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| “ | What I'm saying is that it's so beautiful. Ally, I... I just can't... let it live. You ever feel that way? Like there's something so beautiful... so beautiful you can't let it live to show you... to remind you of how ugly you are? | „ |
| ~ Terrance Wakeland menacing Ally Hadley. |
Terrance Wakeland is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Fear and Loathing". He is a serial killer who takes sadistic sexual pleasure in murdering young women after recording their voices.
He was portrayed by David Ramsey.
Biography[]
Wakeland is a wannabe musician from Mount Vernon, New York who claims to have music industry connections, a ruse with which he lures young black girls who want to be singers to the recording studio, where he works as a security guard. After he records their singing voices, he drugs them with water laced with GHB and then strangles them to death, before he makes his killings look like hate crimes by drawing swastikas on their corpses. He then keeps the recordings as souvenirs of the murders.
"Fear and Loathing"[]
After Wakeland kills his first two victims, Keisha Andrews and Vickie Williams, he attracts the attention of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). He attacks a teenage girl named Sandra Williams, but her boyfriend shows up unexpectedly, and in a panicked frenzy, Wakeland to shoot him the chest, and beats Sandra to death when she tries to run away. Wakeland, his bloodlust unsatisfied, spends the rest of the night trolling for another victim, eventually finding and murdering Naomi Dade.
The BAU profiles the killer as an attractive, charming black man who preys on black teenage girls by pretending to be a music producer and claiming to be able to get them auditions. Reasoning that he would give them business cards, they investigate places in the area where concerts or talent shows would be held, churches, all-ages venues, rec centers, and other places, until they find a girl named Gail who had a run-in with a man claiming to be record producer who tried to assault her. She gives them Wakeland's card, which lists the address of the recording studio.
Meanwhile, Wakeland lures another young girl, Ally Hadley, to the studio, and drugs her while ranting about his homicidal urges. While she is weak from the drug, she manages to fight him off by kicking him in the groin and then runs outside to beg a passing police officer for help. However, Wakeland catches her and manages to convince the police officer that he is her cousin and is just trying to take her home after she had gotten stoned.
His luck finally runs out, however, as he drags Ally back to the studio, the BAU and the local police surround him. He tries to run, but BAU agent Derek Morgan tackles and arrests him. He is then presumably imprisoned.
Trivia[]
- Wakeland is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Wayne Williams, a convicted murderer and the prime suspect of the Atlanta child murders, where numerous black-Americans were killed across the city. Williams killed at least two men and boys, reportedly being a low-rate music producer and overcompensating his work to try and woo potential victims.
- Francisco de Assis Pereira, a.k.a. "The Park Maniac", a Brazilian serial killer/rapist of women and girls who were found raped and murdered in parks and open fields, after Pereira kidnapped them with lies of offering modeling gigs.
- The “Freeway Phantom”, an unidentified serial killer/rapist of black-American women and girls who were raped, stabbed, strangled, and left dead off major roads around D.C. The killer also sent messages to the police, albeit making the women and girls do so through phone calls and writing.
- William Henry Hance, a.k.a. "The Forces of Evil", a serial killer/rapist of women of color, sending letters to the police to disguise the murders as racial hate crimes.
- William Richard Bradford, a.k.a. “The Death Row Poet”, a convicted murderer and rapist responsible for targeting women and girls under the ruse of photographing them for modeling. He’s suspected of nationwide rapes and murders due to all the photos of women he possessed, including women he was confirmed to have raped and killed.
- Paul Durousseau, a.k.a. "The Jacksonville Strangler", a serial killer/rapist of women and girls of color using his job as a taxi driver to find them, manipulated his way into their homes, tied, raped, and choked the women to death. Durousseau had a previous history of sex offenses and sexually harassing women and girls.
- Harvey Glatman, a.k.a. “The Lonely Hearts Killer”, a serial killer/rapist of women who were lured with false promises of modeling gigs to Glatman’s apartment, stripped, brutalized, and choked to death, before being dispersed in the desert.
- Eddie Leonski, a.k.a. “The Brownout Killer”, an American sailor and serial killer of women in Australia intending to target their “voices” by choking them to death.
- Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. “The Milwaukee Cannibal”, a serial killer of men and boys of color responsible for raping and butchering them to death once lured to his apartment. When one man tried to escape, two officers, John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, bought Dahmer’s ruse that they were “partners” and didn’t rescue the man before Dahmer killed him.
- The reverend protesting against Wakeland's murders under the assumption they're racially motivated hate crimes is inspired by Reverend Al Sharpton, a prominent and controversial civil rights figure.
- The shooting of the detective on the case, Rick Ware, by a homeowner, was likely inspired by the shooting death of Cornel Young Jr., a policeman mistaken for a participant in a restaurant fight who was killed by responders over racial profiling.
External Links[]
- Terrance Wakeland at the Criminal Minds Wiki
