Blake Rickford

Blake Rickford is a congressmen's son, a rapist, reckless endangerer, and attempted murderer appearing in Wounded and Warrior in Perception.

Background
Rickford is the son of a congressman with a refusal to play by the rules, much to the dismay and chagrin of his politician uncle. Rickford would mount up a massive record, including disorderly conduct and drunk driving, leading the congressman to finally have enough and sent Rickford off to boot camp in hopes of drilling discipline into the socialite rebel. Enlisted overseas to be stationed in Afghanistan, Rickford only caused more: a woman in the division, Kendra Murphy, suffered Rickford slapping her, then raping her, infecting her with herpes Rickford previously contracted. She reported it to her superior, Brock Alecksen, who was fully intent of having Rickford be charged and prosecuted. Rickford intimidated Alecksen into dropping the charges, with one crucial blackmail; Alecksen was responsible for a friendly fire from a rocket launcher that killed three of his soldiers and disabled another. Alecksen never let either secret get out from fear of shame and penalty. Rickford returned to the US and still continued to be trouble. Murphy, on the other hand, was tragically deteriorated in her state of mind to the point where she was left with irreparable Klüver–Bucy syndrome, or the rotting of crucial lobes in her brain that impaired her judgment.

Wounded
When Murphy held up a convenience shop and threatened the store owner with a grenade, detonating it when no one was in the building, Daniel Pierce is called to evaluate her condition. She's quickly diagnosed when she compulsively feels like having sex with Pierce, leading to her hospitalization to get treatment. Her rape report is soon found out from other officials responsible for pushing the papers in her case and managing her division. Things only get worse for her when she's framed for the murder of Hank McPhee, and later Anthony Hicks is murdered as well. The murders were committed by Alecksen to cover up the friendly fire and the rape when McPhee was ready to confess to her, as McPhee and Hicks were both soldiers in the division who knew the truth. Pierce and Kate Moretti hear from the congressman about Rickford, the two aptly ready to confront and charge Rickford with the rape. But with the cover-ups already in place and Rickford's high connections, the charges are swiftly skated around. Moretti then goes rogue and wages a personal vendetta against Rickford, stalking Rickford and openly humiliating the socialite in front of women at bars, swearing to never go away despite Rickford's threats to ruin her and her life. Rickford then decides to get rid of Moretti to not be found out. Hiring a call girl named Wendy Burell, she posed as a date one night Moretti was stalking Rickford. Rickford stirred her drink to make it look "spiked" and took her to the mansion. She was thrown around and told to scream to look "attacked" through the drawn blinds of the room. Burell was ordered to run down some back stairs and Rockford called the cops on Moretti breaking in. Kneeling upright on the bed, when Moretti ran into the room, Rickford shot at her. Thankfully, she wore a bulletproof vest, returning fire and killing Rickford almost instantly. Pierce and Donnie Ryan run in and see the scene, Moretti groaning out "I had to do it" as they find Rickford bled out on the bed.

Warrior
The cops arrive and arrest and charge Moretti for murder. She's relieved of her gun and badge, placed on trial, and mandated into counseling, confused over the timeline of events from not realizing she was set up. Pierce and Ryan thankfully track Gabrielle Blair, the one surviving, paralyzed soldier who knew about the friendly fire and got the truth from her when they got her speak after years of inability to do so. This fingers Alecksen for the murders, along with his quote from The Thin Red Line which was in Hicks' "suicide" note. The congressman is also revealed to have order Alecksen to do something, not pecifying what, to silence the two man and the scandal, Rickford begging and threatening for it to happen. Finally tracking Burell and getting her statement, Pierce barges into the courtroom and realizes the truth: Rickford was setting Moretti up to kill her and make her look like the criminal. With the presented evidence, she's cleared, returned to duty, Alecksen is arrested, and Murphy's name is redeemed.

Modus Operandi
Rickford's rape of Kendra Murphy was done by harassing her and, when she staved off Rickford's attempts, slapping her and then raping her. Murphy would be infected with Rockford's strain of herpes, which would corrode her brain overtime. When Alecksen was near reporting Rickford, Rickford blackmailed Alecksen with his own crimes of friendly fire to threaten Alecksen into letting the rape slide. Because of Murphy's state, she became hypersexual and, with impaired judgment, she threatened a corner shop owner with a grenade, blowing up his shop with no one inside. When Moretti was closing her own intimidation and sting in on Rickford, plans to murder her and set her up for the crime were made. Hiring escort Wendy Burell, Rickford openly seduced her at a bar, stirring her drink to make it look like Rickford "spiked" it. Having Moretti tail the two back to Rickford's mansion, Rickford tossed Burell around and made her scream to simulate a "rape". Having her run out the house through a secret backway, Rickford called 911 and alleged Moretti of "breaking in and trying to kill" Rickford. At the ready, Rickford shot Moretti from the bed, but Moretti had a vest and returned fire, killing Rickford almost instantly. She was almost successfully framed, but she was cleared from thorough investigation by Pierce and Ryan, especially when tracking Burell.

Known Victims

 * Numerous other lesser crimes, including disorderly conduct and drunk driving
 * Kendra Murphy (assaulted with a physical strike and raped; deteriorated her mental state from herpes)
 * Brock Alecksen (blackmailed into covering up the rape using Alecksen's own crimes)
 * Unidentified corner store owner (nearly blown up with a grenade by Kendra Murphy in her deteriorated state)
 * Wendy Burell (assaulted in a fake "rape" lure)
 * Hank McPhee (struck once in the head with a piece of a concrete parking spot bar by Brock Alecksen)
 * Anthony Hicks (poisoned with a heroin overdose by Brock Alecksen; also faked a suicide note quoted from "The Thin Red Line" postmortem)
 * Kate Moretti (set up to be framed for attempted murder and shot her twice in her torso; she was protected by a bulletproof vest; was shot dead by her instead)

Appearances
Perception


 * Wounded
 * Warrior