Jacob DuFour

"He begged me not to hurt you. To let you go because you're a wonderful person, he said. So I tried to feel what he felt for you, but to be honest...I didn't feel a thing."

Jacob DuFour is a delusional, prolific serial killer and abductor who appeared in Internal Affairs.

Background
Ever since he was a teenager, Jacob was showing signs of severe mental illness. He would remove the heads and furs of animals and wear them, and also expressed his wonder on what it would be like to live in someone else's skin. On October 6, 1992, Jacob was arrested for animal cruelty after a neighbor complained about him dancing around with a bloody animal pelt fastened to his head as a hat. He had been repeatedly institutionalized in psychiatric hospitals since then. At some point prior to "Internal Affairs", he inherited the Diablo General Store, a general store in Esperanzo Valley that had been owned by his family for generations. In 2011, Jacob began killing, taking advantage of clashes between drug cartels along the U.S.-Mexico border to cover up the true nature of his murders.

An investigation into his serial killings was started in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, by a police detective named Santiago Morales, who sent a report of it to the El Paso Police Department in case there were any similar victims in the U.S. Morales later died on June 26, 2014, of a brain tumor and no one followed up on the investigation, leaving it cold. Sometime during or after 2012, Morales's report was seen by Brian Cochran, who later decided to take advantage of it by sending potential victims to Jacob when he saw them as loose ends to the Libertad Cartel, a rising drug cartel he was affiliated with. This led to the death of DEA Agent Mark Bowers, who was working undercover to find the leader of the Libertad Cartel.

Modus Operandi
"You're about to get some company."

Jacob targeted people during the clashes between drug cartels. Initially, he targeted random Hispanic people in Mexico, but later started receiving his victims from Cochran. After being pointed in their direction by Cochran, he would somehow abduct them, hold them captive in a shed on his property, torture them, and kill them by strangling them with his bare hands. Afterwards, he would either crudely remove their faces or place the removed face of a previous victim over their own faces via surgically implanted attachments post-mortem. Then, he would dump them near mass graves or dumping sites used by local drug cartels.

Known Victims

 * 2011, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico:
 * May 6: R. Ricardo
 * July 19: S. Garagos
 * September 17: N. Degas
 * January 8, 2012: E. Vargas
 * Unspecified dates and locations from 2012 to 2015: Numerous unnamed victims
 * Unspecified dates in 2015, El Paso, Texas, U.S.:
 * Arvin Cole
 * Agent Mark Bowers
 * Agents John Portman and Sarah Miles :
 * John Portman
 * Sarah Miles
 * The general store shootout:
 * Doctor Tara Lewis
 * Derek Morgan

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * "Internal Affairs"