Sylvester Yost

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Yost, Sylvester “Sly”

Appeared in Betrayal in Death (May, 2059)

Personal Information

• Age: 56
• Hair: None (bald)
• Occupation: Professional hit man

Description

• Had a surprisingly feminine voice.
• A big, beefy guy with a square-shaped head; good tone and polish to his scalp.

Personality

• He wasn’t a passionate man, not about people or principles; that lack of passion made him an excellent killing machine.
• He had been able to develop, and indulge, a refined and cultured taste; he had studied food, drink, art, music, and fashion.

History

• Parents: Father – A second-string gunrunner who’d disappeared, and was presumed dead, during the Urban Wars; Mother – A diagnosed mental defective who’d had a penchant for boosting cars and slicing unhappy owners with a switchblade.
• His mother died of a drug overdose in a recovery ward when Yost had been thirteen.

Criminal History

• A career criminal and a stone killer.

• Criminal history
  • Ryan Feeney worked a case about fifteen years ago (c. 2044) involving serial strangulations with a silver wire (five victims all over planet). They got a line on Yost but were never able to bring him in; he came up on most likely on no less than twenty strangulations.
  • Did one year in prison (in the thirties) at age twenty after he was arrested by Miami cops for assault with a deadly.
  • Cut ear off of case worker two weeks after being sucked into the system; he raped one of the girls in his group home; escaped from juvenile detention at fifteen.
  • Suspected of forty-three murders.
  • Murdered Monique Rue (three years ago in Paris); Nigel Luca (eight years ago in Seoul); Justice Thomas Werner (two years ago in East Washington; Britt and Joseph Hague (six months ago in Cornwall); Winifred Cates (in Paris) (incomplete list)

Homicide Information

• Modus operandi
  • Bought silver wire in two-foot lengths
  • Charged approximately two million dollars plus expenses per hit by FBI estimates
  • Early victims also strangled manually, with silk scarves and gold rope
  • Bodily violence usually employed, often including rape (regardless of gender)
  • Listened to opera as he murdered

• Aliases
  • James Priory of Milwaukee for Darlene French killing
  • Giorgio Masini while living in penthouse
  • John Smith for buying wire
  • Jacob Hawthorne in another New York apartment
  • Martin K. Roles for attending opera (box seats at the Met), also his “retirement” ID

• Current Victims
  • Darlene French
  • Jonah Talbot
• Intended victims: Lawrence Summerset, Roarke (bonus of twenty-five million if within two months), and Eve Dallas (whom he planned to kill for free).

Interesting Facts

• Kept postcards from travels; he would occasionally page through them, smiling over the reminders, and the trinkets he’d collected there.
• He could speak three languages fluently, prepare a brilliant gourmet meal, and play the piano like an angel.
• Bought his wigs, enhancements (and other beauty products), and candles at the Paradise Salon, including Fat-Zap for Men.
• Preferred British clothing and enjoyed quality lifestyle, including Flinwyck’s shirts and Canterbury’s shoes.
• After a job, Yost liked to putter around the kitchen.
• Used the screen name “Sterling” on porn sites.
• Yost self-terminated by cutting his own throat with a broken coffee cup.