Emmanuel Rask

CRIMINAL
Name	Emmanuel Rask
Alias	Gone Postal GP
Gender	Male
Family	Unnamed mother Unnamed father (deceased)
Occupation	Former college student
Pathology	Spree Killer Stalker Abductor
Signature	Two distinct signatures: Mailing victim's body parts to women who've helped him Livestreaming the tortures of his victims (later)
Modus Operandi	Drugging with rocuronium bromide Death by torture Post-mortem dismemberment
No. of Victims	3 killed 10 stalked 1 attempted 1 assaulted
Status	Incarcerated
Portrayed By	Shane Coffey
First Appearance	"Rule 34"

“	I've finally made something of myself.	”
	— Rask calling his mother.

Emmanuel Rask, aka Gone Postal, is a narcissistic, psychopathic spree killer, stalker, and abductor who appears in the Season Fourteen episode "Rule 34".

Background

Born on August 28, 1991, in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, Rask was a music prodigy as a child and became the valedictorian of his high school. This allowed him to earn a college degree to attend Hallridge University. He favored women as friends, likely stemming from an unspecified healthy, loving relationship with his own mother, seemingly in part from his father dying. But being queer oriented, in 2015, he began a relationship with a man named Duane Vann. It was during this year that he also began seeing Doctor Nicholas Kauffman, a psychiatrist who had difficulty diagnosing Rask because he had shown signs of being both histrionic and narcissistic, two personality types that conflict with each other. At some point in his life, he began a friendship with Galina Kadlec, an owner of a dark web website which allows anyone who goes on the site to post disturbing and horrific videos meant for sexual pleasure.

He was later accepted into medical school, but the school's administration soon found out that he had been making videos in which he had been recording himself crushing small animals. When he believed another student had told the administration about his crush videos, he went after the student, putting him into a choke hold and repeatedly stabbed him with a ball-point pen. He was arrested by police and sentenced to six years in prison for aggravated assault but was released on good behavior in two. While Rask was in prison, Vann broke up with him and began seeing another man named Rory Stevenson, whom he then married in July 2018. When Rask discovered Vann's marriage, this caused him to snap and go after him and Stevenson. He abducted them both, taking them to an abandoned armory that Kadlec used for her websites (which she told him about and provided him with), and killed them both. He then decided to send their severed limbs and torsos to women who were nice to him throughout his life in some way out of gratitude.

Rule 34

The delivery of the packages, especially when they reach official buildings, to six different women lead to the BAU being called in from suspicions of terrorism. Rask can't be traced because the packages were mailed when the post office in the shipping addresses was closed, and cards in each of the packages say when out together "All the king's Porches and all the king's Benz couldn't put this bitch back together again. Forever yours, Gone Postal." Both men's heads and hands are missing, and the morgue reveals they were paralyzed during the torture and were disarticulated at joints, implying medical anatomy. Later on, Rask is standing over a paralyzed Dr. Kaufmann, caressing his body, dancing to rock music, and preparing his torture tools.

It's not long before Garcia finds live-streamed footage on Kadlec's website of Kaufmann's conscious mutilation. When the team traces the servers, they find it leading back to Vann's house. The BAU barge in and siege the property, but they realized they've been duped when a speaker blaring the audio of the torture is in the guest bedroom, and in the master bedroom and Vann's and Stevenson's head mounted on the bedposts. Another note card with another dare reads "Take that, bitches. I win. GP."

Rask is later seen dropping the packages off at the doorsteps of four more women, before calling his mother from a payphone and hinting at his infamy in the same breath of reminding her he loves her. He then, by Kadlec's direction, abducts her ex-husband, Byron Maddock, so Rask can torture him to death live for her own sake of revenge. Before it starts, he stands over Maddock and taunts him with he doesn't want a ransom, but fame. When Maddock protests, he grabs his head and shouts at him to get him to be quiet, then says in a low voice "Galina says hi, bitch." before licking his forehead.

The team's en route to the warehouse after finding Rask in Kaufmann's records and getting into Kadlec's server to trace the armory where the tortures were held. The agents catch Rask in the process of cutting Maddock with motorized blades, where Rask responds by turning to Rossi and recognizing him from reading his books. When Rossi sweetens the deal of his surrender with the fame he can have from giving himself up, Rask smugly says to Maddock that he also had a story to tell from his experiences, before Rask and Kadlec are eventually both arrested and incarcerated for crimes.

Modus Operandi

Rask targeted the men in his life he found degrading or traitorous and the women he deemed some of the most courteous people he knew. Starting with his ex-boyfriend and his ex's new husband, then moving to his psychologist, he would take them to an old armory Kadlec leased to Rask where she shot many of her X-rated fetish videos. Drugging them with rocuronium bromide to render them immobile but conscious and stripping them to their underwear, he would torture and mutilate them in extremely vicious and gruesome ways, most noticeably by cutting them with motorized blades. Once the torture ended up killing them, he would dismember the men's limbs and heads as well as bisect their torsos with precision accuracy based on their bodies' makeup. Gift-wrapping the dismembered parts in plastic, styrofoam, and preservatives to keep their condition and mask their smell, he would mail them to women he knew who treated him with kindness, first through a closed post office with security cameras off, then dropping the boxes off right at their doors once he escalated.

He also left taunting cards with the signature word of "bitch[es]", degrading the victims and investigators for being better than him and daring the police to catch him. When he was ready to seek attention, he livestreamed his third torture-murder from Kadlec's website, having the server bounce the location to his previous victims' house, to find a setup of technical equipment and the missing heads and hands of his first two victims. When he hoped for more success, and to owe Kadlec a favor, he abducted her husband and started to torture him alive with superficial wounds, but he was stopped before he could get any worse. When he tried to kill the student in his college, he rendered him helpless in a chokehold while stabbing him repeatedly with a ballpoint pen.

Profile

Due to the organized and strenuous nature of the M.O., the unsub is a male aged somewhere between his mid-twenties and thirties. He has demonstrated surgical skills that suggest a significant amount of medical training as well as proficiency with computers indicative of a graduate education. Although it is not yet clear how he is selecting either his male or female victims, the violence and psychological sadism suggests that he does have some kind of affiliation with all of them. It is believed that the unsub is being driven by mixed motivations and because of his particular M.O. with the male victims, coupled with the linguistics he has used in his messages to law enforcement, it appears likely that one motivation may be deeply rooted in a need for retribution. Whether it is real or imagined, this unsub believes that the men he is targeting have harmed him, either physically and/or psychologically, making their pain and suffering and death justified to him.

The unsub is craving validation through a sense of superiority and if through nothing else, superiority through fear itself. He will continue to try to reach out to any and all social media outlets that might provide him with a platform, which is especially true now since the BAU has seized control of the website to which he uploaded the video of his third victim's murder. Because his ultimate validation will come through fame, the crowning of celebrity offers our unsub a sense of dominance over others that quite possibly satisfy all of his motivations. So as his psyche feeds off the frenzy he is creating, like a spree killer, he will stop at nothing to burn as brightly as he can for as long as he can.

Real-Life Comparison

Rask seems heavily derived from Andrew Cunanan - both are homosexual spree killers who were significantly popular and successful in high school, first killing their lovers, and going on a spree targeting male victims for the sake of fame or revenge, becoming more violent as they progressed and mutilating at least one of their victims. They also committed a violent crime before their spree that didn't kill the victim they attacked (Rask choked and stabbed a student at his college, Cunanan pushed his mother into a wall and broke her shoulder during an argument), and both killers previously made sadistic X-rated videos in their spare time.

Rask also is uncanny to Jeffrey Dahmer - both were homosexual killers who primarily targeted young men, developed abandonment issues, had sexual sadism, and incorporate drugging, molesting, torturing, and mutilating their victims, dismembering their corpses in ways displaying anatomical knowledge and with a proficiency to keep from being tracked.

Rask also takes cues from George Metesky - Both are revenge criminals causing public panics, leaving signatures of two-word initials pertaining to their crimes ("G.P." for "Gone Postal" regarding the mailed packages, Metesky's "F.P." for "Fair Play" regarding his motives), and sending vague or incoherent messages to police as threats and taunts.

Rask also takes cues from Amerithrax - Both are spree killers and terrorists motivated by revenge and taking measures to keep untraceable mail they send to addresses as high-ranking as government buildings, including unusual messages in the mail to taunt victims and authorities.

Known Victims

• Unspecified date in c. 2016: Unnamed student (assaulted; put into a choke hold and repeatedly stabbed with a ball-point pen)
• 2018
  • October 15:
    • Duane Vann (his ex-boyfriend; left his head on a bedpost and technical equipment at his house)
    • Rory Stevenson (Duane's husband; left his head on a bedpost and technical equipment at his house like the previous victim)
  • October 16:
    • The first delivery of body parts in the day:
      • Six women, including:
        • Geena Raptis (an IRS agent; assisted Rask with his tax returns)
    • Dr. Nicolas Kauffman (his psychiatrist; livestreamed his murder through Kadlec's website)
    • The second delivery of body parts in the evening:
      • Four unidentified women
  • October 17: Byron Maddock (attempted; Kadlec's ex-husband, abducted on her orders and livestreamed his torture; was rescued)

Trivia

• Rask's crimes of life streamed torture murders and leaving packages with body parts while challenging the cops appears heavily inspired by Untraceable, a movie about a serial killer taunting the FBI to catch him while he tortures and murders men on live streams our of revenge and stalks the cops along the way.

Appearances

• Season Fourteen
  • "Rule 34"