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Suzanne and Lawrence Silvan (also known as The Mommy and Daddy Murderers) are the main antagonists of the Criminal Minds novel “Finishing School”. The Silvans are a couple of kidnappers and murderers who imprisoned groups of girls and brainwash them into dependency, possessing them for years before killing them once they mature and repeating the cycle.
Biography[]
Suzanne was born to Tess and Jacob Hamilton in their Ames, Iowa farm, Suzanne beaten and terrorized by Jacob throughout her childhood. When she grew into puberty and started having periods, Jacob repeatedly raped Suzanne for years. When Suzanne became pregnant, Tess dragged Suzanne to a crude, back-alley abortionist, where Suzanne’s womb was destroyed and she was left infertile. Tess was done after the abortion and killed herself with a sleeping pills overdose, leaving Suzanne alone to Jacob’s brutality. Suzanne snapped and shot Jacob dead, disguising the murder as an “accident” if Jacob died while “cleaning” the gun. Suzanne loved for the rest of her childhood and early adulthood as a runaway, until she met Larry Sullivan in Atlanta, Georgia. A submissive and compassionate man, Larry took Suzanne in and fell in love with her, the couple marrying after Larry finished college. Larry found work at a prestigious logging company, and Suzanne was comfortable as a stay-at-home mother, in the eager hope of being in a place for caring for children. Suzanne also took prescriptions of hydrocodone, for her chronic pain and nightmares as a resulted of the battery that inflicted lasting damage on her. As Suzanne was too physically scarred to be fertile, she went beyond any rational choice like adoption and manipulated Larry to participate in a conspiracy between the two of them to hold girls captive for Suzanne to raise to her liking by her perspective of “protecting and caring for” them, Larry too passive a man to risk upsetting his wife.
The Silvins snatched three little girls from Atlanta in 1988, who Suzanne raised as her “daughters” from brainwashing them into Stockholm syndrome or some other traumatic bonding. They were renamed, homeschooled, taught to be innocent, and forbidden from leaving out of paranoia over the real world instilled in them by Suzanne. Ten years passed, and the girls reached puberty, which drove Suzanne mad due to her fears of dangerous men similar to how Jacob beat and raped her. While Larry was at work, Suzanne poisoned all three girls with her hydrocodone pills to prevent them from maturing further, what she referred to as “going to finishing school” because she believed she solidified keeping the girls “perfect” by preventing them from risking losing their womanhood if they died young. Larry was beyond shaken from finding the girls dead when he returned, but he didn’t fight Suzanne. Instead, he assisted in burying the girls in the woods after dressing them in Suzanne’s hand stitched outfits for them. Suzanne prepared them in layers of blankets, winter clothes, and plastic tarps, in that order, before Larry placed the girls in graves dug on land where his employers assigned him. Larry abducted three more girls, Abigail Mathis, Heather Davison, and Lee Ann Clark, so Suzanne’s void was filled, and while they were captive, the girls moved with the Silvans to Bemidji, Minnesota. After ten years of their captivity, the three girls were also poisoned by Suzanne at their ages of puberty, and the Silvans buried them too all the same.
Not stopping there, Larry prepared another cycle, kidnapping Sophie Scheckel and another girl, but as a countermeasure while he prepared another move once the Silvans held three girls captive again, he sold a coworker a car with incriminating evidence. The Behavioral Analysis Unit was brought on when hunters found the previous trio of girls dead, and they knew the recent kidnappings were connected. The colleague led the team to Larry, who was arrested once caught in suspicious activity regarding his crimes. As he was entitled to one phone call, which the agents anticipated, Larry warned Suzanne to run with the girls, and she fled to the Hamilton family farm in Ames with nowhere else to go. Larry, meanwhile, tries to take all the blame for the crimes, demanded the agents even convict him on capital charges just to spare Suzanne. But Suzanne was arrested at Ames since the agents were waiting for her, and although she tries to lie she was never involved, alleging Larry “adopted” the girls, the agents lie Larry told them he was sexually abusing the girls in their captivity. Completely shocked, Suzanne had a nervous breakdown and wailed out a confession when she felt she “failed” the girls by her standards. While Suzanne was detained by state troopers, the agents admitted their own lies, along with how Larry was ready to take the fall for everything no matter the price he would pay. The Silvans were later incarcerated for their collective crimes.
Trivia[]
- The Silvans are inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Fred and Rosemary West, a British serial killer/rapist couple responsible for holding teenage girls captive and gang-raping and torturing them to death before nursing their remains on the family property, even raping and killing their daughters. Rosemary was raped in her house, and Fred molested his sisters and other girls; they also lived in a caravan and briefly ran a babysitting service.
- Cameron and Janice Hooker, the couple responsible for the kidnapping of Colleen Stan, under which the Hookers held Colleen captive, gang-raped her, and left afflicted with Stockholm syndrome.
- Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, a.k.a. “The Ken and Barbie Killers”, a Canadian serial killer/rapist couple responsible for holding captive, drugging, gang-raping, and murdering numerous preteen girls and women, including Karla’s sister Tammy. There was family abuse in Bernardo’s household, and Bernardo also abused Karla.
- Gary Heidnik, a murderer and serial kidnapper/rapist responsible for holding multiple women and girls of color captive simultaneously to rape and torture together, killing two of them during their captivity.
- The Weaver family, a paranoid and isolated family at the center of the Ruby Ridge siege led by patriarch Randy Weaver, under religious paranoia and believes of an apocalypse to prevent them from leaving the house.
- Suzanne in particular is inspired by multiple real-life serial killers:
- Lydia Sherman, a.k.a. “The Derby Poisoner”, a serial killer of her husband and children who was orphaned at a young age and motivated by depression from a family she felt unable to care for, believing killing them would free her from responsibility.
- Cary Stayner, a.k.a. "The Yosemite Killer", a serial killer/rapist of women and girls near his palace of employment, a lodge near Yosemite National Park. Stayner’s uncle is reported to have molested him, then was killed with his own shotgun, Stayner being suspected of murdering the uncle.