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Ian Wilson was a severely traumatized and disfigured cannibalistic serial killer and stalker who appeared in the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Season Two episode, "Abominable".
Background[]
Ian Wilson was born in New Zealand and married to a woman named Charlotte. In 2015, the two went vacationing in Nepal on an expedition to climb its mountains, but the devastating April 2015 Nepal earthquake started an avalanche that seeming killed everyone in the group, including Charlotte. Despite Ian being classified as dead in absentia, he miraculously survived; however, the damage from the avalanche and earthquakes left him with severe brain trauma that massively reduced his mental capacity to primal instincts and severely disfigured him physically, including leaving his right foot with only three toes, which could be seen in tracks he would leave when he stayed in Nepal. From then on, Ian took shelter in a cave near the site of the avalanche, and he built a primitive memorial to honor his wife. Motivated by his basic need to survive, he began fatally mauling tourists and citizens of Nepal so he could eat them as food, claiming several lives and gathering dismembered body parts in his cave to save for later meals. The locals attributed the killings and disappearances to the notorious legend of the Yeti, blaming the beast for the crimes.
Abominable[]
While they're on a yoga retreat, Ian kills Meegan Whitney (along with her unborn child) and later Dave Dennis, a.k.a. Yogi Pemba, but only eats parts of them and doesn't take them back to his cave. He leaves distinctive three-digit footprints at each crime scene. Eventually, his cave is discovered by the International Response Team along with several bloody, dismembered body parts, and soon after, Monty and Jarvis track his location and find him at the site of his wife's memorial. Jarvis tries to remind Ian of his wife and tells him killing isn't the answer, and all Ian replies with are somber moans. Eventually, the rest of the team arrive with Nepali officers, and despite Jarvis' protests, Ian runs right in their direction, prompting them to shoot and kill him. Jarvis and Seger later talk on the plane, and Mae suggests he deliberately charged them so they would shoot him so Ian could be reunited with his wife again in death.
Modus Operandi[]
Ian randomly killed natives and tourists in and near the area where he and the expedition were buried in the avalanche. He would stalk his victims until they would be isolated and alone then murder them by literally mauling them to death with his sharpened teeth, overgrown nails and a metal claw he had fashioned onto his hand before taking them back to his cave and dismembering and consuming them, with the exception of Pemba, who was not an intended target but had incidentally come across Ian's attack on Meegan. With Meegan Whitney and Pemba, he only ate some of their internal organs but left them in the woods to be found. When in a standoff with Nepalese law enforcement, he ran toward them to commit suicide by cop.
Profile[]
Real-Life Comparisons[]
Ian appears to be heavily inspired by Richard Chase - Both are cannibalistic serial killers targeting victims of both genders, were driven by psychiatric problems, took the remains of their victims to eat later, and each killed one woman who was pregnant, which also killed their unborn children.
Known Victims[]
- April-May, 2015(?)-2016, Khumbu Valley, Nepal:
- At least eight previous victims prior to "Abominable"
- Six Swiss trekking group members
- Two unidentified Nepali victims
- At least eight previous victims prior to "Abominable"
- 2016:
- Khumbu Valley, Nepal:
- Meegan Whitney (her unborn child was also killed)
- Dave Dennis, a.k.a. Yogi Pemba (incidental; happened upon his attack on Meegan)
- Namche Bazaar, Koshi Province:
- An unnamed Nepali soldier (attempted; slashed across the face)
- The standoff at the site of Charlotte's shrine:
- Mae Jarvis and Russ Montgomery (stalked and intended to kill)
- Numerous unnamed Nepali soldiers (charged in a suicide by cop)
- Khumbu Valley, Nepal: