Dr. Walt Massey was an orthodontist and pedophile. He was also the prime suspect in the murder of serial rapist and fellow pedophile Bret Jansen, and the sexual abuse of his stepson Shawn.
History[]
Massey was a well respected orthodontist with an exemplary reputation but also secretly a pedophile. He was a good friend of Bret Jansen, a fellow pedophile, and the two were customers of the Global Voyages Travel Agency, a pedophile ring that would rape children in foreign countries. On one occasion, the pair sexually abused a young boy on a trip together while filming it.
Massey later answered an ad that a woman who would become his wife put in the newspaper. He took her and her two sons into his home, legally adopting the boys after both were abused by their biological father. His wife described him as a loving family man and the kids loved him as well.
Massey took a particular interest in the oldest son Shawn often spending time with him by coaching his soccer team or playing video games like most boys do. One night, Massey went into his room and molested Shawn while telling him not to tell his mother because Massey saw it as a form of love and used Shawn's fear of being sent back to the shelter.
Angels[]
While doing a routine checkup on Jansen's boys, Massey became infuriated by Jansen physically abusing his sons when visiting him. Massey incapacitated Jansen surgically removed his genitals, and slit his throat, before showering to wash away the blood and leaving the apartment. Unknown to him, he provided the boy with a way to escape, as Jansen's murder allowed them to leave and get to the cops. After SVU come to him, he feigns ignorance in Jansen's death and questioned the well-being of Jansen's sons.
Eventually, SVU discovered Massey was the culprit after it was noted he would have taken anatomy in dental school and that he was the dentist to most of the smuggled children. They also uncover his rape of Shawn who tearfully told his horrified mother. They bring him in, as Massey looked at his family who turned away from him. While being interrogated by Stabler, the latter found that he had a tattoo that belonged to the man in a video with Jansen. Walt confessed to killing Jansen, who had abused his adoptive sons and left one to die whilst the other escaped. He became manic and believed that his sexual relationship with Shawn was consensual and declared that the boy "seduced" him, while defending that he was better than Jansen because he loved his victims, while Jansen thought of his as sexual objects. However, Stabler stated he proved himself worse and condemned for his acts and arrests him.
Walt was convicted of his stepson's abuse, the serial rapes from his trips, and the torture-murder of Jansen and executed.
Known Victims[]
- Unnamed boy (sexually abused with Bret Jansen)
- Shawn Massey (his stepson; sexually abused)
- Bret Jansen (incapacitated with blunt-force trauma, removed his genitals, and slit his throat)