Dana Shaw

"I'm sorry, Grandpa. Let me try this time. Let me try..."

Dana Shaw is a severely psychotic serial stalker and abductor and later assailant and murderer who appeared in Shattered Silence in Profiler.

History
Dana Shaw grew up an apparently happy child, with what's revealed of her life being she had a grandfather she enjoyed spending time with in the country, who was a dedicated woodworker. She enjoyed it so much she loved engaging in his projects with him. One day destroyed her life for good. When she was trying to band saw, her granddad caught to escape the bade, but his life was lost in the process when the bandsaw killed him by accident. She witnessed his death right in front of her, his screams and the whirring of the saw haunting her for the rest of her life. They soon became endless auditory hallucinations that led her to develop severe, trauma-induced outright psychosis. She always interpreted it as a ringing in her ears and assumed the sound needed to be killed directly. She was institutionalized at Clairmont, a psychiatric hospital, where she was treat regularly with anti-psychotics. She was eventually discharged, but she still wasn't saved from the hallucinations. As she still heard the screams and whirring, she found out a doctor named Lawrence Chapin, a sound engineer, successfully created a phaze zero machine, which cancels and takes away sound at particularized concentrations, she desperately planned for him to use that technology to save her. To that end, she pleaded to him to look at her grandfather's house that was "falling apart from a terrible accident", stalking him enough to know he liked to draw old houses in his journal. Once that was successful, Shaw placed needles in his chair n his office that injected him with a curare paralytic, abducting him and demanding he create a machine for hear to cancel her hallucinations. He would remain captive for the next five years. Unfortunately for him, he was diagnosed with a serious heart condition, which meant without is regimens, he was declining overtime. As he was dying and in need of severe medical care, Shaw eventually planned another abduction.

Shattered Silence
She then in a similar manner to her previous abduction, abducted Karl Kronenburg, a cardiologist, to care for Chapin as he was being held captive. However, Kronenbrug was worse in his compliance to Shaw's demands, meaning she couldn't get what she needed from him and decided to dispose of him. He was transported to an airfield and tied upside down as loud blasts from jet engines were being fired, causing the deafening sound to make his own heart give out and kill him from the stress. Even in spite of Shaw being identified, she didn't give up hope on "being cured", which Chapin used to his advantage. He told her to go back to his house to find something, it being missing an Easter egg to her identity: his work journal, which he drew old houses in. Its relevance came in when she broke in, paralyzed his wife Barbara, and trashed his house eventually finding his journal and taking it; when Barbara was stable again, she remembered Dana, not recognizing her photo, finding her husband and using the lure of her house and her grandfather's death. When the VCTF gets there, she's heard shrieking at Chapin to keep trying the machine, turning off every sound it can, despite in groaning out he's too weak to do so. She begins to mumble what she said the moment her grandfather died, but she realizes Bailey Malone's there when the sound cuts out completely. She hides, then reappears again with a syringe filled with curare solution, intending to stab and inject Malone with it. He however, gets the upper hand, leading to her being injected and paralyzed instead. As Malone goes to Chapin to reassure him, Shaw is left to be taken into custody, where given her illness, she's soon after institutionalized.

Modus Operandi
Dana Shaw targeted doctors she assumed in her delirium would get rid of her auditory hallucinations, Lawrence Chapin to create a phase zero sound canceler and later Karl Kronenberg to treat Chapin when he was failing from his heart condition. She abducted them by discreetly placed needle-syringes in the backs of their office chairs, the ones with solutions injecting tubocuarine chloride, a curare plant-derived paralytic, into the to immobilize them, those needles in the arrangement of a backwards "Z" to signify the phase zero machine. She then wheeled them out in a wheelchair and took them to her hideout, where she'd constantly shriek at them to work on the machine (Kronenberg to work on Chapin) as she was suffering from her excruciating auditory hallucinations. When Kronenburg failed to comply with her demands, she killed him by bringing him out to an airfield test where the sound blasted him and fatally sent him into cardiac arrest. When she attack Barbara Chapin, she paralyzed her with an injection and trashed her house looking for the book Dr. Chapin told her to, and she later tried to paralyze Bailey Malone the same way, only to instead take the injection herself from the two struggling.

Known Victims

 * Lawrence Chapin (the phase zero machine designer; abducted, held captive for two years, and nearly killed form endangering his life; was rescued)
 * Karl Kronenberg (a cardiologist; abducted and held captive; later killed from cardiac arrest due to unmuffled exposure to loud airfield tests)
 * Barbara Chapin (Dr. Chapin's wife; assaulted; broke into her house, drugged with curare, and ransacked the house)
 * Bailey Malone (attempted to drug with curare; was drugged by inadvertently instead)