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| “ | My whole life had felt pretty pointless until I started this. These girls were so pretty, so young. I wanted them to stay that way. | „ |
| ~ Kincaid about the murders he committed |
Richard Lawrence Kincaid is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Marauder". He is a serial killer who has been raping and murdering adolescent girls for more than 30 years, including the younger sister of FBI Agent Shannah Sykes.
He was portrayed by Larry Pine. He was portrayed as a younger man by Brian Munn.
Early life[]
Kincaid worked for decades as an insurance claims adjuster, which allowed him to travel all over the northeastern United States. This mobility allowed him to live a secret life as a serial killer of adolescent girls. His M.O. was to approach them in his truck while they were walking alone and offer them a ride; once they were in his power, he would rape them and strangle them to death. He would then bury his victims in wooded areas near his house in Allentown, Pennsylvania, so he could revisit them.
In 1997, he murdered 12-year-old Crystal Sikes in after luring her into his truck by promising her a ride to a nearby swimming pool. Crystal was listed as missing for the next 25 years; her disappearance inspired her older sister, Shannah, to become an FBI agent.
Kincaid and his wife, Abigail, had a daughter, Hanna, who had children of her own as an adult. He was outwardly a model family man and pillar of his community, regularly going to church and coaching his granddaughter's softball team; this façade made it easier for him to hide in plain sight while he committed evermore depraved murders.
His one weakness was his compulsion to take Polaroids of his victims as he killed them so he could relive the experience. Eventually, he ceased his spree but kept the trinkets and hid them in a desk in his study when Hanna got old enough to be able to find them, and kept a "go bag" filled with money, fake IDs, and a gun in case the police ever caught up to him.
"Marauder"[]
Captain Olivia Benson of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit reopens the long-dormant investigation into Crystal's disappearance after the FBI loans Sykes to the SVU precinct. She works alongside retired Allentown PD Detective Ed McCluskey, who led the original investigation.
During the investigation, Benson matches the killer's M.O. to the case of another young girl, Gwen Markham, who was murdered in 2002. Her cousin, Cal, falsely confesses to the murder in order to give Benson an excuse to have the body exhumed. Forensic testing recovers DNA from the body that came from another person, so Benson and Captain Renee Curry of Internal Affairs run the genetic material through CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) and discover that it matches a DNA sample from a genealogy website - one submitted by Hanna Kincaid.
Benson goes to Hanna's house with Sykes, Sergeant Fin Tutuola, and Detective Joe Velasco in tow and asks her about the DNA, explaining that it proves that she is related to the killer, who would now be in his 70s. A dumbfounded Hanna replies that her father is in his 70s, but that he is a good man who could not have killed anyone; she then blurts out that he and her mother are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in the backyard at that very moment.
Over Hanna's objections, Benson goes into the backyard, where Kincaid and Abigail are cutting their anniversary cake in front of their neighbors and grandchildren. When Benson announces herself as NYPD, Kincaid slips quietly into his office to get his "go bag" and run, but Tutuola and Velasco intercept him and put him in handcuffs. Benson then places Kincaid under arrest and takes him into custody in front of his stunned family and friends.
During his interrogation, Kincaid denies knowing anything about the murders, but he grows quiet as Benson and Sykes show him the Polaroids of his victims - especially Crystal - that they recovered from his office. He says, almost fondly, that he remembers Crystal, even as his lawyer tells him to stop talking. Benson says that, if he tells her where he buried his victims, he can avoid the death penalty and see his grandchildren grow up, if only from a prison cell. Beaten, Kincaid agrees to the deal, and later takes Benson and Sykes to his burial ground. Before he is led away to start serving his life sentence, he says that he found a place for his victims to stay young and beautiful forever.
External links[]
- Richard Lawrence Kincaid on the Law & Order Wiki
