| Minor Character: Las Vegas | |
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| Name | Dalton Betton |
| Gender | Male |
| City | Las Vegas |
| Pathology | Murderer Terrorist Stalker Serial Proxy Bomber Attempted Bomber Mass Proxy Murderer Serial Proxy Murderer |
| No. of Victims | 1 killed 14+ attempted by proxy 1 assaulted 8 killed by proxy 1 stalked 3+ attempted |
| Status | Incarcerated |
| Portrayed By | Doug Hutchison |
| First Appearance | "Immortality" |
"Finally, I have all the power."
Dalton Betton is a murderer and later proxy killer who organized a series of bombings. He made himself a formidable nemesis of Gil Grissom. He appeared in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation finale Immortality.
Background[]
Betton developed a romantic obsession with his therapist Heather Kessler, but he could never muster the courage to make advances towards her. He later made outlandish claims that he was the first man to undergo Heather's sex therapy. At some point of his life, he developed lymphoma. Three months prior to Immortality, Heather shut down her psychiatry practice after her granddaughter was struck and killed by a car. Learning of this, Betton went into a downwards spiral and blamed Gil Grissom for the recent events, believing that he turned her submissive after stopping her from killing Leon Sneller, a man who murdered her daughter. During the burglary of her home, he assaulted her, but was defeated and was forced to leave. As a result, Betton hypnotized former patients of Heather's and turned them into suicide bombers.
Immortality[]
The first suicide bomber is a man going by Mr. Karmimi. Already having a hatred of casinos for losing his money, he was easier to manipulate than the others. He went up to get chips and then pulled the trigger which activated it. The Crime Scene Investigation lab was called in, including its owner Catherine Willows, an FBI agent. With help from a dying victim, they learn that someone was commanding the man to kill. When CSI Greg Sanders finds a gold piece and enter it into the internet, it links to a page made by Heather. Because of this, Grissom is called in to deduce if it was her, or if she is being framed. After going to her house, they see several items destroyed and blood off the unnamed suspect. They now believe Heather is guilty as she has nothing to live for, as everyone she loves is dead.
Back at a school, a school teacher who was brainwashed through laced flowers shows up to a play. She stays long enough to catch the attention of a bystander, who runs away and yells out when she opens her jacket to see bombs and nails. The police are called and the bomb squad officer attempts to help her. Unfortunately, she decides to take both her and him with him and activates the bomb. The reason no one else was killed was because Dalton ordered her to only do it when SWAT came so he could taunt them. When CSI gets to Heather’s house, they see a woman resembling her run out of the house. She gets into the car and then blows up, killing her and injuring Jim Brass.
With new help from Heather, who gave herself up to help the team, she tells Willows about her Red Room clients. Dalton is one of them but his DNA does not match the blood in the house. Not long after, Lindsey Willows attempts give a suitcase to Grissom but he says it’s not his. After everyone is evacuated, a vehicle looks through the suitcase and finds several body parts in the briefcase. A SD card is found in the victims mouth, which contains a video of Dalton with a swirl effect. Sneller is later officially identified as the man in the case. When Lindsey noticed an address on the suitcase, Grissom goes to check, finding the muscles of a cadaver on a gurney. After D.B. Russell realizes the swirl is a fingerprint, he and others match it to Dalton.
Once Sanders, Willows, and Morgan find his apartment address and hear 3 cars going off, they find a massive bomb in each trunk. Meanwhile, Grissom and Sara have located the bee found in the cadaver to a cabin. Seconds later, Dalton comes out, armed with a massive bomb and taunts Grissom, saying he is now god. He is angry at Grissom since he caused Heather to abandon him and doesn’t do her practice anymore. Grissom tells Dalton that he never had a connection with her and then asks him straight up, “how attached are you to that bomb”. After the time on the apartment bombs are over, he says that they are dead, but Grissom calls him on his bluff. The reason he did not activate the bomb on him was simple, he is too in love with Heather to die without her. He is now arrested and brought into custody to serve prison time.
Modus Operandi[]
Dalton killed Sneller in an unknown manner and then cut his body in half. He then turned to framing Heather by brainwashing and manipulating her patients into becoming suicide bombers. In the case of the teacher, he gave her a batch of flowers with the substance called “Devil’s Breath” that caused her to lose morals and follow orders no matter what. When all of them died, he resorted to attempting bombing by his self.
Known Victims[]
- 2015:
- Heather Kessler (assaulted)
- Gil Grissom (stalked)
- Leon Sneller (the killer of Heather's daughter; killed by unknown causes and sent his body to the crime lab)
- The Eclipse casino bombing (five fatalities):
- Mr. Karmimi (the suicide bomber; killed)
- Romina Gonzalez (killed)
- Three unnamed people (all killed)
- Dozens of unnamed people (all injured)
- The elementary school bombing (two fatalities):
- Rebecca O'Bryan (the suicide bomber; killed)
- Anthony Hurst (the bomb squad officer; killed)
- The bombing at Heather's house (one fatality):
- The unnamed female suicide bomber (killed)
- Jim Brass (attempted, but survived; suffered minor burns as a result of the explosion)
- Sara Sidle (attempted)
- Several unnamed police officers (attempted)
- The attempted apartment complex bombing:
- Catherine Willows
- Greg Sanders
- Morgan Brody
- Numerous unnamed police officers and residents
Appearances[]
| CSI:Crime Scene Investigation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Season 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X | X | N/A | 2 | ||||
| Total | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||