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Sebastian Hurst is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Under the Skin". Hurst is a disfigured serial killer targeting healthy young men for grafting their skin onto his own scars. He is a protégé of serial killer Everett Lynch, a recurring villain in the series,
He was portrayed by Tom Amandes.
Biography[]
Hurst lost much of his skin when he was a teen in a car accident, which left him to fetishize handling other people's skin. As an adult, Hurst worked as a surgeon, but when hospitals and insurance companies kept rejecting him due to feeding his urges with operations taking too long so he could fondle patients, Hurst turned to a position as a coroner. He was also an art and classical music hobbyist, collecting numerous pieces to display around his house and play on his equipment. Hurst was a con victim of Roberta Lynch, but still maintained a bond with her son Everett. To get a favor, an adult Everett sought after Hurst years later to ask about a lawyer whose identity Everett could assume to break his daughter Grace out of prison. In exchange for giving the name Arthur Terrell, a private attorney who was on vacation, Hurst's obsession over skin was fed by Everett teaching him how to kill so as to harvest people's skin properly, as Everett would cut off faces after each of his murders. Excited, Hurst squatted in Terrell's home in Frederick, Maryland, and set up shop, complete with a killing room in the basement.
Hurst would lure men through clone accounts on the dating service Date Craze to the house, paying for airfare with the credit cards of the last man Hurst killed, and drug them with barbiturates in their wine. The men would be suffocated, skinned, and then scattered across isolated lands once they died, to throw off authorities and so Hurst could return and relish his crimes. Hurst would also retain photos of his crimes as souvenirs. Terrance Folger was skinned at the Terrell mansion once he died, but deciding he wanted that process at his own home, Hurst disfigured Daniel Kane and Gregory Broder there after he killed them. When the police pick up on the crimes and call the BAU, who fear Everett's at work, Hurst tries to intrude in the investigation, with M.E. Lloyd Jewell constantly turning him away. Hurst later fashions the skin of the men's chests and wears it like an apron, picturing his skin being perfect in his mind. Bitter over Dr. Jewell, he lures the fellow coroner over to his house, drugging him and fully intent on skinning him alive. Agent David Rossi, who didn't arrest Lynch the first time, figured out he was the killer from his profile and history and knocked on his door to stop him. Once Hurst opened the door, Rossi rendered Hurst helpless and literally twisted his arm for information on Everett. Hurst admitted offering Terrell's identity to Lynch, and Hurst is arrested shortly after. Dr. Jewell is narrowly rescued, and Hurst is incarcerated for his crimes.
Trivia[]
- Hurst is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Dr. Teet Härm, a.k.a. "The Coroner", a Swedish pathologist and suspected serial killer of sex workers who were reduced to dismembered remains. Härm was acquitted of the murder of Catrine de Costa in a trial known as "The Dismemberment Murder Case". Härm inspired many crime fiction works, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
- Alfredo Ballí Treviño, a.k.a. "The Wolfman of Nuevo León, a Mexican convicted murder and suspected serial killer of hitchhikers, who were found dismembered across numerous highways, and whose remains Treviño is suspected to have eaten. Treviño is the primary inspiration for fictional serial killer and horror fiction villain Hannibal Lecter.
- Stephen Port, a.k.a. "The Grindr Killer", a serial killer/rapist of men he lured with fake profiles on dating apps, drugged and raped many of them, and murdered four of them by overdoses, moving them and planting fake suicide notes to throw off authorities.
- Bruce McArthur, a Canadian aged serial killer of younger gay men who were lured into compromising situations, strangled, and their remains kept at his house to use as planter box fertilizer. McArthur is recognized as one of the oldest serial killers in history at the time of his active spree.
- Robert Berdella, a.k.a. "The Kansas City Butcher", a serial killer/rapist of men, ranging from friends to men he solicited, who were drugged, raped, suffocated, and dismembered before being kept in his basement; he had a level of charisma and experience with butchery from his work and training in cooking and antiques dealing.
- Ed Gein, a.k.a. "The Plainfield Ghoul", a murderer and suspected serial killer of women in his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, who fashioned clothing and furniture out of his victims' skin and that of corpses he dug out of the town's graveyard.
- Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, a serial killer/rapist of women in sex work who were lured through online accounts, raped and strangled to death, and their remains scattered to throw off police, little forensics evidence being left behind as well. Weaver had a surviving victim who escaped to break the case, and although much of the evidence was circumstantial, his devices were geolocated to track his activities during the murders.
- Hannibal Lecter, the main antagonist of the namesake franchise, a serial killer and cannibal of numerous people with a pension for classical and fine arts and who would harvest the organs of the people he killed, taunting the police and his victims during his sprees.
- Jame Gumb, the main antagonist of the film The Silence of the Lambs, a serial killer conflictsd about his gender identity, having killed a partner of his, before holding women captive to murder then and skin them to stitch their skin into a "suit" for himself. Gumb is ironically also inspired by Gein.
External links[]
- Sebastian Hurst on the Criminal Minds Wiki
