Cormac Burton

"It won't take long. It's almost time for slaughter."

Cormac Burton is a serial killer and abductor who appeared in Keeper.

Background
Cormac and his older brother Todd were abused by their father Curtis. Their mother Amy was also a target of abuse, and she eventually drank herself to death as a result. Curtis would often force the brothers to wear dog muzzles and take them to a slaughterhouse belonging to his cousin. There, Curtis would force them to watch him as he slaughtered pigs, all the while claiming they would be next. One day, Cormac found a dog and tried to keep it, but Curtis found out and forced Todd to help him abandon it. This incident warped Cormac's mind ever since. As an adult, Cormac seemed to move on with his life, relocating to another town and getting a job at a sporting goods store. When he learned that Curtis died of a heart attack, he moved back to his hometown, fell off the grid, and began killing men who reminded him of his father and were hiking along the nearby Appalachian Trail. As he continued his serial killings, Cormac remained unaware that Todd, who had become homeless and had been following him around the entire time, was helping him cover his tracks by dismembering his victims' bodies and scattering of the body parts around the trail.

Modus Operandi
Cormac usually targeted men hiking along the Appalachian Trail who reminded him of Curtis, with the exception of Kylie Fleming, a woman who witnessed one of his crimes and had to be silenced. They were all forcibly taken to his father's cousin's slaughterhouse, forced to wear dog muzzles, and stabbed and/or slashed to death with a machete. Afterwards, Cormac disposed of their bodies on the trail, where they would be dismembered by Todd, unbeknownst to him. Later on, when his victimology was discovered by the authorities, Cormac was forced to improvise, targeting a random man who reminded him of Curtis, knocking him out with a shovel, and taking him to the slaughterhouse to be killed.

Known Victims

 * Five unnamed men
 * Kylie Fleming
 * Unnamed man
 * Howard Walker

Appearances

 * Season Twelve
 * Keeper