Henry Deems

"You're a cop in a suit! Bulldogging one case! I've had to consider things you've never even thought of!"

Colonel Henry F. Deems is a military official and accomplice of serial killer Peter Leshansky, whose murders he helped cover up and wrongfully frame Army Private Gary Gunn for. He appeared in Unholy Alliance in Profiler.

Background
"One man is not going to change what needs to be done!"

Colonel Deems was an old acquaintance of Bailey Malone from when they both served. He headed a project to develop advanced missile guidance systems, including the Nightstar and the Windstorm, the latter made by a team including serial killer Peter Leshansky. Deems soon found out about Leshanky's culpability and assisted in covering up both their involvements in the murders and framing convicted murderer Gary Gunn, an army private, who cruelly ironically tried to make his crime look like one of Leshansky's.

Unholy Alliance
When Leshansky killed someone else, Deems once again covered for him, even closing the eyes of the victim and leaving his print on the victim's eyelid. The Violent Crimes Task Force runs the print and finds it classified, realizing the military connection to the murders. Through a confidential exchange of information, Malone first comes across Deems, whom he and Samantha Waters go to see. Deems, warmly greeting Malone and introducing himself to Waters, affirms Malone will get the killer after seeing him in action. When Deems is soon after interrogated over his correlation to the murders, he insists Gunn is responsible and feigns ignorance over the murders and offense over the accusations before telling them to leave. After discovering Leshanky's the killer and Deems covered for him, Malone returns demanding answers. Deems counters with ordering Malone to leave, but when Malone keeps pressing, he refers to Malone as "a cop in a suit, bulldogging one case", saying he's had to consider things Malone's never thought of. Malone says he doesn't know how Deems lives with himself. Deems then says one man won't change what's necessary, and Malone says they finally agree on something before leaving. Deems eventually confronts Leshansky at his house about the murders, and Leshansky attempts to drown Deems in his bathroom sink, seeing him as a liability and perhaps because the I Ching "told him to". Malone, John Grant, and accompanying officers soon arrive and save Deems, taking him and Leshansky into custody and getting Deems medical attention after the attack.

Known Victims

 * Gary Gunn (framed for the murders of Peter Leshanksky)