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| “ | He begged me not to hurt you. To let you go because you're a wonderful person, he said. So I tried to feel what he felt for you but to be honest...I didn't feel a thing. | „ |
| ~ DuFour to Sarah Miles. |
Jacob DuFour is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Internal Affairs". He is a serial killer who removes his victims' faces.
He was portrayed by Richie Stephens.
Early life[]
Born and raised in California's Esperanza Valley, Dufour tortured and killed animals as a child, skinning them alive and wearing their fur and skin to fantasize about living in other people's skin. In 1992, he was arrested for animal cruelty, and committed several other such offenses, for which he was repeatedly institutionalized. After being released from the latest psychiatric hospital, he inherited Diablo General Store, which had been in his family for 60 years.
He started murdering Hispanic people from nearby Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, kidnapping them and starving them in his shed until their skin was loose enough to remove. He then strangled them to death and removed their faces post-mortem with a knife so he could wear them like masks. He took advantage of drug cartel clashes in the area of his murders to make it look like his victims were murdered by drug dealers.
Corrupt NSA Director Brian Cochran, who was secretly affiliated with the Libertad Cartel, became aware of the murders and used them to get rid of rival dealers by arresting them and sending them to correctional facilities in the area, where he knew the killer would get target them. When DEA Agent Mark Bowers discovered Cochran's corruption, Bowers had him transferred to Ciudad Juarez before he could report him, and DuFour murdered him.
"Internal Affairs"[]
On orders from Jillian Carter, another high-ranking member of the cartel, DuFour kidnaps DEA Agents Sarah Miles and John Portman, although he does not tell her that he intends to "exchange" their faces after killing them. He forces water with iodized salt down Miles' throat to make her skin more pliable. When Portman tries to fight him, DuFour overpowers and kills him, later menacing Miles while wearing his face. He then throws Portman's face to the ground right in front of Miles and taunts her by saying that Portman had spent his final moments begging him not to hurt her, so he tried to feel what Portman felt for her by wearing his face, only to discover that he felt nothing.
Meanwhile, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) starts investigating the murders, profiling the killer as an American man with a history of mental illness who lives or works near Ciudad Juarez, and is using the area's high murder rate to make his own murders look like the work of cartel members. Technical analyst Penelope Garcia accesses the DEA's encrypted network and discovers emails from Bowers sent shortly before his death about a cartel mole in the NSA, which leads the rest of the BAU team to expose and arrest Cochran. His information on the murders, combined with Garcia's investigation using the profile, leads the BAU to DuFour.
BAU Agents Derek Morgan and Tara Lewis go to DuFour's general store to arrest him, Dufour incapacitates Lewis with a taser and drags her into the shed, telling Miles that she has "company". Morgan runs into the shed and fires a warning shot at DuFour, who runs to his driveway. DuFour pulls a shotgun out of his car and fires at Morgan, but misses, and Morgan returns fire and kills him.
Trivia[]
- DuFour is based on multiple real-life criminals:
- The late Ed Gein, a.k.a. “The Plainfield Ghoul”, an American murderer and grave robber who skinned his victims to wear a “suit” fashioned from their flesh.
- The late Dean Corll, a.k.a. "The Candy Man", an American serial killer/rapist of boys across Houston, Texas, who were found buried in isolated woods or on his property, if they didn't completelt disappear. Corll had accomplices and was affiliated with other serial killers and an organized sex trafficking operation.
- The late Émile Louis, a French serial killer of special needs girls, two of whom were the only ones found, albeit dead. His crimes have been tied to an investigator's suspicious suicide and the rapes and abuses of other chileren by official special needs care departments.
- The late Gordon Stewart Northcott, a.k.a. “The Wineville Chicken Coup Murderer”, a Canadian-American serial killer/rapist of boys he brutalized in his farm, butchered, and scattered their remains on his property. In a film titled Changeling based on his crimes, he crosses paths with police before they suspect him or even know who he is.
- The Juarez feminicide killers, at least one serial killer of multiple women near the border of Mexico and the U.S., which has long been disregarded by authorizes and supposedly affiliated with organized and cartel crimes.
- Marc Dutroux, a Belgian serial killer with reported ties to high-ranking organized conspiracies and corruption; his case also involved numerous officials, witnesses, and other affiliated parties dying and disappearing in suspicious or blatantly violent fashions, implying they were at worst all killed for cover-ups.
- Jame Gumb, a.k.a. "Buffalo Bill", the main antagonist of the novel and film Silence of the Lambs, who starves, murders, and skins his female victims and wears their flesh. Gumb is also based in part upon Gein. Like DuFour, Gumb failed to kill one captive woman, Asia’s well as failed to kill a responding FBI agent who shot him dead in self-defense.
External links[]
- Jacob DuFour on the Criminal Minds Wiki
