Luca Patel

The face of a murderous war veteran.

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Luca Patel is the Echo Bay Serial Killer. Stemming from a traumatic event, he killed his mother and ,every few years, kills someone who looks similar to her. He and Chelsey Patel separated in 2020. As of 2021, he has been arrested.

## Physical Appearance

He is tall, muscular, bald with a brown beard and has tattoos on his arms. He wears a large brown scarf, a green jacket with dark green camouflage pants. He also carries a brown bag on his back and another one around his left leg.

## Biography

Patel presumably grew up in Echo Bay, where his father had a fishing company together with Mr. Lee Sr., the Lepat Fishing Company. When he was 15 years old, he was caught in a car accident when his mother accidentally crashed her car while driving while intoxicated. Luca's father died on impact and Luca suffered severere injuries to the head. Sometime before his mother's trial, he killed her and it was believed that she had fled the country.

As an adult, he joined the military and had lost several comrades before being discharged. In 2007, he abducted and killed Jane Lewis because her appearance and age were similar to his mother's. He kept killing every few years and leading up to the events of The Echo Bay Murders, he had abducted and killed 4 women from the area. He hid Julia or Jane’s body in a shipping container at the fishing company, and also hid Ellie’s body in a wall inside of his bunker.

At some point he married Chelsey, who separated from him about a year before his arrest in 2021. It is implied that they had been married for several years.

In 2021, he kidnapped Ava McWilliams at the gas station and later killed her, burying her body next to a tree in the nearby forest. He later returned and kidnapped Kate Gray after shooting at her car, leaving her tied up in his basement. However, she later escaped into the forest.

Later, while driving a company car, he saw Kate Gray in Phil’s police vehicle. He then chased them and rammed into the police vehicle on the highway, sending it crashing into a delivery van. He then circled the boxes to try and find Kate, but she managed to break the car. Trying to shoot her, he hid behind the wreckage, but was later shot in the shoulder, forcing him to flee by jumping off the bridge.

Later, he returned to his house at night, but saw Kate and Darius standing there. Seizing an opportunity to kill Kate, he shot at her, but Darius took the shot. He then fled into the woods, where he later saw Kate riding on his bike. He then chased Kate, hoping that he could be close enough to shoot her. However, Kate then trapped him by making him unknowingly ride off a ramp and land in a tripwire. With the wheels jammed, Luca hopped off and hid behind some trees, hoping to shoot Kate. However, Kate shot at him a few times, and he was left unable to fight. He was later detained by the local police and arrested.

## Personality

His business partner Benjamin Lee describes him as a recluse. He says that it would be hard to be friends with someone like Patel.

According to Chelsey, Patel's behavior changed over the years. She suspects that it might've been because of the trauma that he suffered from the car accident as well as from his time in the military.

## Relationships

### Luca’s father

Not much is known about Mr. Patel Sr. However, it is implied that Luca was traumatized after he witnessed his father's death, meaning that they likely had a good relationship.

### Margaret Patel

He hated his mother, and was not on good terms with her due to the car accident. He blamed her for his father's death as well as the trauma he suffered mentally and physically. This resulted in him killing her days before her trial began, as well as kidnapping and killing other women who looked similar.

### Benjamin Lee

Although Luca and Benjamin had known each other for years, they weren't friends. Lee describes Luca as a recluse, and states that he hardly knew anything about him.

## Trivia

* Luca Patel is the second murderer in the Kate Gray Murder Mystery-verse who had sustained a severe head injury prior to his killings, the first one being Jay from 'Murder Inn', who had suffered a concussion in a hockey game.

## Gallery

Luca’s Dialogue PortraitSecurity footage of Luca about to kidnap Ava.Luca holding Kate at gunpoint