Person Type: Perpetrators/Suspects
Name: Duane Barry
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Sex: Male

History: Formerly an agent with the Bureau, Barry also did a tour of duty in Vietnam. While with the Bureau his record was exemplary. His career ended in 1982 after he was shot with his own weapon in a drug stakeout and left for dead in the woods. Though he recovered, Barry's life was destroyed, losing his wife, children, and livelihood. According to Agt. Scully, who researched Barry's medical and psychiatric history, this incident destroyed the moral center of Barry's brain. Referring to a similar case occurring one hundred years earlier, she hypothesized that Barry was severely delusional, and prone to elaborate lies and confabulation.

Beginning in 1982, Barry had spent most of his time in psychiatric hospitals. Barry's doctors described his behavior as irrational and violent. Barry escaped from a facility in Virginia in 1994, taking a doctor hostage. He told FBI negotiators that he feared he would be abducted by aliens, and that it was his intention to bring his hostage to the abduction site in order to offer up the doctor in his place. He explained that he had been abducted a number of times before, during which time holes had been drilled in his teeth, and implants placed in his body.

This hostage situation ended with the non-fatal shooting of Barry by Bureau snipers. As pointed out by Agt. Kazdin to Agt. Mulder, a physical examination of Barry's body revealed evidence that appeared to confirm Barry's claims, including small metal implants in his body and holes in his teeth drilled by no known equipment.

Shortly thereafter, Barry escaped from his hospital room to the residence of Agt. Scully, kidnapping her. Though Barry was later found, he had no explanation for the location of Agt. Scully. He only said that "they" had taken her. Barry died in custody under dubious circumstances.

Position: former Agent, FBI