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| “ | Me did everything you tell me to. | ” |
— Zion
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Zion Andrews (born Zion Clarke), a.k.a. "The Sticker", is a delusional serial killer and hitman-turned-spree killer and one-time cop killer who appeared in the Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Season Two episode, "Obey".
Background[]
As a child, Zion was a track star living in Mercy Cross and was raised by his mother, an Obeah priestess. He presumably learned about Obeah and Duppy rituals through her. When he was eleven, his mother died and he was adopted by Damian Andrews, a Caribbean kingpin who supported Zion by buying him track shoes and paying for his competition fees. Damian saw him as someone who could increase his self-image. Two years later, Zion suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, which effectively ended his career. He then became a member of Damian's drug cartel and was manipulated to kill Tisha Bailey, the daughter of one of Damian's men, as revenge for stealing his drugs from him. Killing Tisha by disemboweling her led Zion to being nicknamed "The Sticker".
When he was caught by law enforcement, Zion immediately confessed to the crime, but refused to tell the police that Damian had forced him to commit the murder, having seen Damian as a father figure at this point. Zion spent the next four years in juvenile detention, and following his release, he continued to kill for Damian, murdering at least six people and presumably being traumatized with having to kill them just as he was with Tisha. When Damian wanted Zion wanted him to kill a woman named Jubilee, he could not bring himself to do so as she was pregnant. Damian soon discovered this and took Zion into the Blue Mountains, shooting him in the head for his betrayal and then burying him. Zion, however, survived the attempt on his life, but not without severe neurological damage as a result of the bullet being lodged in his brain.
Obey[]
Zion has a psychotic break after hallucinating the voices of the people he killed and he murders Malcolm Wallace in his signature fashion before drawing a cross on his arm and performing a Duppy ritual to prevent his spirit from haunting him. Unfortunately, he still hallucinates, and he soon murders and performs rituals on Sandy Weeks and Kyle Stephens, pouring a ring of gasoline around Sandy and turning Kyle's clothes inside out, all the shouting at the voices to go away. He also steals Weeks' scooter and Stephens' gun. Zion eventually reaches the place where Damian's hiding, now visually hallucinating his victims and shooting at them Kyle's gun. He then confronts Damian over attempting to murder him, holding him at gunpoint and saying he did everything Damian asked. At this point, the IRT have deduced Zion as the unsub, and they and local police arrive at the site, leading to Zion holding the gun against his father. The team explains what happened to him when he was shot and that they know Damian's responsible and intend to give him his due punishment. Before Zion can surrender, however, Damian steals the gun and turns the tables, holding Zion at gunpoint. The IRT firmly assert he will die if he doesn't release Zion and surrender. Seeing there's nowhere to run, Damian gives in and lets himself and Zion be arrested. Considering Zion's mental state, he's most likely institutionalized.
Modus Operandi[]
Zion killed his victims by disemboweling them with a knife. Initially, he was manipulated by Damian into killing victims, but after the attempt on his life by Damian himself, he went after random people. With his last three victims, he performed Duppy rituals on them after killing them. When he attempted to kill Damian, he planned to shoot him with a SIG Sauer P226 he stole from Kyle Stephens.
Profile[]
Real-Life Comparisons[]
Zion appears to be primarily inspired by Joseph Vacher - Both are serial killers of victims of both gender, suffered bullet injuries to their brains that exacerbated their psychiatric decline, killed their victims by stabbing and disembowelment, received nicknames from the mutilations of their victims, and were each arrested in the process of an attempted murder.
Zion appears to be heavily inspired by Herbert Mullin - Both are violently psychotic serial-turned-spree killers with religious parents, were accomplished athletes, previously associated with drug traffickers, lost people important to them when they died (Zion's mother paased away, Mullin's best friend was killed in a car crash), suffered severe brain damage that contributed to their psychosis (Zion was nesrly killed from a shot to his head, Mullin took strong recreational drugs), were entangled in paranoid delusions involved human sacrifices, used firearms and bladed weapons, killed victims in ways involving violent mutilations, including disembowelment, and were arrested after armed standoffs.
Zion also appears to be inspired by Hans van Zon - Both are serial killers and hitmen who were solicited by organized crime figures they saw as surrogate fathers, targeted male and female victims, mutilated at least one of their victims, and they failed to kill their final victim, a woman.
Known Victims[]
- c. 2005, Antigua: Tisha Bailey (killed on Damian's orders)
- Unspecified dates between 2009(?) and 2016; killed all of the following on Damian's orders:
- Calvin Harris
- Ted Witherspoon
- Jessica Hightower
- Alonzo Martinez
- Brandi Jones
- Daniel Bates
- Jubilee (intended to kill on Damian's orders, but relented after realizing she was pregnant)
- 2016:
- Malcolm Williams (drew a cross on his arm post-mortem)
- Sandy Weeks (set a ring of fire around her and stole her scooter)
- Kyle Stephens (redressed with his clothes inside-out post-mortem and stole his gun)
- Kingston, Jamaica, the Mercy Cross standoff:
- Damian Andrews (his adoptive father; held at gunpoint, briefly held hostage and attempted to shoot; was overpowered by him)
Appearances[]
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders[]
Season Two[]
- "Obey"