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Suzanne Silvan is a serial killer who appeared in the Criminal Minds novel "Finishing School".

Background
Suzanne was born sometime in the 1960's and raised on a small, secluded farm in Ames, Iowa. As a child Suzanne was abused verbally and possibly physically by her father Jacob and, when she reached adolescence and began menstruation, the abuse became sexual. At some point Suzanne became pregnant (who the father was is never revealed, though it was presumably Jacob) forcing her mother Tess into bringing her to a back alley abortionist who, either through intent or accident, rendered Suzanne infertile. Shortly after Suzanne abortion Tess, unable to deal with life anymore, committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills, with her husband dying soon afterward when a gun he was cleaning went off and shot him.

Surviving on her for several years Suzanne met Lawrence Silvan in Georgia and the two instantly fell in love, marrying after Larry graduated from college.

Modus Operandi
Suzanne would the girls Larry abducted as her own, schooling them and presumably barring them from leaving the house. When the girls reached adolescence and began their period Suzanne, to "protect" them from any men (including her husband) who would want them sexually, poisoned them with hydrocodone, a barbiturate she was prescribed for her chronic pain and nightmares. After killing the girls Suzanne would dress them in homemade dresses and then wrap them in layers, the first layer being blankets, the second winter clothing and the last plastic tarps; the girls would then be buried in graves Larry dug in the forest he was currently working in. Suzanne referred to poisoning the girls as sending them to "finishing school" for reasons never explained (even Larry remained in the dark as to the expression's origin).

Known Victims

 * Ellen
 * Two unnamed girls
 * Abigail Mathis
 * Heather Davison
 * Lee Ann Clark

Appearances

 * Novels
 * "Finishing School"