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| “ | That medicine can't help her. She's contaminated. You can't help her. You couldn't help my mother. No. All doctors do is make people suffer, make them live with false hope. | „ |
| ~ Winters' protest against doctors over his mother's sickness and death. |
Kevon Winters is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Miasma". Winters is a paranoid serial killer motivated by his germophobia to murder random people across New Orleans over sicknesses, no matter how mild, only to progress to attacking the systems he blames for causing them.
He's portrayed by Myles Bullock.
Biography[]
Early Life and Crimes[]
Winters and his mother Tanesa lived in an apartment complex that was flooded during Hurricane Katrina, covering the living quarters with black mold. As the building was never fumigated or even ventilated, when Tanesa was infected with fungal spores, she joined the tenants suing developer Walter Trudeau for punitive damages, which was an ultimate failure. The tenants had to move when the building was replaced with a coffee shop. Winters, with Tanesa's encouragement, was inspired to go to medical school, majoring in pre-med as an undergraduate at Patterson Community College in Houston, Texas. When he dropped out with heavy tuition debts, and Tanesa's sickness got worse, Winters finally snapped on January 10, 2018, and euthanized his mother with a ketamine overdose in a mercy killing. He reported her death "in her sleep" six days later, a lie which the authorities believed. Provoked by his medical paranoia, Winters cruised around New Orleans in his van to find sick people to kidnap. He drove them to his abandoned hideout, killed them with ketamine injections, and wore a Venetian plague doctor mask while performing traditional cleansing rituals over them. he them bled them dry by cutting their arteries and burned their corpses to "purify" them of any pathogens.
Miasma[]
Winters killed eleven people by the time the episode starts, ten of them found crammed inside a local cemetery's crypt. The eleventh person was in a different crypt once his burial grounds were discovered. When Winters sees Carl Kevork coughing at a bus stop, Winters pulls in front of the stop, lures Carl to the van, and kidnaps him by yanking him inside. The ketamine shot isn't fatal enough to kill him, so when Winters straps him to his medical table, Carl wakes up, drives off in Winters' van, where he had been living throughout his spree, and crashes it because his stupor made it hard for him to drive. He gives his account to the agents and leads them to Winters' hideout, the team dreading he'll escalate because his quarters were taken away from him. Winters washes himself off in a sink, flashing back to his mother's diagnosis and physical decline. Muttering doctors didn't save her, he roams the streets and sees a coughing patient leaving Dr. Emily Hicks' clinic. Winters chastises her for releasing the women if she was still sick, going into his family past, but Dr. Hicks tries to dissuade him from his rage. When that doesn't work, she's near reaching a pair of shears to defend herself, but Winters snatches it instead. Igniting her clinic with rubbing alcohol, Winters stabs the doctor to death with the shears and even burns her after she's dead with the same lit accelerant. Winters is identified from his mother's medical history and his own collapsed ambitions to become a doctor, which fit his profile. Knowing Walter Trudeau is next now that Winters is out for revenge, the FBI go to his bar to offer him security. Just them, Winters pours gasoline all over the floor and takes an employee, Ramon, hostage, threatening to flick a lighter if he doesn't show himself. Agent Jennifer Jareau tries to placate him with sympathy, but he doesn't listen and protests against Trudeau in a personal tirade. Trudeau personally approaches and tries to earnestly apologize for Tanesa's death, which convinces Trudeau to release Ramon. But when Agent David Rossi appears and reveals they know he killed Tanesa, he's distracted long enough the two agents safely arrest him and remove him from the building. Winters is later incarcerated for his spree.
Trivia[]
- Winters is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Harold Shipman, the worst confirmed serial killer in history, a British doctor responsible for overdosing dozens of patients after being motivated by the morphine euthanasia of his mother.
- The "Cleveland Torso Killer", an unidentified serial killer of a dozen transient men and women, most of who are still unidentified today, all discovered at the same burial site to expose the crimes.
- Cheng Lai-sheung, the protagonistic villain of the Hong Kong splatter film Dream Home, a mass murderer of tenants in the apartment building she hopes to live with, with her parents dying from chronic disease, her father specifically when she withheld his treatment.
External links[]
- Kevon Winters on the Criminal Minds Wiki
