The Tibbet Family

AJ, Virginia "Ginny", and Will Tibbet are a broken, orphaned family secretly guilty of serial killings who appeared in Home for the Homicide in Profiler.

Background
The Tibbet siblings had an unhappy household with their parents, Michael and Kathleen, in Indianapolis. From oldest to youngest, the two had AJ, Virginia aka "Ginny", and Will. Will was the youngest, coddled by his mother and sister because of his special needs. But Michael was a drunk, which became too much Kathleen ran, especially to protect herself. Michael found her and killed her, them committed suicide, their children surviving them. It was Christmas when they both died. When AJ was old enough to get custody, he took guardianship of his siblings and moved with them to Tilden, Georgia. But AJ took his father's habits, especially drinking and his explosive and near-lethal tendencies, along with hating every Christmas and forbidding celebrations in the house. He was also insidiously twisted and clingy to his siblings, begging and blaming them into staying, yet especially blaming Will because he felt Will's particularized care "drove" their mother away and "got" their parents killed. Ginny not only gave Will all the love she could, she took up embroidery and quilting as her passionate skill. She was so gifted, her friends in town hoped she cold move out and start her live. She even fell in love with a man named Ben Travers, starting a relationship with him. Constantly harassed, scarred, and oppressed by AJ, and afraid of Ginny leaving him like his parents did, Will began killing all the friends she made so she wouldn't leave, always axing them around Christmas. He did this for two Christmases, killed three people in such a manner, always cutting a piece of their clothes as a trophy. As Ginny was making a quilt out of the cutouts he stole, knowing full well what he was doing, he planned to start again a third Christmas.

Home for the Homicide
Ginny's first scene with Travers, telling him she has to go because AJ will miss his beloved breakfast. He insist they tell AJ about their relationship, which despite her reluctance, she agrees to. When she leaves, Will, in silhouette, approaches behind him, axing him just as he turns, cutting out a shred of his button shirt to take with him. He then kills Michael Gagnon, another friend of hers, leaving him in a fridge in an alley to be found by a drunk. AJ's seen the next day, furiously chopping wood, while Ginny's making a quilt. He comes back into the house and sees her working. He tells her he wants supper and that it's getting late. She says she's behind and needs one last stitch finished. He tears a Christmas card, then tells her to stop crying. He then confesses he known about Travers, openly resenting him distancing her from the two other siblings. He says Travers dying "is a favor", and to tell the cops they "only had a passing acquaintance, nothing more". Ginny later sees Will decorating a small pine tree, warning him about AJ's reactions to Christmas. Will says it's "just a little tree", then reminisces on how their parents trimmed the neighbors' trees cause the family was poor. Ginny says she's glad for remembering. AJ, drinking again, sees the tree and reiterates he doesn't like Christmas. Despite it being a little tree, as Will points out, AJ calls it a mess and a fire hazard, says it could go up in flames and them screams "THEN WHAT?!", before saying he'd have to stress with finding a new house. As he furiously chops wood outside again, Will says he wishes he drank less, Ginny wishing he went into the military. Ginny's later at a Tilden marker with Barbara Somerset, who tells her she could get big money for her quilts in Chicago and insists she pursue the chance, saying she can contact a friend there. AJ, hearing a bit of the conversation, leans on his truck horn and makes her get in. When he scares her into telling what she said, he pretends to feign guilt for his actions and mumbles how he doesn't want her to leave in a speech of "sacrifice" and the family staying together "to love and take care of" each other. That night, AJ has Will chug a can of beer, which Ginny scolds AJ for, saying he shouldn't be teaching Will stuff, even when Will wants another one cause "what's a brother for". AJ says worst he can do is drown, with Ginny mumbling he sounds like Michael. AJ demands what she means, which she tries to brush off. When he keeps pressing, she says she made an observation. AJ then screams at them both, Will for being an amateur at beer and Ginny for insulting him. He then drags her to his ax sharpener and threatens to maim her hand with grinding it down so she can't quilt anymore. He says to them both he's not like there dad and threatens Ginny with her life if she brings it up again. Will then goes out after this and murders Somerset, breaking his pattern, dropping the cloth he cuts into Ginny's rags basket while AJ sharpens the ax. Will finds Ginny's diary and realizes she wants to leave, making him horrified and livid. But it all seems better when on Christmas morning, Ginny gives him the quilt she made from the cloths from his murders as a present. AJ looks on beer in hand, when his eyes start swelling from flashbacks of the murder-suicide and the beer slips out of his hand. He then slaps Ginny out of the way and starts beating Will with the tree and choking him with his arm, screaming blame at him for their parents' feuds and deaths, while Ginny screams at him to stop. Ginny finally has enough and slams the ax into AJ's back, killing him and ending his terror over her and Will for good. She runs to Will and begs him not to die as AJ lies on the floor dead. The VCTF, having deduced their culpability, then come and arrest them both, AJ confessing to all the murders, even AJ's They find Ginny's journal with the victims written in them, and it's contemplated that they maybe let Ginny not face jailtime because she saved Will.

Modus Operandi
Will's murders targeted local men in Tilden with some close connection to Ginny, save Barbara Somerset, and were committed with one impalement to the head with an old ax, 10 pounds in weight. He killed the all out of their homes except for Ben Travers. As a souvenir, he cut a piece of each victim's clothes with child's scissors as a trophy, which was later knitted into a quilt for him by Ginny, who knew about his murders. When AJ attacked Will, he beat him with a small Christmas tree and then tried to kill him in a chokehold. Ginny then stepped in and impaled AJ in the back with Will's ax, killing him in seconds and saving Will' life.

Known Victims

 * Unidentified teacher
 * Unidentified army recruiter
 * Unidentified v-store employee
 * Ben Travers (Ginny's boyfriend; killed in his house)
 * Michael Gagnon
 * Barbara Somerset
 * Ginny Tibbet (attacked and her hand nearly maimed on a sharpening wheel by AJ)
 * Will Tibbet (attempted; beaten with a Christmas tree and nearly strangled to death by AJ)
 * AJ Tibbet (axed in the back by Ginny)