Edwin Chambers

Minor Character: Miami
Name	Edwin Chambers
Gender	Male
Family	Darla Chambers (wife)
City	Miami
Occupation	Pageant Director Pedophile
Status	Deceased
Portrayed By	Larry Sullivan
First Appearance	Crowned

Edwin Chambers is a pedophile who appears in season 10 of CSI: Miami.

Edwin and his wife, Darla, arrange a beauty pageant for little children every year to compete, but it turns out that it's just a facade and they use the pageant as a way for Edwin to find his next victim.

Background

It's implied that Edwin was also abducted as a child by a pedophile and was taken to a location where he was molested and possibly raped. He told latest victim, Tori, about his 'special friend' and how his friend 'took him' and 'brought him somewhere special'.

So it's possible that Edwin had been scarred by the experience and grew up thinking that what had happened to him was normal, which explains why he created the pageants in the first place.

Season 10

Crowned

When a mother of a child contestant is murdered, Horatio and his team arrive and begin to unravel the horror of child beauty pageants (episode 1011, "Crowned").

Eventually, it was discovered that the murder of Suzanne was an accident, but they uncovered and even bigger crime as Calleigh and Ryan watch the surveillance footage from the pageant. They noticed that someone paused or repeated certain sections of the film. At first they believed it was the killer targeting the mother, Suzanne, however they quickly figure out that the person behind the camera wasn't after the mother, but her child, Melrose, and also expressed interest in another contestant, Tori. Calleigh quickly confronts Darla and it's then that she realizes that Edwin was targeting children from the videos on Darla's phone.

After they find out that Edwin had taken Tori, they obtain a warrant to search his house. Only for them to find a hidden section in his backyard. It had toys scattered about, a music box, and even a pair of handcuffs attached to a bed where he kept his victims for a brief amount of time, before moving them to another location.

It is then revealed that Melrose's older sister, Jan, was there when they lifted a finger print matching her's on the music box. She talks to a doctor to help her remember what happened and where he took her. She remembered a big mouse and the smell of buttered popcorn which lead Horatio to believe that Edwin was taking his victims to a closed movie theater.

Horatio and Natalia rush to the scene to save Tori, who had been chained to a chair, from Edwin. While Natalia is freeing Tori, Edwin then tries to make a run for it. Horatio and Edwin openly fire at one another as Horatio chased him down. While Edwin was running through the movie theater seats, Horatio shoots him non-fatally, causing him to lose his balance and fall off the balcony, only to grab the railing at the last second.

Horatio had faced the same situation in season 1 with another pedophile, Stewart Otis, who was hanging off a ledge. Stewart demanded that he let him fall to his death, but Horatio had pulled him back up and Stewart was arrested and taken into custody (episode 124, "Body Count").

But as Edwin begs Horatio to save him, claiming that 'he could change', Horatio does nothing but watch as he lost his grip and fell to his death onto the chairs below, deciding that Edwin wasn't worth saving.

Modus Operandi

Edwin targeted young girls from the beauty pageant. First, he would have his wife, Darla, scout and videotape some of the child contestants, before he viewed the tape himself, pausing the footage to study his next target. Then he would kidnap them from their room before taking them to his house in his backyard to a hidden section where he kept his victims for a brief amount of time, before moving them. Next, Edwin would take them to a movie theater that was closed and would tie them up to a chair with a pair of handcuffs, before he would molest them. Edwin then releases his victims once he is done as to not cause suspicion.

Known Victims

• Numerous unnamed victims killed prior to "Crowned"
  • Unspecified date: Jan, Melrose's older sister (kidnapped and possibly molested before being released)

• 2011
  • December 11: Tori (kidnapped, was rescued)

Known Accomplices

• Darla Chambers (his wife; incarcerated)

Appearances

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