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Jess Carney is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Submerged". Carney is an escalating serial killer modeling his crimes off tropes of historic outlaw piracy, to cope with his grief over losing his favorite playmate when pretending to be pirates.
He's portrayed by Steven Grayhm.
Biography[]
Background[]
Carney grew up in Ramona, California, his best friend was Leland Turner, the only friend he stayed with whom he played pirates. While they still had a group of friends, they all were known to the police for property crimes, truancy, and assaults as part of their games, goading each other into their shared criminal histories. But Carney and Leland took a blood oath, cutting their hands with a heated bladed and reciting the Pirate's Code while their clasped hands dripped their blood onto a Jolly Roger, to solidify ther friendship. When Palmer Canyon was being used to create the Lake Palmer reservoir in 1997, Leland's family was one who lived in the area and ultimately kicked out to flood the land. However, Leland buried a "treasure" of steals on his property and wanted to stay to protect his stash. Carney didn't join him, and Leland was one of several people killed from the arranged floods. Carney's grief left him traumatized, resulting in police being called for his violent outbursts at night. His prents left him a ward of the stste, and the state committed him to psychiatric admission in 1999, Carney spending years in hospitals out of state and on antidepressants. His development arrested, Carney was relaased at age 24, and he found work in custodial and hardware jobs in nearby San Diego. When a drought caused Lake Palmer to recede and victims of the flood to be recovered as skeletons, Carney finally snapped, believng he could reach Leland and put him to rest for when he would eventually be removed from the waters. However, he was under a delusion he'd pirate the neighbors of Ramona to find "treasure" to offer to Leland on the shores. Whenever a victim was recover from the waters, Carney killed a man living in the neighborhood if they had a pool, making them "walk the plank" on their diving boards and shoving them into their pools to drown while they were tied to a cinder block. Carney stole sentimental or shiny recreational items to leave on the sands of the reservoir in hopes of getting a message from Leland. He hid in a shed next to Lake Palmer for a vantage point to watch for victim recoveries.
In Submerged[]
Carney killed two men, Ben Stiles and Bert Schofield, to correspond with two flood victims' recoveries. When two more dead people were pulled from the reservoir simultaneously, Carney targeted a couple, Wanda and Larry Robbins, swiftly shooting Wanda dead before drowning Larry and leaving them both in the pool. Leland's father Bob comes back to the lake and finds Carney's spoils, but Carney pays no mind to him. Instead, Carney becomes delusional enough to burn his eye with bleach for the need of an eye patch. Carney sees another victim's recovery and kills Walter Knight, who's sewn into a poolside chair with a bedsheet, then tortured with a piercing in his nose with a needle to evoke a pirate's piercings, all before he's drowned too. Throughout the spree, a boy named Timmy Kane inquired about Carney's activities in the shed and on the shores. Carney ignored him at first, but he trusted in Timmy telling Carney about the flood victims to know if Leland was recovered. When Timmy asks Carney if he believes in Ghosts, to which Carney agrees, Carney sees Timmy as a substitute for Leland and wants to indoctrinate him into his fantasy. Carney shows Timmy his pirate accessories in the shed, then pressures him to stay the night by the lake if he wants to also take the blood oath. Timmy passes the test and takes the blood oath, by this point away from home long enough his parents reported his disappearance. When Carney tells Timmy how Leland lived and died, he then says he plans to drown Timmy with himself to rejoin Leland. Agent Matthew Simmons catches Carnet on his boat and Timmy tied to a cinder block. After Carney fails to kill Simmons by shooting his protective vest, he pushes Timmy into Lake Palmer before he flees out to deeper waters. Simmons lets him go to save Timmy's life, and Timmy is saved and returned to his parents after receiving medical attention. Everyone knows Carney successfully drowned himself, as his boat was found empty at the center of the lake. The team agrees to fish him out in due time with the rest of the remaining flood victims, as they know he'll be found one way or another.
Trivia[]
- Carney is inspired by multiple real-life serial killers:
- Herbert Mullen, a serial killer and later mass murderer in California suffering schizophrenia after his best friend died in a car accident in high school, which was exacerbated by addictions to strong drugs. Mullen believed his murders could be for "human sacrifice" due to his paranoid delusions.
- Simon Majola, a.k.a. "The Bruma Lake Killer", a serial killer guilty of multiple robbery-murders with accomplice Themba Nkosi, drowning couples who were weighed down in the aforementioned lake.
- Craig Price, a.k.a. "The Warwick Slasher", a teenage serial killer of homeowners and families with a preceding criminal record, mostly with a gang, before he escalated to murder, ending up also with a lengthy prison crime record that denied him parole.