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| “ | This is where I was... This isn't what I...I... I did it again. It's not supposed to happen. Please, I need help. Can you help me? | „ |
| ~ Trey waking from his sleep homicide just before his arrest. |
Trey Gordon, primarily also known as The Day/Night Killer, is the main hidden antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "In the Dark". Trey is a traumatized serial killer responsible for violent murders emulating his childhood abuse, at first representing his father he puts the most blame on when he's awake, but worsening to him sleepwalking from his instability and killing people at the places involved in his broken life.
He's portrayed by Johnny Wactor.
Biography[]
Early Life and Crimes[]
Trey was born on April 21, 1983, primarily under the custody of his brutal, unstable father Samuel in Burlington, Vermont, due to Samuel's wife (it's never specified if she's Trey's mother or not) dying when he was very little. Samuel was an aggressive, toxically domineering poacher with a history of satisfying drug addictions most often in dens and going to brothels for his habit of soliciting prostitutes. Trey at least once accompanied the recklessly irresponsible Samuel when he would please himself or get high at one of the buildings. On May 14, 1991, Samuel was in a brothel raided early in the morning, which revealed while Samuel was being serviced by one, Trey was sexually assaulted by another in the adjacent room. Trey grew from his trauma to have an amalgamation of mental and emotional problems, consisting of anxiety, OCD, and borderline personality disorder, all which he took drugs for. Samuel had a fatal heart attack on February 7, 2017, at age 63, which left Trey finally snapping from being unable to fully escape his trauma and still hating Samuel as much as missing the chance to get revenge against him. By the time March began, Trey saw poachers with histories of aggression and criminal records as emulations of Samuel, so he'd stalk them in the woods Samuel would hunt in and snipe them in their hearts to settle Trey's own demons. But as they weren't fully settled, and considering Trey's mental illness, he came to suffer sleep homicide, a condition of sleepwalking combined with the predisposition to violence and murder. Trey subconsciously hoped his life would also be freed of the crackhouses and brothels Samuel frequented, which were revamped to be gentrified suburban neighborhoods. Working subconsciously by familiar direction and muscle memory, Trey's killings pulled away from the poacher murders and more towards violently breaking into the homes and stabbing the home owners in their hearts, often as finishing them off after multiple stab wounds. Trey would come to find out what he was responsible for that he never intended and tried to stop himself, but as much as he tried, his sleep murders were taking him and his life until they finally became his only murders and all-consuming of his time and energy that left him with fatigue and too drained and crushed from guilt, terror, and trauma to fight it. Trey willingly shot Roy Carini and Jerry Hornsby, but his mind made him sleepwalk to the homes of Reba Wilson and Pearl Roberts and violently stab them to death in subsequent days. By the time Trey shot and killed Bob Joplin, he slashed Mike Hood to death with a stab to his heart once sleepwalking later the same night, prompting the dispatch of the BAU.
In the Dark[]
As Jon Kreutzmann and Lyn Anastasio are watching a horror movie, a sleepwalking Trey knocks on their door. When Jon answers it, Trey stabs his heart, then chases Lyn and kills her the same way. The BAU accurately profile Trey as being one unsub, knowing the heart is the organ he targets in both murder sprees, but they only know he sleepwalks because he stepped on broken glass without waking up from the pain while chasing Lyn. Throughout the spree, Trey is plagued by nightmares of Samuel laughing, fighting him, and trying to break down doors. Trey cleans and dresses his wound when he wakes up before he takes his prescriptions. Trey then unconsciously goes tp Paul McConnell's house, and despite injuring him in his chest, Paul grabs a shotgun. When the gun fires during a scuffle over it, Trey wakes up, shaken and horrified, before he flees. Trey burns his bloody clothes and washes more blood off in a shower, but he finally puts the pieces together when the news reports on his crimes. he calls the office of Dr. Paige, his therapist, but she's unavailable. Gordon desperately flails around his house to prevent his next attack, locking all his knives and firearms away, deadbolting his house, and trying to stay awake. Now only does he fail and fall asleep, which the BAU suspected, but he missed one hunting knife in the house, so he grabs it and stumbles out to look for the house where the prostitute attacked him, owned by Janis Weir. By them, the team realized who his father profiled as, which led them to Trey's history and confirmed he was the killer. The agents call Janis and inform her to leave, but Trey smashes his way into the house, so she stays on the phone while locking herself in the bathroom. Dreaming he's killing Samuel, Trey repeatedly stabs the bathroom door, but the agents arrive in time. When they get his attention, Trey turns and slowly shuffles toward them, knife raised. But one shotgun blast into a chair from Stephen Walker, and Trey comes right to and finally soaks in where he is. The agents asks if he's fine, and when he's near mustering he remembers what he suffered in the house, he changes to emotionally pleading for help. When they promise to assist them, they place him under arrest, Trey crushed to find out how many people they informed him he's killed. He's removed from the house on a gurney for his own safety. As his capacity was diminished, he was likely found unfit for trial institutionalized.
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Trivia[]
- Gordon is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Paul Cox, a murderer of a couple at his old childhood home, motivated by a hatred of his parents over past petty grievances. He killed the couple in a drunken stupor, then forgot until he had recollective nightmares of the crimes, confessing years later in an AA meeting. His confessed, albeit in an environment of religious privilege, was admitted into court, and he was found guilty of the murders.
- Carl Eugene Watts, a.k.a. "Saturday Night Slasher", an American nationwide serial killer with a near-death experience from meningitis, leading violent nightmares of butchering women he went through with in a killing spree.
- Thomas Dillon, a.k.a. "The Roadside Sniper" and "The Ohio Outdoorsman Killer, a very similar serial sniper of men once remarking he didn't care if he shot women.
- Joseph Baldi, a.k.a. "The Queens Creeper", a serial killer of women in home invasions by means of stabbing them to death, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia and even argued as having dissociative identity disorder in his defense.
- Gary Taylor, a.k.a. "The Royal Oak Sniper", a serial killer/rapist with a changing M.O. over his nationwide criminal career, ranging from sniping to stabbing and indiscriminately targeting both men and women.
- Joseph Christopher, a serial killer with schizophrenia of men and boys of color by means of shooting and stabbing, suspected of being two separate killers under the monikers "The .22 Caliber Killer" and "The Midtown Slasher".
