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“ | You're gonna break every bone in your body! | „ |
~ White menacing one of his victims. |
Daniel Allen White, better known as Danny and The Bone Crusher, is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Assistance Is Futile".
He was portrayed by Aidan Bristow, who also played Hadir Karim in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Biography[]
Background[]
Danny was born in 1994 to Miranda White and an unnamed father. When Danny was 11, his father left him and his mother; Danny blamed Miranda for his father leaving him, and began exhibiting antisocial behavior and a severe hatred of women. When he was 13, he vented his resentment of his mother by pushing her off of a ladder, severely injuring her.
As an adult, Danny found a job as a demolition contractor, and his mother unsuccessfully tried to treat his mental illness with MDMA.
Danny drugged and raped a female attendant named Nancy Santiago, and then killed her by throwing her off a roof. Miranda noticed his socks were soaked in blood, but chose to ignore it. Danny, meanwhile, started kidnapping, raping and murdering women at his old apartment. The media dubbed him "The Bone Crusher".
In "Assistance is Futile"[]
Danny is eventually kicked out by Miranda for murdering another woman, he then abducted and tortured Serena Adams. When he left, she is rescued by Luke Alvez and Stephen Walker, agents of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.
Danny later went to a bar, where he saw a news report identifying him as the main suspect in a series of murders. Danny returned to his car, and waited for Lisa Jackson and her friend, Sadie, Danny abducted Lisa and took her to the nightclub where he first murdered Nancy. Alvez, Walker, with fellow BAU Agent David Rossi arrived just in time, however, and held Danny at gunpoint. Danny told the agents to tell his mother he was sorry, and then committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof.
Trivia[]
- Danny is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Larry Bright, a serial killer also nicknamed "The Bonecrusher", but for killing women and breaking their bones with a hammer after they died, to throw out their remains like trash.
- Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermatine, a.k.a. “The Speed Freak Killers”, a duo of serial killers motivated by thrill with a history of meth and other drug addictions.
External links[]
- Daniel Allen White on the Criminal Minds Wiki