Leo jenkins bio

Evil-doer

Leo Jenkins is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "The Itch". He is a delusional serial killer who believes that he is suffering from a skin disease that does not actually exist and kills people who refuse to help him.

He was portrayed by Jon Abrahams.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Jenkins was a former lab assistant at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. After he contracted shingles, his superiors injected him with a vaccine that deadened the nerves in his arm, causing an overwhelming phantom itch. He developed delusional parisitosis, a mental illness that caused him to believe that bugs were crawling under his skin. Specifically, he convinced himself that the CDC injected cockroach larvae into his arm.

He went to several skin specialists for treatment, all of whom told him there was nothing physically wrong with him. He then started attending a support group for people who believed they were suffering from Morgellons Syndrome, a skin disease that supposedly introduces parasites into the skin, and is not recognized by any med

CRIMINAL

Leo Jenkins is a delusional abductor and killer who appears in the Season Ten episode of Criminal Minds, "The Itch".

Background[]

Jenkins was a low-level lab assistant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After he somehow contracted the shingles virus, he was given a vaccine, which deadened the nerves in his arm. Since his brain was still sending stimuli signals to his arm, Jenkins, who was now developing delusional parasitosis, believed CDC officials put cockroach larvae inside the vaccine they gave him. Doctors tried all they could to convince him otherwise, but failed. His paranoia escalated and he eventually believed that the U.S. government was conspiring to infest Americans with cockroaches and the like. Jenkins eventually joined a support group for sufferers of the Morgellons syndrome, founded by fellow sufferer Lisa Randall, so he could share his beliefs and sympathize with its other members. However, when that wasn't enough, he abducted a journalist named Albert Stillman, who was writing a story about vaccinations, hoping to convince him to write an exposé about his condition. However, Stillman, secretly a heroin addict, had been using at the time of the abduction and was uncooperative. Becoming increasingly agitated, Jenkins demanded that if he could see the 'insects' inside him, to which Stillman suffered a psychotic break due to severe opiate withdrawal, prompting Leo to release him.

The Itch[]

Jenkins releases Stillman, who is later found by a driver. The driver tries to get him some help, but Stillman, still in a psychotic break, doesn't respond and is fatally run over by a car. Jenkins is then seen in the basement. While t

Leo Warren Jenkins (May 28, 1913 – January 14, 1989) was the sixth president and chancellor of what is now East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, United States.

He was born in the Succasunna section of Roxbury, New Jersey and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University, majoring in political science a masters from Columbia University and a doctorate from New York University. He enlisted in World War II as a marine, serving during the battle of Guam. Jenkins joined the faculty of East Carolina Teachers College in 1947 and served as Dean of the school until his election to the presidency in 1960. Under his watch, East Carolina gained university status in 1967. When ECU became part of the University of North Carolina System in 1972, Jenkins stayed on as chancellor, retiring in 1978. The Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center at the Brody School of Medicine and the Leo W. Jenkins Fine Arts Center on main campus were named for him.

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