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| “ | I'll live to see this place burn to the ground. | „ |
| ~ Lloyd Wilkes swearing revenge in court. |
Lloyd Wilkes is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "False-Hearted Judges", He is a serial killer who assassinates judges he believes have ruined people's lives, including his, along with his accomplice and surrogate son, Clay Turner.
He was portrayed by David Andrews.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Wilkes was born in Plattsville, New York, and as an adult lived in Flatbush, where he managed a hardware store. He had a wife, Lisa, and a son, Eric, but was often violent and abusive with both of them. He was especially angry that Eric was born with a birth defect that weakened his left shoulder and left him unable to play sports, and would force the boy to play, even if it hurt him.
After Wilkes hit her in front of their son, Lisa finally had enough and divorced him, taking full custody of Eric and denying Wilkes visitation rights, also receiving the restraining order that prevents him approaching Lisa and Eric. Wilkes kidnapped the boy and lived on the road with him for a week, but he was eventually found and arrested. The trial judge, Irwin Riceman, sentenced Wilkes to probation in lieu of prison time, but ordered him not to have any contact with Eric.
When Lisa moved to Ohio with Eric, Wilkes petitioned the court to stop her, but Riceman denied the motion. Wilkes ultimately followed Lisa to Ohio petitioned a court there to give him custody of Eric, but was again denied. Undeterred, he stalked Lisa to Eric to Wisconsin and then Arizona, each time filing unsuccessful motions to take custody of his son, until Lisa finally changed her and Eric's name and moved to South Dakota to keep Wilkes from finding them again. A few years later, unbeknownst to Wilkes, Lisa and Eric were killed in a car accident.
Wilkes, still in search of Lisa and Eric, moved to Provo, Utah, where he met Clay Turner, a teenager who had lived in a group foster home ever since his mother had been imprisoned on drug charges and Judge Eduardo Mestres ordered him removed from her home. At the time he and Wilkes met, Turner was living on the street after the foster home closed down. Wilkes "adopted" Turner, whom he renamed Eric and brainwashed into sharing his violent hatred of judges. He also disciplined Turner harshly for any mistake or show of weakness, much as he had with Eric. Finally, he convinced Turner to help him kill the judges he believed had wronged them. Riceman was their first target.
After teaching Turner how to use a rifle, Wilkes shot Riceman dead in Billings, Montana, making it look like a hunting accident. They then traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, at Wilkes' command, Turner shot and killed Mestres, and made it look like a robbery gone bad.
"False-Hearted Judges"[]
After reading about a white supremacist prison gang attacking New York State Supreme Court Judge E. Barton for denying them family visitations, Wilkes decides that Barton is abusing her power, and tells Turner to help him kill her. They break into her house and hide in the basement until later that night, when Turner shoots and kills Barton and her oldest son, while Turner seriously wounds Barton's husband, but spares his life after hearing him cry out for his children. The following day, Wilkes orders Turner to shoot and kill Judge Roland Thibodeaux, who had reversed the acquittal in an euthanasia case of a man who had helped his terminally ill friend commit suicide.
While investigating the murders, Detectives Robert Goren and Alexandra Eames of the NYPD's Major Case Squad find letters Wilkes had written to the leader of the white supremacist group in support of his attack on Barton. Deducing that Wilkes committed the murders with an accomplice, they arrest him on frivolous littering charges in order to draw the accomplice out. Sure enough, Turner races to the jail where Wilkes is being held, where Goren watches as Wilkes orders the boy, who addresses him as "Dad", to "stay in control" and keep exercising so his shoulder will get stronger.
Goren and Eames investigate Wilkes' history of stalking and domestic abuse, and they learn of Eric's birth defect and his and Lisa's death, as well as his history with Turner. Theorizing that Wilkes would discard Turner if he had his real son back, Goren waits until Turner bails Wilkes out of jail and arrests him for the murders. He lies to Wilkes that the real Eric has been found in South Dakota; he then tells Wilkes that he can still claim Turner as his son by signing an affidavit. After a moment of hesitation, Wilkes signs it and turns to leave, but Turner begs him not to go. Goren tells Turner that Wilkes has already abandoned him, and the only way he can stop the only father he has ever known from leaving him is to confess to committing the murders with him. Over Wilkes' furious objections, Turner implicates them both in the murders. As Goren and Eames take him into custody, Wilkes curses Turner, telling him that "his real son" would never have betrayed him. He is then sentenced to death and executed, while Turner is imprisoned for life.
Trivia[]
- Wilkes is loosely based upon a real-life serial killer, the late John Allen Muhammad, who in October 2002 committed a series of sniper attacks with his 17-year-old accomplice and unofficially adopted son, Lee Boyd Malvo, killing 10 people.
- Wilkes is the second character in the Law & Order universe based on Muhammad, the other being Herman Capshaw in the original Law & Order.
External Links[]
- Lloyd Wilkes on the Law & Order Wiki
