Vanessa Gayle

Vanessa Gayle is a character in Season One of the Showtime series DEXTER.

She is what Detective Angel Batista calls a "big time prosecutor." Her husband, Alex Gayle. claims that she put away a lot of criminals in her time.

Summary

 * "Shrink Wrap"

Vanessa is found dead in her bathtub, apparently having shot herself, although her husband refuses to believe it. Dexter Morgan connects her death to that of two other women who similarly killed themselves the previous year - Meghan Dowd and Carolyn Jillian - after finding that they all visited the same therapist, Dr. Emmett Meridian.

Dexter schedules an appointment with the Doctor using the alias, Sean Ellis. Ultimately, he discovers the truth behind the women's deaths after watching their recorded sessions. He finds that Dr. Meridian had prescribed each woman medications and when they became addicted, he abruptly withdrew them. Then, manipulating the women in their depressed states, Meridian was able to convince each woman to kill herself with a handgun.

Dexter himself has a few useful therapy sessions with Meridian before he kills him.

Trivia

 * With dark humor, Dexter refers to the three dead women as the "Suicide Sisters."

Related Pages

 * Vanessa Gayle Suicide Case
 * Emmett Meridian
 * Alex Gayle
 * Meghan Dowd
 * Carolyn Jillian