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| “ | It's time to kill Steven now. | „ |
| ~ Raoul Whalen ordering his wife to kill someone. |
Raoul Whalen is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Alchemy". He is a sadistic serial killer who forces his wife to kill men in front of him for his own sexual gratification.
He is portrayed by Cooper Huckabee.
Biography[]
Early life[]
A cunning, manipulative sociopath, Whalen is adept at bending others to his will. Twelve years before the events of the episode, he moved to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to study medicinal herbs from Native American shamans. He used their teachings to peddle quack cancer remedies, swindling people out of their money and indirectly shortening their lives; he also creates hallucinogenic drugs and sells them to college students.
He met a woman named Tess Mynock, whose son, Adam, had recently died in an accident caused by her abusive ex-husband, Steven. He hired her as the general manager of a hotel he bought with the proceeds of his various scams, manipulated her into helping him sell his junk medicines, and eventually married her. Once he had her completely under his control, he convinced her that he had the power to bring Adam back to life as long as she got pregnant by another man; he had her seduce men in front of him for his own deviant sexual gratification. If she did not get pregnant from the encounter, he ordered her to help him kill the man, getting her agitated enough to do it by calling the man "Steven". During each murder, he would perform imitations of Native American rituals upon them; afterward, he would dismember the bodies.
In "Alchemy"[]
By the time of the episode, Whalen and Mynock have killed two men. Mynock approaches their third intended victim, Chad Dumont, in a bar and asks him to walk her to her car to protect her from her abusive ex-boyfriend. He agrees, and also accepts the free hotel room she offers as a thank you; there, they have sex while Whalen watches through a hole in the wall. The next day, Mynock serves Dumont food tainted by Whalen's mind-altering drugs, causing him top have a horrible nightmare. Mynock offers him a drink to calm him down, but it too is laced with Whalen's drugs, knocking him unconscious.
Meanwhile, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) begins investigating the murders, aided by local police chief Amber Moxley. They profile the killer as a woman who is trying to get pregnant to replace a child she had recently lost, and is killing the men after having sex with them because she sees them as surrogates for an abusive man in her life, either her father or a partner. With Moxley's help, they trace the murders to Whalen's hotel, where Moxley poses as a guest in order to investigate the crime scene. Before she can find any evidence, however, Whalen attacks and murders her, and then dismembers her corpse and scatters the pieces around the area. Upon finding what is left of Moxley, the BAU deduces that she was murdered by the hotel's owners, who must then also be the serial killers they are after.
Meanwhile, Whalen orders Mynock to kill Dumont, who is still hallucinating from thew drugs they gave him. When she finds Moxley's name tag, however, she realizes that Whalen killed her, and is horrified that he murdered an innocent person; she does not consider her own victims innocent, as she believes they are all Steven. Whalen angrily defends his actions, and slaps her in the face. She finally realizes that he is using her, and knocks him unconscious before leaving to commit suicide in the same lake where Adam drowned. Moments later, the BAU arrives and arrests Whalen as he tries to kill Dumont.
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Trivia[]
- Whalen is primarily inspired by Richard Beasley, a serial killer of men with the assistance of a teenage accomplice, luring the men on Craigslist for fake jobs, then shootings them and leaving them dead throughout woods. The duo were caught when a survivor escaped.
External links[]
- Raoul Whalen at the Criminal Minds Wiki
