Ashok Dupree

Ashok Dupree was a highly prolific, Indian international serial killer, terrorist, and attempted mass murderer who appeared in Ambition in the Blood in Profiler.

Background
Little to nothing is revealed about Ashok Dupree's background. For reason unknown on an unspecified timeline, he was a notorious serial killer of transients and vagrants across Indochina, as extensive as murdering forty-one people before eventually being captured and imprisoned in Calcutta, India. Bailey Malone was the primary profiler in the case, working with a close friend and colleague in the CIA Casper. Dupree would spend years in the prison he was held in, garnering little unwanted attention seemingly from rarely being a nuisance in prison. His behavior likely led him to several higher privileges as an inmate, one being magazines he'd constantly read, especially about American and pop cultures. When he read about Elden McKeaver, a Gulf War vet running in the presidential election, he became envious of his fame and decided to take it away from him knowing Dupree was greying and dying. He made it an objective for himself to go out having killed an American icon with as much of a bang as he could to be remembered forever by his horrifically violent actions. He spend the rest of his time in Calcutta plotting the options and finding the opportunities even by simply surveying his setting. Once he acquired a long, slender rod shank he hid in his prayer beads, the rod being a signature in his murders for when he pithed his victims, he began planning his escape.

Ambition in the Blood
Dupree is first mentioned when Casper visits Samantha Waters directly while Malone's on life support from Frances Malone shooting him. He tells her how Dupree killed the guard watching him in the prison showers with his shank before stealing his uniform and simply walking out the prison doors. He then killed a tourist in a nearby hotel, stealing his credentials and finances on hand before bokking and flying a plane to America, of which Casper was notified as soon as possible, but by then it was already too late. He soon immediately directed the president of the US to Waters since Malone was out of commission, insisting she take on his case with a brief summary of it upfront, offering as a favor that he assist her defense in proving her innocence in a murder Jack of All Trades committed and was currently framing her for.

Modus Operandi
Dupree' signature method of killing is to take a long, slender metal rod, often improvised, like a bike wheel spoke, and using the metal rod the puncture one of his victims' eardrums, passing it into their brains until it reaches their pons, paralyzing and then killing them within less than a minute, all a method known as pithing, commonly used to euthanize animals. Originally, his victimology consisted of transients and tourists when he killed in Indochina, with no rhyme or reason other than pleasure and stealing money, valuables, even credentials. He even struck up conversations, especially personal ones, with the people who were killed to gain their trust, ironically enough even consoling them over death or intentions of suicide. He later intended to become immortalized as he grew older, knowing he didn't have much time left and still desired to throw out an image of himself he hoped would be burned in the memories of the world. He planned this with an intended assassination of Elden McKeaver, a veteran and presidential candidate, whom he found in the magazines in the prison he was in. He then started to kill people along his route to track McKeaver, leaving people dead in his wake both for convenience and to taunt the authorities to see if they could catch him by leaving a trail. After killing a security guard in the prison he was in, he stole his uniform so he could wear it and walk out undetected, and when he killed a bodega owner from Bombai, he instead stabbed her in between her ribs with the same weapon. When he tried to commit the mass murder in the Lenexa Center, where McKeaver was staying, he leaked gases in the boiler room and almost lit a thumbnail match, attempting to immolate the building and everyone inside, himself not left out. It's also implied he occasionally killed using other MOs, but there was no sure confirmation or details revealed.

Known Victims

 * Forty-one transients and tourists in Indochina
 * L. Singh (first name unrevealed; the sergeant guarding Dupree in the showers; killed with a wire hidden inside prayer beads; stole his uniform postmortem)
 * Werner Mueller (killed in a Calcutta hotel; stole his passport, credit cards, and credentials postmortem)
 * Pamela Shaver (an attendant in Dupree's flight to America; killed with a sharpened bike wheel spoke; stole her cash and credit cards postmortem)
 * Beatrice "Bea" Contreras (a columnest who interviewed McKeaver; stole her cash and credit cards postmortem)
 * Saleel Moudri (a Bombai immigrant; stalked and stole his uniform after killing his mother)
 * Bandana Moudri (a Bombai immigrant convenience store owner; stabbed her with a spoke through her rib cage)
 * Elden McKeaver (a Gulf War military veteran and presidential candidate and Dupree's intended target; attempted, but was prevented; planned to kill with a metal rod through his ear, and then attempted to immolate in an explosion)
 * Numerous unidentified people in the Lenexa Center (attempted, but was prevented; attempted to immolate in an explosion)
 * Samantha Waters (attempted, but was prevented; attempted to immolate in an explosion)
 * Nick Cooper (attempted; attempted to immolate in an explosion and then kill with a metal rod through his ear; was killed by him instead)

Trivia

 * Dupree appears to be based off French-Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj, a notorious, charismatic psychopath and serial killer and robber of tourists along Asia's "Hippie Trail".