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“ | Well...it looks like you're gonna have one hell of a story to tell, too. | „ |
~ Rask during his surrender. |
Emmanuel Rask, also known as Gone Postal, is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Rule 34". Rask is a thrill-seeking serial killer who livestreams himself torturing and murdering his victims, with the assistance of his accomplice, Galina Kadlec.
He was portrayed by Shane Coffey.
Biography[]
Early Life and Crimes[]
Rask was born on August 28, 1991, in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland. His father Alonso committed suicide when Rask was seventeen, so he kept a semi-dependent and happy relationship with his mother, which would lead to him enjoying friendships with women. Rask was also a musical prodigy and class valedictorian from his charisma and appeal. Rask was swiftly accepted to Hallridge University on a scholarship, and as Rask identified as gay, he began a relationship with Duane Vann in 2015. Rask also took appointments with Dr. Nicholas Kauffman, who noted against typical odds, Rask exhibited mixed personality disorder with naturally opposing histrionic and narcissistic personality traits, characteristics that were instead harmonious when demonstrated in Rask's psyche. Around when he was accepted into medical school, he befriended Kadlec, a dark web site runner publicizing videos of violence and horror. Rask contributed with his own posts of crushing small animals, but the school administration was informed. When Rask blamed another student from believing they sold him out, Rask attacked them by restraining them in a chokehold and stabbing them several times with a ballpoint pen. After Rask was sentenced to six years in prison, Duane broke up with him and married Rory Stevenson in 2018. When Rask was released after two years for good behavior, realizing Duane left him, Rask lost it and targeted the couple. In an old armory where Kadlec made her videos, Rask held the two men captive and half-naked, drugged Duane and Rory with rocuronium bromide to paralyze them, and violently tortured them both to death. Rask then dismembered them with medical precision, keeping their severed heads and disarticulated hands to hinder identification, and packaged their remains in styrofoam, plastic, and preservative materials. Finding a closed post office with inactive security cameras, Rask mailed six packages of remains to women he had professional relationships with, as a sick "thanks" for helping him in his life and with the terror of his crimes intended to make him famous.
Rule 34[]
Once the packages were received, including by IRS agent Geena Raptis directly at her office, the BAU was called to investigated. Flash cards in all six packages were arranged in a specific order to read, "All the king's Porsches and all the king's Benz couldn't put this bitch back together again. Forever yours, Gone Postal." Shortly after, Rask abducted Dr. Kauffman and brought him to his hideout, caressing the drugged man in his underwear and dancing to rock music before prepping his weapons. Rask started to torture the doctor at the hideout as well, this time livestreaming the violence through Kadlec's website. She was brought in for questioning, only to be uncooperative. Rask used Duane's IP address to lead the police to his house, but all they found was a laptop and sound equipment playing the feed as a ruse. Duane's and Rory's heads were mounted on their bed's posts, with a card left at the scene with the message "Take that, bitches. I win. G.P." Once Dr. Kauffman is dead, Rask delivers all of his remains in the same packaging directly to the doorsteps of four more women he remembered and wanted to "thank". He then placed a call to his mother saying not to worry and that he "made something of [him]self". As a favor, Rask targets Kadlec's ex-husband, Bryon Maddock, who divorced her and took her assets. Rask restrains Byron back at the armory, taunting him and relishing his confusion, before quieting him, mumbling "Galina says hello, bitch", and licking Byron's forehead. He then proceeds to mutilate Byron, but before he can harm him too severely, the FBI stops him. Rask recognizes David Rossi, whose publications Rask read in school. Rossi promises his fame if he surrenders, and after boasting Byron will have his own experience to walk away from, Rask agrees and surrenders without a fight to arrest. He and Kadlec are imprisoned for the spree.
Trivia[]
- Rask is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Luka Magnotta, a Canadian torture-murderer obsessed with fame and responsible for releasing a video of his violent murder of Jun Lin, whose remains he delivered in cardboard packages to numerous government offices and other buildings.
- Andrew Cunanan, an American spree killer of numerous men, including his lovers, motivated by revenge and a narcissistic desire to become someone important; Cunanan also had a similar history of popularity in school, animal cruelty, and violent videos.
- Richard Rogers, a.k.a. “The Last Call Killer”, a serial killer of gay men with a history of violent crime in college, possessing and watching graphically violent film media, and dismembering the men he killed with precision down to splitting their bones from their joints.
- Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. "The Milwaukee Cannibal", an American serial killer/rapist of men and boys of color who tortured, dismembered, and cannibalized his victims, and whose pathology was borne in part of a fear of being abandoned.
- Sean Vincent Gillis, a.k.a. “The Other Baton Rogue Killer”, a serial killer/rapist of women with an absent father and who typically watched violent porn on his computer at work, inspiring his M.O. of mutilation and dismemberment.
- Hans van Zon, a Dutch serial killer having first committed the murder of a girlfriend, then was instructed by career criminal "Old Nol" into two more murders and an attempt on the life of Old Nol's former partner.
- Owen Reilly, the main antagonist of the film Untraceable, a serial killer and child computer prodigy torturing people to death on live feeds for subscribers to increase in the interest of speeding the violence up based on Internet popularity and attention, to avenge the livestreamed suicide of his father. The suicide was in turn inspired by the case of Daniel V. Jones.
External links[]
- Emmanuel Rask on the Criminal Minds Wiki