Robin Poole

"You're blind and you're stupid!"

Robin Poole, a.k.a. The Venom Killer, is a serial killer and assassin who appeared in the two-part episode Venom in Profiler.

Background
Robin Poole was born to Shirley and Carter Poole, born with the gifts of both beauty and brilliance. She loved learning about nature, but her parents would always harass her for putting her time in studies and intellect, finding her better off a success by only looking the part in her dazzling looks. Whenever she kept trying to keep to her own pursuits to enrich herself and her her feel inspired, her parents would take it away from her by yelling at and insulting her to her face each time, often forcing her to sit in the closet of the Poole's trailer home to degrade her away from becoming educated and making her own opportunities. She soon grew worse obsessions towards animals with toxins and venoms and finally snapped and killed Carter and Shirley, both with poison dart frog toxins. But the abuse was so traumatic for her, she feared that repeated exposure ruined her social chances of pursuing her best dreams. She blamed the beauty industry preliminary out of the fear she'd be continuously used for her looks, Shirley and Carter's abuse being grounds the beauty world would try to use her for to pull her toward her nightmares. To get revenge as much as protect herself, she waged a war against the cultures of beauty and cosmetics by planning a killing spree of major industry tycoons to tear it apart systematically and send a message for herself. She also stalked out other civilians as potential surrogates for her parents to threaten into telling the police here she'll go next, making a cat-and-mouse chase to prove and enjoy herself. She got a job at a beauty department in a mall under the name Marjorie Brandt, as well as inoculated herself to venoms and toxins from animals through a process known as, a gradual exposure to more and more quantities of the poisons so she would get more immune. She ready herself with such for handling the poisons better and eventually making herself a victim by poisoning herself in long enough a ruse she could challenge the authorities even further.

Venom
''"Don't you look at me! Hands behind your back!" [...] "Shut up trash! And don't be so stupid! I don't wanna hear you!"''

"Don't you listen to her!"

Modus Operandi
"Goodbye!"

Poole targeted major white-collar figures in beauty and cosmetics. She'd set traps in their private quarters or work spaces, poisoning them to death with various toxic or venomous animals, or at least the toxins and venoms extracted from them. After each killing, she left a set of field dice leaving an abbreviated or short message trying to lead the agents to her next murder and even to herself, all to bring them closer to catching her but only coming close. After her first two murders, she also solicited the helps of two strangers, each looking like one of her parents, to reveal more about the murders she had planned. She covered their heads with hoods so they couldn't see her face and she couldn't see theirs, cuffing them to restrain them holding them at gunpoint so they stay compliant. She would confess to her last murder or murders, however many she committed by that point, then warn of the next on by mentioning the city and leaving more dice with cryptic hints. When the spree became too easy for her, she led the agents in her own direction, even posing under her alias as another victim as an additional trick and challenge. Beforehand, she exposed and inoculated herself to blue-ringed octopus venom in gradually greater quantities, known as, to boost her immunity for when she poisoned herself to by herself time and keep herself alive and well. She gave herself an antidote for when she got closer to being too sick before running and revealing who she was, leaving a barcode behind as her next code. She then even tried to kill the agents with venom, leaving a Rubik's cube puzzle as the last code she left. She never killed the woman she meant to, as Jack of All Trades abducted her and Samantha Waters, but she likely wouldn't have stopped the spree until she was caught, killed, or otherwise incapable if not for that swifter end to her plans.

Profile
Poole's insulting language to the people she assaulted who look like her parents imply the verbal harassment she went through. The hood evokes the closet she was thrown into, how she was smothered and shut out, and the dice, stick figure drawings, and Rubik's cube were to imply childhood, as it relates to games and cartoons. With her stress on her beauty oppressing her brains, she attacked the beauty industry for both revenge and redemption. She's genuinely beautiful herself, but she's never loved the focus of it if it's all people desire from her and clamor after her over. In a sense, she sees the industry as a threat and would like to kill it by killing its figures for the sake of protecting herself. She fins her abuse as poison and the beauty industry an extension of it since it could jump on her being harassed to use her looks more and, at least in her mind, only do that more to sap her beauty for profit. Thus, she's using poison and venoms, to kill poisonous, venomous industries, ones going off basic approaches of "you're gorgeous, you were told so when you were young, make yourself out of that". As the games she was playing with the police were too easy for her and harder for them, she made it easy because she loved the challenge, for superiority and a personal sense of accomplishment.

Known Victims

 * Peeridge, Arkansas: Shirley and Carter Poole (her parents; both poisoned to death with poison dart frog venom)
 * Los Angeles, California: Donald Haste (designs computer software for beauty advertisement; poisoned with contact with poison dart frogs)
 * Atlanta, Georgia: Burt Fredrick (her father's look-alike; handcuffed, covered with a hood, and held at gunpoint; was released)
 * Savannah, Georgia: Marilyn Weathers (CEO of a snack and soda drink company; poisoned with a bite from a Sydney funnel web spider on her phone set in a trap)
 * Atlanta, Georgia:
 * Darla Turner (her mother's look-alike; handcuffed, covered with a hood, and held at gunpoint; was released)
 * Sancha W Gomez (vice-president of an advertisement research company; poisoned with a bite from little white sea snakes set in a trap)
 * Herself (inoculated from and later poisoned with sea wasp jellyfish venom; cured herself with an antidote and escaped; left behind drawings and a barcode message)
 * Rome, Georgia: Marlin Fender and the VCTF and HazMat team (attempted to kill with blue-ringed octopus venom set in a trap; failed, as all were given antidotes; left a Rubik's cube code at the scene)
 * Atlanta, Georgia:
 * Kendrick Lawton (attempted to kill with unspecified poison; Poole was abducted by Jack of All Trades instead)
 * Samantha Waters (wrongfully accused her of Jack of All Trades' and Darla Turner's murder; failed)