Jeffrey Baker is the secondary antagonist of the Chicago P.D. episode "Conventions".
He was portrayed by Brandon Dahlquist.
Biography[]
Past[]
Baker hailed from St. Louis and worked as a businessman. However, he privately harbored violent, sadistic fantasies of torturing and murdering women, and would troll dark web chatrooms for like-minded users until finding a kindred spirit in Neil Vance. The pair corresponded, regularly, and they decided to help one another with acting out their inner desires by going on a killing spree.
Using Baker's occupation as a traveling businessman, the two conducted their plan and it went across New York and Chicago. Baker served as the leader/lookout while having Vance and carry out the designated women to murder. After Vance raped and murdered the women while taking one of their ears as a souvenir. Baker also had Vance soon relay how he brutalized the victims, with them taking sadistic glee in the acts. The two successfully eluded the cops, who ultimately labeled the murderer as The Riverwalk Killer
"Conventions"[]
He was sent to Chicago, where he went to a park wearing work out gear. Baker stretched most of the time, while prowling for potential targets in the latest spree. Theo Mitchell, a pickpocket had thought about stealing Baker's watch but backed out after suspecting Baker was a cop or fellow criminal, though did take note of him.
After CPD Intelligence unit form a task force with the NYPD's Special Victims Unit, they are able to connect the murders and deduce the killer has an occupation that requires travel and note how both cities have a convention. When detaining Theo Mitchell, he identifies Baker from the pictures of people who went to both events. Baker was found in and brought in for questioning, under the guise that his hotel room was damaged.
When he was brought in, he quickly deduced that they had an ulterior motive. Detectives Erin Lindsay and Jay Halstead reveal they suspect him of being a serial killer and questioned him if he was present at a location where a recent murder occurred. Baker conceals his involvement but his cavalier attitude angers them but the interrogation is interrupted by Det. Dawson who has his colleagues leave out. It turns out Vance struck again while Baker was in custody, leading to Baker getting released because the victim described her assailant's eye color and Baker was with them at the time.
However, Baker was implicated after Vance was identified and he came to the hotel that he was staying at, unaware Intelligence was staking it out and spotted him. Once Sergeant Hank Voight realized Baker was involved, he ordered for his detainment. Realizing the cops were on to him, he attempted to flee but was pursued by Det. Alvin Olinsky. Making it outside, he attempted to book it but Voight and Dawson quickly box him in. He tries to lie that he was out for a stroll but Ruzek runs out and reveals that Baker had asked the clerk what room Vance, the perp Intelligence was searching for, was staying in. When questioned, he refused to answer and demanded a lawyer before he was brought in, Eventually, Intelligence and NYPD SVU unit deduce how Baker and Vance met, quickly figuring out Baker was the mastermind.
Voight interrogated Baker, subjecting him to the torture that Vance put his victims through by slicing his ear. Baker protested, while Voight told him that it ends once he gives up a location and proceeds to cut his other ear, at which point does Baker talk. He reveals that he was supposed to meet Vance at Navy Pier. After Voight leaves, Baker was reduced to crying.
Vance was later killed by Intelligence while Baker was incarcerated for facilitation of murder, assault, robbery, and conspiracy.
