42 yrs, black hair slicked back, grey roots just starting to show, amber eyes, lots of wrinkles/smile lines, persistent 5 o'clock shadow, 6’2”
fluent in spanish
serial killer/rapist. vulgar and despicable. Outwardly, he’s loud, friendly, and jokes a lot.
capricorn (dec 31, 1975ish)
FAMILY: mom, dad, two brothers. Large extended family. None of them know about what he does.
Mr. Keller- loves his son very much, and thinks he’s doing very well for himself. He still thinks he works in construction.
Mrs. Keller- old and tired. quiet. loving.
Hector- older brother- doesn’t pay any attention to Mateo, and yet, Mateo looked up to him when he was younger. He was hurt in an accident as a teenager, disabling him. Wheelchair bound. Mateo witnessed the accident.
Antonio- younger brother- thinks Mateo is the worst because he’s a bully who ruins everything, and doesn’t get why everyone likes him. He has no idea what happened to Joaquín.
As a child, Mateo was a little brute. His parents had their hands full raising 3 unruly little boys, and even with the whole family’s help, nobody ever noticed that Mateo wasn’t quite right. Sure, he played rough with other kids, but boys will be boys, right?
He and his brothers were always expected to work in construction, just like their dad and uncles. His mom insisted he finish school first, so that’s what he did. His first victim was in high school. Joaquín was Antonio’s best friend. Mateo came onto him, but Joaquín denied his advances. Joaquín never told anybody what happened and he eventually dropped out. Mateo kept his eye on him. Mateo graduated, started working at his uncle’s site, and moved into his own apartment. He found Joaquín again and raped him, and the next day, Joaquín killed himself.
Mateo’s second victim, Elijah, was a stranger he spotted on the street. He stalked, cornered, and raped him, but during the assault Elijah had a seizure and hit his head, killing him. Mateo covered it up. Community members were concerned, but nothing pointed to Mateo.
His third victim, Jack, was his first actual premeditated abduction. Mateo didn’t count on Jack fighting back so hard. His fighting back resulted in his accidental death. After that, Mateo bought a gun.
His victim criteria is broad, since he doesn’t have a specific type, but they're all young men whose disappearances won’t be seen as suspicious. If they're too noticeable, Mateo doesn’t go after them.
Mateo finally reached a system (stalk, kidnap, photograph, rape, kill, dispose, repeat) a couple years after starting out. He always liked taking pretty pictures of boys who caught his eye, so when a friend at the construction site saw his camera, he suggested selling photos for extra cash, not knowing exactly what Mateo was taking pictures of. As it turned out, that guy was also a pervert and became one of his first customers.
Once his human trafficking side job picked up, he quit construction when he was 30. On paper somewhere, he still works for his cousin’s company.
He has several dozens of clients in rotation, and he delivers weekly bundles of polaroids to each, depending on their preferences. He also films one video a week, which costs extra. Occasionally he streams live, and the cover fee is much steeper, but also occasionally takes requests.
He’s had romantic relationships with women in the past, but they were facades. He can make himself out to be a charming man, but it’s all a fake. He successfully passes himself off as a normal guy. He never lets people get too close.
He usually drives a light blue Ford F-150, a hand-me-down from his father, but he has several other vehicles that were stolen from previous victims. (A blue sedan, a grey van, a grey jeep wrangler). He always carries his glock with him, but owns several other handguns so he doesn’t leave any consistent forensic evidence.
He has several safehouses spread over adjoining states. A couple isolated houses, cabins, an abandoned hotel, an empty warehouse, an old factory. When one area gets too much police attention, he moves on to another. Most of the money he earns from his operation goes into keeping it a secret. He makes tens of thousands from each victim, which is enough to cover costs for upkeep of getaway vehicles/safehouses and bribing the authorities.
He's never been caught for rape or kidnapping before because there was never enough solid evidence to condemn him. It's usually only "circumstantial" (thanks to a couple of his clients being cops.) He's done time for smaller crimes though:
He served several months for stealing a car. It belonged to a coworker from his old construction job. He was going to use the vehicle as a getaway car when abducting a victim but never got the chance. He wasn't charged with grand theft auto- it was a joyriding misdemeanor. He got off easy.
He served a few months on a trespassing charge when he was scouting new locations to hold victims. Turns out the place wasn’t abandoned.
He keeps mementos of his past victims. Usually it’s just clothes or polaroids. He’s not very violent towards his victims. He’ll hit them occasionally to get them to behave, or threaten them with his gun, but he doesn’t cut them. He doesn’t especially enjoy being violent, it’s just a tool for him.
He always kills his victims. It’s not personal, he’s just done with them and chooses to dispose of them to start again. When he gets bored with them after several months, he takes them out into the middle of nowhere and shoots them in the back of the head and buries their corpse. He doesn’t have one specific dumping location and he doesn’t visit the graves of his victims.
TIMELINE
1975
born.
1989 (age 14)
starts high school.
1991 (age 16)
dad gives him the ford.
1992 (age 17)
assaults Joaquín in the locker room. Joaquín drops out.
1993 (age 18)
graduates high school, starts working for cousin's construction company, gets his own apartment.
rapes Joaquín, first victim.
Joaquín commits suicide and Mateo’s secret is safe
1994 (age 19)
stalks and rapes second victim, Elijah, 17 yrs. Accidental death during the assault and Mateo covers it up.
1995 (age 20)
third victim: Jack, 19 yrs. Captivity: 1 week
1996 (age 21)
fourth victim- Kieron, 23 yrs. Captivity: 3 weeks. Mateo’s first murder in the 1st degree
Mateo always killed his victims in the same way. When he was done with them, he would take them to the forest in the middle of the night, make them kneel, and kill them with a single gunshot to the back of the head. Then he’d bury the body in the same spot.
Mateo’s a shit driver because he speeds way too fuckin much and he rides up on people’s asses. It’s a wonder he doesn’t get 500 tickets a day. Also he doesn’t use turn signals, and he swerves because he barely uses one hand on the wheel. He makes really sharp turns. He’s good at driving backwards though.
