CASt

CASt (real name unknown) is a serial killer in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation novel "Binding Ties".
==Background==
CASt killed a total of five men, starting in 1994 and then killing for two more years. He often taunted the Las Vegas Police Department in the newspapers. The killer's nickname is short for Capture, Afflict, Strangle, based on his M.O. In the novel, a copycat began a killing spree in the same way CASt did, except the copycat killer mutilated victims postmortem, when CASt did so premortem. The CSIs noticed this by the lack of sprayed blood around the crime scenes during the copycat killings. At the scene of the murder of Enrique Diaz, his left hand held a magnetic strip card, with the words "Property of Las Vegas Banner" printed on it. A reporter made famous by the original cases receives a letter from someone claiming to be CASt, and who says he has nothing to do with the new spree. The murderer from the past continues to evade capture, and doesn't tolerate the copycat as a rival enough to make a return.
==Modus Operandi==
CASt targeted middle-aged, heavy, Caucasian males and killed them by strangling them with a rope tied with a figure-eight knot. Before strangling the victim to death, CASt cuts the victim's right index finger off while he was still alive. After each murder, CASt would rearrange the body. Stomach-down, right finger severed, the other hand tucked under his stomach, rope still around the neck and a pool of poured semen around the buttocks.
==Known Victims==
*1994:
**November: Todd Henry
**December: John Jarvis
*Unspecified dates:
**George Kim
**Clyde Gibson
**Vincent Drake
==Trivia==
*The killer appears inspired by real life serial killer Dennis Rader, better known as "Bind, Torture, Kill" or "BTK" for short. Rader killed 10 people for decades and taunted police with messages before disappearing for another decade. After returning by sending messages saying he was ready to kill again, Rader was identified through familial DNA and arrested.
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