John Malone

"She was the one. She was special."

John Malone was a delusional, prolific serial killer and abductor who appeared in Hell's Kitchen.

Background
John suffered from a rare blood disorder, xeroderma pigmentosum, which caused his skin to burn every time he was exposed to light, akin to a vampire. As a result, he was disowned by his parents and sent to live with his uncle, a Vietnam War veteran named Doug Jones who bonded with him. Jones died from a heart attack on February 6, 2007, and left his home and belongings to him, though John allowed the home to be demolished and converted into a cash-only parking lot so he could gain his own access to the New York City sewer system. He spent most of his time down in the sewers, listening to all of the sounds from above the ground. At some point, he decided to seek an unconventional treatment for his disorder. As a result, John began abducting women and draining them of their blood so he could drink it, believing it to be a remedy of sorts. However, all of these women died after their attempts to escape, having cracked their skulls open when they fell because of disorientation.

Hell's Kitchen
John is first seen in the sewers with his latest victim, Katie Hammond. He tells her not to cry and it is her birthday. He asks her what Katie was going to do to celebrate her birthday if she wasn't in the sewers. She replies that she would go out with her family. During the conversation, John interrupts Katie twice. Katie responds to John that she would go to a Thai place and eat green curry, to which it is also John's favorite. Then, John asks if her parents are enraged that Katie lied to them, to which she replies that she doesn't know. Afterwards, John has Katie blow out the candle that he is holding. The next day, John is seen in his van writing on his diary about Katie and seeing that his skin is not burning. Then, he opens a hatch in his van, opens a manhole cover and climbs down to the sewers.

Later, John brings Katie food and Vitamin C. Then, John tells Katie that she didn't ask a question. Just as Katie asks John a question, John interrupts her, and tells her that she needs to think. Katie asks John if he leaves because he has a job, to which he replies yes. He tells her about the time when he was working, a van was loading a body and there was no sirens. Then, the coroner starts puking and the dead woman had been dead for weeks and no one knew it, nobody missed her and nobody noticed. Later, Katie tries to find a way to escape the sewers through the tunnels. She climbs up the ladder and yells for help, but no one can hear her. The following night, while John is in the guard post, a female motorist drives up to John and says to him to tell his boss to get more lights out in the parking lot, to which John replies that he will.

The next day, John returns to the sewers with food and realizes that Katie tried to escape again when he notices a wound on her foot. He reminds Katie that it is dangerous and if she falls, she could crack her head. Katie starts to cry and tries to reason with John by telling him that she needs to see her family. Adding that she won't tell anyone about him, including the sewers, but John says that he can't and tells Katie that he hates when she cries. Afterwards, while Katie is eating, John tells her that she can hear everyone and everything up in the surface, but no one can hear her. John proves this by yelling and then tells Katie about the dark. He also asks Katie if she was afraid of the dark when she was little, to which she replies that she was. Then, John asks Katie about her parents, including their divorce. John tells Katie about his life and living with his uncle when his parents disowned him. John asks Katie if she believes in fate, to which she replies that she doesn't. Katie asks John to let her try to find a way out of the sewers and if she can't, then she will believe in fate again. This convinces John to release Katie and tells her to run, which she does. While fleeing from John, Katie finds a wrench to use for self-defense.

Meanwhile, the BAU locate John's van and opens the hatch, which leads to the sewers. They split up as Alvez goes with Prentiss, while JJ and Stephen go down to the sewers. After entering the sewers, they both split up and JJ finds Katie, who tells Stephen that she found Katie and they are both going out of the sewers. Suddenly, John incapacitates Stephen from behind, which knocks him unconscious. Stephen regains consciousness moments later. As Stephen looks for John, he speaks to him and tells him that he took Katie away from him. Stephen asks John how many victims he brought to the sewers, to which he replies that he lost count. Stephen hears John's voice as he is sneaking from behind him again. So, he turns around and shoots him twice in the chest. As John is lying on the floor bleeding to death, Stephen tells him to breathe, but due to the buzzing in his ears, John is unable to hear him. Right before dying, John tells Stephen that he has never been anywhere, but he won't be a 100,000 flies. John dies afterwards and his corpse is last seen being taken away on a medical stretcher while Katie is reunited with her parents.

Modus Operandi
John targeted young brunette women, usually drug addicts, but he started selecting more healthier victims as he went along. After somehow abducting them, he would take them to the sewers and hold them captive for a week. All the while, John would use surgical equipment to drain them of their blood, a little amount at a time, and drink the blood. He would also give them food and drinks high in Vitamin C, so they would remain healthy despite the gradual blood loss. The victims' deaths were all unintentional; when they attempted to escape, they would eventually fall over due to disorientation, and crack their skulls open. Afterwards, John would clean the bodies with baby wipes, dump them around random areas of New York City at night, posing them in angelic positions beforehand.The reason the police never realized the connection between the separate victims was most of John's victims were drug addicts and the police assumed the needle marks on their arms were from heroine needles.

Profile
No official profile of John was made by the BAU.

Known Victims

 * Unspecifed dates from 2007 to 2017:
 * At least two dozen unnamed victims
 * Chloe Pettiman
 * Cynthia Bell
 * Daphne Vicker
 * Nora Farbinger
 * Cora Tuchnan
 * Grace Lee
 * Shelley Gallagher
 * Lisa Dewald
 * 2017:
 * April 1: Katie Hammond
 * April 7: Stephen Walker

Appearances

 * Season Twelve
 * Hell's Kitchen