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Matthew Keane is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode “Nighthawk”. Matthew was a serial killer whose crimes drove the lives of his family to destruction and his father Leonard into his own killing spree.
He’s portrayed by Jason James Richter.
Biography[]
Matthew had a relatively normal childhood in Salt Springs, Oklahoma, with his parents Leonard and Elaine, down to be on the local little league team. In 2006, Matthew killed and dismembered five different women, retaining in their remains in his home to sexually degrade without his parents noticing. After killing Melanie Nolan, he was identified and arrested, being found guilty of his crimes and imprisoned for life. He and his father Leonard partook in numerous interviewed with the media, and Matthew later died from being murdered by another prisoner.
Leonard was driven into debt, fired from his job, harassed by Melanie’s father Michael, and caring for Elaine when she was hospitalized after a mental breakdown. It was bad enough he killed men resembling Matthew, and one resembling Leonard, nearly putting Elaine out of her misery as well. He was arrested after a standoff with Michael, and in a later interview, he told whomever watched the happiest he saw Matthew was when his parents treated the injuries of a nighthawk before setting the bird free to fly away, which is how he would choose to remember Matthew.
Trivia[]
- Matthew is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. “The Milwaukee Cannibal”, an American serial killer/rapist of men and boys who was interviewed from and killed by another inmate in prison.
- Edmund Kemper, a.k.a. “The Co-Ed Killer”, an American serial killer of women and girls he dismembered, kept remains of, and sexually assaulted after they were dead.
- Tsutomu Miyazaki, a.k.a. “The Otaku Murderer”, a Japanese serial killer of children with a relatively average childhood lifestyle whose crimes drove his father to suicide.
- Bogdan Arnold, a Polish serial killer of women whose remains were kept in his apartment until they were found, leading to his arrest.
