Janet and John:
John Ohnesorge, was a wealthy businessman who owned a trio of outfitters and a motorcycle dealership in Salida Colorado. He was really most well known however, for his wife. Janet had been prom queen, cheerleader and known for her somewhat unorthodox thoughts on modern feminism. John himself, would have preferred to stay single but well for the sake of appearances it was better to be married.
The two never showed much romance, and it seemed to be a marriage of convenience. He was rich; she was beautiful nothing else really mattered right? When it came to children however, Janet knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted daughters, preferably twins. So when she became pregnant, with twins, it seemed all would be well. Until she had a son, that is.
Alois and Dorothy:
From an early age, it was made very clear that Dorothy was more important. She received more attention, more affection, more toys and of course she never got in trouble for anything. Anytime something was broken, or there was a mess it was instantly Alois’s fault. Not that John was much help, as he remained largely emotionally unavailable as a default.
By the time they were six, Dorothy had begun participating in beauty pageant competitions at her mother’s insistence. She was involved in horseback riding as well, and had a trio of expensive horses devoted to the sport. Janet did everything for Dorothy, did everything to make sure she would win and as a result Dorothy had an entire room devoted just to her accolades.
While John was never really able to make a strong emotional connection to his children, he wasn’t blind or as cold as his wife. He saw the way his household spun clearly enough, and for a while he was satisfied to just let it exist. So when Janet decided to split birthday gift buying responsibilities up of course she ended up with Dorothy, there was an expectation John would forget of course and this wasn’t undesirable.
Father:
For Alois’s seventh birthday, he didn’t get a cake and presents like a traditional birthday party. Alois and John left, with a pickup truck loaded with a couple bikes, some tents and fishing poles. For seven days, Alois was granted the full attention of his father and the two finally made some rudimentary bond. During this trip, John made sure to get his son on a bike. While John had aspired to race, he never really had the drive or aggression to make it happen. In Alois though, he saw something he himself lacked.
The following summer would mark Alois’s first race. By age seven, some kids had already been riding for three years. While his father spoke of confidence, he was really just hoping Alois would finish and then they could build on that for the next time. Alois didn’t just finish though, he won and he won soundly. He also won the rest of the heat races, and the final that night. The first event of his life, and Alois had dominated the field. John was ecstatic.
Whilst Alois didn’t win every race of the season, it was enough for rookie of the year and second place overall. When Janet refused to hang a second place trophy in the trophy room, John put it in the dealership for everyone to see. When Alois won first place for the season the next year, and Janet still refused John didn’t argue then either. It just went in the dealership like the last one. No trophy or plaque of Alois’s would ever hang on any wall other than his own in their home.
Alois’s level of aggression, and his natural knack for riding brought him much success but gradually this only served to create more tension. The better Alois got, the more frustrated John got with Janet and the more John withdrew as a result.
Poison:
By high school Dorothy was already suffering from Bulimia, and her pageant success was rapidly drying up. It was a condition Janet refused to treat, to the point of denial. Her freshman year, School officials threatened to involve child services if Dorothy didn’t receive treatment. Only then, was Dorothy admitted to a rehab facility. When she came back though, things just got worse in a hurry.
By the first month of Dorothy’s return, she began to abuse drugs. First it was huffing, which quickly progressed into ecstasy, followed by heroin. Janet was the only one paying close enough attention to Dorothy to notice, and it was yet another condition she’d attempt to treat with denial. By the time the rest of the family knew what was going on, Dorothy was already in the midst of full-scale addiction.
There was no intervention, no arrest or anything that dramatic. In the middle of the night, Dorothy was all but smuggled out to a rehab facility in Chicago. By now though, Dorothy wasn’t legally a minor anymore. So after a week, she checked herself out and vanished. Dorothy hasn’t been seen since October 1999.
Badge:
After high school, Alois wasn’t really sure what to do with himself. It had always been assumed he would race motorcycles, and there was no shortage of factory interest in Alois. Still, with Dorothy gone there was no reason why he couldn’t go to college now. With her effectively out of the picture, he had the luxury of choice. So he went to college, originally with the prospect of being a forest ranger. Forest ecology was interesting, but the concept of law enforcement seemed downright thrilling.
Initially the plan was to work for a big department for a few years, and then try to get a job as a small town sheriff somewhere. Salt Lake PD scooped up pretty quickly, and put him on a working beat. Within three years he’d made SWAT, and earned himself the position as the SWAT sniper. Precision shooting tends to be, by its very nature particularly competitive. Driven by the urge to outshoot his peers, and aided by the sharpness of his eyes Alois quickly development himself a reputation as an excellent shot.
By the time he was twenty-eight, Alois had won both the Hide cup and numerous accolades from just about every SWAT competition he was allowed to compete in. The change to the ATF was a decision based both on the size of his paycheck, and on the freedom a position with the ATF offered. Working with the Special Response Team, he was doing essentially the same work he had with SWAT but now had free reign on equipment and tactics.
The SRT is essentially the ATF’s variant of SWAT, but tends to work fewer calls with greater risk. The majority of the SRT’s work revolves around no-knock warrants in the early pre-dawn hours, and as such Dutch doesn’t get a whole lot of use on a daily basis. So like the other SRT snipers, Dutch works primarily as a consultant. This may entail aiding local law enforcement with an investigation, but most commonly he’s plotting vulnerabilities for VIP events.
