Leland Duncan is the main antagonist of the episode called In The Blood, Criminal Minds, in season 9.
He is portrayed by James Immekus.
History[]
Biography[]
Leland Duncan who was born on February 6 as William Danary, he was an ancestor of William Stoughton and his biological parents were Roy and Becky Danary who both died from a car accident, he was also adopted by a Mormon missionary couple, Orland and Claire Duncan who later changed his name to Leland, he also somehow discovered that he was a descendant of William Stoughton, who was a famous witch hunter who executed many women he accused of being witches. At some point in his life when his life when his adoptive parents died, he soon inherited the bookstore for himself. He was also fascinated by the tortures and deaths of witches. With that, Leland motivated by his fascinated by the tortures and deaths of witches. With that, Leland motivated by his ancestor, he killed Abby Stafford a young student that she would use drugs, she tortured and killed her. Then he would do the same to a women named Gloria Carlyle who rejected her religious beliefs, and he thought she was a witch and Leland brutally killed her.
Criminal Minds[]
In The Blood[]
After killing Gloria, he soon sees Yvonne Carpenter and his daughter, Kylie, he also sees an idiotic man named Parker Mills urging Yvonne and his daughter, but Leland puts him to, right after Leland starts to have psychotic delusions, and kills him for thinking that he is has some involvement with the witches. Later, BAU soon started investigating him, due to the deaths being a ritualistic act. Leland then kills Charlotte Novak to her boss on a pedestal by accident. BAU soon discovers that Duncan is a descendant of the famous and cruel witch hunter named William Stoughton. However, it is too late when Leland has another delirium and thinks that both Yvonne and Kylie are witches, he then kidnaps them and begins to torture Yvonne until she lies thinking he will release them and begins to torture Yvonne until she lies thinking he will release them. However, Duncan soon reveals that he will kill her. But when BAU shows up to try to stop him, and Blake shot him, that Duncan would soon see a lot of people who were just hallucinations of him.
Trivia[]
- As it may seem, Leland followed all the legacies of his ancestor, William Stoughton, in killing several innocent women because he thought they were witches.