David Roy Turner

"When we started this thing, I didn't know if you had it in you. But the last couple nights, you've come a long way. I'm proud of you, Toby. I really am."

David Roy Turner was a serial killer and copycat who was the dominant partner of a two-person killing team. He appeared in Season Eight of Criminal Minds.

Background
David's father Nate was a boat mechanic in Miami and died twelve years prior to "The Apprenticeship". In 2002, David was arrested for assaulting an underage male prostitute and was put on a work detail with another inmate named Rudy Stein, who had killed a number of prostitutes in New York and tutored him on how to kill without getting caught. They maintained close contact after David was released in 2006. When Rudy died of a massive stroke in prison on July 2011, David snapped and decided to tutor a young killer just as Rudy had taught him. Sometime on or prior to October 2012, he came across the budding psychopath Toby Whitewood, who had been murdering dogs in the neighborhood and whom David somehow identified as the killer. Gaining Toby's trust by rescuing him from a teenage boy named José Aguilar when he attacked him while saving a dog, David started teaching Toby how to be a killer. All the while, he began developing secretive feelings for Toby.

The Apprenticeship
See section on the David Turner and Toby Whitewood page

Modus Operandi
David mimicked Rudy Stein's method of killing, which involved snatching a prostitute off the street, intimidating her into compliance, and then sexually assaulting her, often biting her. He would then kill her with a blow to the head by a hammer, although he tortured his second victim, Shawna Radford, by wrapping a plastic bag over her head beforehand, something incorporated by Toby. This was followed by him dumping the bodies in dumpsters and then rolling it around in garbage as a forensic countermeasure. When he killed Toby, he strangled him with his bare hands in a blind fit of rage.

Profile
See section on the David Turner and Toby Whitewood page

Known Victims

 * June 3, 2001: Unnamed male prostitute
 * 2012:
 * October: José Aguilar
 * November 6: Vicky Thomas
 * November 6-7: Shawna Radford
 * November 7:
 * Toby Whitewood
 * Hollie Riggio

Appearances

 * Season Eight
 * "The Apprenticeship"
 * "Carbon Copy"
 * "The Gathering"