| “ | Tracy. My dear Tracy. I loved you so much. | ” |
— Peck
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Kevin Peck is a serial killer, abductor, and one-time poisoner who appears in the Season Thirteen episode of Criminal Minds, "Last Gasp".
Background
Born around 1989, Peck's parents were never married, and his father was never around. When he was 13, his mother, a former stripper, married D.C. power broker George Ferguson. Peck sometime later fell in love with his stepsister Tracy, however, she did not feel the same way about him. Tracy was unhappy with her father marrying a stripper, and posted online that she was "the white trash gold digger who moved into my house." The family drama Tracy caused with her drug use and disapproval towards her new stepmother made Peck want to be an obedient child. Peck's relationship with Ferguson was a positive one, which led to him setting up a $150,000 trust fund that Peck had access to when he was eighteen years old. This led Tracey using her stepbrothers crush on her to manipulate him into putting the money into her account to help fuel her heroin addiction and hedonistic lifestyle. Peck also became friends with Jessica Mayhew, the daughter of a U.S. Senator Alfred Mayhew (likely because their fathers were part of the D.C. elite) who looked like and was the same age as Tracy.
In 2010, Ferguson had cut Tracy off financially to get her to stop her drug use. Tracy decided to prostitute herself to continue funding her habit and one night went to a hotel with Peck and seven other men. She forced Peck to watch as each of the men had sex with her and when it was his turn, Tracy rejected him. This caused him to snap and kill her by injecting her with a lethal dosage of heroin. Tracy's murder was investigated by the FBI and Linda Barnes, who was a field agent and lead investigator at the time, decided to have the file on the case sealed to prevent Ferguson and the media from seeing the details of Tracy's death. Eight years after Tracy's murder, Jessica Mayhew returned from traveling around Europe. This was likely the trigger that led to Peck going after high-end call girls who also looked like Tracy, taking photos of them before, during, and after holding each of them captive in his home and killing them. For unknown reasons, he decided to send the photos he took of his victims to a man on the dark web named Adam Jeffries, who would sell them to other people.
Last Gasp
Peck is first seen photographing a paralyzed woman. He stops momentarily, revealing a coffin next to them and holds her chin up for the camera. He later drags her body in a sack and incinerates it. He opens an old chest, revealing his latest victim. He picks her up and gently comforts her, but she shakes uncontrollably in fear. It is later revealed that the second woman seen was actually his third victim, his first being Tracy. Peck finishes taking a photo of his latest victim, who has been drugged completely still. He strokes her chin and calls her beautiful, as he closes her eyes. He leaves the room, going through racks and aisles of wines before finding a bottle and grabbing two glasses. Peck goes up the stairs to the next floor, revealing an elegant house party as he goes through a crowd of people, complimenting those who he passes. He meets up with Mayhew, saying that he found the bottle he was telling her about. He pours both of them glasses of wine. Mayhew says she missed him, while he says he was 19 when he left for Europe eight years ago and that she was a wild child. Peck holds up his phone, asking for a picture. She lets him and he takes a picture of her, calling her beautiful. He then asks how is her father is. Jessica says he is the same - very much in power. Peck calls her father rich and famous, saying he reminds him of her. He later abducts and drugs Mayhew, bringing her down to the wine cellar. Peck says she reminds him so much of Tracy. He kisses her, as his hand strays down to her legs, sliding up to her thighs. Peck then takes Mayhew to a hotel room, where he tells her that Tracy never let him touch her. He says she only let him watch as seven men took turns having sex for her in exchange for heroin as he sat and drank wine. He then injects Mayhew with heroin. He lies beside her still body as he cries, reliving Tracy's death. Simmons bursts in, demanding for Peck to raise his hands up as Alvez checks for Mayhew's pulse. Peck is arrested and escorted out of the hotel while Mayhew is saved. Barnes is later told to keep her hands off the BAU by Alfred (as she had been hindering their investigation into Peck's crimes). Peck is presumably incarcerated afterwards.
Modus Operandi
Peck primarily targeted brunette Caucasian call girls who served as surrogates for Tracy Ferguson. He found his second to fourth victims at a five-star hotel where he would meet them and take a candid photo of each of them. After somehow abducting his victims (or given that they were call girls, paid them to have sex with him at his home), he would hold them captive in a locked box in his house's basement. After a couple of days, he would take another picture of the victims wearing the exact same kind of lingerie Tracy wore when he killed her. The next day, he would kill the victims by shooting them in the chest with a handgun. He then took photos of their bodies in staged positions. The bodies of the victims would be put into body bags and incinerated in the house's furnace. When he killed Tracy (his first victim), he injected her with a lethal dosage of heroin to make it appear as if she had accidentally overdosed. When he attempted to kill Jessica Mayhew, he abducted her, dressed her in the same lingerie his other victims wore when he killed them, took her to the same hotel room where he killed Tracy, and injected her with heroin. However, Mayhew was saved in time by the BAU.
Profile
No official profile of Peck was given by the BAU.
Real-Life Comparison
Peck is similar to Helmuth Schmidt - Both were serial killers (suspected in Schmidt's case) and poisoners who targeted high-risk women (high-class call girls in Peck's case, poorly educated young immigrants in Schmidt's), lured them to their homes with ruses (Peck presumably called his victims for sex, while Schmidt posted matrimonial ads), killed at least one victim by poisoning, used crematoriums in their murder sites to dispose of victims' remains, used some sort of cover-up for one of their murders (Peck disguised his first murder as an overdose, while Schmidt alleged his wife committed suicide), treated at least one victim as a surrogate for their first (Peck's later victims were surrogates for his first, while one of Schmidt's suspected victims impersonated his wife), and a member of law enforcement hindered the investigations in some way (files on Peck's crimes were sealed by the lead investigator, while files on Schmidt's were burned by a sheriff who later killed himself).
Known Victims
The dates denote when the 2018 victims were abducted.
- Unspecified date in 2010: Tracy Ferguson (his stepsister; her death was ruled an accidental overdose until 2018)
- 2018: Washington D.C.
- March 4: Unnamed woman
- March 9: Unnamed woman
- March 12: Unnamed woman
- March 14: Jessica Mayhew (attempted; abducted and injected with a lethal dose of heroin; was rescued)
Notes
- Casey Thomas Brown (Peck's actor) previously portrayed a rapist in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.