Greg Hayes

"I have an answer for you right now."

Greg Hayes was an embezzler and later a serial killer who appeared in Old Acquaintance and Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick in Profiler.

Background
Greg Hayes was a friend of Sam's from college in Wake Forest, North Carolina, having eventually gone to work in legal accounting and being the personal financial adviser of the Brennemans, a couple who also went to the same college who were always in a tumultuous, unpleasant relationship. Husband Drew was embezzling from wife Colleen's riches with help from Greg, bouncing the money back and forth between the country and an offshore account. Good friend Roy Burton, who recently was diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative nerve condition, also knew about the funds by means unknown, likely racked by the shame of never telling the secret, which led him to drinking. When Colleen found out and planned to stop the operations, Greg starting planning to resort to murder to make sure the funds were kept intact, picking the upcoming college reunion as the perfect time to set the plan in motion and carry out all bloodshed he deemed fitting.

Profiler
"You guys think i did this?! What has your job done to you to make you think such things?!"

Old Acquaintance
Greg's first seen warmly greeting Samantha Waters, saying his profession and being someone to make Drew back off her and console her when he was antagonizing everyone at the event. After Waters was called out to a late Jack of All Trades crime scene, she came back to see that, unbeknownst to all but the doer, Greg had murdered Colleen in her hotel room. Drew was highly considered the prime suspect, Greg acting as his counsel in defense.With the window of time open, Greg set off to kill Roy next, though not crafty enough to disguise his death as an accident. With Drew crumbling from Colleen's murder, Greg used yet another opportunity to get him drunk in his hotel room and kill him before staging it like a suicide, leaving a suicide note to further push the notion. He then goes to Waters and Detective Ramdik, feigning panic about Drew "missing", following them to the hotel and pretending to be shocked and traumatized from finding Drew dead.

Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
As the investigation further progresses and the motives are finally found out, Ramdik retrieves the Brennenman financial records to go over them, only to also be murdered by Greg to retrieve them back. Greg arrives on the scene, again feigning horror, but when catching onto the suspicion on him, he feigns shock and hurt and accuses Waters of being too paranoid from her job. But Waters finding out about Roy's ALS confirms her suspicions finally, confronting Greg just as he's packing up shop, all the while being bluntly, impersonally brushed off at each allegation she lists. But she gets his attention saying she found the money, it being a bluff or not never revealed either way. She tries to trick him into a confession saying she can freeze the money or split it with him, but he has none of it and pulls a pistol on her ready to shoot. In the nick of time, John Grant and Bailey Malone shoot Greg three times to stop him, and despite Sam reassuring medical assistance, Greg shortly dies from his wounds.

Profile
"With such icy precision", as Waters put it, Greg carefully planned and executed every last crime to every last detail. Facing jail time from getting caught and losing his cut of the money in the embezzlements, the simple motives for Greg's crimes are greed and self-preservation. Being more a laborer and modestly known, "sympathetic" guy in his graduating class, Greg played off that to not draw suspicion and instead draw off the appearance of not much capability or room to even acquire. Hayes took his desperation in cover-ups, channeling then into violence, disposal, and framework with precision and scrupulosity. He saw all threat easy to dispose off, always smug and confident of plan b's, escape routes, even just one way out to not face the consequences. He didn't care about the consequences regardless, being disgruntled over cleaning the blood and dirt in his criminal involvement and working at whatever costs to not lose his money, he barely faltered in his entire operation to eliminate every lose end and reap the rewards all for himself. To sum up, he was motivated, apathetic, goal-directed, carefully and knowledgeably carried out his actions while diverting tension for a little while, and most of all, dead-set on his ends and deciding his own perspective and standards.

Modus Operandi
Greg killed people who could've revealed his involvement in Drew Brenneman's embezzlement from his wife Colleen's funds, leading to him losing the millions and getting his cut of the money. He specifically targeted people involved, with knowledge of it, or were getting close to finding out, disguising the murders as deaths that were either personal, accidents, suicides, or even with no clear motive, not hesitating to even kill a local detective. When Colleen threatened to reveal the scheme, Greg tied Colleen to the bed she was sleeping in and bashed her head and face with a champagne bottle, turning on the TV to drown out her screams, hiding when Angel Brown came up into the room and found her, and then wrapping the bottle in a robe before slipping out and disposing of both. When Drew and Roy Burton finally called it quits themselves, Roy was murdered by hitting his head against a claw-foot tub and drowning him in the bath water, holding him down until he died. Drew was then targeted, originally encouraged by Greg into smugness over not getting caught. When Greg got Drew alone in a hotel room, he strangled Drew to death with his own belt before stringing him up with it in the bathroom and writing a computer note to make it look like a suicide by hanging. When Detective Ramdak took Greg's files for analysis, Greg shot him once with a shotgun and stole as many files back as he could find. He finally attempted to kill Samantha Waters when she confronted him by shooting her with a Glock handgun, which he held her at gunpoint with.

Known Victims

 * Colleen Brenneman (beaten repeatedly in her face with a champagne bottle)
 * Roy Burton (drowned in a filled tub, bashing the back of his head against the rim)
 * Drew Brenneman (strangled, then staged as suicide by hanging; left a fake suicide note on his computer)
 * Detective Mike Ramdak (shot once in the torso with a shotgun; stole his files)
 * Samantha Waters (attempted to shoot with a Glock handgun, but was shot instead)