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| “ | They took everything from me; fruits of my labor, best years of my life. They took my family. And when there was nothing left to take, they took two-thirds of my salary and my health insurance. | „ |
| ~ Hill explaining his grudge against Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals. |
Edward Hill is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Poison". He is a vengeful mass poisoner who tampers with the products made by the pharmaceutical company that fired him.
He is portrayed by Nick Jameson.
Biography[]
Edward Hill lived in New Jersey and was the founder of a company called Palmay Cosmetics. However, another company called Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals bought out Hill's company and he ended up becoming one of their staff. Hill spent years working for the company, costing him his wife, who divorced him and took their children. In the present year, Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals cut Hill's salary, and when Hill had finally made a breakthrough on a new medicine, Hitchcock had stolen his idea and patented it. Feeling like he had lost it all, Hill desperately sought vengeance against the company and began planning.
Poison[]
In 2005, Hill, with the help of accomplice Lynn Dempsey, poisons a jar of candies and a stack of envelopes with LSD and Rohypnol, at a bank that had treated him unfairly. As a result, eight people are poisoned, which brings the attention of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). Hill's reasons for doing this was to test the poison delivery system for his real target, a Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals camping trip with all the higher ups. After a successful test run, Hill poisons his accomplice to silence her, then poisons envelopes at the camping trip.
The BAU eventually find him, arrest him, and interrogate him. But Hill says he poisoned the punch at a party at Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals. A team is sent to the party to alert the attendees and while his interrogators are distracted, Hill commits suicide through poisoning. Unluckily for him, the BAU discovers the ruse and eventually gets to the camping trip, giving the Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals managerial staff an antidote, saving their lives.
List of Victims[]
Killed[]
- Gail Norman - Poisoned, hit by car.
- Lynn Dempsey - Poisoned with Rohypnol and botulinum toxin.
Poisoned[]
- Jack Fisher
- Britney Cannon
- Samantha DiForio
- Four unnamed people
- Unnamed Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals staff members
- Hitchcock Pharmaceuticals managerial staff
- Brian Devons
- Fred
- Bob
Trivia[]
- Hill and his victims are inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Colonial Americans afflicted with ergot poisoning, which resulted in psychotic breaks and subsequent violent crimes due to the spread of the ergot fungus in crops. Witchcraft was suspected by public panics before the true cause was identified.
- The Chicago Tylenol Killer, a mass poisoner using Tylenol bottles tampered with cyanide and was similarly profiled as an angry loner wanting to terrorize the public, their crimes also attracting federal alarm and resulting CDC countermeasures.
- George Metesky, a.k.a. "The Mad Bomber", a serial bomber responsible for dozens of explosions in New York City as revenge for being fired after contracting an illness and being denied disability compensation.
External Links[]
- Edward Hill on the Criminal Minds Wiki
