Leland Duncan

Leland Duncan was a psychotic serial killer who appeared in In The Blood.

Background
Leland's parents put him up from adoption while they were in Ethiopia, and he was taken in by the Duncans, who were descendants of an 17th-century judge who ruthlessly executed women accused of being witches. In his adulthood, Leland moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, which was home to a library detailing one's ancestry. Sometime prior to "In The Blood", he looked up his ancestry and found that he was a descendant of the judge, triggering a delusion in which he believed he inherited a moral obligation to hunt down and execute witches. This motivated him to kill Emma Stafford, a college student addicted to cocaine, whom he threw off a cliff after torturing her. This was followed by Gloria Carlyle, whom he killed by burying her in a tomb of rocks, effectively crushing her to death.

Modus Operandi
Leland targeted blonde, pretty women, although he also moved on to other victims as his M.O. began to involve. He always found his victims through his job as a volunteer librarian. After abducting them, he would torture them by non-fatally slashing their arms and branding a symbol them with a fire-poker. Then, he would kill them in various ways based on the witchcraft book: Emma Stafford was thrown off a cliff, Gloria Carlyle was stoned to death, and Parker Mills was hanged. As his M.O. continued to evolve, he began using other methods of executing witches, such as trying to burn Yvonne Carpenter at a stake. His first three victims were also targeted due to being perceived by him as sinners in some way: Emma Stafford was a drug addict, Gloria Carlyle rejected a utopia sect to move in with her boyfriend, and Parker Mills was a repeat voyeur.

Known Victims

 * Emma Stafford
 * Gloria Carlyle
 * Parker Mills
 * Yvonne Carpenter and her daughter Kylie :
 * Yvonne Carpenter
 * Kylie Carpenter
 * Charlotte Novak

Appearances

 * Season Nine
 * "In The Blood"