| “ | I told you, it takes a full team to carry out an execution. | ” |
— Rawlins
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Rawlins (first name unrevealed) is a psychopathic and sadistic killer cop, stalker, and abductor-turned serial killer by proxy, who appeared in the Suspect Behavior series finale "Death by a Thousand Cuts".
History[]
"First day he got to Huntsville, I saw that wimpy little kid, cuts all over his arms. I knew I could get him to do whatever I wanted to."
Little is known about Rawlins, not even his first name. What is known is he was a prison guard in Dallas at the same prison as Richard Stahl before Stahl retired. Rawlins not only taught Stahl the street smarts of the prison, but he grew to dominate Stahl to extent he could manipulate him. As a sadist, Rawlins wanted to delight in a killing spree to cause public panic, but his plan was to have civilians kill other civilians to test people's limits. To do this, he recruited Stahl to stalk their targets and abduct their loved ones under the ransom of an ultimatum: the targeted civilians receive a revolver, and if they don't kill a random person with the revolver and leave it behind at the scene before time runs out, their loved one is shot while they're held hostage. This succeeded with three murders, the latest victim being the father of Max Dixon, whose son was kidnapped under the same ransom. Stahl is then send out to abduct Carolyn Malek, the pregnant wife of Martin Malek, at gunpoint from her car. Stahl calls and threatens Carolyn if Martin doesn't kill a civilian at a local market. The stress of the police stalling Martin causes him to panic and commit suicide with the gun instead. Stahl is distressed, and Carolyn breaks down weeping in grief, but she is nevertheless released since the ransom is paid. Rawlins is later questioned and taunts the team without them knowing by revealing Stahl couldn't pull off the full criminal conspiracy on his own. Later on, Rawlins decides to go and target the Red Cell team, shooting his fellow guard Martinez, knocking out Prophet, and abducting Griffith. At the hideout, he reveals himself to Griffith and brags, while Stahl calls Cooper and says to meet him at a public square with their latest revolver. Their, Stahl dares Cooper to shoot him in an assisted suicide, while Griffith readies his gun to show Griffith if the deadline isn't met. The episode ends with a gunshot cutting the screen to black, and from there, the episode is never continued, with the agents' and criminals' fates never being revealed.
Profile[]
This man is obsessed with death. He's got a God complex and wants to prove that he can turn ordinary people into murderers. He's a manipulator, and he's also highly proficient in how he gets these people to kill... Rigging of the guns, creating the murder scenarios, even asking for photographs of the deceased. This unsub may work in our prison system. He may be a guard, administrator, counselor, or executioner. The public killings, the manipulation all point to a sadist with a huge ego; something a masochist like Stahl wouldn't exhibit, meaning that he has to have a dominant partner.
Modus Operandi[]
"You think he'll kill to save you?"
Rawlins would have Stahl abduct someone, who the two possibly stalked beforehand, at gunpoint and take them to his home, leaving a Smith & Wesson Model 13 (the handle of which was wrapped in fingerprint deterring tape) at the scene of the crime. A call and a video of the abductee being threatened would then be sent to the victim's loved one, who would be ordered to use the revolver to kill a random person in a specific, high traffic area before a randomly chosen deadline, or else the hostage would die. Once the murder was committed, the shooter would have to leave the revolver behind and send a photo as proof that the deed was done before the hostage would be released, safe and sound. When he killed Martinez and abducted Beth Griffith, he shot the former in the chest with a rifle and knocked both Griffith and Jonathan Simms unconscious by striking them on the head with the butt of the gun.
Known Victims[]
Personal[]
- Unspecified date in July 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA:
- Martinez (first name unrevealed; shot in the chest with a rifle)
- Jonathan Simms (attempted, but survived; was shot in the shoulder and rifle-butted unconscious)
- Beth Griffith (knocked unconscious with a rifle, abducted, and held hostage; was presumably shot in the head)
Proxy[]
- Unspecified date in January 2011, Huntsville State Prison, Dallas, Texas, USA:
- Unnamed death row inmate (legally executed with a lethal injection; but was tortured by having Stahl not administer the sodium thiopental)
- Unspecified dates in July 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA:
- Unnamed victim (abducted and held hostage by Stahl; was returned)
- Sarah Markle (shot five times by an unknown loved one of the abduction victim)
- Unnamed victim (abducted and held hostage by Stahl; was returned)
- Derek Williams (shot in the chest by an unknown loved one of the abduction victim)
- Max Dixon (abducted and held hostage by Stahl; was returned)
- Peter Warsaw (shot in the head by Dale Dixon)
- Carolyn Malek (abducted and held hostage by Stahl; was returned)
- Martin Malek (indirectly; committed suicide when he was unable to kill a victim)
- Richard Stahl (shot by Sam Cooper on his own request; presumably)
Notes[]
- If Rawlins had managed to kill Griffith, it would make him an unsub who successfully murdered a main character, just like Donnie Mallick and Peter Lewis.