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| “ | The witching hour was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep, deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves. Roald Dahl. | „ |
| ~ Voit's introduction quote |
| “ | You know, there was a time where I would have gotten a real rush out of this. Just escaping the benign minutia of everyday life with the exhilaration of murder. Now, it just kind of keeps me level. Especially when people let me down. But you're not gonna let me down, are you? No. Ugh, I thought I could let other people do it for me, but apparently, people cannot follow instructions. You tell 'em not to leave a body, they go and make a whole scene. You tell them not to kill anyone that can be linked to them, and they murder a former lover. I don't understand what is so difficult about following a few simple rules. I mean, it's not hard. I did it...with you. | „ |
| ~ Voit pontificating to his latest victim |
Elias Jasper Voit, born Lee Duval and also known as Sicarius, is the main antagonist of the Paramount+ series Criminal Minds: Evolution, the sequel to the original Criminal Minds series on CBS. He is the leader of a cult of serial killers who have been operating since the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was portrayed by Zach Gilford, who also portrayed Kevin Wilcox in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Background[]
Elias Voit, originally named Lee Duval, had a mother, Teresa, who was also his half-sister, possibly from being raped by their father and impregnating her. Elias faced tragic loss when Teresa and their father perished in a fire he inadvertently caused, leading him into the care of his uncle, Cyrus Lebrun. Cyrus beat Elias, locked him in a closet for days while passing meals to him through the door, and left dead animals for Elias to wake up to to terrorize him. Cyrus was an arms trafficker who killed as part of his enterprises, as well as women he raped for his own pleasure. Cyrus made Elias his accomplice from torturing him, from disposing of remains to surveying investigating police. Elias grew to study criminal sciences and history to understand his experiences, including reading books by FBI veteran and profiler David Rossi.
Elias stood up to Cyrus when one captive woman, Maria Jones, pleaded for mercy and to be released. Elias agreed, but as Maria believed shed be threatened by him to, she stabbed his shoulder with a hunting knife snd tried to kill him. Cyrus took the knife and stabbed Maria to death, hitting Elias after for his disobedience. Elias decided he was finished, so he packed a Haberman suitcase and prepared to leave. Cyrus tried to kill Elias to stop him, but Elias nearly killed him with an arm over his throat. Elias relentsd to not be like him, leaving Curys behind, Cyrus saying he'd make Elias return to him and that Elias had no one else in his life.
Elias took a false name from a fsther and son whi died in a car crash, grew to work in network security, settled in Seattle, and married a woman named Sydney, who he promised he'd make a better family for than her abusive father did. Sydney and he had two daughter, first Holly, then Harlow, Holly being a teenager by the events of Elias' introduction.
Elias, in the meantime, became his own serial killer. His spree started in the Pacific Northwest, where in the mountains of Yakima County, he kept a storage container to make his lair, holding low-class victims captive to experiment on violently so he could build his M.O. of torturing people to death. He kept decaying remains, weapons, restraints, maps, anatomical reference books, and more supplies in the unit. As Elias grew more brazen and wanted more blood and pain, he commandeered a storm shelter in Whitfield County, Georgia, stocking the same supplies and setups in the location. There, he went across the Bible Belt in a wider radius and targeted average and high-class victims for the same kidnappings and torture-murders, their remains also kept in the shelter. He lied to his family his nationwide travels for his murders were for hia job so they never knew the truth. To care for the family after his daughters were born, Elias took breaks around the times of each of their births.
Bevausw of the COVID-19 pandemic, Voit was low on funds to continue his crimes and care for his family. He decided his bedt grt-rich-quick scheme was a nationwide network of serial murderers, who would pay him and swear to secrecy in exchange for him feeding their fantasies. His biggest donor was Benjamin Reeves, a senator's son who founded a D.C. dating app in part for Voit to have an encrypted server for him to develop networking sites he lured candidates through. He strategically placed kits for killings across the country, supplying for specific M.O.s of who he profiled would be useful to build his network or be patsies at the risk the authroties closed in overtime. One patsy was Arthur Kiel, who Voit kidnapped victims for so Kiel was a compliant killer to murder liabilities at Voit's direction.
Storylines[]
TBA
Victims List[]
- 1992, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: His unnamed parents (killed in an apartment fire caused by him)
- Early 2000's, Falls Lake, North Carolina: Cyrus Lebrun (his uncle; assaulted and attempted to strangle before relenting)
- Killed 12 unnamed victims in numerous unspecified locations.
- Killed 27 victims in the northwestern U.S. between 2005 and 2020 through various means. Named ones include:
- 2005: John Harris (abducted and slashed all over)
- 2007: Carmen Gomez
- Unspecified dates:
- Kalen Jones
- Adolpho Mietz
- Blake Jenson
- Ryan Whelman
- Carl Bentwell
- Derrick Sesper (poured Sicarius spiders down his throat)
- Paula Finch
- Evan Thomas, 23 (strangled)
- Emerson Daniels
- Leslie Pickmower
- Susan Abel
- Rayna Hines
- Ronald Mays
- Martin (first name indiscernible)
- Evelyn James
- Alex Medfield
- Leonard Boomer
- Robin Millard
- Hayden Patters
- Iden Jabari
- Roslyn Emmert
- An unnamed woman (name indiscernible)
- Patrick Rayne
- Peyton Graves
- Amari (last name indiscernible)
- Killed 17 victims in the southeastern U.S. through various means. Named ones include:
- 2007, Virginia: Alison Green, 23
- 2014, Brentwood, Tennessee: Louise Murphy (poured crab spiders down her throat)
- Unspecified dates:
- Arden Jenkins
- Avery Mullin
- Seneca Jordan
- Morgan Faulk
- Desiree Caldwell
- Eric Ruskin
- Darcy Cole
- Rumi Canton
- Ardie Baldwin
- Austen Penway
- Riley Groves
- Angel Vasquez
- Alex Killian
- An unnamed woman (name indiscernible)
- An unnamed man (name indiscernible)
- 2022:
- Brandon Jones (resembled his neighbor; abducted, strung up, and mauled to death by a dog named Moose; Voit killed him with a lethal dose of pentobarbital afterward)
- December:
- Senator Martha Reeves (held at gunpoint; was killed by her son Benjamin)
- Whitfield County, Georgia:
- Attempted to kill the following with a bomb in his shipping container:
- Luke Alvez (injured)
- Jennifer Jareau (injured)
- Benjamin Reeves (his accomplice; shot in the head)
- Attempted to kill the following with a bomb in his shipping container:
- Falls Lake, North Carolina: Cyrus Lebrun (poisoned his IV with naproxen)
- Indio, California: Ramona Havener, 36 (abducted; was later almost killed by Arthur Kiel)
- Seattle, Washington: David Rossi (kidnapped; was rescued)
- Yakima, Washington: Tyler Green (attempted; shot several times)
- Burney, California
- Douglas Bailey (shot in the head)
- William LaMontagne, Jr. (attempted; shot several times; uninjured due to bulletproof vest)
- Holly and Harlow Voit (his daughters; attempted, but they escaped with the FBI)
- Sydney Voit (his wife; attempted, but ran out of bullets at the last minute)
Trivia[]
- Voit is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Israel Keyes, an indiscriminate serial killer and career criminal responsible for nationwide sprees across America, most still unsolved and not fully traced. He also left "kill kits" across the country for his crimes.
- Adam Worth, a.k.a. "The Napoleon of Crime", a criminal mastermind with a network of accomplices for numerous organized crime operations.
- Samuel Little, a.k.a. "The Choke and Stroke Killer", a serial killer/rapist of women across the United States, confessing to dozens of murders while in police custody, which were matched by FBI and other nationwide law enforcement collaborations.
- Todd Kohlhepp, a.k.a. "The Amazon Review Killer", an indiscriminate nationwide serial killer with a history of Internet activity regarding his crimes, as well as buried victims on his property, held women captive to rape, who were later rescued, and wasn't caught for a decade and a half.
- Richard Kuklinski, a.k.a. "The Iceman", a serial killer and freelance hitman with a wife and children, an abusive father he longed to murder, a histoty of animal cruelty, and he and his family were completely funded by his crimes.
- John Christie, a.k.a. "The Rillington Place Strangler", a serial killer/rapist of women and girls, including his own wife and the wife and daughter of Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully hanged for the crimes.
- David Parker Ray, a.k.a. "The Toy Box Killer", a serial rapist and suspected serial killer who held women captive in his mobile trailer to rape and torture with accomplices, the trailer being equipped with torture devices, restraints, and anatomical diagrams. Ray is suspected of dozens of murders nationwide, but he didd of a heart attack a yesr sfter his arrest, leaving the majority of his case cold.
- Rodney Alcala, a.k.a. "The Dating Game Killer", a serial killer/rapist with a storage unit filled with evidence in Washington State, who was investigated by the FBI to track all his murders across the country.
- Ted Bundy, one of America's most hated serial killers, a serial killer/rapist of women and girls with a mother who was raised as his sister when he gave birth to him out of wedlock. Bundy operated in the Pacific Northwest and Bible Belt, hid victims' remains in the mountains of Washington State, and once arrested, he planned prison escapes and denied his crimes in the same breaths as he revealed details about them, including when consulting on other criminal cases.
- Edmund Kemper, a.k.a. "The Co-Ed Killer", a serial killer of women and girls with an abusive mother who locked him in the basement, butchered the women he killed to take his frustrations against his mother out of them, and even kept some of their remains at his house. He killed his mother at the end of his spree.
- Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. "The Night Stalker", a serial killer/rapist with a violently abusive father, a cousin who was a serial killer/rapist of his own, from who Ramirez learned his M.O., and who primarily targeted couples in their homes he crept into, with an obsession for wanting power from his crimes.
- Matthew Muller, a kidnapper and rapist with schizophrenia, holding a woman captive after breaking into her home and restraining her husband, which the police didn't believe at first. The woman was ofiginally afraid to reveal details of the kidnapping from Muller threatening her.
- James Winkles, a serial killer caught after luring a real estate agent through one of her appointments for a kidnapping, rape, and attempted murder, only for the woman toneacape and Winkles to be arrested.
- Ward Weaver III, a budding serial killer/rapist with a father, Ward Weaver, Jr., with his own prolific murder spree. Hus daughter would later be arrested for the assault of a security guard.
- The killers of Seth Rich, a congressional page who was shot in the streets of D.C. His family protested against the conspiraciy theories over his unsolved killing, as they weren't left to grieve and honor him with respect from the public.
- Larry Davis, a serial killer of drug dealers who skated buy on most charges against him, including shooting and injuring cops out to arrest him by lying that they were dirty and part of hia own drug business. He was later convicted on one charge of murder and shanked to death in prison.
- Joe Carroll, the main antagonist of the crime drama The Following, a serial killer amassing a mob of murderous followers organized to get revenge on the FBI agent responsible for arresting Carroll in the first place.
- Voit is the first Criminal Minds antagonist to be introduced as the main antagonist of a series instead of an episode. The two main antagonists of the original series, The Reaper and Mr. Scratch, were introduced as the main antagonist of an episode before becoming the show's most notorious unsubs and Big Bads.
External Links[]
- Elias Voit on the Criminal Minds Wiki
