Kevin Decker

"I must atone."

Kevin Decker was a delusional, prolific serial killer and abductor who appeared in Scarecrow.

Background
Decker's mother Susan died of childbirth, leaving him to be raised by his religious, devoutly conservative father John, who owned a farming company. John was once a member of a local religious group, but cut ties with them after judging that they weren't adherent enough to their faith. He abused Decker regularly as the latter grew up, making him cut his hands while setting up fences of barbed wire, and whipping him hard with rope. Decker received sympathy from a neighboring girl named Wendy Baldwin, and the two fell in love. However, when the misogynistic John found out, he kicked Wendy out, whipped Decker in the back, and then strapped his son to a cross in the middle of a nearby cornfield, like a scarecrow, and left him there for the night. Eventually, Decker snapped and killed John, setting his body up like a scarecrow as well. However, the guilt-wracked and conflicted Decker suffered a psychotic break in the process and killed Wendy as well.

Modus Operandi
Decker's victims were all killed by multiple stab wounds from a pair of sharpened scissors. He initially targeted people closely associated with him before moving on to apparently random prostitutes. The prostitutes were all lured in by Decker, who would pretend to be a customer. Once they got into his car, he would drive them over to his farm, somehow subdue them, and hold them captive in the barn. There, he would torture them by wrapping barbed wire around parts of their bodies. Finally, Decker would kill them, and afterwards, he would dump their bodies in a creek. However, the body of his first victim, John, was instead set up like a scarecrow, mirroring the abuse John inflicted on Decker after he caught him kissing Wendy.

When he tried to kill Cheryl Rollins, Decker did not stab her and instead tried to drown her in a trough filled with water. He also tried to kill Prentiss and Alvez by activating a grain elevator with them still inside, and therefore burying them alive in the grain, but they both escaped.

Known Victims

 * 2011:
 * Unspecified date: John Decker
 * December: Wendy Baldwin
 * 2011-2016: Eleven victims killed and buried prior to Scarecrow. Known ones are:
 * 2013: An unidentified victim
 * 2016:
 * November 16: Debra McDermott
 * November 27: Allison Carson
 * 2016:
 * December 6: Cheryl Rollins
 * December 7: Emily Prentiss and Luke Alvez

Appearances

 * Season Twelve
 * Scarecrow