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* ClashingCousins: As an adult, Paul fights with his cousin Tom for not giving him a rent extension ([[GreenEyedMonster as well as out of envy for Tom's wife getting pregnant while Paul and his own wife are unable to conceive]] and eventually kills him.
* ColdSniper: Although it fades as his episode goes on.
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* ClashingCousins: As an adult, Paul fights with his cousin Tom for not giving him a rent extension ([[GreenEyedMonster as well as out of envy for Tom's wife getting pregnant while Paul and his own wife are unable to conceive]] and eventually kills him.
* ColdSniper: Although it fades as his episode goes on.
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* ClashingCousins: As an adult, Paul fights with his cousin Tom for not giving him a rent extension ([[GreenEyedMonster as well as out of envy for Tom's wife getting pregnant while Paul and his own wife are unable to
* ColdSniper: Although
* CrazySurvivalist: Paul's father Bill had shades of this - he was skilled hunter, kept an underground bunker stocked full of various items, and wrote a ranting manifesto outlining both his
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* DisproportionateRetribution: A serial perpetrator of this. In his mind, ''anyone'' connected to either his father's suicide of the failure of his video rental store deserves to die, even if their parts in the events were honest mistakes just being the bearer of bad news.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His father Bill was his personal hero, and he's blissfully in love with his wife Claire. His victims are people he blames for either Bill killing himself, or for his and Claire's own business failing.
* GeekyTurnOn: He and his wife Claire (who is WAY out of his league in terms of looks at least) fell in love due to a shared taste in obscure movies.
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* SerialKiller: His nine victims make him the second-most prolific killer on the show, behind George Marks with eleven.
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[[folder: Becca Abrams]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AnnaLynneMcCord (1997) and Creator/LaurenWoodland (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E20StandUpAndHoller Stand Up and Holler]]"
A cruel cheerleader who was involved in the death of another girl named Rainey Karlsen back in 1997.
* AccidentalMurder: While she did force feed Rainey a can of beer that was laced with GHB, she had no intention of killing her, and was totally unaware that Celeste had added an excess amount of the drug to the beer before she poured it on Rainey.
--> '''Becca:''' What's wrong with her?! She only had one beer!
* AlcoholicParent: Her mother would give her practically anything, so long as she asked "during cocktail hour."
* AlphaBitch: Of Birmingham High School back in 1997.
* BetaBitch: She had an unnamed one who was just credited as "Cheerleader #1."
* BitchAlert:
** As Rainey is auditioning for the cheer squad, Becca tells her not to bother concentrating, as it "makes you look like you have a giant bloomer wedgie."
** When Lilly and Jeffries first talk to the grown-up Becca, she interrupts the interview to tell one of the beleaguered reunion workers, "Don't you think we should maybe actually ''center'' the centerpiece?"
* BitchInSheepsClothing: This is emphasized the first time Rainey and Celeste have lunch with Becca. Becca, under the pretense of being friendly, brings up how "stupid" it was that she used to mock Celeste's overeating by calling her "The Black Hole." When Celeste meekly replies that she now buys size 6s from The Gap, Becca just says, "Ugh, I'm so pissed at them. They totally resized all their clothes to make fat people feel good. I mean, just 'cause everyone else in America weighs 5,000 pounds, don't punish me."
* BystanderSyndrome: While Rainey is overdosing, Becca runs away while telling Celeste to deal with Rainey.
* TheChainOfHarm: It is implied that Becca did not make-up the cheer squad's hazing rituals, and that she herself was subjected to them back in 1996.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Her main reason for "befriending" Rainey was because she was insecure about her boyfriend Casey's interest in Rainey, leading her to want to "control" Rainey. Ironically, Casey did not care about Becca at all, even as a teenager, at one point calling her an "old jock mattress."
* CondescendingCompassion: "Losers are so pathetic. Spend all their time projecting their ugliness onto other people. It's sad, really."
* CruelCheerleader: The show's quintessential example, along with Jane from "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E6LoveConquersAl Love Conquers Al]]."
* FemaleMisogynist: She gets called out as one by Joe after he spots her enforcing PopularIsDumb on Rainey, with Joe mentioning how ironic it is that people always say that men keep women down when he just saw a woman tell another to just look pretty and act stupid under the threat of making it so that she would no longer be InWithTheInCrowd.
* ForceFeeding: She force fed Rainey a can of beer that was laced with GHB, though she admittedly did not know that a nigh-lethal amount of the drug had been added to the drink by Celeste.
* FreudianExcuse: Her mother was all but stated to be a LadyDrunk, and when she spots Celeste crying after playing the "game" where a cheerleader has to roll a pair of dice to see how many football players she has to have sex with, whether she wants to or not, Becca tells her, "Quit your sniveling. Last year I rolled a 12."
* FutureLoser: By 2007, she is unable to hold down a job, has had two divorces, going on three, and is desperately trying to relive her glory days through the reunion at Birmingham High School.
* GirlPosse: She had two sycophants, one without dialogue, and the other credited as just "Cheerleader #1."
* InformedAttribute: While Becca is repeatedly implied to be promiscuous, no actual details are given, and the most we get is her acting slutty to get a good grade on a presentation from Mr. Pruit.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When first interviewed about Rainey's death, Becca blasely states, "Look, you can imagine how bad it looked for ''me'' when she turned up dead."
* LameComeback: After Rainey calls her out on how pathetic she is during Mr. Pruit's class, Becca's only response is a very awkward, "Someone needs to take a chill pill, bokay!"
* {{Manchild}}: When shown in the present, she still acts exactly like the bitchy teen that she was back in 1997.
* OhCrap: Her reaction after she rants (i.e. confesses) to Lilly about what she did to Becca.
* PopularIsDumb: She actually encourages the people in her entourage to avoid doing well academically, at least publicly, because "[[InsaneTrollLogic you look stupid if you look smart]]."
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: She is as much of a petulant, selfish brat as an adult as she was as an AlphaBitch back in 1997.
* SextraCredit: While she does not have sex with Mr. Pruit, her idea of a class presentation for him is to just give a SupermodelStrut and say, "Friction. It's a real downer. How do you fix it? Lubrication."
* SpoiledBrat: After mentioning that her parents will give her either a Beemer or a boob job, but not ''both'', Becca then unironically states, "My parents just like to deny me things."
* TotallyRadical: "Someone needs to take a chill pill, bokay!"
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: An abuser of this, something which Lilly throws back in her face with the IronicEcho, "Don't move a muscle... bitch."
* ValleyGirl: She sounds like one as an adult, but strangely not so much as a teenager back in 1997.
* YouAreFat: Her default insult when it came to Celeste.
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AnnaLynneMcCord (1997) and Creator/LaurenWoodland (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E20StandUpAndHoller Stand Up and Holler]]"
A cruel cheerleader who was involved in the death of another girl named Rainey Karlsen back in 1997.
* AccidentalMurder: While she did force feed Rainey a can of beer that was laced with GHB, she had no intention of killing her, and was totally unaware that Celeste had added an excess amount of the drug to the beer before she poured it on Rainey.
--> '''Becca:''' What's wrong with her?! She only had one beer!
* AlcoholicParent: Her mother would give her practically anything, so long as she asked "during cocktail hour."
* AlphaBitch: Of Birmingham High School back in 1997.
* BetaBitch: She had an unnamed one who was just credited as "Cheerleader #1."
* BitchAlert:
** As Rainey is auditioning for the cheer squad, Becca tells her not to bother concentrating, as it "makes you look like you have a giant bloomer wedgie."
** When Lilly and Jeffries first talk to the grown-up Becca, she interrupts the interview to tell one of the beleaguered reunion workers, "Don't you think we should maybe actually ''center'' the centerpiece?"
* BitchInSheepsClothing: This is emphasized the first time Rainey and Celeste have lunch with Becca. Becca, under the pretense of being friendly, brings up how "stupid" it was that she used to mock Celeste's overeating by calling her "The Black Hole." When Celeste meekly replies that she now buys size 6s from The Gap, Becca just says, "Ugh, I'm so pissed at them. They totally resized all their clothes to make fat people feel good. I mean, just 'cause everyone else in America weighs 5,000 pounds, don't punish me."
* BystanderSyndrome: While Rainey is overdosing, Becca runs away while telling Celeste to deal with Rainey.
* TheChainOfHarm: It is implied that Becca did not make-up the cheer squad's hazing rituals, and that she herself was subjected to them back in 1996.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Her main reason for "befriending" Rainey was because she was insecure about her boyfriend Casey's interest in Rainey, leading her to want to "control" Rainey. Ironically, Casey did not care about Becca at all, even as a teenager, at one point calling her an "old jock mattress."
* CondescendingCompassion: "Losers are so pathetic. Spend all their time projecting their ugliness onto other people. It's sad, really."
* CruelCheerleader: The show's quintessential example, along with Jane from "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E6LoveConquersAl Love Conquers Al]]."
* FemaleMisogynist: She gets called out as one by Joe after he spots her enforcing PopularIsDumb on Rainey, with Joe mentioning how ironic it is that people always say that men keep women down when he just saw a woman tell another to just look pretty and act stupid under the threat of making it so that she would no longer be InWithTheInCrowd.
* ForceFeeding: She force fed Rainey a can of beer that was laced with GHB, though she admittedly did not know that a nigh-lethal amount of the drug had been added to the drink by Celeste.
* FreudianExcuse: Her mother was all but stated to be a LadyDrunk, and when she spots Celeste crying after playing the "game" where a cheerleader has to roll a pair of dice to see how many football players she has to have sex with, whether she wants to or not, Becca tells her, "Quit your sniveling. Last year I rolled a 12."
* FutureLoser: By 2007, she is unable to hold down a job, has had two divorces, going on three, and is desperately trying to relive her glory days through the reunion at Birmingham High School.
* GirlPosse: She had two sycophants, one without dialogue, and the other credited as just "Cheerleader #1."
* InformedAttribute: While Becca is repeatedly implied to be promiscuous, no actual details are given, and the most we get is her acting slutty to get a good grade on a presentation from Mr. Pruit.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When first interviewed about Rainey's death, Becca blasely states, "Look, you can imagine how bad it looked for ''me'' when she turned up dead."
* LameComeback: After Rainey calls her out on how pathetic she is during Mr. Pruit's class, Becca's only response is a very awkward, "Someone needs to take a chill pill, bokay!"
* {{Manchild}}: When shown in the present, she still acts exactly like the bitchy teen that she was back in 1997.
* OhCrap: Her reaction after she rants (i.e. confesses) to Lilly about what she did to Becca.
* PopularIsDumb: She actually encourages the people in her entourage to avoid doing well academically, at least publicly, because "[[InsaneTrollLogic you look stupid if you look smart]]."
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: She is as much of a petulant, selfish brat as an adult as she was as an AlphaBitch back in 1997.
* SextraCredit: While she does not have sex with Mr. Pruit, her idea of a class presentation for him is to just give a SupermodelStrut and say, "Friction. It's a real downer. How do you fix it? Lubrication."
* SpoiledBrat: After mentioning that her parents will give her either a Beemer or a boob job, but not ''both'', Becca then unironically states, "My parents just like to deny me things."
* TotallyRadical: "Someone needs to take a chill pill, bokay!"
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: An abuser of this, something which Lilly throws back in her face with the IronicEcho, "Don't move a muscle... bitch."
* ValleyGirl: She sounds like one as an adult, but strangely not so much as a teenager back in 1997.
* YouAreFat: Her default insult when it came to Celeste.
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* StalkerWithACrush: He hangs out at places like bookstores, coffee shops, libraries, museums, etc. in search of smart-seeming women, who he then follows home, scoping out their residence and keeping an eye out for pet cats (which he takes as an indication that they live alone).
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* StalkerWithACrush: He hangs out at places like bookstores, coffee shops, libraries, museums, etc. in search of smart-seeming women, who he then follows home, scoping out their residence residences and keeping an eye out for pet cats (which he takes as an indication that they live alone).
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even though his father, Edward, was implicitly abusive, Roy still loved him, and becomes agitated when Lilly suggests that his victims were surrogates for Edward. He also appeared to care for his Aunt Louise.
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* PleaBargain: In 1980, he confessed to murders that he was strongly suspected of but could not be conclusively linked to, and in exchange he only got twenty-five to life, with his exemplary behavior while behind bars making it very likely that he would be released in 2005.
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* PleaBargain: In 1980, he confessed and pleaded guilty to murders that he was strongly suspected of but could not be conclusively linked to, and in exchange he only got twenty-five to life, with his exemplary behavior while behind bars making it very likely that he would be released in 2005.
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[[folder: Cameron Coulter and Neal Hanlon]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KyleGallner (Cameron) and Creator/WillRothhaar (Neal)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E1Rampage Rampage]]"
A pair of teenage outcasts who committed suicide after shooting up the Woodland Valley Mall in 1995.
* AlasPoorVillain: At the end of the episode, during the usual "ghost" scene where a victim or victims appear, Cameron and Neal are shown instead, and when Cameron's parents notice them, the two look away sadly, with Cameron looking teary-eyed, indicating that, at least in death, the two are ashamed of what they did at the Woodland Valley Mall.
* AttentionWhore: The two got Barry Lewis to tell them about the mall's security cameras not so that they could avoid them, but so they could know which ones were dummies and which ones were real and thus could help them achieve FameThroughInfamy.
* AxCrazy: Neal's artbook is full of violent and demonic imagery, while Cameron's journal contained the poem, "I am the destroyer, the apocalypse, the widow maker. I am a rifle, I am a gun. Look down the barrel of my hate, we're gonna have some fun."
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The two shot themselves after shooting up the Woodland Valley Mall.
* CruelMercy: Cameron was all set to finish Barry off, but Neal stopped him, telling Cameron to let Barry "bleed." Barry ended up surviving, albeit as a paraplegic, thanks to Tina.
* TheDividual: The two are never shown apart and are largely interchangeable outside of the scene with Tina, where Cameron came off as the more dominant of the two, despite his father's earlier assertion that he was just a follower who went along with Neal.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Cameron's parents loved him, with Mr. Coulter at one point sadly stating, "everyone forgets, that day we lost a child, too."
* FalseFriend: The two pretended to befriend one of the mall's security guards in order to learn about the building's security features, and then remorselessly shot him during the rampage in 1995.
* ForTheEvulz: Their motive was a combination of this and FameThroughInfamy.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The two were bullied, but otherwise appeared to have had entirely normal lives, with it being made clear that being teased had little to nothing to do with what they did, they were just misanthropic time bombs who were liable to go off at any time, and did when they were egged on by Tina (though the fact that they already had loaded guns on them when Tina approached them makes it questionable exactly how much influence she even had on them).
* GreaterScopeVillain: The two are long dead by the events of the episode, the focus of which is the search for a possible "third shooter" spurred on by the discovery of an old camcorder in one of the vents in the Woodland Valley Mall.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: In a minor comedic moment, Cameron was clearly weirded out when a rambling and disheveled Tina approached him and Neal, muttering, "girlfriend's seriously tweaked."
* InvisibleParents: While Cameron's parents are supporting characters in the episode, Neal's are never shown, not even in flashbacks, and are said to have moved to Georgia in 2004.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Their first victim was Zack, a JerkJock who had bullied them and sexually assaulted Tina.
* LonersAreFreaks: Their only friend was Dayton Moore, who abandoned them when all three of them started attending Lakefield High.
* MisanthropeSupreme: They are introduced calling the mall the "ninth circle of Hell" and the "sweaty armpit of suburbia" full of "tweakers, preps, horny housewives, and morons galore."
* MurderSimulators: According to Dayton Moore, the two used an online game called ''"[[GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath Renegade Massacre]]"'' as "practice" for shooting up the Woodland Valley Mall.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Their online monikers were "The Destroyer" (Cameron) and "The Apocalypse" (Neal).
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The two are obvious stand-ins for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre.
* PosthumousCharacter: They killed themselves in 1995, a full decade before the case was reopened in 2006.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: They were White boys who used a lot of slang like "dawg" and "home slice."
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: "The survivors say they busted a gut the whole time they were mowing folks down."
* SarcasticConfession: No one believed that the two of them would go through with committing a mass shooting, even though they bragged about it 24/7.
* SnuffFilm: The two wanted to be caught on camera killing people, and gave a camcorder to Tina so that she could record them shooting everyone in the Woodland Valley Mall.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Their suicides are portrayed this way, unsurprisingly, given that they blew their own heads off with high-powered firearms and the show is only rated TV-14.
* SpreeKiller: They were mass murderers who shot and killed fifteen people at a shopping mall, making them the killers with the second highest body count in the show after Paul Chaney from "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E15DiscoInferno Disco Inferno]]."
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: As Lilly puts it, they looked "so normal."
* UsedToBeASweetKid: At the end of the episode, we are shown happy pictures of Cameron with his parents, who had earlier claimed that, growing up, Cameron was always "polite" and "well-behaved."
* VillainousFriendship: At the end of their shooting spree, the two smiled at each other and said their goodbyes while clasping hands and hugging before shooting themselves in the head in front of the cowering Tina.
* WouldHurtAChild: When trying to decide who to shoot first, the two play "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" with a little girl and Zack.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The two used Barry Lewis to learn about the mall's security features, and then shot him when they finally snapped and went on a rampage in 1995.
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KyleGallner (Cameron) and Creator/WillRothhaar (Neal)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E1Rampage Rampage]]"
A pair of teenage outcasts who committed suicide after shooting up the Woodland Valley Mall in 1995.
* AlasPoorVillain: At the end of the episode, during the usual "ghost" scene where a victim or victims appear, Cameron and Neal are shown instead, and when Cameron's parents notice them, the two look away sadly, with Cameron looking teary-eyed, indicating that, at least in death, the two are ashamed of what they did at the Woodland Valley Mall.
* AttentionWhore: The two got Barry Lewis to tell them about the mall's security cameras not so that they could avoid them, but so they could know which ones were dummies and which ones were real and thus could help them achieve FameThroughInfamy.
* AxCrazy: Neal's artbook is full of violent and demonic imagery, while Cameron's journal contained the poem, "I am the destroyer, the apocalypse, the widow maker. I am a rifle, I am a gun. Look down the barrel of my hate, we're gonna have some fun."
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The two shot themselves after shooting up the Woodland Valley Mall.
* CruelMercy: Cameron was all set to finish Barry off, but Neal stopped him, telling Cameron to let Barry "bleed." Barry ended up surviving, albeit as a paraplegic, thanks to Tina.
* TheDividual: The two are never shown apart and are largely interchangeable outside of the scene with Tina, where Cameron came off as the more dominant of the two, despite his father's earlier assertion that he was just a follower who went along with Neal.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Cameron's parents loved him, with Mr. Coulter at one point sadly stating, "everyone forgets, that day we lost a child, too."
* FalseFriend: The two pretended to befriend one of the mall's security guards in order to learn about the building's security features, and then remorselessly shot him during the rampage in 1995.
* ForTheEvulz: Their motive was a combination of this and FameThroughInfamy.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The two were bullied, but otherwise appeared to have had entirely normal lives, with it being made clear that being teased had little to nothing to do with what they did, they were just misanthropic time bombs who were liable to go off at any time, and did when they were egged on by Tina (though the fact that they already had loaded guns on them when Tina approached them makes it questionable exactly how much influence she even had on them).
* GreaterScopeVillain: The two are long dead by the events of the episode, the focus of which is the search for a possible "third shooter" spurred on by the discovery of an old camcorder in one of the vents in the Woodland Valley Mall.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: In a minor comedic moment, Cameron was clearly weirded out when a rambling and disheveled Tina approached him and Neal, muttering, "girlfriend's seriously tweaked."
* InvisibleParents: While Cameron's parents are supporting characters in the episode, Neal's are never shown, not even in flashbacks, and are said to have moved to Georgia in 2004.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Their first victim was Zack, a JerkJock who had bullied them and sexually assaulted Tina.
* LonersAreFreaks: Their only friend was Dayton Moore, who abandoned them when all three of them started attending Lakefield High.
* MisanthropeSupreme: They are introduced calling the mall the "ninth circle of Hell" and the "sweaty armpit of suburbia" full of "tweakers, preps, horny housewives, and morons galore."
* MurderSimulators: According to Dayton Moore, the two used an online game called ''"[[GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath Renegade Massacre]]"'' as "practice" for shooting up the Woodland Valley Mall.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Their online monikers were "The Destroyer" (Cameron) and "The Apocalypse" (Neal).
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The two are obvious stand-ins for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} massacre.
* PosthumousCharacter: They killed themselves in 1995, a full decade before the case was reopened in 2006.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: They were White boys who used a lot of slang like "dawg" and "home slice."
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: "The survivors say they busted a gut the whole time they were mowing folks down."
* SarcasticConfession: No one believed that the two of them would go through with committing a mass shooting, even though they bragged about it 24/7.
* SnuffFilm: The two wanted to be caught on camera killing people, and gave a camcorder to Tina so that she could record them shooting everyone in the Woodland Valley Mall.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Their suicides are portrayed this way, unsurprisingly, given that they blew their own heads off with high-powered firearms and the show is only rated TV-14.
* SpreeKiller: They were mass murderers who shot and killed fifteen people at a shopping mall, making them the killers with the second highest body count in the show after Paul Chaney from "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E15DiscoInferno Disco Inferno]]."
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: As Lilly puts it, they looked "so normal."
* UsedToBeASweetKid: At the end of the episode, we are shown happy pictures of Cameron with his parents, who had earlier claimed that, growing up, Cameron was always "polite" and "well-behaved."
* VillainousFriendship: At the end of their shooting spree, the two smiled at each other and said their goodbyes while clasping hands and hugging before shooting themselves in the head in front of the cowering Tina.
* WouldHurtAChild: When trying to decide who to shoot first, the two play "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" with a little girl and Zack.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The two used Barry Lewis to learn about the mall's security features, and then shot him when they finally snapped and went on a rampage in 1995.
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[[folder:John Doe]]
!!John Doe
-->'''Played By''': Creator/ZeljkoIvanek
* BaldOfEvil: Zigzagged. Although he's this in present day, he was no less evil when he had hair many years previously.
* EvilCripple: Unlike most examples of this, it's actually not clear that there's anything wrong with him, but he has multiple sclerosis and his crimes are triggered by the disease's progression.
* FateWorseThanDeath: What his [[spoiler:MS]] is presented as, which is somewhat up for debate.
* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: The main thrust of his episode, "One Night".
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!!John Doe
-->'''Played By''': Creator/ZeljkoIvanek
* BaldOfEvil: Zigzagged. Although he's this in present day, he was no less evil when he had hair many years previously.
* EvilCripple: Unlike most examples of this, it's actually not clear that there's anything wrong with him, but he has multiple sclerosis and his crimes are triggered by the disease's progression.
* FateWorseThanDeath: What his [[spoiler:MS]] is presented as, which is somewhat up for debate.
* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: The main thrust of his episode, "One Night".
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[[folder: John Harding]]
-> '''Played By:''' Hallock Beals (1968); Scott Vickaryous (1980); Creator/ZeljkoIvanek (2006)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS3E16OneNight One Night]]"
A man with multiple sclerosis who shows up at the precinct one night with a dirty shovel, which he claims to have buried two teenage boys alive with, one a few hours ago, and the other in 1980.
* AffablyEvil: He is almost unflappably calm and polite, lets his victims choose a happy personal place for them to be buried in, reassures them that their deaths will be painless, and apologizes to Mr. and Mrs. Jablonski for what he did to their son, Steve.
* ApologeticAttacker: He falsely reassures Steve that he did not put anything in his beer, then admits that he actually did, blasély stating, "I'm sorry I lied."
* BadSamaritan: He captured Steve Jablonski when Steve asked him for a lift while he was stuck trying to change a tire on his Cadillac.
* BaldOfEvil: By 2006, he has gone bald, though he was no less evil than when he still had hair back in 1980.
* BuriedAlive: What he did to Steve Jablonski (who died) and Justin Bradley (who survived).
* CallingCard: He forced Steve Jablonski to write his own will, which he then sent to Mr. and Mrs. Jablonski. He does the same thing with Justin Bradley, having him write a will to be delivered to his friend, Valentino.
* DyingAlone: His greatest fear, and part of the reason why he turned himself in to the Philly PD.
* TheEeyore: He has a dour demeanor, is almost perpetually watery-eyed, and speaks in a slightly shaky CreepyMonotone.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While he is completely estranged from his family, when he realized that he would be dead soon, he still called his ex-wife to tell her about it, and to say goodbye to her and, through her, their sons, Jack and Stan.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** When asked why he had Steve Jablonski write a will, John replies with, "People should have the chance to put their affairs in order. To make sense of their lives. To say goodbye."
---> '''Jeffries:''' [[SarcasmMode Now, that's real stand-up]].
** He is clearly disgusted when Scotty pegs him as pedophile who had a sexual interest in Steve and Justin.
* EvilCripple: He has MS.
* EvilOldFolks: He is even called "grandpa" by Justin.
* EvilTeacher: He is a high school teacher, though it has nothing to do with his motive or MO.
* FateWorseThanDeath: How he feels about his MS.
* FreudianExcuse: Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis turned him into a resentful TeenHater.
* MistakenForPedophile: Assuming that he has been abducted by a sexual predator, Steve offered himself to John (who was clearly put off by it). And when Scotty assumes that he is a pedophile, an irritated John adamantly declares, "You're way off base."
* RealNameAsAnAlias: John Doe's real name turns out to be... John Harding.
* ReluctantPsycho: He was wracked with guilt over what he did to Steve Jablonski, and after he does the same thing to another boy, he turns himself in to the Philly PD.
* TheResenter: Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis caused him to both envy and hate young men with their whole lives ahead of them who think that they will live forever, leading him to abduct and bury Steve and Justin.
* TheSpook: His fingerprints are not on file, he has no ID or any form of identification on him, and insists on only being referred to as "John Doe." He is eventually identified as John Harding.
* SuddenlyShouting: He loses his cool when Scotty gets under his skin by accusing him of being a pedophile, shouting that he did not choose his victims because he was sexually attracted to them, he choose them because, "the little bastards think they'll live forever!"
* UsedToBeASweetKid: We get a flashback to John's happiest memory, him as a carefree young man, hanging out with his friends at the river, in 1968.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: "You look at me and you see a quiet, simple man. So did he. Didn't believe me when I told him he was gonna die."
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-> '''Played By:''' Hallock Beals (1968); Scott Vickaryous (1980); Creator/ZeljkoIvanek (2006)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS3E16OneNight One Night]]"
A man with multiple sclerosis who shows up at the precinct one night with a dirty shovel, which he claims to have buried two teenage boys alive with, one a few hours ago, and the other in 1980.
* AffablyEvil: He is almost unflappably calm and polite, lets his victims choose a happy personal place for them to be buried in, reassures them that their deaths will be painless, and apologizes to Mr. and Mrs. Jablonski for what he did to their son, Steve.
* ApologeticAttacker: He falsely reassures Steve that he did not put anything in his beer, then admits that he actually did, blasély stating, "I'm sorry I lied."
* BadSamaritan: He captured Steve Jablonski when Steve asked him for a lift while he was stuck trying to change a tire on his Cadillac.
* BaldOfEvil: By 2006, he has gone bald, though he was no less evil than when he still had hair back in 1980.
* BuriedAlive: What he did to Steve Jablonski (who died) and Justin Bradley (who survived).
* CallingCard: He forced Steve Jablonski to write his own will, which he then sent to Mr. and Mrs. Jablonski. He does the same thing with Justin Bradley, having him write a will to be delivered to his friend, Valentino.
* DyingAlone: His greatest fear, and part of the reason why he turned himself in to the Philly PD.
* TheEeyore: He has a dour demeanor, is almost perpetually watery-eyed, and speaks in a slightly shaky CreepyMonotone.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: While he is completely estranged from his family, when he realized that he would be dead soon, he still called his ex-wife to tell her about it, and to say goodbye to her and, through her, their sons, Jack and Stan.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** When asked why he had Steve Jablonski write a will, John replies with, "People should have the chance to put their affairs in order. To make sense of their lives. To say goodbye."
---> '''Jeffries:''' [[SarcasmMode Now, that's real stand-up]].
** He is clearly disgusted when Scotty pegs him as pedophile who had a sexual interest in Steve and Justin.
* EvilCripple: He has MS.
* EvilOldFolks: He is even called "grandpa" by Justin.
* EvilTeacher: He is a high school teacher, though it has nothing to do with his motive or MO.
* FateWorseThanDeath: How he feels about his MS.
* FreudianExcuse: Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis turned him into a resentful TeenHater.
* MistakenForPedophile: Assuming that he has been abducted by a sexual predator, Steve offered himself to John (who was clearly put off by it). And when Scotty assumes that he is a pedophile, an irritated John adamantly declares, "You're way off base."
* RealNameAsAnAlias: John Doe's real name turns out to be... John Harding.
* ReluctantPsycho: He was wracked with guilt over what he did to Steve Jablonski, and after he does the same thing to another boy, he turns himself in to the Philly PD.
* TheResenter: Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis caused him to both envy and hate young men with their whole lives ahead of them who think that they will live forever, leading him to abduct and bury Steve and Justin.
* TheSpook: His fingerprints are not on file, he has no ID or any form of identification on him, and insists on only being referred to as "John Doe." He is eventually identified as John Harding.
* SuddenlyShouting: He loses his cool when Scotty gets under his skin by accusing him of being a pedophile, shouting that he did not choose his victims because he was sexually attracted to them, he choose them because, "the little bastards think they'll live forever!"
* UsedToBeASweetKid: We get a flashback to John's happiest memory, him as a carefree young man, hanging out with his friends at the river, in 1968.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: "You look at me and you see a quiet, simple man. So did he. Didn't believe me when I told him he was gonna die."
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[[folder: Roy Brigham Anthony]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AlexBall (1977) and Creator/BarryBostwick (2005)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E21CreaturesOfTheNight Creatures of the Night]]"
A psychotic strangler who, due to a highly controversial plea bargain, was set to be released in 2005.
* AffablyEvil: Roy is a nice, if awkward, fellow... so long as you do not push his BerserkButton. During his first meeting with Lilly and Scotty, he is nothing but genial, always referring to Lilly as "ma'am."
* BerserkButton: Disrespecting the Lord.
* BurgerFool: While in Philadelphia, he worked as a busboy at a greasy spoon called the Franklin Grill.
* CreepySouvenir: He took a "trinket" from all of his victims, with the first being a gold charm that he took off of Mike Cahill.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Roy's aunt, Louise, loved him, and it broke her heart when he ran away and became a SerialKiller.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even though his father, Edward, was implicitly abusive, Roy still loved him, and becomes agitated when Lilly suggests that his victims were surrogates for Edward. He also appeared to care for his Aunt Louise.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He will lie and kill, but is adamantly against sex outside of marriage, which made him want to propose to Kelly Witkowski, even though the two of them had only ''just'' met after Roy moved from Utah to Philadelphia.
* FreudianExcuse: Roy targeting people in uniform is indicated to stem from deep-seated resentment of his father, a strict military man who, in his only scene, is shown treating Roy more like a subordinate than a son, at one point nearly backhanding a flinching Roy.
* TheFundamentalist: A devout, homicidal Mormon.
* GunManWithThreeNames: He was for some reason almost always referred to as either Roy or Roy Brigham Anthony, never just Roy Anthony.
* HasAType: Non-sexual variant; he only killed people in uniform, starting with doorman Mike Cahill.
* HearingVoices: He thinks that they come from God.
* JustFollowingOrders: Roy claims to be "just obeying orders" when confronted with photographs of his victims when he first speaks with Lilly and Scotty.
* KnightTemplar: Roy believes that his killing people is justified because he does it at the behest of voices which he believes originate from God.
--> '''Roy:''' God's work can be brutal.
* LightIsNotGood: He is shown wearing white in literally every flashback to him as a young man in 1978.
* LonersAreFreaks: According to his aunt, Roy had no friends, and barely interacted with anyone other than her and his co-workers at the Franklin Grill.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He suffers from auditory and visual hallucinations, committed self-harm in an attempt to suppress them, and eventually began killing people because he was convinced that he was being told to by God.
* MissionFromGod: Roy is convinced that God is directing him to kill people, and that he has no say in the matter, proclaiming, "He shines a light on someone's face and I don't have a choice."
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Brigham Young, a pioneering Mormon.
* NoodleIncident: An unknown incident involving a girl in Provo led to Roy's father shipping him away to live with his Aunt Louise in Philadelphia.
* ObviouslyEvil: During his first interview with Lilly and Scotty, Roy outright admits that he still suffers from hallucinations, and that he intends to resume killing people as soon he gets out of prison, casually stating, "I have a lot of work to catch up on."
* PleaBargain: In 1980, he confessed to murders that he was strongly suspected of but could not be conclusively linked to, and in exchange he only got twenty-five to life, with his exemplary behavior while behind bars making it very likely that he would be released in 2005.
* ReligiousBruiser: A religious fanatic, he killed all of his victims with his bare hands, and was shown to tower over almost everyone at 6'4.
* ReligiousStereotype: Roy and his family were weird, naïve, and uptight Mormons who had no social circle outside of themselves, as well as an obsession with purity and virtue and nothing but disdain for "heathens." Aunt Louise also believed that, like Joseph Smith, Roy could hear the voice of God.
* SelfHarm: Whenever the voices in his head became too overwhelming, Roy would hurt himself in an attempt to suppress them, including by burning himself on the stove at the Franklin Grill.
--> '''Roy:''' It was either hurt him, or me.
* SerialKiller: With nine confirmed victims, he is the show's second most prolific serial killer, after George Marks.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: He had "impure" thoughts about a girl in Provo, as well as Kelly Witkowski, and was ashamed of them, as his religious beliefs precluded sex outside of marriage, with the frustration that this caused him further fueling his psychosis, leading to an obsession with "pure" girls like Kelly.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The circumstances surrounding his near-release, despite him being a confessed serial killer, were inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Eugene_Watts Carl Eugene Watts]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: This is the impression given by the flashback showing Roy with his father, Edward.
--> '''Roy:''' When are you coming back for me?\\
'''Edward:''' That depends... on how well you obey the rules.\\
'''Roy:''' Oh, I'll obey, sir! I promise!
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/AlexBall (1977) and Creator/BarryBostwick (2005)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E21CreaturesOfTheNight Creatures of the Night]]"
A psychotic strangler who, due to a highly controversial plea bargain, was set to be released in 2005.
* AffablyEvil: Roy is a nice, if awkward, fellow... so long as you do not push his BerserkButton. During his first meeting with Lilly and Scotty, he is nothing but genial, always referring to Lilly as "ma'am."
* BerserkButton: Disrespecting the Lord.
* BurgerFool: While in Philadelphia, he worked as a busboy at a greasy spoon called the Franklin Grill.
* CreepySouvenir: He took a "trinket" from all of his victims, with the first being a gold charm that he took off of Mike Cahill.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Roy's aunt, Louise, loved him, and it broke her heart when he ran away and became a SerialKiller.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even though his father, Edward, was implicitly abusive, Roy still loved him, and becomes agitated when Lilly suggests that his victims were surrogates for Edward. He also appeared to care for his Aunt Louise.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He will lie and kill, but is adamantly against sex outside of marriage, which made him want to propose to Kelly Witkowski, even though the two of them had only ''just'' met after Roy moved from Utah to Philadelphia.
* FreudianExcuse: Roy targeting people in uniform is indicated to stem from deep-seated resentment of his father, a strict military man who, in his only scene, is shown treating Roy more like a subordinate than a son, at one point nearly backhanding a flinching Roy.
* TheFundamentalist: A devout, homicidal Mormon.
* GunManWithThreeNames: He was for some reason almost always referred to as either Roy or Roy Brigham Anthony, never just Roy Anthony.
* HasAType: Non-sexual variant; he only killed people in uniform, starting with doorman Mike Cahill.
* HearingVoices: He thinks that they come from God.
* JustFollowingOrders: Roy claims to be "just obeying orders" when confronted with photographs of his victims when he first speaks with Lilly and Scotty.
* KnightTemplar: Roy believes that his killing people is justified because he does it at the behest of voices which he believes originate from God.
--> '''Roy:''' God's work can be brutal.
* LightIsNotGood: He is shown wearing white in literally every flashback to him as a young man in 1978.
* LonersAreFreaks: According to his aunt, Roy had no friends, and barely interacted with anyone other than her and his co-workers at the Franklin Grill.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: He suffers from auditory and visual hallucinations, committed self-harm in an attempt to suppress them, and eventually began killing people because he was convinced that he was being told to by God.
* MissionFromGod: Roy is convinced that God is directing him to kill people, and that he has no say in the matter, proclaiming, "He shines a light on someone's face and I don't have a choice."
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Brigham Young, a pioneering Mormon.
* NoodleIncident: An unknown incident involving a girl in Provo led to Roy's father shipping him away to live with his Aunt Louise in Philadelphia.
* ObviouslyEvil: During his first interview with Lilly and Scotty, Roy outright admits that he still suffers from hallucinations, and that he intends to resume killing people as soon he gets out of prison, casually stating, "I have a lot of work to catch up on."
* PleaBargain: In 1980, he confessed to murders that he was strongly suspected of but could not be conclusively linked to, and in exchange he only got twenty-five to life, with his exemplary behavior while behind bars making it very likely that he would be released in 2005.
* ReligiousBruiser: A religious fanatic, he killed all of his victims with his bare hands, and was shown to tower over almost everyone at 6'4.
* ReligiousStereotype: Roy and his family were weird, naïve, and uptight Mormons who had no social circle outside of themselves, as well as an obsession with purity and virtue and nothing but disdain for "heathens." Aunt Louise also believed that, like Joseph Smith, Roy could hear the voice of God.
* SelfHarm: Whenever the voices in his head became too overwhelming, Roy would hurt himself in an attempt to suppress them, including by burning himself on the stove at the Franklin Grill.
--> '''Roy:''' It was either hurt him, or me.
* SerialKiller: With nine confirmed victims, he is the show's second most prolific serial killer, after George Marks.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: He had "impure" thoughts about a girl in Provo, as well as Kelly Witkowski, and was ashamed of them, as his religious beliefs precluded sex outside of marriage, with the frustration that this caused him further fueling his psychosis, leading to an obsession with "pure" girls like Kelly.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The circumstances surrounding his near-release, despite him being a confessed serial killer, were inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Eugene_Watts Carl Eugene Watts]].
* WellDoneSonGuy: This is the impression given by the flashback showing Roy with his father, Edward.
--> '''Roy:''' When are you coming back for me?\\
'''Edward:''' That depends... on how well you obey the rules.\\
'''Roy:''' Oh, I'll obey, sir! I promise!
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: His girlfriend, Bridget, was quite fond of him, admitting that she never "got over him" even after he moved, and also desperately claimed that he was "a good person" when interviewed by Lilly and Vera.
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: His girlfriend, Bridget, was quite fond of him, admitting that she never "got over him" even after he moved, and moved while also desperately claimed asserting that he was "a good person" when interviewed by Lilly and Vera.
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[[folder:Moe Kitchener]]
!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
* TheAlcoholic: Which helped play a part in his ultimate [[spoiler: death.]]
* AssholeVictim: Even though [[spoiler: his murder was investigated as any other murder, it's easy to see why on a personal level no one gave a shit about his character being dead.]]
* CrimeAfterCrime: He didn't even commit the murder the team was initially investigating.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committed the murder wasn't evil, just stupid and jealous, but he himself was the puppetmaster.
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival: to Lilly.
* SmugSnake: Oh, yes. To Lilly and other characters.
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:He ends up being killed by the father of the female cadet whose death he helped to cover up.]]
!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
* TheAlcoholic: Which helped play a part in his ultimate [[spoiler: death.]]
* AssholeVictim: Even though [[spoiler: his murder was investigated as any other murder, it's easy to see why on a personal level no one gave a shit about his character being dead.]]
* CrimeAfterCrime: He didn't even commit the murder the team was initially investigating.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committed the murder wasn't evil, just stupid and jealous, but he himself was the puppetmaster.
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival: to Lilly.
* SmugSnake: Oh, yes. To Lilly and other characters.
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:He ends up being killed by the father of the female cadet whose death he helped to cover up.]]
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!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
* TheAlcoholic: Which helped play a part in his ultimate [[spoiler: death.]]
* AssholeVictim: Even though [[spoiler: his murder was
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JoelBissonnette
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E3OurBoyIsBack Our Boy Is Back]]"
A serial rapist investigated
* AmbiguousSituation: He either purposely killed Gail Chimayo because she fought back and could have identified him, or he accidentally asphyxiated her while trying to stop her from calling out to Larry. In his letter, he just says that she "died on me."
* ApologeticAttacker: He apologizes to his victims, and claims to have joined the military in a
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: He calls cats useless animals, and is shown kicking one
* CrimeAfterCrime: He didn't even commit the murder the team was initially investigating.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for his involvement
*
* CreepyHairlessAnimal: A human example; he regularly removes all of his body hair, and
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets
*
*
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: He left a cigarette at one crime scene, was remembered by a witness partly due to his chain smoking, and is shown smoking in literally every present day scene, including when he is arrested by Lilly and Vera.
* HasAType: He targets accomplished and intellectual women due to frustration over being "trailer trash" with an illiterate mother, a streetwalking sister, and a girlfriend who is clear cut case of DumbBlonde.
* LeanAndMean: He squeezes through his victims' windows, even barred ones, and was described as being like "some kind of spider" by Vera.
--> '''Carl:''' I used to slide down the laundry chute at my best friend's building. You can't believe how narrow it was. I'd get into the neighbors' houses and steal things. It was like the one thing that I was really, really good at, getting into small places.
* SerialRapist: He had at least four confirmed victims, and murdered one named Gail Chimayo.
* SimpletonVoice: He has a Southern-ish accent, presumable to emphasize his background as a LowerClassLout who grew up in a TrashyTrailerHome.
* StalkerWithACrush: He hangs out at places like bookstores, coffee shops, libraries, museums, etc. in search of smart-seeming women, who he then follows home, scoping out their residence and keeping an eye out for pet cats (which he takes as an indication that they live alone).
* ThatOneCase: For Detective Nick Vera. The episode is the first one in which the victim's "ghost" appears to a detective other
--> '''Vera:''' This case became a health issue for me.
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[[folder: Josh Freely]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/DonMcManus
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E8FlyAway Fly Away]]"
A pedophile who used his job as a social worker to prey on the daughters of single mothers, one of whom, Rosie Miles, ended up in a coma after she jumped out of a window with her daughter, Toya, in an attempt to get away from Freely.
* AttemptedRape: Rosie discovered what he really was when she walked in on him about to molest Toya.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: As malignant an example as you can possibly get, as he was a pedophile who used the authority afforded to him by his position to take little girls from their mothers, who he contemptuously saw as nothing but "welfare queens" and "trailer park trash."
--> '''Lilly:''' You were like God to these women. You had the power to give. To take. And you did.
* TheDreaded: Just the sound of footsteps that she thought were Freely's was enough to make Rosie jump through a multi-story window with Toya. Lilly and Scotty also find a creepy drawing of him made by Toya.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He honestly seemed to think that everyone looked down on the women who he victimized as much as he did; while being interrogated, he bluntly says to Lilly and Scotty, "Like anyone gives a damn. Trailer park trash. Welfare queens. Like you care what happens to them."
* KickTheDog: He takes obvious perverse pleasure out of taunting Rosie over how he is going to take Toya away from her, telling her, "I'm gonna have to take care of that pretty little girl all by myself. You just wait for the knock on the door, Rosie. When you least expect it."
* NotMeThisTime: While guilty of many crimes, he turned out to have had absolutely nothing to do with Rosie and Toya's defenestration (Rosie herself did it).
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He calls Rosie "damaged goods" and a "drunk, dumb bitch" and dismisses all other women like her as being nothing but "welfare queens" and "trailer park trash."
* SerialRapist: He had nine confirmed victims, and nearly a tenth in Toya.
* ThatOneCase: For the unseen Detective Billy Markins.
* VillainousBreakdown: He is last shown alone in the interrogation room, crying as he is identified by a ''very'' long line of victims who have been gathered by Lilly.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When we first meet him, Freely comes off as a straitlaced, if slightly callous ("Most of these girls will give it up for a Big Mac and supersize fries") social worker, and just someone who is doing a tough but necessary job, with nothing about him raising the suspicions of either Lilly or Scotty.
* WouldHurtAChild: As a pedophile, this is a given.
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[[folder:Moe Kitchener]]
!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
* TheAlcoholic: Which helped play a part in his ultimate [[spoiler: death.]]
* AssholeVictim: Even though [[spoiler: his murder was investigated as any other murder, it's easy to see why on a personal level no one gave a shit about his character being dead.]]
* CrimeAfterCrime: He didn't even commit the murder the team was initially investigating.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committed the murder wasn't evil, just stupid and jealous, but he himself was the puppetmaster.
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival: to Lilly.
* SmugSnake: Oh, yes. To Lilly and other characters.
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:He ends up being killed by the father of the female cadet whose death he helped to cover up.]]
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/DonMcManus
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS1E8FlyAway Fly Away]]"
A pedophile who used his job as a social worker to prey on the daughters of single mothers, one of whom, Rosie Miles, ended up in a coma after she jumped out of a window with her daughter, Toya, in an attempt to get away from Freely.
* AttemptedRape: Rosie discovered what he really was when she walked in on him about to molest Toya.
* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: As malignant an example as you can possibly get, as he was a pedophile who used the authority afforded to him by his position to take little girls from their mothers, who he contemptuously saw as nothing but "welfare queens" and "trailer park trash."
--> '''Lilly:''' You were like God to these women. You had the power to give. To take. And you did.
* TheDreaded: Just the sound of footsteps that she thought were Freely's was enough to make Rosie jump through a multi-story window with Toya. Lilly and Scotty also find a creepy drawing of him made by Toya.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He honestly seemed to think that everyone looked down on the women who he victimized as much as he did; while being interrogated, he bluntly says to Lilly and Scotty, "Like anyone gives a damn. Trailer park trash. Welfare queens. Like you care what happens to them."
* KickTheDog: He takes obvious perverse pleasure out of taunting Rosie over how he is going to take Toya away from her, telling her, "I'm gonna have to take care of that pretty little girl all by myself. You just wait for the knock on the door, Rosie. When you least expect it."
* NotMeThisTime: While guilty of many crimes, he turned out to have had absolutely nothing to do with Rosie and Toya's defenestration (Rosie herself did it).
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He calls Rosie "damaged goods" and a "drunk, dumb bitch" and dismisses all other women like her as being nothing but "welfare queens" and "trailer park trash."
* SerialRapist: He had nine confirmed victims, and nearly a tenth in Toya.
* ThatOneCase: For the unseen Detective Billy Markins.
* VillainousBreakdown: He is last shown alone in the interrogation room, crying as he is identified by a ''very'' long line of victims who have been gathered by Lilly.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When we first meet him, Freely comes off as a straitlaced, if slightly callous ("Most of these girls will give it up for a Big Mac and supersize fries") social worker, and just someone who is doing a tough but necessary job, with nothing about him raising the suspicions of either Lilly or Scotty.
* WouldHurtAChild: As a pedophile, this is a given.
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[[folder:Moe Kitchener]]
!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
* TheAlcoholic: Which helped play a part in his ultimate [[spoiler: death.]]
* AssholeVictim: Even though [[spoiler: his murder was investigated as any other murder, it's easy to see why on a personal level no one gave a shit about his character being dead.]]
* CrimeAfterCrime: He didn't even commit the murder the team was initially investigating.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committed the murder wasn't evil, just stupid and jealous, but he himself was the puppetmaster.
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival: to Lilly.
* SmugSnake: Oh, yes. To Lilly and other characters.
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:He ends up being killed by the father of the female cadet whose death he helped to cover up.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A particularly noteworthy case is Offender, where he unwittingly gives Mitch Hathaway the information he needs to deduce the identity of his son's killer. This leads to Hathaway nearly killing the murderer, and is one of the things Internal Affairs uses against Scotty during the first half of season 5.
* BerserkButton: Punches Danner when he not only finds evidence that the main Danner railroaded was innocent, but also sees Danner smarmily try to justify his actions.
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* TragicVillain: Yes, he's a total bastard but it isn't his own fault he had a shit mom or that his mom allowed him to be raped to save herself.
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* TragicVillain: Yes, he's a total bastard but it isn't his own fault he had a shit mom abusive mom, or that his said mom allowed him to be raped by a pedophile to save herself.
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* NiceHat: The fedora he uses sometimes.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
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[[folder:Margot Chambers]]
!!Margot Chambers
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MonetMazur
* FateWorseThanDeath: She ends up being shot in the head at point-blank range, but surprisingly does not die. Instead, she lingers on in a persistent vegetative state being unable to move, walk, talk or do anything else of independence until her death in 2007, ''18 years later.''
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: She intended to have a woman, who [[IdenticalStranger bears a striking resemblance to her]], killed in an attempt to collect life insurance on herself for one last con. Spencer, having fallen in love with the woman in question however, informed her of Margot's plot instead, causing the woman and Spencer to device a plot of their own against Margot instead, as the detectives eventually find out through a woman who was scammed and went looking for Spencer and Margot on the night Margot got shot, saw the scene in a distance (and undiscovered by any of the three she observed), and left without succeeding in forgetting what she saw.
-->'''Stillman:''' So Margot the double-crosser got double-crossed.\\
'''Lily:''' Beaten at her own game.
[[folder:Margot Chambers]]
!!Margot Chambers
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MonetMazur
* FateWorseThanDeath: She ends up being shot in the head at point-blank range, but surprisingly does not die. Instead, she lingers on in a persistent vegetative state being unable to move, walk, talk or do anything else of independence until her death in 2007, ''18 years later.''
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: She intended to have a woman, who [[IdenticalStranger bears a striking resemblance to her]], killed in an attempt to collect life insurance on herself for one last con. Spencer, having fallen in love with the woman in question however, informed her of Margot's plot instead, causing the woman and Spencer to device a plot of their own against Margot instead, as the detectives eventually find out through a woman who was scammed and went looking for Spencer and Margot on the night Margot got shot, saw the scene in a distance (and undiscovered by any of the three she observed), and left without succeeding in forgetting what she saw.
-->'''Stillman:''' So Margot the double-crosser got double-crossed.\\
'''Lily:''' Beaten at her own game.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: When Stillman was on forced leave.
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* KavorkaMan: Has four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a fat, lazy alcoholic with a grating voice and [[strike: possibly]] most definitely infertile. He even uses his 'charms' to get a testimony from a woman in "Two Weddings" (the [[IncrediblyLamePun lady was a tramp]], though).
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* WhatTheHellHero: Any time he uses violence to force a suspect to confess. This has led some viewers to consider him the TokenEvilTeammate.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Four of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad's loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second was a man who worked for repossession who took away his dad’s car because he fell too far behind in the payments, which, as he stated, was his job. The other two both told him that, as TechnologyMarchesOn, "nobody cares" about businesses like Paul's video store or his father's drive-in.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Four Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad's dad'ss loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second was a man two (although one survived) were men who worked for repossession who took away his dad’s car because he fell too far behind in the payments, which, as he they stated, was his job.their job (although the one he killed also mocked Paul's dad and got into a fight with him). The other two both told him that, as TechnologyMarchesOn, "nobody cares" about businesses like Paul's video store or his father's drive-in.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: In "Mind Hunters", "The Woods", and "Stalker" she has a faceoff with the killer, trying to talk him down.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Big Sister Instinct. Despite her terrible relationship with her sister throughout the series, in the finale, she goes all out to find her when she's kidnapped by her abusive boyfriend and is ready to kill the guy. The final moments of the finale indicate that she's going to do everything she can to take care of her and her newfound niece.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Big Sister Instinct. Despite her terrible relationship with her sister throughout the series, in the finale, she goes all out to find her when she's kidnapped by her abusive boyfriend and is ready to kill the guy. The final moments of the finale indicate that she's going to do everything she can to take care of her and her newfound niece.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: In "Mind Hunters", "The Woods", and "Stalker" she has a faceoff face-off with the killer, trying to talk him down.
*BigBrotherInstinct: Big Sister Instinct. BigSisterInstinct: Despite her terrible relationship with her sister throughout the series, in the finale, she goes all out to find her when she's Christina kidnapped by her abusive boyfriend and is ready to kill the guy. The final moments of the finale indicate that she's going to do everything she can to take care of her sister and her newfound niece.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilly's parents were both alcoholics, and her father abandoned her when she was six due to his toxic relationship with her mother. Her mother neglected her, perferring alcohol over her children, forcing Lilly to take on the unappreciated role of the caretaker of the family. When she was 10, this resulted in Lilly getting violently assaulted as her mother had her sent out in the night to get her more alcohol. Once she thought she would finally be happy and got engaged, her sister and her fiance slept together.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lilly's parents were both alcoholics, and her father abandoned her when she was six due to his toxic relationship with her mother. Her mother neglected her, perferring preferring alcohol over her children, forcing Lilly to take on the unappreciated role of the caretaker of the family. When she was 10, this resulted in Lilly getting violently assaulted as her mother had her sent out in the night to get her more alcohol. Once she thought she would finally be happy and got engaged, her sister and her fiance fiancé slept together.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Her job has caused her to break a relationship and that's only in the last seven to eight years.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Her job has caused her to break off a relationship and that's only in the last seven to eight years.
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* NoodleIncident: The reason that relation with her sister is so strained is that she stole her fiance in the 90s but the whole incident has never been fully explained.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father left the family when Lilly was a child due to his toxic relationship with her mother, later telling her he couldn't stay with her and survive.
* ParentalNeglect: Her mother Ellen neglected her due to her alcoholism, at one point sending her out to get a drink in the middle of the night, resulting in Lilly being violently assaulted. Ellen didn't take care of her after that, and refused to take responsibility for it, even decades later.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father left the family when Lilly was a child due to his toxic relationship with her mother, later telling her he couldn't stay with her and survive.
* ParentalNeglect: Her mother Ellen neglected her due to her alcoholism, at one point sending her out to get a drink in the middle of the night, resulting in Lilly being violently assaulted. Ellen didn't take care of her after that, and refused to take responsibility for it, even decades later.
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* NoodleIncident: The One reason that relation her relationship with her sister is so strained is that she Christina stole her fiance Lily's fiancé in the 90s but the whole incident has never been fully explained.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father left the family when Lilly was a child due to his toxic relationship with her mother, later telling her he couldn't stay withher Ellen and survive.
survive. She reconnected with him as an adult, by when he'd already gotten his life together and started a new family.
* ParentalNeglect: Her mother Ellen neglected her due to her alcoholism, at one point sending her out to get a drink in the middle of the night, resulting in Lilly being violently assaulted. Ellen didn't take care of her after that, and refused to take responsibility for it, even decades later.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father left the family when Lilly was a child due to his toxic relationship with her mother, later telling her he couldn't stay with
* ParentalNeglect: Her mother Ellen neglected her due to her alcoholism, at one point sending her out to get a drink in the middle of the night, resulting in Lilly being violently assaulted. Ellen didn't take care of her after that, and refused to take responsibility for it, even decades later.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In "Strange Fruit" he is shown to be 12 in 1963 but in “Best Friends” (aired in 2005), it's his 60th birthday. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "November 22nd":
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In "Strange Fruit" Fruit", he is shown to be 12 in 1963 but in “Best Friends” (aired in 2005), it's his 60th birthday. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "November 22nd":
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* NeverMyFault: She was the one who sent Lilly out to buy her beer late at night as a child [[spoiler: which caused her to be assaulted]], but she then claims that she went out under her own volition.
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* NeverMyFault: She was the one who sent Lilly out to buy her beer late at night as a child [[spoiler: which caused her to be assaulted]], but she then claims that she Lilly went out under her own volition.
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** OK, his definition of "strong woman that deserves to be stripped down, hunted for miles and beheaded like an animal" is flexible enough to include a 14 year-old, but once he decides on a target, he goes after that target and no one else. In one occasion he postponed his plans until a mother was separated from her daughter so he had not to threaten or physically harm the child.
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** OK, his definition of "strong woman that deserves to be stripped down, hunted for miles and beheaded like an animal" is flexible enough to include a 14 year-old, 14-year-old, but once he decides on a target, he goes after that target and no one else. In one occasion occasion, he postponed his plans until a mother was separated from her daughter so he had not didn't have to threaten or physically harm the child.
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* LonelyFuneral: [[LampshadeHanging It's mentioned]] by Lilly in the start of the Season 3 premier "Family" that the only people who showed up for his burial after he was KilledOffForReal were the coroner and the gravedigger.
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* LonelyFuneral: [[LampshadeHanging It's mentioned]] by Lilly in the start of the Season 3 premier premiere "Family" that the only people who showed up for his burial after he was KilledOffForReal were the coroner and the gravedigger.
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* TragicVillain: Yes he's a total bastard but it isn't his own fault he had a shit mom or that his mom allowed him to be raped to save herself.
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* TragicVillain: Yes Yes, he's a total bastard but it isn't his own fault he had a shit mom or that his mom allowed him to be raped to save herself.
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* BusCrash: A disputed case. While she wasn't exactly PutOnABus, her death was off-screen and her funeral never showed up on the series
* DyingAlone: Her main fear. She's so obsessed with it that she marries four times in her lifetime. [[spoiler:Ultimately happens, as her last husband leaves her, her younger daughter is nowhere to be found and her older daughter is always working]]
* DyingAlone: Her main fear. She's so obsessed with it that she marries four times in her lifetime. [[spoiler:Ultimately happens, as her last husband leaves her, her younger daughter is nowhere to be found and her older daughter is always working]]
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* BusCrash: A disputed case. While she wasn't exactly PutOnABus, her death was off-screen and her funeral never showed up on the series
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* DyingAlone: Her main fear. She's so obsessed with it that she marries four times in her lifetime. [[spoiler:Ultimately happens, as her last husband leaves her, her younger daughter is nowhere to be found and her older daughter is alwaysworking]]working.]]
* DyingAlone: Her main fear. She's so obsessed with it that she marries four times in her lifetime. [[spoiler:Ultimately happens, as her last husband leaves her, her younger daughter is nowhere to be found and her older daughter is always
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* IdiotBall: In "Breaking News", when he learns that Frankie has lied him about being divorced and that she's still married. He is disgusted but when he meets her later in a bar he goes to play bed bondage with her... ''in the middle of a crime investigation''.
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* IdiotBall: In "Breaking News", when he learns that Frankie has lied to him about being divorced and that she's still married. He is disgusted but when he meets her later in a bar he goes to play bed bondage with her... ''in the middle of a crime investigation''.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Three of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad's loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The other two both told him that, as TechnologyMarchesOn, "nobody cares" about businesses like Paul's video store or his father's drive-in.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Three Four of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad's loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second was a man who worked for repossession who took away his dad’s car because he fell too far behind in the payments, which, as he stated, was his job. The other two both told him that, as TechnologyMarchesOn, "nobody cares" about businesses like Paul's video store or his father's drive-in.
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* NumberTwo: To Stillman.
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* BenevolentBoss: Especially to Lilly. Extremely kind, supportive, and understanding.
* TheCaptain: Well, technically, Lieutenant.
* TheCaptain: Well, technically, Lieutenant.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Especially to Lilly.
* MarriedToTheJob: Official explanation of his divorce [[spoiler: before [[RetCon Agent Yates]] showed up.]]
* PapaWolf : To his daughter Janie.
* TeamDad: As befitting his calmness and supportiveness.
* MarriedToTheJob: Official explanation of his divorce [[spoiler: before [[RetCon Agent Yates]] showed up.]]
* PapaWolf : To his daughter Janie.
* TeamDad: As befitting his calmness and supportiveness.
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* TheMentor: To Lilly.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Implied more than really shown and seems to have gotten over it years ago (mostly).
* ShellShockedVeteran: Implied more than really shown and seems to have gotten over it years ago (mostly).
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* [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Mother]]: To Lilly.
* [[spoiler: BusCrash: A disputed case. While she wasn't exactly PutOnABus, her death was off-screen and her funeral never showed up on the series]]
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Well into adulthood.
* LongBusTrip: With [[TheBusCameBack the bus coming]] BackForTheFinale.
* ReallyGetsAround: Until she winds up with an [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]].
* LongBusTrip: With [[TheBusCameBack the bus coming]] BackForTheFinale.
* ReallyGetsAround: Until she winds up with an [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]].
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A former neighbor only remembered him because he was the only white guy in the neighborhood. Even the cop who arrested him describes him as polite and well-mannered, "I wouldn't have picked him out of a crowd". He himself states, "I'm not the guy you look at and think "rapist". I'm more like the guy you see at the dentist's office.", indicating that his average Joe appearance is what made it so easy for women to fall into his traps.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A former neighbor only remembered him because he was the only white guy in the neighborhood. Even the cop who arrested him describes him as polite and well-mannered, "I wouldn't have picked him out of a crowd". He himself states, "I'm not the guy you look at and think "rapist". 'rapist'. I'm more like the guy you see at the dentist's office.", office," indicating that his average Joe appearance is what made it so easy for women to fall into his traps.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lures his latest victim in by (a) claiming to have car trouble, (b) claiming to be in a rush to get home and bring his pregnant wife the junk food she's craving, and (c) acting miffed that the woman doesn't recognize him--he claims to be a paralegal at the law firm where she works, "Big shot lawyer like you wouldn't recognize some low-level guy like me. Thoroughly roped in, she gets into the car of her own free will (to test the engine) and is taken prisoner almost immediately.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lures his latest victim in by (a) claiming to have car trouble, (b) claiming to be in a rush to get home and bring his pregnant wife the junk food she's craving, and (c) acting miffed that the woman doesn't recognize him--he claims to be a paralegal at the law firm where she works, "Big shot lawyer like you wouldn't recognize some low-level guy like me. " Thoroughly roped in, she gets into the car of her own free will (to test the engine) and is taken prisoner almost immediately.
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* NoSympathy: Doesn't feel one once of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
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* NoSympathy: Doesn't feel one once ounce of remorse for his involvement in the murder cover-up.
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* TwoGirlsToATeam: With Lily.
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* TwoGirlsToATeam: With Lily.Lilly.
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* CrazyPrepared
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* CrazyPreparedCrazyPrepared: Details are spelled out in the next entry.
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** He knew the cops would eventually come after him and likely planned his interrogation years before it happened. Instead of being caught in their usual interrogation methods, he mocked them and researched the detectives extensively to use their weaknesses against them.
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** He knew the cops would eventually come after him and likely planned his response to their interrogation years before it happened. Instead of being caught in by their usual interrogation methods, he mocked them and researched the detectives extensively to use their weaknesses against them.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: OK, his definition of "strong woman that deserves to be stripped down, hunted for miles and beheaded like an animal" is flexible enough to include a 14 year-old, but once he decides a target, he goes after that target and no one else. In one occasion he postponed his plans until a mother was separated from her daughter so he had not to threat or physically harm the child.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** OK, his definition of "strong woman that deserves to be stripped down, hunted for miles and beheaded like an animal" is flexible enough to include a 14 year-old, but once he decides on a target, he goes after that target and no one else. In one occasion he postponed his plans until a mother was separated from her daughter so he had not tothreat threaten or physically harm the child.
** OK, his definition of "strong woman that deserves to be stripped down, hunted for miles and beheaded like an animal" is flexible enough to include a 14 year-old, but once he decides on a target, he goes after that target and no one else. In one occasion he postponed his plans until a mother was separated from her daughter so he had not to
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* EyeScream: he extracted the eyes of his victims and repalced them with black glass eyes used in taxidermy to mount deer.
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* EyeScream: he He extracted the eyes of his victims and repalced replaced them with black glass eyes used in taxidermy to mount when mounting deer.
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* MommyIssues: He was raised by a crazy woman who blamed him for her (non-existent) blindness and sold him to a rapist to spare herself of the harm.
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* MommyIssues: He was raised by a crazy woman who blamed him for her (non-existent) blindness and sold him out to a rapist to spare herself of the harm.
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* ThePerfectCrime: Technically not the first killer in the show to walk away free, but certainly the first who beats the main character's interrogations and the team would like to jail but can't.
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* ThePerfectCrime: Technically not the first killer in the show to walk away free, but certainly the first who beats the main character's characters' interrogations and whom the team would like to jail but can't.
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* SerialKiller: Pretty much.
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* SerialKiller: Pretty much. He buried at least nine victims' heads in his mother's front yard.
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* SuicideByCop: Makes Lily shoot him after she discovers his DarkAndTroubledPast.
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* SuicideByCop: Makes Lily Lilly shoot him after she discovers his DarkAndTroubledPast.
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* WorthyOpponent: He thinks Lilly is the only one cop that deserves to confront him.
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* WorthyOpponent: He thinks Lilly is the one and only one cop that deserves to confront him.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He imprisons his latest victim within hearing distance of a church that rings its bells every Sunday, enabling the woman to retain her sanity by keeping track of the days. Therefore, she won't snap like his previous victims, rattling him so much that he makes the error that gets him caught. Then, his attempts at getting Lily to give up like his other victims backfires when he [[IdiotBall TELLS]] Lily the name of the hymn the woman was humming even as he entombed her and left her to die. Sure enough, Lily not only realizes the woman's still alive, she realizes where the woman's being held because she grew up in that neighborhood and remembers the church.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He imprisons his latest victim within hearing distance of a church that rings its bells every Sunday, enabling the woman to retain her sanity by keeping track of the days. Therefore, she won't snap like his previous victims, rattling him so much that he makes the error that gets him caught. Then, his attempts at getting Lily Lilly to give up like his other victims backfires when he [[IdiotBall TELLS]] Lily Lilly the name of the hymn the woman was humming even as he entombed her and left her to die. Sure enough, Lily Lilly not only realizes the woman's still alive, she realizes where the woman's being held because she grew up in that neighborhood and remembers the church.
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* VillainousBreakdown: His latest abductee's refusal to break disturbs him so much that it leads to the one little mistake listed above. After Lily saves the last one he completely loses his control.
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* VillainousBreakdown: His latest abductee's refusal to break disturbs him so much that it leads to the one little mistake listed above. After Lily Lilly saves the last one he completely loses his control.
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* AddictionDisplacement: Tried coffee the short period she actually stopped drinking alcohol.
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* AddictionDisplacement: Tried coffee during the short period she actually stopped drinking alcohol.
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* IWasQuiteALooker
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* LadyDrunk
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* TooDumbToLive
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* CharacterDevelopment: Its eventually revealed that the reason he's such a hardass in regards to John is because he was the one who sent his drug addicted son to prison for a series of petty crimes. He comes to reluctantly admit to John that his son going to prison was the best thing that ever happened to him, as it helped him get his life back on track.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Its It's eventually revealed that the reason he's such a hardass in regards to John is because he was the one who sent his drug addicted son to prison for a series of petty crimes. He comes to reluctantly admit to John that his son going to prison was the best thing that ever happened to him, as it helped him get his life back on track.
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* TheUnfairSex: Thinks it is OK to lie Scotty about her marriage and cheat on her husband because they are going to divorce anyway (the guy doesn't seem to be aware of the last part, though).
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* TheUnfairSex: Thinks it is OK to lie to Scotty about her marriage and cheat on her husband because they are going to divorce anyway (the guy doesn't seem to be aware of the last part, though).
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* JerkAss: Oh so much.
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* MrsRobinson
* {{Meganekko}}
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* ReallyGetsAround
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* DamselInDistress: Has a higher tendency to be shot, kidnapped and being thrown off a bridge than other characters, specially in season finales.
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* DamselInDistress: Has a higher tendency to be shot, kidnapped and being or thrown off a bridge than other characters, specially in season finales.
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* TheHero: Established in the pilot as TheHero of the show as she instiagtes the investigation of a cold case, refusing to give up or to be intimidated. She's always concerned with getting justice for the dead, no matter who they were.
* KindheartedCatLover: Lilly Rush has several cats that she adores. One of the cats is even missing a leg.
* KindheartedCatLover: Lilly Rush has several cats that she adores. One of the cats is even missing a leg.
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* TheHero: Established in the pilot as TheHero of the show as she instiagtes instigates the investigation of a cold case, refusing to give up or to be intimidated. She's always concerned with getting justice for the dead, no matter who they were.
* KindheartedCatLover: Lilly Rush hasseveral two cats that she adores. One of the cats them is even missing a leg.leg, the other an eye.
* KindheartedCatLover: Lilly Rush has
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* NoodleIncident: The reason that relation with her sister is so strained is that she stole her boyfriend/fiancee in the 90s but the whole incident has never been fully explained.
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* NoodleIncident: The reason that relation with her sister is so strained is that she stole her boyfriend/fiancee fiance in the 90s but the whole incident has never been fully explained.
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* WideEyedIdealist: She really has a thing for pursuing old cases and bringing justice where everyone else considers it impossible, to the point of accepting to investigate cases that are 80 or 90 years old just because some distant descendant of the victim asks her to.
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* WideEyedIdealist: She really has a thing for pursuing old cases and bringing justice where everyone else considers it impossible, to the point of accepting to investigate investigating cases that are 80 or 90 years old just because some distant descendant of the victim asks her to.
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* HotBlooded: Scotty's temper is his probably his FatalFlaw and has landed him in plenty of trouble. He is easily angered and provoced, especially when some of his personal issues (like mental illness) or women are concerned, leading to a number of violent outbursts.
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* HotBlooded: Scotty's temper is his probably his FatalFlaw and has landed him in plenty of trouble. He is easily angered and provoced, provoked, especially when some of his personal issues (like mental illness) or women are concerned, leading to a number of violent outbursts.
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: Implied at the end of "Wilkommen", when his singing causes everybody around to cover their ears. And he claims to have played Danny Zuko in a ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' play in High School...
* KavorkaMan: Has four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a fat, lazy alcoholic with a hard hearing voice and [[strike: possibly]] most definitely infertile. He even uses his 'charms' to get a testimony from a woman in "Two Weddings" (the [[IncrediblyLamePun lady was a tramp]], though).
* KavorkaMan: Has four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a fat, lazy alcoholic with a hard hearing voice and [[strike: possibly]] most definitely infertile. He even uses his 'charms' to get a testimony from a woman in "Two Weddings" (the [[IncrediblyLamePun lady was a tramp]], though).
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* HollywoodToneDeaf: Implied at the end of "Wilkommen", when his singing causes everybody around to cover their ears. And he claims to have played Danny Zuko in a ''Theatre/{{Grease}}'' play in High School...
high school...
* KavorkaMan: Has four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a fat, lazy alcoholic with ahard hearing grating voice and [[strike: possibly]] most definitely infertile. He even uses his 'charms' to get a testimony from a woman in "Two Weddings" (the [[IncrediblyLamePun lady was a tramp]], though).
* KavorkaMan: Has four (way better looking) love interests through the series despite being a fat, lazy alcoholic with a
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* NoodleIncident: His "would have been 19 years old now" son with Megan mentioned in "Ravaged".
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* NoodleIncident: His "would have been "woulda had a 19 years old now" son year old" with Megan now, mentioned in "Ravaged".
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* CoolOldGuy: He is sixty... [[WritersCannotDoMath something]], but when he loses his temper ([[GentleGiant and that's hard]]), he loses it, as that ADA learned in "Death Penalty: Final Appeal"
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Vera finds a photo of him at his High School prom and distributes copies of it at the station to prove the "hottie" that accompanied Jeffries and he has bragged so much about wasn't hot at all. Jeffries then counterattacks distributing copies of Vera's prom, but Vera is ''delighted'' if anything.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Vera finds a photo of him at his High School prom and distributes copies of it at the station to prove the "hottie" that accompanied Jeffries and he has bragged so much about wasn't hot at all. Jeffries then counterattacks distributing copies of Vera's prom, but Vera is ''delighted'' if anything.
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* CoolOldGuy: He is sixty... [[WritersCannotDoMath something]], but when he loses his temper ([[GentleGiant and that's hard]]), he loses it, as that ADA learned in "Death Penalty: Final Appeal"
Appeal."
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Vera finds a photo of him at hisHigh School high school prom and distributes copies of it at the station to prove the "hottie" that accompanied Jeffries and whom he has bragged so much about wasn't hot at all. Jeffries then counterattacks distributing copies of Vera's prom, but Vera is ''delighted'' if anything.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Vera finds a photo of him at his
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In "Strange Fruit" he is shown to be 12 in 1963 but in “Best Friends” (aired in 2005) it's his 60 birthday. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "November 22nd":
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In "Strange Fruit" he is shown to be 12 in 1963 but in “Best Friends” (aired in 2005) 2005), it's his 60 60th birthday. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "November 22nd":
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* TheCaptain: well, technically, Lieutenant.
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* TheCaptain: well, Well, technically, Lieutenant.
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* AffirmativeActionGirl
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: She shows one to Vera at the end of "Stand up and holler"
* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]: Is very resistant to let her daughter meet her father despite the guy seems to have fully recovered and reinserted in society. The actual reason is that she's embarrassed of their former relationship and protecting her daughter is just a pretext.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: She shows one to Vera at the end of "Stand up and holler"
* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]: Is very resistant to let her daughter meet her father despite the guy seems to have fully recovered and reinserted in society. The actual reason is that she's embarrassed of their former relationship and protecting her daughter is just a pretext.
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* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: She shows one to Vera at the end of "Stand
* [[OverprotectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]: Is very resistant to let her daughter meet her father despite that the guy seems to have fully recovered and reinserted
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* KarmaHoudini: More often than not. While many fans consider his CowboyCop antics "heroic" and "[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight the right thing to do]]", in reality, his actions would have him either demoted, fired or even imprisoned. Heck, other team members ended up ''taking his punishments for him instead.''
* LatinLover: But '''not''' to Lilly, no matter what the Fandom wants to believe. The GrandFinale shows how much they care about each other though.
* RabidCop: He's sometimes [[{{Irony}} as bad]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute as]] [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit UnStabler]].
* LatinLover: But '''not''' to Lilly, no matter what the Fandom wants to believe. The GrandFinale shows how much they care about each other though.
* RabidCop: He's sometimes [[{{Irony}} as bad]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute as]] [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit UnStabler]].
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