Darryl Roy James

For other uses of James, see James (disambiguation).

James, Darryl Roy

Appeared in Devoted in Death (mid-January, 2061) and mentioned in Brotherhood in Death (January, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Bright hair and eyes as blue and clear as lake water
• Age: 24
• Hair: Blond
• Eyes: Blue
• Height: 6 feet (182.88 cm) or 6 feet, 1 inch (185.42 cm)
• Relationships: Ella-Loo Parsens (girlfriend); Darra (daughter); unnamed mother

Criminal Activity

• Juvie record:
  • History of shoplifting
  • Joyriding
  • Destruction of property
  • Two minor assaults
  • Court-appointed counseling, community service, rehab for illegals
• Juvie for two years in Denton County, Texas for trying to boost a car.
• Arrested in Tulsa for trying to pocket an engagement ring for Parsens, and got four years since he had a bowie knife on him, at the Oklahoma State Pen in McAlester; served 3 1/2 years due to good behavior.

Homicide Information

• Robert Jansen - August, 2060, Monroe, Arkansas - Victim #1
  • Parsens stopped him, claiming car trouble with James's truck.
  • James hit him on the shoulder with a tire iron, and then after he fought back, Parsens grabbed the tire iron and swung it across his back. She then swung it at his legs. When one of them buckled, James went crazy with rage that he was touching his woman, and he pummeled Jansen with his fists until he fell backward.
  • Jansen's head struck the front bumper of the truck Parsens and James were driving, then bounced off and slapped against the pavement. Parsens then smashed the tire iron across his face, completing the kill.

• Melvin Little - August/September, 2060, Silby’s Pond, AR - Victim #2
  • Went missing and his belongings were jumbled up.
  • His body was found later in a gully, all broken up.
  • He had been dead for three days.
  • Broken bones, cuts, bruises, some burns.
  • The police ruled it an accident.
  • This was about a week before Noah Paston went missing.

• Noah Paston, 19, September, 2060, Cutter's Bend, MO
  • Went missing on his way home from the ballfield one balmy evening.
  • His remains were found nearly a week later, dumped in a wooded area over the Tennessee border; two kids stumbled across the remains.
  • Decomp and animals had gotten to him by then.
  • Broken wrist, broken fingers, gashes, punctures, no sexual abuse
  • Evidence of binding on what was left of his wrists and ankles
  • Blunt force trauma, back of the head, some burn marks in evidence

• Ava Enderson, September, 2060, Memphis, TN
  • Traveling alone from Memphis to Nashville
  • Last seen having dinner at a diner about 7 p.m., about 10 miles off the highway.
  • Was heading to Nashville to have a reunion with some girlfriends.
  • Told the waitress she was toying with staying the night because she was having car trouble and wasn't due until the next day.
  • She booked a room at a rustic little place but never made it.
  • Her car was found two miles shy of the Sundown Inn, broken down, hood up, her luggage still in the trunk, with the in-dash comp expertly removed.
  • Body never recovered.

• Unidentified female, early twenties, September, 2060, Nashville, TN
  • Missing for 56 hours
  • Found dead in an unoccupied home by the real estate agent and a potential buyer.
  • She'd been dead about 28 hours
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.

• Unidentified victim in Branson, MO
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.

• Unidentified victim in KY

• Jacob Fastbinder, WV
  • Was hiking/camping, and when he missed a morning check-in and didn't answer his 'link, his wife put out an alarm.
  • The cops figured he just went hiking away from the campsite.
  • His body was found in a ravine six days later, and the cops ruled it accidental death, but the wife went to the media and hired a PI.
  • His fancy hiker-guy wrist unit was missing, along with his pack, and he was an experienced hiker who went at least twice a year.
  • The ME wasn't able to confirm if the injuries were inflicted or suffered during the fall.

• Unidentified male in his 20s, heading home from a bar on the back roads, late
  • They used a vacant cabin to torture and kill him.
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.

• Unidentified victim in Woodsbury, OH
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.

• Unidentified male, 20 in PA
  • Taken from a rest-stop area and dumped two days later off the highway heading northeast.
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.

• Unidentified victim - January, 2061, Pleasant Acres, NJ
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.
  • Probably victim 28

• Unidentified female, 70s - January, 2061
  • Taken from the parking lot of a small outdoor mall where she worked - out of range of the security cameras
  • Dumped two days later into a ravine six miles away
  • They probably used her residence as their torture/kill zone and took her easy-to-transport valuables
  • Marked with a heart with the initials E over D.
  • Probably victim 29

• Samuel Zed - January, 2061, New York, NY - Victim #28 or 30, depending on the YANNI.
• Tortured and killed for the use of his apartment.
  • Face bashed in and fingers severed, so the ME couldn't ID the body.
  • Multiple stab wounds
  • COD = gut wound
  • Had been in the water for six days before floating up at Pier 40
  • Body was in a jumbo recycler bag, weighed down with old bricks
  • Left foot and ankle were smashed by a heavy object and both knees were broken antemortem
  • Part of the E over D heart remained visible even after the water and fish damage.
  • Victim 30

• Dorian Kuper - January, 2061, New York, NY - Victim #29 or 31, depending on the YANNI.
  • James and Parsens tortured and killed him before wrapping his body in plastic and dumping it beside a broken recycler.
  • Ligature marks on his wrists and ankles
  • Bruising and lacerations from struggling at least a day old
  • Multiple cuts, punctures, burn marks, bruising
  • Slice across his gut ended him, but took time to bleed out.
  • Marked with a 1"x1" heart with the initials E over D.

Interesting Facts

• Got his high school diploma while in juvie in Texas.
• Worked at his mother's boyfriend's garage in Lonesome, Oklahoma when he got out, since he had a way with engines as some had a way with horses. Worked there for three years, then stole the $6,800 under-the-table cash Barlow kept hidden under the false bottom of a drawer in the office, some equipment, some parts, Barlow Lee Hanks's prized bowie knife, $3,200 from his mother's waitressing pay and tips (leaving her $646 because he was a good son), and a 2052 American Bobcat pickup truck he boosted from the garage. He left a note for his mother saying “Thanks, Ma. Love, Darryl.”
• Walked into the Rope ‘N Ride on his 21st birthday and hooked up with Parsens.
• During his four-year stint at the Oklahoma State Pen, he and Parsens conceived a child during one of their conjugal visits. Parsens left the child with her mother in Elk City.
• He spent his time in prison reading more Shakespeare and honing his mechanical skills. He learned more about engines, how to build bombs, and the more complex ins and outs of computers and electronics.
• After their first kill, they had feral sex, and then decided to kill the next person slower.
• Not much for school, repeating some grades, even with state-sponsored tutors, no extra activities, nothing over mandatory requirements, no sports. Had a weak spot for sex and women. Had an affair with a teacher when he was 15 and she was 26 - she did time for it, but it was consensual, with James romancing her, including giving her gifts he stole. Was also bedding two other girls at the same time - one was 18, so she got a slap, but the other was 16.
• Showed an aptitude for mechanics and electronics and did better in trade school for a year.

YANNI

• Number of Kills:
  • In Chapter 1, “The first kill, mostly an accident, took place on a hot night in August. By the time they arrived in New York, in mid-January, their tally was up to twenty-nine.” In Chapter 23, Zweck charged James with twenty-nine murders (in the audio version, he charges him with twenty-four murders, the number Eve and the rest of the team had uncovered before interviewing the two killers), even though there were two more in New York - Samuel Zed and Dorian Kuper.