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Minor Character: New York
Casey
Name Shane Casey
Alias Officer Messer
Gender Male
Birth Date September 5, 1979
Family Ian Casey (brother; deceased)
City New York
Pathology Serial Killer (originally)
Budding Spree Killer
Cop Killer
Proxy Killer
Poisoner (once)
Enucleator (once)
Modus Operandi Varied
No. of Victims 7 killed
3 killed by proxy
3 attempted
2 hostages
Status Deceased
Portrayed By Edward Furlong
First Appearance Hung Out to Dry


"Convict him for the rest of his life. All because one guy points and says, 'That's him. That's the guy right there.' Justice, right? The truth will set you free. They deserved what they got. They deserved what they got."

Shane Casey was a psychopathic serial killer, proxy killer, cop killer, one-time poisoner, one-time enucleator, and budding spree killer who appeared in Seasons Three, Six, and Seven of CSI: NY. He is best known for being the archnemesis of Danny Messer.

Background

Shane Casey was raised by his brother, Ian. from a very young age and looked up to his brother as a hero. His worship turned into obsession when Ian in 2003 was put away for a fatal robbery that Shane thought he was innocent of committing. On the day of the sentencing, Ian hanged himself. Shane began to harbor a great hatred for all those involved in his brother's case and used a series of trendy t-shirts as inspiration for his grisly killings.

Season Three

Hung Out to Dry

Shane was present at a frat party where a young woman named Amy Feidler was murdered. He was interviewed on the scene by Danny Messer, who noticed later on that he was wearing a T-shirt similar to the one the victim was wearing. Shane appeared to assist the team by pointing out the T-shirt the victim was wearing was a knock off of a shirt series created by a company called edoclaundry.com. Each of the 8 T-shirts contained a hidden code that, when entered at the website, revealed a clue in a fictitious online murder mystery involving a band called Poor Richard.

The T-shirt the victim was wearing (depicting a Hydra) was created by a company whose website was kodecon.com, an anagram for "Docket No.". When Stella Bonasera and Sheldon Hawkes entered the hidden code on the victim's shirt-everything and nothing-a short video of Ian Casey (who was then unidentified) appeared. Later victims were also found with these knock-off shirts, who were revealed to be created by Shane Casey himself in an effort to expose the unjustified prosecution and subsequent suicide of his brother, Ian. Amy Feiner had been killed for being the one who led the jury, which reached a verdict in only fifteen minutes. The second victim, Kenneth Chandler, had been killed for being the sole eyewitness against Ian. His intended third victim, who was saved, was Jerry Ganville, Ian's lawyer who had slept through the proceedings. Shane also made a shirt representing Sheldon, who had done the autopsy on Ian's alleged victim. In the end of the episode, he somehow escapes custody.

Raising Shane

After his escape from police custody he set up a plan to once and for all exonerate his brother using the CSIs to do it. He first starts stalking Hawkes and learning his routine and then arranges a robbery and murder similar to his brother's case and frames Hawkes for the crime. He then kills the junkie he hired to tie up any loose ends. He contacts the CSIs, saying he will give the evidence to clear Hawkes if the team will prove Ian was innocent. He demands to talk to Danny Messer alone, and during this confrontation, Danny brings proof that Ian did indeed commit the crime for which he was arrested; during the robbery, Ian took a ring from the bartender he robbed and killed. The ring was never connected to the robbery and was presumed to have belonged to Ian. After his conviction and subsequent suicide, it was placed among his personal possessions, which is how Shane, who later dropped it when he killed the junkie, got hold of it. Thoroughly devastated, Shane was then easily arrested for murdering the man he had hired to impersonate Hawkes and commit the robbery.

Season Six

Flag on the Play

While in prison Shane becomes friends with his cell-mate Ethan Ganz and eventually Ethan helps Shane hatch an escape plan over the next three years. He begins by having Ethan steal all of Danny's belongings and brought it all to Shane. He decided to keep everything, but the dog tags and Ethan pawned them for some quick cash. Shane then started making poison while Ethan takes a state trooper's family hostage in preparation for his plan, although Shane does not appear in this chapter.

Redemption

On the night of the execution of a double murderer Reggie Tifford, he poisoned a guard which caused a lockdown and bringing in state troopers, including the one Shane has under his thumb. The trooper told the guard to open Shane's cell, but the guard fought back, effectively killing him and opening all the cells. This caused a riot which caused Hawkes, who was present at the time of the execution, to be trapped where Shane noticed him and trapped him in his own cell along with Reggie. They eventually break out and try to stop Shane from escaping. But Shane puts on a stolen NYPD uniform and Danny's stolen badge, kills the state trooper and escapes while Reggie is killed by swat officer and Sheldon is wrestled to the ground unable to stop him. The state trooper's family is rescued and Shane and Ethan are both in the wind.

Point of View

Stella shows Mac CCTV footage of Shane continuing to impersonate Danny in a bar.

Vacation Getaway

Shane reappears at a bar where he leaves a puzzle wrapped in a fake dollar bill where he is spotted by an off-duty cop named Nicholas Henderson, who calls it in. This eventually leads a chase scene where the cop and Don arrest Shane and plan to send him back to prison. But before they can do the perp walk Shane kills the guard with his own chains, unlocks himself and uses his body to cushion the fall from the building. Mac and Stella try to arrest him but he takes a woman hostage and manages to make his escape. Shane then hits his former cellmate over the head and stuffs another dollar bill code down his throat killing him in the process. He then proceeds to the Messer's vacation getaway where Shane tries to kill Danny but is stopped and eventually drops off a cliff where he is presumed dead.

But he survives and returns to Messer's home where he takes Lucy hostage and Shane aims a gun at Danny, and a gunshot rings out.

Season Seven

The 34th Floor

It is eventually revealed that Lindsay was the one who fired the shot and killed Shane, ending his reign of terror over the CSIs once and for all.

Modus Operandi

Shane killed his initial victims in a number of different ways, including decapitating with a blowtorch and stabbing with railroad spikes. The one consistent thing about his murders is that he usually left behind some sort of riddle or code that led the authorities to him and his next goal. After escaping, he abandoned his original M.O. and went from direct murder to killing through an accomplice. He copycatted the murder committed by his brother by sending a drug addict to kill a bartender, before overdosing the addict when he asked for more drugs. As a taunt to the CSI team, he lured them into public places so he could taunt them that about the fact they couldn't catch him in time.

While in prison, he relied on his cellmate, Ethan Ganz, ordering him to hold a family hostage as collateral and steal Danny's Mesner's dog tags to get him on his trail. The robbery was so he could foreshadow his future plan, while the hostage taking was meant to force the husband of the family to help. While Officer Miller got into the prison, Shane poisoned the guard's food using the cynadia part of a peach, forcing the upcoming execution to stop. While he never intended to have the security guard killed, he did want to cause a riot, but it happened before he was ready. During the midst of the chaos, where dozens of people were injured, Casey got Miller's outfit and killed him, resulting in Reggie Tilford's death when SWAT mistook Casey for police.

When he escaped, he was now on his own, so Casey acted like a police officer named Messer. After being caught, he killed an officer and held a woman hostage. Despite having a former accomplice, he killed Ganz with asphyxiation after hitting him with a hammer. Hoping to get attention, he strung up his body at a park. With no other reasoning to kill, Casey finally targeted Danny. While on a family trip, he held Danny at gunpoint for several hours, while his family was forced to leave. It was assumed he died after falling from the light tower, but he emerged later, holding an infant Lucy hostage, before being shot after trying to kill the latter.

Pathology

Shane was intelligent, disciplined, focused, and very driven. In his first appearance, he was a mission-oriented avenger whose goal was to give his brother justice. As the show progresses, however, Shane becomes more and more aggressive to the point of becoming a full-blown psychopath who kills either because he simply enjoys it or because his victims are no longer of any use to him. In later episodes, he holds a special grudge against Danny for being the one who showed him the evidence of his brother's guilt.

Known Victims

Known Victims by Proxy

The following were murdered by Shane Casey's accomplices

Known Accomplices

Appearances

CSI:NY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 #
Season 3 - - - X - - - - - - X - - - - - - - - - - - - - N/A 2
Season 6 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - X - - - X N/A 2
Season 7 X - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - N/A 1
Total 5