wynne and his life, except he had a long, tenured history with the CIA, before he directed many activities in the Strategic Support Branch in the Pentagon. After the former Director of Intelligence in D.C. was forced to step down, the president picked him to fill the position. Wynne especially buried his illicit and criminal practices with particular collaborators in his field: Wynne corrupted much of the U.S.'s intelligence systems to finance and operate sex trafficking, through a ring led by military intelligence operative Charles Desmond. Wynne and Desmond directed all their operations and networks through Ballentree, the highest-ranking American defense contractor. Desmond specialized in Eastern European and Russian women and girls, and after Wynne violently raped Mila, a Belarusian teenager, during an arranged yacht party, where intelligence committee senator Conway and an unidentified businessman attended, Desmond picked on how Wynne liked brutalizing girls, not women. When a Ukranian preteen was brought to a trafficking cabin in Ashburn, Pennsylvania, where Mila and several more women and girls were held captive, the recently captive girl was arranged specifically for Wynne. but she didn't care for being a victim and refused, fighting back even when Wynne got more violent. He beat her badly enough she died from a brain hemorrhage while he was raping her. In spite of Desmond covering up the crime and keeping the murder a secret even from the captive women and girls, Wynne was too unhinged to get past he was guilty of murder. Hoping to wipe all traces of his affiliations that led to the murder, believing there was no going back, Wynne decided to order his operatives to kill all witnesses. Desmond was first, his wrists cut in his bathtub to stage his death as a suicide, then the unnamed businessman, who was disappeared after he was killed. Conway offered some unspecified cooperation with the cover-up so his life was spared. The Ashburn cabin was next, and two operatives killed four of the six remaining captives at the house by shooting them. When Mila and Olena, another rebellious trafficked woman, were hiding, the operatives knew since six captive women and girls were there. They beat "The Mother", a victim coerced into madam status, for information, going as badly as torturing her by bludgeoning her hands and head with a hammer, killing her when she couldn't answer their questions. Wynne's influence covered up everything, to the point even state police couldn't touch the case no matter their suspicions. Mila and Olena successfully escaped with a duffel bag filled with supplies, being picked up by veteran and conspiracy theorist Joseph Roke. When the three went to Roke's hideout, they found out a VCR tape of the murder was in the bag, as recordings of the rapes were sold globally to child porn rings, and the murder was caught on camera. Roke knew who Wynne was, realizing what was at stake, and they were all intent on getting Wynne punished at the risk of hired guns killing them all.
Roke sent the tape to Boston Tribune reporter Peter Lukas, as he was a major political affairs and scandals journalist, which got him a lot of attention from conspiracy theorists. However, Lukas, beleaguered and disillusioned by his career, saw a money-making opportunity, sending the tape to Wynne and offering his cooperation with the conspiracy in exchange for a major payout. Wynne agreed, and Lukas tipped Wynne off to the trio. A traffic officer in New Haven, Connecticut pulled the group over with the information released on bulletins, never knowing what he was dealing with. Roke panicked from his paranoia, believing the cop was against the group and ready to detain or murder them, so Roke shot the cop and fled with the two women. They all agreed Mila and Olena would each keep copies of the tape so at least one of them was alive to tell the tale, the split up to throw off the operatives. The mercenaries, however, got to Olena, and they forcibly overdosed her on phenobarbital before throwing her into Hingham Bay in Weymouth to drown. Because of her hypothermia, fire and rescue classified her as dead, and she was sent to the Boston Medical Examiner's Office. After eight hours in cold storage, she awoke and thumped against the morgue drawer she was locked into. Dr. Maura Isles, the Chief Medical Examiner on the staff that day, heard this and opened the drawer and body bag Olena was in. When Olena opened her eyes, Dr. Isles clamored to get her out of the freezer and resuscitate her quickly with the assistance of paramedics. She was successfully rescued in the ER, but one of the contract killers infiltrated the hospital, disguised as a security guard and sporting a gun with duplex bullets. As Olena was conscious, alert, and able-bodied again, she saw the mercenary approaching, acting on instinct by grabbing the hitman's gun and shooting him once, killing him. She took the gun and held Dr. Isles hostage, until security and responders rescued her and held her scrambled out of Olena's vicinity to safety. Olena changed her plans to take hostages in Diagnostic Imaging, where a heavily pregnant and in labor Detective Jane Rizzoli was with the medical staff. She took Rizzoli and five other people hostage, putting out a call on a radio station to say "The die is cast", a quote by Julius Caesar, to Roke, who came later as a reinforcement. Even the coroner's office grew suspicious by finding the operative was no security guard, determining he was a marine from his ID tattoo, ammunition, and his fingerprints not showing in the database. Wynne and Conway stepped in instantly, redirecting the FBI to be in charge of the response and incentiving Boston's mayor to let it happen. Senator Conway personally met Agent Gabriel Dean, an FBI agent and Detective Rizzoli's husband and father of their unborn daughter, to dissuade him of his and the rest of the team's suspicions with the lie the hostage takers were "terrorists", hoping it would give stronger ground for the conspirators to pull the strings of the case. Once the standoff was taken away from Boston, even from the FBI, the Strategic Support Branch sent their operatives in to end the standoff and kill Roke and Olena. After fentanyl gas was pumped through the vents, Roke and Olena were shot in their heads and executed, Rizzoli swiftly being moved to give birth to her daughter Regina. Before Olena was slaughtered, she whispered to Rizzoli Mila was the last witness, and she was still alive.
Dr. Isles stymied Agent John Basardi from any intervention in the medical examiner's office's duties, so she had enough time to notice Roke and Olena were targeted for death, not meant to be arrested, from the trajectory of the bullets. But when Dean told her Roke believed Olena had a tracking chip in her arm, Dr. Isles excised what she was actually implanted with: a Norplant contraceptive, an aggressive drug for when the trafficked women and girls were raped to prevent their pregnancies and keep them available for exploitation. When the governor of Massachusetts was called by D.C., Dr. Isles finally had to relinquish all the materials, but that didn't stop the operatives from almost discreetly breaking into the morgue to find any additional evidence or notes on the investigations to steal and wipe from the databases and storage, which Dr. Isles picked up on and also became more paranoid from. However, Dean had more success, matching the duplex bullets in the dead hitman to the cabin massacre, which certainly revealed it was a trafficking hideout from the bedding and semen samples. Agent Basardi and Helen Glasser, a Department of Justice investigator, were hot on the trail of the conspiracy, informing the agents even Conway was to not be trusted, and Lukas, playing the part of recon and report, spoonfed the team enough leads to lead the conspiracy to Mila, which included Desmond's murder. When Rizzoli found out a classified in the Weekly Confidental had the same Julias Caesar quote that was the group's code phrase, she put out an ad to search for Mila. Mila eventually replied, an after refusing to give her location and dodging a couple meeting points when she was spooked, by cops following or not, she finally arrived at Rizzoli's home. She payed the tape, and in a cruelly ironic move, Rizzoli went to Lukas with Mila and the footage, Lukas instantly identifying the killer in the tape as Wynne, mentioning his career history and official status. Mila realized before Rizzoli did Lukas was a mole, so she locked herself in the bathroom and fled out a window, staying close behind to protect Rizzoli. By this point, Lukas revealed his allegiance when the remaining hitman was brought into his home, take Rizzoli and Regina hostage. In spite of Mila being gone, Lukas tried to divert Dean away from suspicion when he couldn't reach Rizzoli, to no avail. While Basardi and Glasser detained Lukas, Dean went out to find Rizzoli, who was being forced to dig her own grave by the mercenary. Rizzoli knocked the gun out of the mercenary's hand with the shovel, and when a scuffle was about to start, Mila grabbed the operative's gun and shot and executed him. Glasser and Basardi promised to prosecute Wynne with everything they were gathering, and they put Mila into protective custody. A case would be made against Wynne, and it's implied the Department of Justice took efforts to send him to jail with Mila's assistance, including her tape recorded account and her helping them find Anya, a friend of hers who was shot dead on the day they and other women and girls were to be sold to rings at a desert in Mexico.
Victims[]
- Numerous unnamed woman and girls (beat and raped)
- Mila (beat and raped)
- Unnamed Eastern European girl (raped, beat, and strangled)
- Charles Desmond (wrists slashed by contracted killers; staged as a suicide)
- Unnamed businessmen (ordered his murder by contract killers; the remains of at least one of them weren't found)
- The Ashburn trafficking cabin massacre: (all shot dead)
- Katya
- Nadiya
- Two unidentified girls
- "The Mother" (beaten and tortured by bludgeoning her hands and face with a hammer beforehand)
- The Boston hospital siege:
- Joseph Roke (gassed unconscious and shot in his head by armed response at his direction)
- Olena (gassed unconscious and shot in her head by armed response at his direction; previously attempted to kill through force-feeding barbiturates and drowning by contract killers)
- Mila (stalked and attempted to kill through a contract killer; she escaped; later shot the hitman instead)
- The Rizzoli family hostage-taking and attempted murder:
- Detective Jane Rizzoli (held at gunpoint by a contract killer; forced to dig a makeshift grave and attempted to kill; was rescued)
- Regina Dean-Rizzoli (held at gunpoint by a contract killer and attempted to kill; was rescued)