Deacon Brinn was a pedophile and murderer.
History[]
In 1980, when Deacon was 13, he was molested by his Little League coach, Lucas Biggs. As a result, Deacon was unable to inform his parents and became resentful towards the world for what he endured. He subsequently became a child molester himself and began to abuse younger boys soon afterwards in order to make someone else feel as degraded and powerless as he did.
While babysitting two boys, he got them both drunk before he raped them and accidentally murdered seven-year-old Jeffrey Ronsen after the latter fought back. He also forced Avery Shaw, the other boy, to help bury Jeffrey's body in a rock quarry in the neighborhood, by telling him that he would go to jail for being around for the murder. Brinn would lie that Jeffrey was kidnapped while Deacon snuck out to party with friends, though feigned guilt at not staying around to watch him. As a result of his trauma, Avery stalked Deacon for years while planning to get revenge.
As an adult, he went onto graduate college and married a woman named Julia with whom he had a son Zeke. However, Deacon never overcame his past trauma nor his own crimes, showing little sexual interest in his wife. He rented an apartment, where he had molested dozens of young boys, including his own son Zeke, and videotaped the assaults to relive the memory. Deacon also forced his son to keep silent about the abuse.
Quarry[]
When Jeffrey's remains were unearthed in 2005, Deacon attended the wake before he was approached by Det. Olivia Benson who questioned him about Biggs, who was by now on death row for killing one of his victims, in order to find out whether Biggs was responsible for Jeffrey's murder. She revealed that she previously spoke to Biggs who recalled molesting Deacon. Breaking into tears, he admitted to having been one of Biggs' victims, but placed the blame of the murder back on Biggs.
Later that night, Avery Shaw (who had been responsible for the discovery of Jeffrey's body) broke into his apartment just as he was watching a tape of him molesting another boy. Avery held him at gunpoint, demanding answers for raping him and his spree before he threatened to shoot Deacon while the latter pleaded with him to understand. Deacon explained everything of his own abuse with Biggs and tried to justify his abuse in his spree of victims. He revealed to Avery that he chose him because of vulnerability and how he wouldn't tell anyone, before he voices how he understood why Avery wanted to kill him but said he wasn't that person. Ultimately, Avery did not pull the trigger and left the apartment while tossing the gun on the couch on his way out, as Deacon broke down.
Moments later, Deacon's wife Julia, who had discovered him sexually abusing their son, called him and stated that she was going to the cops. A frantic Deacon told her that he would be right over before he took the gun with him and confronted Julia after she threatened to report to the police of his crimes. Deacon was distracted by his son crying, allowing Julia to take the gun from him. To appease her, Deacon promises to move and never bother them again before he left. However, Julia followed him and made him drive to the tracks where she shot him in a fit of rage, and made his death look like a suicide by throwing his body on the nearby train tracks, just in time for it to be run over and cut in half by an oncoming train.
Avery initially took responsibility, listing all of Deacon's crimes and voicing a desire to get revenge but SVU detectives discovered the truth in the form of the footage at the apartment and he was exonerated while Julia was presumably charged for her husband's murder but given Deacon's crimes her exact sentence is unknown. (SVU: "Quarry")
Known Victims[]
- Jeffrey Ronsen (molested, raped, and snapped his neck)
- Dozens of unnamed young boys (all molested)
- Zeke Brinn (his son; molested repeatedly)
- Avery Shaw (raped)