| “ | It's time to kill Steven now. | ” |
— Whalen to Mynock
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Raoul Whalen is a sociopathic killer, proxy killer, and the dominant partner of a husband-and-wife killing team that appeared in the Season Eight episode of Criminal Minds, "Alchemy".
Background[]
Whalen was born on July 6, 1950. 12 years prior to the events of the episode, he was given permission to stay on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and study medicinal herbs with the local shaman. Selling herbal products to customers, he promoted his business through a number of false advertisements; in one, he claimed that his products cured him of prostate cancer. Whalen operated his business under the alias of "Roger Whitcomb". A closet sociopath, he held murderous urges, as evidenced in 2001 when he tried to poison someone with solanine during his medicinal studies; this resulted in him being kicked off the reservation. He eventually met Tess Mynock, a woman who sought out his products due to her sensitivity to light, a psychosomatic reaction to her young son, Adam's, drowning. She later aided him in advertising his products. The two became close and soon married. Whalen took this opportunity to convince Mynock to start her killings. The two used a hotel that Whalen purchased with an unspecified inheritance, the Red Creek Lodge, as a backdrop for the murders.
Alchemy[]
See section on the Raoul Whalen and Tess Mynock article
Profile[]
No specific profile was made of Whalen, since the team was more focused on Mynock. They initially briefly described him as a submissive male under the dominant unsub's control, but this assumption was later redacted when the BAU found out that he was manipulating Mynock.
Modus Operandi[]
Since Whalen only killed one person personally, the term "M.O." is somewhat misused. He would usually kill his victims through Mynock, with his only direct involvement being performing Native American rituals upon her victims and then disposing their dismembered body parts in remote forests once they were killed. He left the first victim's body parts in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as revenge for being kicked out. When he killed Amber Moxley, it is unknown how he did so, but afterwards, she was dismembered.
Known Victims[]
- Unspecified date in 2001: Unnamed victim (attempted to poison with solanine)
- 2013:
- March 6: Raymond Nava (directed Tess to kill him)
- April 14: Joseph Purl (directed Tess to kill him like the previous victim)
- May 2:
- Amber Moxley (incidental; killed by unknown causes, then dismembered post-mortem)
- Tess Mynock (his wife; assaulted)
- Chad Dumont (attempted to kill with a cleaver)
Notes[]
- Cooper Huckabee, the actor who portrays Whalen, previously starred as Emory Boyd in "The Girl in the Blue Mask", an episode of Suspect Behavior, the short-lived Criminal Minds spin-off.