Frederick Betz

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

Betz, Frederick “Freddy” Kyle

Appeared in Brotherhood in Death (January, 2061)

Personal Information

• Age at Death: almost 70
• TOD: 2015 (8:15 p.m.)
• Relationships: Unnamed wife; two unnamed ex-wives; unnamed daughter who was in her 30s; two unnamed children, at least one of whom was female; unnamed 3-year-old with his current wife
• Addresses: Upper East Side former boutique hotel for the ridiculously rich, a home in Bimini, and one in Cuba.
• Occupation: President of Betz Chemicals

Criminal History

• False imprisonment, rape, sexual assault, and conspiracy to rape for 49 women, including:
  • Elsi Lee Adderman - deceased by self-termination
  • Grace Carter Blake
  • Tara Daniels - the first year
  • Charity Downing
  • Grace
  • Lydia
  • Carlee MacKensie
  • Lydia Su

Homicide Information

• Body found hanging from the pendant light above the main floor hallway in his Bronx property:
  • Visible evidence of physical violence
  • His face was blackened from bruising
  • His throat was gouged and smeared with dried blood, probably self-inflicted as he was alive when he was hanged
  • Beaten face and genitals, burn, sodomized with a hot poker

Interesting Facts

• He, Marshall Easterday, Ethan MacNamee, Edward Mira, William Stevenson, and Jonas Wymann all attended Yale at the same time and shared a group house.
• Although he spent fully ten times the cost of the shell of a hotel to turn it into his personal palace, he proved beyond a shadow that money couldn’t buy taste.
• He had a celtic symbol meaning brotherhood tattooed on his groin.
• Sila Robarts’s company did the housekeeping for Mrs. Betz and him, and she, Dara, and Frankie were at his house when Eve and Peabody stopped by to interview Betz. They took over the housekeeping about six months ago, after Mrs. Betz fired her other cleaning company; she got their name from Edward Mira. It took the three of them two full days to clean the house because it had so many curlicues and fuss, even though they had a house droid who saw to it daily. They came in twice a month, and charged double their usual price.
• There was a head house droid, Stevens, along with vacuum and scrubber droids, and many more.
• He left for work the previous morning at 9:15 a.m., according to Stevens, and Mrs. Betz shut the droid down at 10:38 a.m. when she left for Bimini; Mr. Betz was supposed to join her the next day.
• Peabody confirmed that he wasn’t picked up at his house that morning by his usual driver, George from Royal Limo and Transportation Service.
• Frankie noticed that the guest suite was set up for a rendezvous - a bottle of French champagne in a silver bucket full of melted ice, two fancy flutes, some white and dark chocolate dipped strawberries, a rose on the pillow on one side of the bed, and adult play toys in the nightstand drawer. The crew had cleaned up that room after sex twice since they started cleaning the house, both times when Mrs. Betz was away for a day or two.
• Had a lot of money but lost at the track pretty regularly, betting on the horses.
• He had a lot of women for a guy his age and he kept a record of them handy.
• He owned three vehicles and had a lot of speeding violations.
• He earned a lot of money from the family business and didn’t do much work.
• He had a safe deposit box in a Bronx branch of Liberty National Bank, which contained an estimated half a million dollars in hundreds, 49 small, sealed bags, each containing a lock of hair and a first name from the woman “The Brotherhood” raped, and a disc with video of each rape, one per year. The names included Charity, two Lydias, and Carlee.
• Owned property in the Bronx under the name Elis Frater - Elis for Yale’s founder and Frater for brother. He also had an offshore account in that name with over 3.4 million dollars.
• He had a lab in his Bronx property, where he had a small illegals operation to support his betting habit and cook rape drugs in his leisure time.

YANNIs

• When Feeney decoded one of the key swipes they found hidden in his house, Eve said, “FKB -- Franklin Kyle Betz” but it was Frederick Kyle Betz. Reo also called him Franklin Betz.
• According to Peabody, he was “currently on wife number three, who’s younger than his youngest daughter at 29” so presumably the child he had with his third wife was a boy, but when Eve told Baxter and Trueheart about the scary doll room, Trueheart asked, “don’t they have a little girl?”