Rick Waters was a killer cop, unclassified killer, abductor, and one-time proxy abductor and criminal accomplice who appeared in the Criminal Minds: Evolution Season Two episode “Kingdom of the Blind”.
History[]
Waters was an infamous sheriff in Salt Lake City, Utah with a track record for dozens of excessive force complaints. His wife disappeared under suspicious circumstances and the murder was covered up with the help of his friends. When his daughter, Jade tried to file a complaint, he had her kidnapped and put into Stuart house, where he worked as security for Frank Church. When young children escaped, he and his colleagues would find them, abduct them, and send them back to Church. Jade later became one of the five gold stars, having been tortured into becoming an assassin and later sent to kill accomplices to tie up loose ends.
Criminal Minds: Evolution[]
Jade was put on the radar after many people were found brutally murdered and mutilated. She thus started getting revenge on his colleagues, luring them into a false sense of security before beating them to death with an object. Planning to kill Rick, she grabs a screwdriver and starts messing with his tires so she could ambush and kill her. However, he saw her doing it and held her at gunpoint, forcing her into his car. They showed up at the burial site where Rick buried his wife and planned to kill Jade in the same spot. She fell on the floor and then grabbed a massive rock on the floor, bludgeoning Rick with it until he fell. After taking his gun and shooting him dead, she viciously stabbed his eyes as enucleation. After the deaths of Church, Jade and the other Gold Star who survived were imprisoned.
Modus Operandi[]
It’s not known how he killed his wife, but it can be assumed that it was likely a gunshot as he tried to shoot daughter. When he got an excessive force complaint, he most likely used his gun or his fists to assault his victim. After sending Jade to Frank Church, she was repeatably raped and tortured, alongside kids who the sheriff sent to Church, who would face similar fates.
Known Victims[]
Most of these were committed in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Unspecified dates: Dozens of unnamed people (all assaulted)
- Unspecified locations and dates: Numerous unnamed children (assisted in their abductions and tortures or sent to Frank Church to be held captive after kidnapping them)
- Unspecified date: His unnamed wife (killed in an unknown manner and buried)
- Unspecified date: Jade Waters (his daughter; sent to Stuart house, where she was raped, tortured, and brainwashed; later abducted at gunpoint and attempted to kill and bury in January, 2025; she killed him instead)