Raymond Boudreaux

"She liked me. She liked me!"

Raymond Boudreaux is a serial killer appearing in The Sum of Her Parts in Profiler.

Background
Raymond Boudreaux was born to an aging actress named Dorothy, who alleges herself related to French royalty. His brother died at some point before the episode, more admired than him, and his father left the family behind early on. Raymond has a history in the system, with an unspecified attack on a girl named Jessica Meehan, which Dorothy begged the courts to not send him to jail over, so he was institutionalized instead. In his adulthood, he stayed behind and took cared of Dorothy, but the reason being was that she constantly nagged and insulting him, only doting in him when she got what she wanted and guilt tripping him into staying if he was pulling away from her. To make matters worse, she would scare people away when they got to close to him, always thinking she stellarly parented and sacrificed for him. He worked at a nearby grocery store, having a crush on a co-worked named Lisa Darden, who was always kind to him and he her, even sharing the same interest of comic books. But after years of his mother's oppression on him, he grew to have a homicidal rage toward her. Since he lacked the confidence, he snapped instead when he killed a woman named Cara Bulkowski, a college beautician whose hands were cut off because she had long, artificial nails, which evoked his mother in his mind far too overwhelmingly. But as he finally felt he had a chance to murder her, he didn't stop there.

The Sum of Her Parts
Boudreaux's first scene working in the kitchen, cutting vegetables to make his mother dinner. She first starts calling his name, vying for him to come give her attention with weak compliments, but when she breaks a glass and spills it on her, she starts complaining and insulting him, so much, he sticks the knife in the cutting block. He loses it again when he kills Claudia Eller, a middle-aged dental hygienist, with a toothy smile and red hair, thus deciding to cut off her head, leaving the rest of her corpse in the same spot at the same mannequin warehouse Bulkowski was found in. Boudreaux returns to the house at night, taking out Eller's head and burying it in the yard. Dorothy welcomes him back and asks if she has presents, then she chastises him while he's digging a hole in the dark, saying she's hungry and wants a pizza in her favorite flavors. The next morning, as she's taking a bath, she has him treat her psoriasis with a back scratcher, laments over how she's not in Paris cause her family immigrated, insults his competence and hygiene, and blames his father while fawning over the memory of Franklin more. Not even saying she gave him money for his favorite caramels makes him happy for long, and only cooing at him when he scratches her rashes right. He's later seen at the grocery store, where a customer gives him a hard time for bagging slowly and putting them in plastic and not paper. Lisa Darden smiles at him when he sees her and smiles himself. Darden's called for her break, and she says to Boudreaux she's enjoying LazerNaut, the latest comic he lent her, saying she'll finish it on break and give it back. He's taken aback by her compliment on his smile before she walks off. He then sees an elderly widow named Mavis Leeder filing a heated complaint with a cashier. He hates her voice so much, he claims her as his next victim, cutting out her larynx and leaving her in another warehouse, the same place she killed her in her murder. Once he's back at the house, Dorothy laments some more while dusting her glasswork, how her parents didn't want her to marry his father and that her life's prove children should obey their parents. She then takes his comic book and drink and shows him a jacket she got for him, hoping he looks "proper[...]for the proper girl". When he coughs, she's repulsed by his breath and demands him to sit on the couch while she scrubs his mouth raw with paste, while growling "i still have hope for him". Raymond can't take it and pushes her off before running upstairs. While he retreats in his room with his comic book, she comes in and begs him not to pull away from her, feeding him a caramel or two to sweeten the appeal, which she twistedly puts in her own mouth first. She repeatedly coos "what's a mother without her baby" while bringing up how she fought the court over what he did to Jessica Meehan. She manipulates him even more saying she didn't want him to feel bad over his actions, that a mother's there without asking for things in return. While he's fixing something in the kitchen, he checks his messages and hears Lisa ask him on a date. When she says she sent other messages he never got, he realizes his mother never told about them. He grabs a butcher knife, straddles over his mother, and tries to get himself to stab her while she sleeps, but he can't bring himself to in that moment. He then puts the knife down, wipes his face, and covers her with a handmade blanket, watching her on his knees. But his mother chasing Darden away at the door insulting her with a scowl and mentioning his institutionalization with exaggerated implications is the final straw, when he finds the comic books he lent her in the trash when he comes home. She tells him not to sit in his suit and get ready for a matinee they have scheduled when he sees them. When his mother admits it, says he can do better, he speaks for the first and only time in the show, saying "She liked me". All she says is she wasn't worthy and she did him a favor. He finally snaps, grabs the nearest furniture wrap, and wraps it around her head suffocating her, while she screams "Stay away from me!" repeatedly. He's later seen walking out in cuffs, his mother still alive and scowling after him, saying to the VCTF how she "wasted" her life raising him before she heads back inside the house.

Modus Operandi
Boudreaux targeted women who resembled his mother even in the slightest traits, their age ranges progressing as he killed each victim. He murdered them by stabbing once or strangling them, his signature being removing a part of her body that's a striking feature of his mother to him, from hands with long fingernails to a head of red hair to a throat with a nagging voice. He first left their corpses at a department store filled mannequin in the state, but once the FBI was called in and his disposal site was determined and put under surveillance, he left the last woman he murdered at a bike warehouse instead, the same place he killed her. When he nearly killed his mother, he tried to suffocate her with plastic wrap from furniture in the house. He also attacked a girl named Jessica Mayhew, but that attack's ever specified in detail.

Known Victims

 * Jessica Meehan (attacked by unknown means)
 * Karen Bulkowski, 22 (had long fingernails; cut off her hands)
 * Claudia Eller, 43 (had red hair and a toothy smile; cut off her head, burying it in his yard)
 * Mavis Leeder, 61 (had a nagging voice; cut out her larynx; left her in a bike warehouse instead)
 * Dorothy Boudreaux (his mother; intended, but was stopped; first tried to stab while she slept, then tried to suffocate with plastic furniture wrap)