Joseph Berzon

"You're beautiful, Sarah."

Joseph Berzon is a delusional serial killer and abductor who appeared in Inner Beauty.

Background
While he was still a child, Joseph's single mother was involved in a car accident that left her face severely disfigured. She spent three weeks in the hospital before finally dying of her injuries. The entire ordeal left an imprint on Joseph's mind, as he was still developing his love map. Afterwards, he was sent to a foster home, which was later shut down after evidence of physical abuse was discovered. As an adult, he became a caterer and later somehow met a reclusive, introverted woman named Sarah Sherwood, who suffered from a disease that caused her right cheek to be severely swollen, severely disfiguring her face. He fell in love with her and started a romantic relationship with her. One day, Joseph made an effort to take Sarah out of the house by bringing her to a local park for a picnic. When he left her alone to retrieve the wine, Sarah had an anxiety attack after realizing the other park-goers were watching her and believed they were laughing or recoiling at the sight of her. Two days later, she committed suicide by walking into a swimming pool and shutting her inside it using the mattress. Joseph found her body and became traumatized by the discovery. Eventually suffering a psychotic break, he sought to rewrite the past by abducting a woman, molding her into the image of Sarah, and keep her inside the house. His efforts led to the deaths of three women, who all died as a result of his botched surgeries.

Modus Operandi
Joseph initially targeted random women, but later switched his focus to women with blonde hair like Sarah. He would charm them into getting a ride on his work van, after which he would knock them out with a chloroform-soaked rag. He would then take them to the house he shared with Sarah, and perform facial surgeries on them to alter their appearance so they could resemble Sarah. He accomplished this by installing implants into their right cheeks, which would swell the cheeks up. However, because of his lack of medical knowledge, the victims died from a variety of causes due to the surgeries. Once they died, he would try to remove the sutures from their cheeks, only to wind up cutting them in the process. As a result, Joseph would cut the victims' faces with a scalpel to mask his handiwork. Finally, he would dump the bodies in enclosed spaces occupied with bodies of water, as a reference to the location where he found Sarah's body following her suicide.

Known Victims

 * Unnamed victim
 * Unnamed victim
 * Unnamed victim
 * Danielle Steinhardt

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * "Inner Beauty"