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“ | You can lock me up. I still win. I got my girls. And I killed Jason Gideon. | „ |
~ Mallick taunting the BAU. |
Donald Allen "Donnie" Mallick is a major antagonist in the crime-drama TV series Criminal Minds. He is a serial killer who is infamous for being the murderer of former FBI Agent Jason Gideon, and appears as the main antagonist of the Season 10 episode Nelson's Sparrow.
He is portrayed by Arye Gross, who also portrayed Saul Picard in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Early Life and First Murders[]
Donnie was sent to his bird-loving and wheelchair-ridden aunt Gertie Mallick due to his schizophrenic mother Zettie Mallick being sent to a mental hospital. Years later, Gertie died and Donnie became the sole resident of Gertie's house, for unknown reasons he started kidnapping women and breaking their legs and later bounding them to wheelchairs, just like his late aunt.
Days after kidnapping them, he would kill and hide their bodies in a nearby forest. After Tara Barnett was kidnapped by him, her mother Mary Allen sent BAU Agents Jason Gideon and David Rossi to find Tara and arrest Donnie for his crimes, which resulted in a failed attempt to find him. Tara stayed with Donnie for 37 years until her death from cancer.
Return and Killing Jason Gideon[]
Tara's body was found by the locals, this caught the attention of Gideon, Gideon started an investigation without the help of the BAU, which unfortunately caused his death by the hands of Donnie himself. However, killing Gideon unintentionally caught the attention of the BAU.
Death[]
Donnie eventually returned to his role as a serial killer, he tricks a woman named Josie Behdart and locks her in his basement, breaking her legs in the process. Fortunately, Donnie was found by the BAU, and was ambushed by them, while at his backyard, he is tricked by Rossi, who tells him that he would become more popular in prison if another FBI Agent is killed by him, Donnie then grabs his gun to shot Rossi but is gunned down by him.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Donnie is inspired by multiple fictional criminals:
- Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. "The Milwaukee Cannibal", a serial killer/rapiet of men who was sent to live with his grandmother, who he bonded with, then kidnapped men and biys to rape and possess them, killing them when it failed. Dahmer committed a murder separate from his spree, whcih left a decades-long break in his timeline of crimes.
- Ivan Milat, a.k.a. "The Backpacker Murderer", a Croatian-Australian serial killer/rapist of backpackers, who were kidnapped and taken to their woods, paralyzed from their spines being cut, and murdered, the women being raped beforehand.
- Joe Clark, a.k.a. "The Bonebreaker", a murderer and attempted murderer who held two boys captive, tortured them by dislocating their leg joints, and killed one by thriwing him into an isolated stream and drowning him.
- Buffalo Bill, the main antagonist of the film The Silence of the Lambs. Buffalo Bill kidnapped women to possess them in his basement, killed them when he was done, and took extra measures with a woman he killed he paid specific attention too. He was killed in a standoff with an FBI agent who shot him in self-defense, while rescuing another woman.
- Freddie Clegg, the main antagonist of the 1963 book and 1965 film adaptation The Collector, a kidnapper of a woman he wanted as a companion, who would later die in his basement from negligence of her health. While Donnie collected birds, Clegg collected butterflies.
External links[]
- Donnie Mallick on the Criminal Minds Wiki