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Nate Haskell
| Minor Character: Las Vegas |
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| Name |
Nathan “Nate” Haskell |
| Gender |
Male |
| Family |
Unnamed father (mentioned only)
Unnamed mother (mentioned only) |
| City |
Las Vegas |
| Occupation |
Serial killer |
| Status |
Escaped |
| Portrayed By |
Bill Irwin |
| First Appearance |
19 Down |
“You have to give them hope. If you bring a human being to the brink of death, and then you offer a chance, no matter how small a chance, to survive, they’ll grab it. And they’ll thank you for it. And then, you can do whatever you want. And believe me, I did.”
Nathan “Nate” Haskell, aka “The Dick & Jane Killer” (sometimes acronymed “DJK”), is a serial killer who has appeared in seasons 9, 10 and 11 of CSI: Las Vegas
History
During Langston’s lecture in 19 Down, Haskell claims to have been physically abused by his alcoholic father every day when he was a child. He only has vague memories of his mother, if she was ever around. It was revealed in Targets of Obsession that Nate carries the MAO-A gene, a gene which, according to some studies, causes a predisposition towards violence. Exactly how long he has known about it is currently unknown to everyone except himself. His first animal kill was a cat, which he killed when he was nine years old. In the mid-1990s, he became a serial killer. He became known as “The Dick & Jane Killer” because he targeted couples. None of the female victims were ever found and Haskell later refused to discuss them. He killed a total of at least 14 people in Nevada, Arizona and California (the first couple, the Steiners, was never found). Even though he never held down a single job or filed a tax return during this time, he could still afford the occasional restaurant visit, earning money by donating blood and semen or taking part in psychological studies. During a restaurant visit, he had a chance encounter with future serial killer Charlie DiMasa. In Reno, he stopped at a sobreity checkpoint. That stroke of luck allowed the authorities to charge him; inside the car, they found blood belonging to a victim, under his fingernails they found DNA from another, a potential murder weapon was found and a witness was able to place him with another one of the victims. When the case went to trial, Haskell initially denied any guilt, but changed his mind and confessed. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and incarcerated in Ely, Nevada. While there, he appears to have gained a kind of cult following (he claims to have “students” everywhere) and was even proposed to a couple of times.
In Meat Jekyll, Haskell is brought to the Las Vegas crime lab after claiming to know Dr. Jekyll’s identity. After the case is concluded, he stabs Ray in the back with a shiv made out of his broken glasses. When guards hear it, Haskell is shocked by his electric restraints and beaten. After a brief stay in a hospital, he is taken back to Ely. He reappears in Targets of Obsession, when he is taken to court to be charged with attempting to kill Ray. Several of his female “fans” are present. After being convicted, he switches his inmate badge for that of a minimum security inmate and gets into a transport van in his place. On the road, it is sabotaged by two of his female fans, who kill the guards. After one of the women kills the other, she drives away with Haskell.
Modus Operandi
Haskell targeted couples. He would kill the males by strangling them, drugging them beforehand to incapacitate them, take the female victims to a hidden room in which he would hold them captive and torture them for long periods of time. At one point during these periods, he would pretend to give them a chance to come out of it alive as a way to exercise power and control over them. While the male bodies were left behind in various remote locations, the female victims were buried under the floor in the torture chamber, likely as a way for him to relive the murders. His calling card was to stab the male victims’ bodies post-mortem, once for each couple of victims; once in the first, twice in the second, three times in the third, and so forth.
Pathology
Haskell appears to be a sadistic psychopath, incapable of feeling remorse or guilt. He defines the greatest fun as being taking something away from someone, which can be seen in the way he kills; he separates the men and women from each other, kills the man to take him from the woman and pretends to give her a chance to live only to take it away shortly afterwards.
Known Victims
- 1997: Joel Steiner and Tiffany Cohen (the first victims)
- 12 unnamed people
- 2010: Raymond Langston (attempted, stabbed with a shiv)
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| Name |
Natalie Davis |
| Gender |
Female |
| Family |
Christopher Davis
Chloe Davis |
| City |
Las Vegas |
| Status |
Alive |
| Portrayed By |
Jessica Collins |
| First Appearance |
Living Doll |
Natalie Davis (a.k.a. “The Miniature Killer”) is a serial killer who surfaced in the seventh season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Miniature Killer was the main subject of the seventh season, first appearing in the premiere of the seventh season, and finally being identified in the season finale. She also made a reappearance in an episode of season 9.
Modus Operandi
The Miniature Killer’s victims were killed in widely different manners, including bludgeoning, poisoning, and electrocution. She typically used their habits and routines as windows of opportunity. Why she chose to kill each victim in the manner that she did is as yet unknown, however later on it appears that she has a psychosis regarding bleach, and most of the victims were people who had employed her as a cleaning lady where she would eventually come into contact with bleach, leading to her killing someone. Some of those killed may also have had a connection with her foster father.
The key signature of the Miniature Killer’s crimes is the incredibly accurate scale models that are built to reflect each crime scene. Each model is either left at the murder site, or delivered to someone involved in the case. Every detail is thought out, and to make the models as authentic as possible, the killer even went so far as to add the victim’s blood to one of the models of the victim.
When examining the individual models further, Grissom always found a picture of a bloodied doll. Each photo was hidden among the rest of the miniature. The doll is a representation of the doll that her father, a famous ventriloquist, made in the image of Natalie’s biological sister, Chloe, whom Natalie killed when the two were children.
In the episode “Lab Rats”, David Hodges notices that each miniature had an item that had something to do with bleach, ranging from barrels or vases containing bleach, to coupons for bleach. The reason behind this is Natalie’s witnessing of her father cleaning Chloe’s blood up with bleach after Chloe’s death, which gave Natalie a psychosis that causes her to have murderous thoughts whenever she sees or smells bleach.
The majority of her victims were apparently people who employed her services as a cleaning lady (paying her in cash so that no records of her employment existed), and several of them also had some form of connection to her foster father, Ernie Dell, a model train enthusiast who helped her build her first three miniatures (not knowing what they were being used for).
In her most recent appearance, she made a miniature of herself being hung. If she does commit suicide this way, all of her murders spell the word BLEACH: Blunt force trauma, Liquid nicotine, Electrocution, Asphyxiation, Crushing (carbon monoxide poisoning originally intended), and Hanging.
Known Victims
Chloe Davis
Chloe, Natalie’s sister, was killed by her when they were young. During a neighborhood party, they were playing together in a treehouse. According to flashbacks, Natalie became jealous of the attention Chloe received from their father. She then pushed her from the treehouse, killing her. It was presumably this that inspired her to take up miniature building later, as her point of view of her sister’s dead body from the treehouse was not unlike that of a miniature model.
Izzy DeLancey
Izzy DeLancey was a retired, washed-up rock-star who employed Natalie as a cleaning lady sometime before his death by her hands. She struck him on the head from behind with a marble rolling pin while he was having a meal. Having the miniature model with her, Natalie then sampled some of Izzy’s blood and matched the blood pool. As she had not yet become a serial killer, it was believed to be a common murder. Suspects included his wife, ex-wife, nanny and son, but all were exonerated.
Penny Garden
Penny Garden was a terminally cancer-ill, retired cocktail waitress. Her connection to Natalie is never revealed, and it is mentioned that she had her nephew clean her house sometimes. Natalie poisoned her favorite liquor with liquid nicotine, intending to have her die of poisoning. However, as a result of the violent seizures that liquid nicotine causes when ingested, Penny Gardens went through one of her windows and had her throat almost completely impaled by the broken glass, dying of exsanguination. Because of this, Natalie brought the miniature back with her, altered it to match the crime scene and had Ernie Dell deliver it to the house, where Penny Garden’s nephew later found it.
Raymundo Suarez
Raymundo Suarez worked at the same Mannleigh Chicken processing plant as Ernie Dell and, by her account, frequently flirted with Natalie whenever she came there. She killed him by knocking him unconscious, placing him in the factory stun bath and activating it, electrocuting him. Since Ernie was a model train enthusiast, he became a suspect for the Miniature killings, but was able to counter the evidence against him (he had aided Natalie in making the first two miniatures, unaware of their purpose). He later confronted her about it in private. She admitted to the murders, but didn’t elaborate on why she killed DeLancey and Garden and promised not to kill again. Ernie then confessed to the murders through an email and webcam video to Grissom in order to protect her, killing himself to put the investigation to an end.
Barbara Tallman/Officer Kamen
Dr. Barbara Tallman was a former psychiatrist who once did pro bono work at a psychiatric institution where Ernie Dell’s biological son, Lionel, had been treated. Her link to Natalie is not specified, but it can be presumed that she also treated Natalie at some point. As a result of Ernie’s suicide, Natalie became focused on Grissom, adding a newspaper with the date of the murder onto the miniature. It made it appear as though Tallman was to be killed by being smothered with a pillow during her afternoon nap, while, in actuality, Natalie had planted a time device filled with charcoal above her fireplace, releasing carbon monoxide into the air. As the CSI team had found Tallman before the murder could be performed, they replaced her with a lookalike, Officer Kamen.During the stakeout of the apartment, Natalie’s trap went off, killing Officer Kamen by carbon monoxide poisoning. Tallman was later killed by her brother as a kind of assisted suicide, as she had grown tired of living with her Parkinson’s disease, having him place the blame on the Miniature Killer.
Sara Sidle
As part of a vendetta against Grissom, Natalie abducted Sara when she left the strip mall she ate at a few times a week. She tasered her, placed her in her car and drove her out to the Nevada desert and placed her in a pit under a damaged car. She installed a small, battery-powered engine in the miniature and connected it to the Sara doll’s arm, having it move as if reaching out for help. This first gave the impression that Sara was to be crushed to death. Later, however, when Grissom saw a weather forecast predicting heavy rain, he poured some water over the miniature, disabling the engine, indicating that Natalie was going to kill Sara by having the rain drown her under the car. Sara made it out of the pit and was later saved in the desert.
Herself
It was suggested in Natalie’s appearance in Season 9 that she was planning to kill herself, but it has not yet been verified if she went ahead with it. After her arrest, she was treated for her psychosis with drugs and worked at the institution laundry room, coming into contact with bleach daily as a way to diminish its power over her. Since she had been cured, there were plans to have her transferred to a real prison. Grissom later found a miniature doll carved out of a bar of soap under the floor of Natalie’s cell, depicting her being hanged
A GIRL OUT OF THE ORDINARY 