Henry R. "Hank" Schrader (8 April 1966 - 13 March 2010) was an American DEA agent and the Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the DEA's Albuquerque office during the 2000s. He was the brother-in-law of chemistry teacher and drug kingpin Walter White, whom he was unknowingly attempting to hunt down while investigating the local meth trafficker "Heisenberg". Schrader met his end during a gunfight with Jack Welker's neo-Nazi gang in 2010.
Biography[]
Schrader and Steven Gomez giving Walter White a ride-along, 2008
Henry R. Schrader was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 8th 1966, and he joined the Drug Enforcement Administration in the late 1980s and married his high school sweetheart Marie Lambert, the sister of Walter White's wife Skyler, in 1998. He rose to be Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the DEA's Albuquerque office, and he was a highly competent agent who made a $700,000 drug bust which made local headlines in September 2008. This raid piqued his brother-in-law's interest, as White - a hard-working chemistry teacher and car wash employee - was desperate to make enough money to feed his family before he died of cancer. Schrader took White along with him on a meth lab raid, during which White recognized one of the dealers as his former student Jesse Pinkman. White would secretly blackmail Pinkman into working with him to built a meth business, and Schrader began a year-long investigation of a local meth dealer known as "Heisenberg", the criminal alias that White used in honor of German scientist Werner von Heisenberg. Schrader later linked White to the blue meth manufacturer Gale Boetticher, and he dedicated himself to bringing White to justice. With Pinkman's help, Schrader nearly succeeded, but he and his friend Steven Gomez were caught up in a shootout with Jack Welker's neo-Nazi gang. Gomez was killed during the shootout, and, despite White's pleas, Welker shot and killed Schrader execution-style moments later.