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| “ | He killed my daughter! He killed Megan! [...] No, it was Jim Peters. I said so, but no one would listen! | „ |
| ~ Feretich's only lines, when he's arrested. |
Larry Feretich is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Brothers Hotchner", the first of the two-part season eight finale. Feretich is a serial poisoner of patrons at the bars of unscrupulous owner Jim Peters, out of revenge for his daughter Megan's overdose at one of his venues.
He's portrayed by Richard Augustine.
Biography[]
Feretich, a bag handler at Franklin Airport, lost his daughter Megan to an ecstasy overdose at the Obsidian, a New York City venue owned and operated by Jim Peters. Feretich blamed Peters, and tried to get him legally penalized, at the very least shut down, but to no avail. Feretich hatefully wanted revenge for Megan's murder, so he decided to run Peters out of business by poisoning the patrons of his other bar, the Edinburgh. When he realized his colleague Mike Spears was smuggling drugs into the U.S., Feretich killed him for his supply line. Feretich then laced meth with the severely potent PMMA, the distributed the lethal batch to various dealers circling the Edinburgh in the interest of killing the patrons. Sean Hotchner, brother of Agent Aaron Hotchner of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), worked at the bar, and when five patrons gradually OD'd from the batches, one of them was Sean's girlfriend, Linda Heying. Sean realized what was going on and called his brother to investigate.
When one took one of Feretich's tainted batches to a rave, he and five other guests died en masse at the party. Feretich was provoked when the parents of a little girl died from a tainted wine bottle from the Edinburgh, which revealed a horrible disaster: Peters and the bar's two other employees, Liz Leonte and Thane Parks, spiked their wine supply with the bad batch, meaning it as a prank and not assuming it was dangerously tainted. As Parks also had a propensity for drugging and raping women at the bar, he personally handfed a tainted strain to a woman he was about to rape, having Sean carry her outside after she died to disguise her circumstances of death. Feretich was furious from finding this out, so when Peters tried to make a getaway just after Parks and Leonte were arrested, Feretich crashed his car into Peters' and force-fed him a beyond lethal amount of his own concoction. But finding Spears' death and tracking the history of Peters' bars to Megan's death reveals Feretich as the killer quickly. The agents arrest him at his workplace when he tries to run, and he screams again how Peters was responsible for his daughter's overdose. Feretich was then imprisoned for his crimes.
Trivia[]
- Feretich is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- The producers and dealers of increasingly dangerous street and designer drugs, typically resulting in increased overdoses at nightlife venues. Specific cases alluded to in the episode have yet to be identified.
- Benita Fox, the killer of Kevin Furman, the man she found out gave her daughter drugs.
- "The Parquat Killer", an unidentified Japanese serial killer responsible for paraquat being snuck into soda drinks, resulting in eleven murders and thirty-five poisonings in total.
- Gilbert Paul Jordan, a.k.a. "The Boozing Barber", a Canadian serial killer of women with a propensity for force-feeding them alcohol to lethal levels for sheer thrill, the investigation delayed due to their deaths being disguised and reported victim blaming.
- Kyle Aaron Huff, a mass murderer guilty of the Capitol Hill massacre, a mass shooting at a rave that killed six people.
- William Dorn, the main antagonist of The Mad Bomber a.k.a. The Police Connection; a serial bomber motivated heavily by the overdose death of his daughter.
External links[]
- Larry Feretich on the Criminal Minds Wiki
