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| “ | Oh, Caroline. My little Caroline. I loved her so much. All she did was scream and cry for her mom, and I...I just wanted her to love me. I just...I just wanted her to love me. | „ |
| ~ Scolfield recalling killing his daughter. |
Davis Scolfield is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior pilot episode “Two of a Kind”. Scolfield is a serial child killer motivated for finding a substitute for his own daughter, whom he murdered at the beginning of his spree.
He is portrayed by Raphael Sbarge, who also portrayed Carl Finster in the original Criminal Minds and Wayne Hankett in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Early Life and Crimes[]
Scolfield was born and raised in Cleveland in 1970 by his grandparents, then throughout the foster system when they died when he was six. Scolfield married a black-American woman in 2002 and had a daughter with her, Caroline. After years of crisis calls to the house because of Scolfield’s domestic violence, Caroline’s mother fled with her in 2007. They stayed one step ahead of Scolfield until 2009, when Scoldield snatched Caroline in Greenville, Arkansas in 2009 and returned to Cleveland with her. Scolfield possessed Caroline and tried to make her have a family relationship with him, but she was terrified and kept crying for her mother. After months of failure, Scolfield snapped and strangled Caroline to death in a rage, burying her at his grandparents’ old home out of remorse. Seeing "daughters" in black girls in the lower-class neighborhoods of Cleveland, Scolfield wanted a "replacement" for Caroline and started stalking the girls he saw. Either by a ruse or force, in 2010, he eventually kidnapped Ruby Cross in July, then Wanda Barloff in December, the authorities racially discriminating the girls by, or otherwise being too overloaded with cases to, not looking into their disappearances. After repeating the same outrages and failures in the months each girl was separately held captive, Scolfield killed them too. He buried them under blankets and with dolls under tires and other rubbish beneath an overpass.
Two of a Kind[]
Scolfield then kidnaps Aisha Rawlins in April of 2011, whose mother Jeanette is also poorly affirmed by authorities. As Aisha is terrified of dolls, Scolfield looks for a "playmate" eight days later and finds Samantha Weller, a white girl in a suburban neighborhood of the city. Scolfield approaches her while she’s playing hide and seek and pleads with her to "find" his daughter Caroline, who he shows a picture of to Samantha. She nervously gets close enough he pulls her into his van and drives away. When her kidnapping makes the news, the Red Cell Team is called to the case. Throughout their captivity, the girls repeatedly voices they’re afraid and don’t care to do what Scolfield wants, saying who they are and that they want to go home. Scolfield doesn’t stop snapping from such responses, eventually forcing the emotionally traumatized girls to bedrooms he set up for them.
After the police rule out sex offenders, Jeanette gets through to the team and convinces them to look into her daughter’s abduction, resulting in the team finding Ruby’s and Wanda’s disappearances, then their remains. When Jeanette confirms Aisha hates dolls, the team knows she, Ruby, and Wanda were racially targeted to represent his own daughter, Samantha being kidnapped in a failed attempt to give Aisha company. Going through national cases, they find Scolfield’s history and know for a fact he killed Caroline. Scolfield is spooked by news reports of his crimes, so he flees before the police arrive. As they know he’ll go back to his family home, they corner him where he buried Caroline, insisting he drop his gun. He regretfully recalls killing his daughter, then says he’s "not strong enough" to go on and shoots himself dead. Samantha and Aisha are safely recovered from the vehicle and swiftly and emotionally reunited with their families, the team remarking the two families had each other for support through the ordeal. Caroline was likely unearthed from where she was buried and returned to her grieving mother.
Trivia[]
- Scolfield is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Larry Ralston, a serial killer/rapist of women and girls in Ohio, who were lured into his car or kidnapped, their remains left off roads and in isolated natural areas across the region.
- Marc Dutroux, a Belgian serial killer/rapist of girls, with the help of accomplices and reported funding from nationwide corruption, leaving them buried after they died and holding two girls captive simultaneously who were later rescued, one kidnapped as “company” for the other.
- Alejandro Henriquez, a.k.a. "The Bronx Serial Killer", a serial killer of young Latin American girls in the namesake borough, which surrounded the case with outrage over racial disregard once all the girls ended up dead.
- The "Freeway Phantom", an unidentified American serial killer/rapist of black women and girls who were found off public road exits across the D.C. region.
- Alejandro Avila, responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Samantha Runnion, who was coincidentally kidnapped in the same fashion as the last girl Scolfield abducted, who is also named Samantha.
External links[]
- Davis Scolfield on the Criminal Minds Wiki
