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Leo Fortier is the hidden main antagonist of the first Temperance Brennan novel, "Deja Dead". Fortier is a violent, dangerous serial killer of women and girls across Montreal, eventually stalking Dr. Temperance Brennan by the time she's on his case and fears the worst from his crimes to the point she's more proactive than she's obligated to be in her job.
Biography[]
Fortier had a domineering, orthodox grandmother that regularly physically abused him through corporal punishment. Paranoid toward sex, she even poisoned Fortier's schnauzer for having an erection. It's implied Fortier's uncle, a priest, also sexually abused him as a child. A scared and broken child originally, when his grandmother made his mother get a backalley abortion, which killed in front of Fortier, it turned him into a vicious misogynist. He accumulated a criminal record, including voyeurism, vandalism, truancy, falsely imprisoning a girl, and when he finally targeted his grandmother, attempting to kill her with a lamp. The grandmother always made charges against Fortier go away, but when he beat her, he was committed in a psychiatric hospital for six months. The staff saw his sociopathy, dangers towards women, and broken childhood easily, but they couldn't hold him for as long as he was a danger, so he was released at the end of his sentence. Fortier eventually married and had two children, but he was constantly domineering, selfish, and abusive as a partner, as well as struggled to hold a job. He had an affair with Grace Dumas, a colleague of his when they worked at a butcher shop, but when he wanted to dump her, she blackmailed him for bribe money under the threat of telling his wife. This was mere days after Fortier's grandmother passed away. Fortier bludgeoned her to death when luring her to the closed shop, then dismembered her remains with equipment on site and buried them in a forest near the church where his great-uncle, Fortier's grandmother's brother Emile Roy, worked as groundskeeper.
Fortier, his hatred and trauma rushing back to him from the murder, became eager for more violence when felt a rush he wanted to give himself a false sense of power. He would rent apartments across the island to stalk women everywhere, follow their habits, mark places he wanted to leave their remains on a map, and eventually choose which women he wanted to kill. To find opportunities while also maintaining buffers for keeping to his comfort zone of obscurity, Fortier followed subway stations on the map and real estate ads for properties near the stations to stalk for women and girls to kill. Fortier also tracked numerous other crimes akin to his own, including a kidnapping and the home invasions and prowling of Jean Pierre Tanguay. His favorite articles to keep were reports on Canadian serial killers. Fortier began his overall spree with the home invasion torture-murder of Francine Morisette-Champoux, in which he also murdered her dog. In increasing frequency over the next year and a half, Fortier, using the abandoned monastery property at Roy's church as a lair, turned to kidnappings for his later murders and acquired a hacksaw, trash bags, a cycling suit, and gloves as staples of his "kill kit". To this end, Fortier killed teenager Chantelle Trottier and Isabelle Gagnon, leaving their dismembered remains in trash bags at separate locations. Once Dr. Brennan took the case of Isabelle's murder, she connected the dots to Trottier. Fortier read about Dr. Brennan when the papers covered the case and was furious she was on his trail, so he began to stalk her, starting with terrorizing her friend Dr. Gabby Macaulay, an anthropologist following Montreal's sex workers. Coincidentally, Tanguay was stalking and harassing her as well during his own adrenal crime spree.
By this point, Fortier killed Margaret Adkins in her home, but with having to rush that murder once her husband called and said he'd return early, Fortier fled and didn't get the thrill he wanted. He stole Margaret's bank card and used it, which is what led the police to his rented apartment. He narrowly escaped them in the crowds in the streets celebrating Canada Day. With the names of the murdered women and a map of the locations tied to Fortier's crimes on a map in the apartment, Brennan found where Grace was buried and connected Francine's and her dog's murders to the spree as well. Everyone noticed Grace was missing her skull, from which they couldn't identify her, until Fortier trespassed Brennan's home to leave Grace's skull in a trash bag in her backyard. As Brennan kept rebuffing Gabby's sheer terror from being hunted by both Tanguay and Fortier, Fortier took just the opportunity to kidnap her as well. He bludgeoned her to death and left her in a shallow grave in an abandoned property, which both crushed Brennan and left her more determined to catch Fortier. A stolen photo of Brennan and her daughter Katy was meant as threat against the both of them. She realized where to find Fortier once she figured out Roy was in the proximity of the murderer, and from there Roy named Fortier as his great-nephew. Brennan's retrievals of Fortier's criminal and psychiatric records confirmed him as the killer. But by then, he broke into Brennan's house by cutting her power, phone lines, and security system. He appeared, tying a chain around her throat and threatening her while she was terrified. She found the opportunity to knee him in his crotch, then fled to the kitchen where, by the time he pinned her again, she grabbed a kitchen knife. Brennan stabbed the knife in Fortier's eye, and responders reached the both of them to rescue Brennan and detain and resuscitate Fortier, who ended up losing his right eye. Brennan was updated on the information and evidence gathered by the police, including his kill kits and the differentiation of his spree from Tanguay's. Fortier was swiftly incarcerated on multiple charges of murder.
Victims[]
- At least one unnamed woman/girl (peeped)
- Unnamed girl (held captive; was rescued)
- Fortier's unnamed grandmother (attempted; bludgeoned with a lamp)
- February 1992: Grace Dumas, 32 (bludgeoned to death; dismembered with a hacksaw and buried in trash bags in a forest postmortem)
- 1993:
- January:
- Francine Morrisette-Champoux, 47 (disemboweled, bludgeoned, shot, and raped with a kitchen knife; cut of her right hand and vulgarly posed postmortem)
- The Morrisette-Champoux family's dog (decapitated)
- October: Chantelle Trottier, 16 (kidnapped, strangled, and bludgeoned; dismembered postmortem)
- January:
- 1994:
- April: Isabelle Gagnon, 23 (kidnapped, bludgeoned, and raped with a plunger; dismembered with a hacksaw and left in trash bags in a tunnel postmortem)
- June 23: Margaret Adkins, 24 (disemboweled, bludgeoned, and raped with a Virgin Mary Statue; cut off her left breast and forced it into her mouth, and vulgarly posed postmortem; stole her bank card)
- July: Gabrielle "Gabby" Macaulay, (stalked; later kidnapped and bludgeoned; left in a shallow grave surrounded by bricks postmortem)
- July-August: Katy Brennan (stalked and harassed)
- August: Dr. Temperance Brennan (attempted; stalked; later held captive, tied a chain around her throat, and held at knifepoint; she incapacitated him)
Trivia[]
- Fortier is inspired by multiple real-life serial killers:
- William Dean Christiansen, a.k.a. "The Montreal Ripper", a Canadian serial killer/rapist of women guilty of three violent murders in Montreal and a fourth murder in Pennsylvania, having a previous record for rape and using numerous aliases while going on the run.
- Ted Bundy, one of America's worst serial killers; a serial killer/rapist of college students, who he kidnapped and violated with the same blunt weapons he'd murder them with. Bundy would either bury them in the woods or keep their remains.
- Edmund Kemper, a.k.a. "The Co-Ed Killer", an American serial killer with an abusive mother, resulting in him taking his rage out on other women and girls, who he murdered, raped often when they were dead, and left dismembered in isolated locations in California. Kemper previously murdered his grandparents and was institutionalized for it, as well as ended his killing spree by butchering his mother and one of her friends.
- Ed Gein, a.k.a. "The Plainfield Ghoul", an American serial killer with a religiously zealous mother he imprinted on, who later died; Gein later robbed women's graves and killed two women in his hometown to make a "suit" from their flesh and bones resembling his mother.
- Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. "The Milwaukee Cannibal". an American serial killer/rapist of men and boys, mostly in Wisconsin, with a broken home, homicidal inclinations starting from an early age, and a period of time where he lived with his grandmother before he began his murder spree. He found men and boys to kill usually at gay bars, lured them to his home, and butchered them to keep their remains. Dahmer first killed a man years before his spree by bludgeoning him when Dahmer didn't want him to leave.
- Albert DeSalvo, the prime suspect of the unsolved "Boston Strangler" murders, where there were difficulties in concisely matching the M.O.s of the officially connected murders, and DeSalvo had a broken family home, a history of sex offenses, and was a horrible romantic partner. DeSalvo was shanked in custody before he could be tried.