Peter is a high-tech pedophile who kidnapped six girls and used them to produce child pornography on the Internet.
History[]
While attending Tompkins Square University, Peter became a member of the Tau Omega Fraternity. After he graduated, he would show up at parties and bring alcohol and drugs for the other fraternity members. When he began making child porn and profiting from them, he first kidnapped a preteen girl named Jane Kalreiss. While she was with him, Peter brainwashed Kalreiss into thinking that her family didn't care for her and wasn't looking for her - to the point of making her believe that her family hadn't even bothered to report her missing - which caused her to bond with him. When Kalreiss became too old to make videos, Peter allowed her to stay with him. Every year, Peter and Kalreiss would kidnap a young girl and use them to make child porn. After the girls got too old, Peter would release them. Despite this, he believed he was gentle in comparison to his viewers, who he described as sick. As a result of the sexual abuse they suffered, his victims would turn to drugs or become prostitutes.
One night, while at a fraternity party, Peter meets a 14-year-old girl named Emily Culphers, who was attending the party with her sister Taylor, and later kidnaps her. When Detectives Benson and Amaro follow Kalreiss to a house and arrest her for helping Peter kidnap Culphers, they go inside the house but discover that it was only a decoy. Peter then appears on a live-stream and Amaro tries to distract him by talking to him while Benson and the other detectives try to discover where he is hiding.
While chatting with Amaro, Peter claims that he never hurt any of the girls he used to make his videos, even justifying that his viewers are sick and Emily's family is irresponsible, and that he saved her. Ironically, the same technology which had so long been his best weapon would also be his downfall: at the same time, Jane had been freed from Peter's hold thanks to another live-stream in which she saw the family she believed to be indifferent burst into tears upon seeing her alive - realizing the truth behind Peter's lies, she quickly revealed his location. Peter is about to sexually assault Culphers again when Detectives Rollins and Fin barge in, saving her. Peter surrendered and told them his video was still streaming and protested against their excessive force before Fin cut the video short and arrested Peter for multiple accounts first-degree kidnapping, rape, distribution of child pornography, and wrongful imprisonment. Meanwhile, Jane was not charged as an accessory but institutionalized because she was suffering from Stockholm syndrome from her abuse. (SVU: "Friending Emily")
Known Victims[]
- Jane Kalreiss (kept in captivity for five years; was rescued)
- Unnamed girl
- Beth Marks
- Lizza
- Katrine Kearns
- Emily Culphers (kidnapped, raped on live child pornography, and attempted to rape again; was rescued)