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Kai Veneer also known as The Moving Day Murderer is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds: Evolution episode "Homesick". Veneer is a masked serial killer who victimizes homeowners.
He was portrayed by Tanner Pierce.
Biography[]
Veneer's mother was one of seven victims of a gas leak at the Cosgrove Inn, where his father was a manager. As they couldn't afford homes for years due to bad credit scores and struggling incomes, Veneer and his father were homeless. When his father killed himself, Veneer snapped and decided murder would be how he punished the neighborhoods, waiting until the owners of the homes he and his father applied for would hire his employers for HVAC installation.
After unlocking a window at the house while he was on the job, Veneer would cut the power in the homes, slow the victims down with carbon monoxide through the HVAC, and then jump out with an oxygen tank and novelty mask. He would kill the victims with plastic stretch wrap tightly stuck all around their heads, watching then slowly suffocate and die. He started with lone homeowners, killing three in a matter of weeks: Adrian Jackowski, Ian Henderson, and Mora Profeta. He became more determined and enraged, escalating to killing two college students, Alexa Flynn and Janice James, in one night and home.
By that point, the BAU were on the case, and tracking the employees at the homes to match with the history predicted of the killer led to Veneer's tragic background and eventual identification. At this point, he invaded another home, making a move on pregnant wife Charlotte Noyer. When her husband Keith defended her, he nearly lost his, but the agents and local police stopped Veneer, arresting him and rescuing the couple. He was imprisoned for his crimes.
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Trivia[]
- Veneer is inspired by multiple real-life criminals and one fictional one.
- Kim Kyu-Soo, a South Korean murderer guilty of sufficating two college students in one of his properties by tying them and wrapping their heads with decorative tape.
- Pravin and Virendra Govin, two Indian-American brothers guilty of, with accomplice Carlos Amador, killed a family of three and their friend over their competition between their rivaling hotel businesses.
- The late Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. "The Night Stalker", a serial killer/rapist with a signature of home invasions and attacking in the dark, preferring to murder couples. He lived in Cecil Hotel, a location historically associated with death.
- The late Paul Ezra Rhoades, a serial/spree killer/rapist who escalated to murder after committing a series of home invasions.
- Ryan Blinston, a serial killer of California homeowners, having been previously hired by the victims for tree trimming.
- Vernon Lee Clark, a serial killer/rapist of women in his home city who had hired him to do housework.
- Roy Charles Waller, a.k.a. "The NorCal Rapist", a serial rapist of women in their homes in California, typically while wearing a mask.
- Cheng Lai-sheung, the protagonist villain of the Hong Kong splatter film Dream Home, a mass murderer who preys on people living in an apartment complex.
- The Cosgrove Inn gas leak is inspired by the Alpine Motel Apartments fire, a residential building mechanical fire that killed six people.
External links[]
- Kai Veneer on the Criminal Minds Wiki
