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* FoundTheKillerLostTheMurderer: Wilson Katz is arrested for killing Harry Denton, but his boss, Caroline, gets away with murdering Melvin Grover and Stan Hargreave.
[[folder: Lauren Williams]]
-> '''Played By:''' Donna Mills
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E13Blackout Blackout]]"
The matriarch of the wealthy Williams family, she drowned in the family pool during a blackout that occurred during her grandson Matt's birthday in 1996. In 2007, new evidence came to light indicating that she had been murdered, which was unsurprising, as she was hated by all of the other Williamses.
* AbusiveParents: She molested her own son, Tad, and makes it very clear that she sees him and her daughter, Ginny, as nothing but disappointments, something which she [[NeverMyFault blames]] entirely on her ex-husband, Stan.
* TheAlcoholic: Her blood alcohol level at the time of her death was about three times the legal limit, yet she appeared to be only slightly buzzed when she died, indicating an incredibly high tolerance level that was built-up over years of being a LadyDrunk.
* AssholeVictim: She was a shrewish RichBitch who molested her own son, Tad, and then tried to do the same to her grandson, Matt.
* AttemptedRape: Her attempted molestation of her own grandson, Matt, was interrupted by Tad.
* BitchAlert: In the span of a few minutes, Lauren criticizes Ginny's hair and calls her husband "The Unmentionable One."
* BlackAndGrayMorality: While Lauren is definitely worse than her ex-husband, Stan, Stan himself is still an adulterous jackass who dates women who are less than half his age, abandoning one of them after realizing that she had children, all the while blaming all of his problems on Lauren, even though, as Lauren and Tad pointed out, they got equal shares in the divorce, with Stan squandering his all on his own without any help from Lauren.
* BlamingTheVictim: She holds Tad equally culpable for what she did to him when he was 13.
* BoomerangBigot: She treated Diane like some kind of bumpkin for coming from a modest town like Tinley, even though Lauren herself is from Garth, Pennsylvania.
* BrokenPedestal: For her daughter, Ginny.
--> '''Ginny:''' I worshipped you when I was a little girl. Wanted to be just like you.
* CallingTheOldManOut: She got this from both of her children during the blackout in 1996.
* TheDreaded: Everyone falls silent and becomes uneasy as soon as Lauren drops in on the other Williamses.
* EvilMatriarch: Of the Williamses.
* GruesomeGrandparent: She was killed after she started trying to molest her own grandson, Matt.
* FinancialAbuse: She used this to try and control her daughter, Ginny, and, through her, Ginny's son, Matt.
* {{Fingore}}: One of her nails was ripped off while she was being drowned by Ginny.
* FirstNameBasis: She tells Diane and Matt to just call her Lauren, the latter during their near-TwoPersonPoolParty.
* HatedByAll: Everyone hated Lauren, with the only one to be even slightly sympathetic to her after her death being Diane.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She accused her ex-husband, Stan, of being a pedophile, when she herself was secretly one, having molested her own son, Tad, before attempting to do the same to her grandson, Matt.
* IWasQuiteALooker: While still attractive by 1996, it is noted that Lauren was nowhere near the beauty queen that she used to be, with Ginny stating, "When her looks faded, she had nothing to fall back on."
* LackOfEmpathy: "My mother was the most unhappy woman I've ever known. The only thing that gave her pleasure was making other people as miserable as she was."
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Her death was initially ruled to be an accident, but new evidence led to it being reclassified as a homicide in 2007.
* MrsRobinson: A very dark one, as she molested her own son, Tad, when he was thirteen, and tried doing the same to her grandson, Matt.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When the blackout hits, Stan announces, "It means we're gonna get cozy, have a nice family gathering... plus one."
* {{Narcissist}}: As Ginny put it, "You've never loved anyone in your whole life except yourself."
* ParentalIncest: She molested her own son, Tad, when he was a boy, and tried to do the same to her grandson, Matt.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: She engaged in a lot of this with her family during the blackout in 1996.
* PostRapeTaunt:
** When Tad insults her while confronting her over how she molested him, Lauren snaps back, "You can say what you want. No one will ever compare with me. Not for you. Not ever."
** When Ginny told her that her power over the family was fading, Lauren smugly replied, "You might ask your precious son about that."
* ProudBeauty: Though she has fallen victim to IWasQuiteALooker.
--> '''Lauren:''' Poor, plain Ginny, always afraid I'm going to steal her men away. Like moths to a flame. That's the power of beauty. That's the power you'll never understand.
* RagsToRiches: She was a beauty queen from the podunk town of Garth, Pennsylvania who married a wealthy industrialist named Stan Williams.
* RichBitch: "I know how difficult this must be for you, Diane, being in a house with no electricity. A reminder of your childhood, dear. You are from Tinley, Arkansas, aren't you?"
* SympathyForTheDevil: By 2007, Diane has come to consider Lauren more pathetic than anything else, and admits that she now finds Lauren's behavior during their time together understandable, as Lauren spent twenty years married to a {{Jerkass}} like Stan before he dumped her for "newer models" like Diane.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: She tried to have one with her own grandson, Matt.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She is afraid of the dark, with the only person who knew this being Ginny.
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-> '''Played By:''' Donna Mills
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E13Blackout Blackout]]"
The matriarch of the wealthy Williams family, she drowned in the family pool during a blackout that occurred during her grandson Matt's birthday in 1996. In 2007, new evidence came to light indicating that she had been murdered, which was unsurprising, as she was hated by all of the other Williamses.
* AbusiveParents: She molested her own son, Tad, and makes it very clear that she sees him and her daughter, Ginny, as nothing but disappointments, something which she [[NeverMyFault blames]] entirely on her ex-husband, Stan.
* TheAlcoholic: Her blood alcohol level at the time of her death was about three times the legal limit, yet she appeared to be only slightly buzzed when she died, indicating an incredibly high tolerance level that was built-up over years of being a LadyDrunk.
* AssholeVictim: She was a shrewish RichBitch who molested her own son, Tad, and then tried to do the same to her grandson, Matt.
* AttemptedRape: Her attempted molestation of her own grandson, Matt, was interrupted by Tad.
* BitchAlert: In the span of a few minutes, Lauren criticizes Ginny's hair and calls her husband "The Unmentionable One."
* BlackAndGrayMorality: While Lauren is definitely worse than her ex-husband, Stan, Stan himself is still an adulterous jackass who dates women who are less than half his age, abandoning one of them after realizing that she had children, all the while blaming all of his problems on Lauren, even though, as Lauren and Tad pointed out, they got equal shares in the divorce, with Stan squandering his all on his own without any help from Lauren.
* BlamingTheVictim: She holds Tad equally culpable for what she did to him when he was 13.
* BoomerangBigot: She treated Diane like some kind of bumpkin for coming from a modest town like Tinley, even though Lauren herself is from Garth, Pennsylvania.
* BrokenPedestal: For her daughter, Ginny.
--> '''Ginny:''' I worshipped you when I was a little girl. Wanted to be just like you.
* CallingTheOldManOut: She got this from both of her children during the blackout in 1996.
* TheDreaded: Everyone falls silent and becomes uneasy as soon as Lauren drops in on the other Williamses.
* EvilMatriarch: Of the Williamses.
* GruesomeGrandparent: She was killed after she started trying to molest her own grandson, Matt.
* FinancialAbuse: She used this to try and control her daughter, Ginny, and, through her, Ginny's son, Matt.
* {{Fingore}}: One of her nails was ripped off while she was being drowned by Ginny.
* FirstNameBasis: She tells Diane and Matt to just call her Lauren, the latter during their near-TwoPersonPoolParty.
* HatedByAll: Everyone hated Lauren, with the only one to be even slightly sympathetic to her after her death being Diane.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She accused her ex-husband, Stan, of being a pedophile, when she herself was secretly one, having molested her own son, Tad, before attempting to do the same to her grandson, Matt.
* IWasQuiteALooker: While still attractive by 1996, it is noted that Lauren was nowhere near the beauty queen that she used to be, with Ginny stating, "When her looks faded, she had nothing to fall back on."
* LackOfEmpathy: "My mother was the most unhappy woman I've ever known. The only thing that gave her pleasure was making other people as miserable as she was."
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Her death was initially ruled to be an accident, but new evidence led to it being reclassified as a homicide in 2007.
* MrsRobinson: A very dark one, as she molested her own son, Tad, when he was thirteen, and tried doing the same to her grandson, Matt.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When the blackout hits, Stan announces, "It means we're gonna get cozy, have a nice family gathering... plus one."
* {{Narcissist}}: As Ginny put it, "You've never loved anyone in your whole life except yourself."
* ParentalIncest: She molested her own son, Tad, when he was a boy, and tried to do the same to her grandson, Matt.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat: She engaged in a lot of this with her family during the blackout in 1996.
* PostRapeTaunt:
** When Tad insults her while confronting her over how she molested him, Lauren snaps back, "You can say what you want. No one will ever compare with me. Not for you. Not ever."
** When Ginny told her that her power over the family was fading, Lauren smugly replied, "You might ask your precious son about that."
* ProudBeauty: Though she has fallen victim to IWasQuiteALooker.
--> '''Lauren:''' Poor, plain Ginny, always afraid I'm going to steal her men away. Like moths to a flame. That's the power of beauty. That's the power you'll never understand.
* RagsToRiches: She was a beauty queen from the podunk town of Garth, Pennsylvania who married a wealthy industrialist named Stan Williams.
* RichBitch: "I know how difficult this must be for you, Diane, being in a house with no electricity. A reminder of your childhood, dear. You are from Tinley, Arkansas, aren't you?"
* SympathyForTheDevil: By 2007, Diane has come to consider Lauren more pathetic than anything else, and admits that she now finds Lauren's behavior during their time together understandable, as Lauren spent twenty years married to a {{Jerkass}} like Stan before he dumped her for "newer models" like Diane.
* TwoPersonPoolParty: She tried to have one with her own grandson, Matt.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She is afraid of the dark, with the only person who knew this being Ginny.
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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.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: A serial perpetrator of this. In his mind, ''anyone'' connected to either his father's suicide of or the failure of his video rental store deserves to die, even if their parts in the events were honest mistakes or just being the bearer of bad news.
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* ShootTheMessenger: Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad'ss loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second 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 they stated, was 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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* ShootTheMessenger: Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad'ss dad's loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second 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 they stated, was 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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* LackOfEmpathy: Despite criticizing society for this, Alessandro repeatedly gives the impression that he cannot fathom that other people can simply be incapable of doing what he wants them to and that, coupled with his self-centric whining about about how others cannot understand his pain and have to be made aware of the state of the world that caused him it, causes him to come off as a myopic hypocrite or, as Kat put, an "angry sociopath."
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* LackOfEmpathy: Despite criticizing society for this, Alessandro repeatedly gives the impression that he cannot fathom that other people can simply be incapable of doing what he wants them to and that, coupled with his self-centric whining about about how others cannot understand his pain and have to be made aware of the state of the world that caused him it, causes him to come off as a myopic hypocrite or, as Kat put, put it, an "angry sociopath."
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* BigBrotherBully: Even though his younger brother, Luke, idolized him and offered him financial support, Alessandro had nothing but contempt for him, which led the two of them to have a falling out in 1999.
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--> '''Alessandro:''' Your best isn't good enough!
--> '''Alessandro:''' Your best isn't good enough!
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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He was inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski Ted Kaczynski]], better known as the Unabomber.
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* UngratefulBastard: Even though his younger brother, Luke, was helping him out financially and doing his best to try and support him and make him see reason, Alessandro had nothing but contempt and disdain for Luke, which led to the two of them to have a falling out in 1999.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His four year-old daughter, Sophia, died of a treatable form of cancer because the Rossilinis lost their health insurance and could barely get by with just Medicaid.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His four year-old daughter, Sophia, died of a treatable form of cancer because the Rossilinis had lost their health insurance and could barely get by with just Medicaid.
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* RevengeByProxy: Instead of his going after his brother, Luke, directly, he instead targets Luke's wife, Beth, and their daughter, Mia.
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* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Implied, as Curt Fitzpatrick's response to seeing Alessandro standing in the store store's return line was an exasperated, "What's the problem ''now'', sir?"
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* FreudianExcuse: He only became a MadBomber after he got laid off from his job, had his daughter die from cancer when her screening got delayed, had his marriage fall apart, and had his house destroyed to make way for a tech company, only for that to be made pointless when the company when bankrupt after the tech market crashed.
* MadBomber: He went on a bombing spree to get back at the system, or more accurately, anyone he associates with the system.
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A bomber with anti-modernization sentiments who began terrorizing Philadelphia in 1999.
* AllForNothing: He lost the legal battle for his childhood home, but it amounted to nothing anyway, as the company that bought the land went bankrupt soon afterward, so now the land where the house once stood is just a dirty lot with a withered sign announcing that Pixelerator Media will be moving in in 2001.
* CainAndAbel: After he lost everything, Alessandro came to hate and resent his brother, Luke, who he tried to destroy by killing Luke's wife, Beth, and their daughter, Mia.
* CallingCard: His bombs are all disguised as ornate music boxes that play the song ''John Henry.''
* ConnectedAllAlong: It was initially believed that Alessandro only went after Luke Ross because he saw Luke as a MorallyBankruptBanker, but then it is revealed that Luke is actually Alessandro's brother, Luciano Rossilini.
* CreepySouvenir: When the team find Alessandro's lair, they discover a wall with a bunch of newspaper cutouts relating to the attacks on Curt Fitzpatrick, Gene Schmidt, and Roderick Poole.
* DespairEventHorizon: He tried to live a normal life even after losing everything, but finally snapped when a big box store employee refused to give him a refund for a shower radio because the warranty had expired, all the while apathetically informing Alessandro that it would be cheaper to just buy a new one rather than send it back to the manufacturer in Taiwan.
--> '''Alessandro:''' What the Hell kind of product is that?\\
'''Curt:''' Disposable.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He killed Curt Fitzpatrick because of Curt's flippant response to Alessandro's attempt at getting a refund for a broken shower radio from Big Box Electronics.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Despite their falling out, Alessandro's brother, Luke, still cared about him, and even insisted that Alessandro was "not a violent man."
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His father, as well as his daughter, Sophia.
* EvilLuddite: In Alessandro's eyes, rampant modernization has corrupted society, and created an apathetic and withered CrapsackWorld.
* FamilyExtermination: He tried to kill his brother's family, the Rosses.
* GriefInducedSplit: Alessandro and his wife, Helen, divorced after the death of their daughter, Sophia.
* FiringDay: We get a flashback to the day Alessandro lost his job at Kinetic Corp. due to the company deciding to restructure and start outsourcing to cheaper workers in Bangalore.
* FreudianExcuse: Heonly became a MadBomber after he got laid off from lost his job, had job due to outsourcing, his daughter die from cancer when due to being unable to get her screening got delayed, had decent healthcare due to his lack of insurance, his marriage fall apart, and had due to his house destroyed daughter's death, his childhood home due to make way for a tech company, only for that to be made pointless when the company when that ended up going bankrupt after and doing nothing with the land due to the tech market crashed.
bubble bursting, and his relationship with his brother due to Alessandro lashing out at him due to viewing him as a MorallyBankruptBanker.
* HarassingPhoneCall: He calls his targets posing as a credit card representative to learn about their habits and routines, and then taunts them, like he did with his sister-in-law, Beth.
* ICanSeeYou: While talking to his brother's wife over the telephone, Alessandro taunts her by saying, "I hope you and your husband are enjoying your new purchases. Love the blue curtains, by the way."
* IHaveAFamily: In a flashback, we see Alessandro pleading with the boss who had just fired him, telling him, "I have a wife, a kid. A mortgage."
* IHaveNoSon: During their last conversation, Alessandro told Luke, "You're not my brother."
* IronicEcho: Alessandro reveals to his brother, Luke, that a bomb is going to kill Luke's family by paraphrasing Luke's earlier line, "Not everything's meant to last forever."
* GoingPostal: His second attack was against his old workplace, Kinetic Corp.
* LineOfSightName: He took the name "Carl Baxter" from a random convict after noticing that the man had forearm tattoos that spelt out the names "John" and "Henry."
* MadBomber:He went on His bombings are a bombing spree to get means at getting back at [[InherentInTheSystem the system, or system]], though in practice they are just ShootTheMessenger.
* MessOfWoe: Alessandro's apartment is a dark, squalid mess full of junk, bomb supplies, fast food containers, and a wall full of {{Creepy Souvenir}}s.
* MoralMyopia: In a flashback, Alessandro is shown treating his brother, Luke, like complete crap, and yet he gets angry and disowns Luke after Luke finally becomes fed-up with his brother's constant self-righteous belittlement and condescension and declares that he will no longer be financially supporting Alessandro.
* MotiveRant: "It never stops, never stops, never, never. At first, I thought I'd gone mad. But then I realized it wasn't me, it's the world that's gone mad. You become numb, disconnected, conditioned to accept every... every indignity. Disposable. It's never anyone's fault. Never. I'm just doing my job, it's not personal, it's just business. People have to answer for what they do. I gave them all a chance again and again. But you can only get pushed down so far before you have to stand up and tell them you have value. Sometimes you have to wake people up. Make them realize how we've all been diminished. Oh, no one's innocent. No one. We're all.. we're all complicit. In this... this mess. People need to be made to understand [about loss]."
* MusicalAssassin: His bombs are all disguised as ornate music boxes that play the song ''John Henry.''
* MythicalMotifs: He is obsessed with--and sees himself as something akin to--the folk hero John Henry.
* NiceToTheWaiter: An employee of the library that he frequented had nothing but good things to say about him, and described him as "such a nice man."
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He waxes on about the evils of modernization and the system's exploitative treatment of the working class, and yet all of his targets were just people who he had some petty personal grudge against, like the floor manager who not give him a refund for a defective product and the doctor's aide who was simply unable to do anything to help Alessandro's sick daughter, Sophia.
* OffTheGrid: In 1999, he began living as a squatter in an old apartment building, with any amenities that he used only being low-cost and free public ones, like the payphones in the 20th Street Station and the computers in the Philadelphia Public Library.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: ''John Henry.''
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His four year-old daughter, Sophia, died of a treatable form of cancer because the Rossilinis lost their health insurance and could barely get by with just Medicaid.
* PreciousPhoto: During the final showdown, Alessandro reveals that there is nothing in the music box that he is holding but an old photograph of his daughter, Sophia.
* RailroadPlot: Along with his daughter's illness, he was also rendered destitute by waging an exhaustive and ultimately pointless legal battle to try and save his family's old home from a company called Pixelerator Media.
* RevengeByProxy: Instead of his going after his brother, Luke, directly, he instead targets Luke's wife, Beth, and their daughter, Mia.
* SerialKiller: He only killed two people, but wounded over a dozen others, and tried to murder his own niece, Mia, and her mother, Beth.
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: He targets specific people, but attacks them in public, high-traffic places (like a department store and a gym) in order to "make it seem random."
* ShootTheMessenger: The targets of his attacks all represented the faceless establishments that he was actually angry with, like big box stores, corporations, banks, the medical and insurance industries, etc.
* SinisterWhistling: While leaving the scene of the fourth bombing, he casually whistles ''John Henry.''
* TraumaCongaLine: He lost his childhood home, his job, his daughter, and his marriage, and then ruined his relationship with his brother, Luke.
* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Implied, as Curt Fitzpatrick's response to seeing Alessandro in the store return line was an exasperated, "What's the problem ''now'', sir?"
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He was fired from his job because all of the knowledge and skills that were required for his field of work had become a "commodity" and people in other countries could do the same job for "one-fifth the salary."
* WesternTerrorists: In motive, though in practice he is moreaccurately, anyone he associates of a SerialKiller.
* WhereItAllBegan: The final standoff with Alessandro takes place in his father's greatest achievement, thesystem.20th Street Station, which Alessandro spent much of his time admiring as a young boy living in Germantown.
* WouldHurtAChild: His final intended victim was his own young niece, Mia.
* AllForNothing: He lost the legal battle for his childhood home, but it amounted to nothing anyway, as the company that bought the land went bankrupt soon afterward, so now the land where the house once stood is just a dirty lot with a withered sign announcing that Pixelerator Media will be moving in in 2001.
* CainAndAbel: After he lost everything, Alessandro came to hate and resent his brother, Luke, who he tried to destroy by killing Luke's wife, Beth, and their daughter, Mia.
* CallingCard: His bombs are all disguised as ornate music boxes that play the song ''John Henry.''
* ConnectedAllAlong: It was initially believed that Alessandro only went after Luke Ross because he saw Luke as a MorallyBankruptBanker, but then it is revealed that Luke is actually Alessandro's brother, Luciano Rossilini.
* CreepySouvenir: When the team find Alessandro's lair, they discover a wall with a bunch of newspaper cutouts relating to the attacks on Curt Fitzpatrick, Gene Schmidt, and Roderick Poole.
* DespairEventHorizon: He tried to live a normal life even after losing everything, but finally snapped when a big box store employee refused to give him a refund for a shower radio because the warranty had expired, all the while apathetically informing Alessandro that it would be cheaper to just buy a new one rather than send it back to the manufacturer in Taiwan.
--> '''Alessandro:''' What the Hell kind of product is that?\\
'''Curt:''' Disposable.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He killed Curt Fitzpatrick because of Curt's flippant response to Alessandro's attempt at getting a refund for a broken shower radio from Big Box Electronics.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Despite their falling out, Alessandro's brother, Luke, still cared about him, and even insisted that Alessandro was "not a violent man."
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His father, as well as his daughter, Sophia.
* EvilLuddite: In Alessandro's eyes, rampant modernization has corrupted society, and created an apathetic and withered CrapsackWorld.
* FamilyExtermination: He tried to kill his brother's family, the Rosses.
* GriefInducedSplit: Alessandro and his wife, Helen, divorced after the death of their daughter, Sophia.
* FiringDay: We get a flashback to the day Alessandro lost his job at Kinetic Corp. due to the company deciding to restructure and start outsourcing to cheaper workers in Bangalore.
* FreudianExcuse: He
* HarassingPhoneCall: He calls his targets posing as a credit card representative to learn about their habits and routines, and then taunts them, like he did with his sister-in-law, Beth.
* ICanSeeYou: While talking to his brother's wife over the telephone, Alessandro taunts her by saying, "I hope you and your husband are enjoying your new purchases. Love the blue curtains, by the way."
* IHaveAFamily: In a flashback, we see Alessandro pleading with the boss who had just fired him, telling him, "I have a wife, a kid. A mortgage."
* IHaveNoSon: During their last conversation, Alessandro told Luke, "You're not my brother."
* IronicEcho: Alessandro reveals to his brother, Luke, that a bomb is going to kill Luke's family by paraphrasing Luke's earlier line, "Not everything's meant to last forever."
* GoingPostal: His second attack was against his old workplace, Kinetic Corp.
* LineOfSightName: He took the name "Carl Baxter" from a random convict after noticing that the man had forearm tattoos that spelt out the names "John" and "Henry."
* MadBomber:
* MessOfWoe: Alessandro's apartment is a dark, squalid mess full of junk, bomb supplies, fast food containers, and a wall full of {{Creepy Souvenir}}s.
* MoralMyopia: In a flashback, Alessandro is shown treating his brother, Luke, like complete crap, and yet he gets angry and disowns Luke after Luke finally becomes fed-up with his brother's constant self-righteous belittlement and condescension and declares that he will no longer be financially supporting Alessandro.
* MotiveRant: "It never stops, never stops, never, never. At first, I thought I'd gone mad. But then I realized it wasn't me, it's the world that's gone mad. You become numb, disconnected, conditioned to accept every... every indignity. Disposable. It's never anyone's fault. Never. I'm just doing my job, it's not personal, it's just business. People have to answer for what they do. I gave them all a chance again and again. But you can only get pushed down so far before you have to stand up and tell them you have value. Sometimes you have to wake people up. Make them realize how we've all been diminished. Oh, no one's innocent. No one. We're all.. we're all complicit. In this... this mess. People need to be made to understand [about loss]."
* MusicalAssassin: His bombs are all disguised as ornate music boxes that play the song ''John Henry.''
* MythicalMotifs: He is obsessed with--and sees himself as something akin to--the folk hero John Henry.
* NiceToTheWaiter: An employee of the library that he frequented had nothing but good things to say about him, and described him as "such a nice man."
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He waxes on about the evils of modernization and the system's exploitative treatment of the working class, and yet all of his targets were just people who he had some petty personal grudge against, like the floor manager who not give him a refund for a defective product and the doctor's aide who was simply unable to do anything to help Alessandro's sick daughter, Sophia.
* OffTheGrid: In 1999, he began living as a squatter in an old apartment building, with any amenities that he used only being low-cost and free public ones, like the payphones in the 20th Street Station and the computers in the Philadelphia Public Library.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: ''John Henry.''
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His four year-old daughter, Sophia, died of a treatable form of cancer because the Rossilinis lost their health insurance and could barely get by with just Medicaid.
* PreciousPhoto: During the final showdown, Alessandro reveals that there is nothing in the music box that he is holding but an old photograph of his daughter, Sophia.
* RailroadPlot: Along with his daughter's illness, he was also rendered destitute by waging an exhaustive and ultimately pointless legal battle to try and save his family's old home from a company called Pixelerator Media.
* RevengeByProxy: Instead of his going after his brother, Luke, directly, he instead targets Luke's wife, Beth, and their daughter, Mia.
* SerialKiller: He only killed two people, but wounded over a dozen others, and tried to murder his own niece, Mia, and her mother, Beth.
* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: He targets specific people, but attacks them in public, high-traffic places (like a department store and a gym) in order to "make it seem random."
* ShootTheMessenger: The targets of his attacks all represented the faceless establishments that he was actually angry with, like big box stores, corporations, banks, the medical and insurance industries, etc.
* SinisterWhistling: While leaving the scene of the fourth bombing, he casually whistles ''John Henry.''
* TraumaCongaLine: He lost his childhood home, his job, his daughter, and his marriage, and then ruined his relationship with his brother, Luke.
* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Implied, as Curt Fitzpatrick's response to seeing Alessandro in the store return line was an exasperated, "What's the problem ''now'', sir?"
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He was fired from his job because all of the knowledge and skills that were required for his field of work had become a "commodity" and people in other countries could do the same job for "one-fifth the salary."
* WesternTerrorists: In motive, though in practice he is more
* WhereItAllBegan: The final standoff with Alessandro takes place in his father's greatest achievement, the
* WouldHurtAChild: His final intended victim was his own young niece, Mia.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Scooter ain't his no more."]]
-> '''Played By''': Luis Garcia
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS3E6SavingPatrickBubley Saving Patrick Bubley]]"
A vicious Latino gang leader who became embroiled in a blood feud with the Bubleys after he stole a scooter from the family's youngest son, Patrick.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Cedric Bubley brings up how Miguel killed Vaughn, an apathetic Miguel just asks, "Vaughn? He [[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]]-looking like you?"
* DisproportionateRetribution: He shot Vaughn Bubley simply because Vaughn had annoyed him by trying to take back his younger brother Patrick's scooter, Web D.
* TheDreaded: According to Stillman, Miguel is "untouchable" because ''everyone'' fears him, even his own cousin and second-in-command, Jesus.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Even though Miguel treated his girlfriend, Letecia, like complete crap, Letecia was still unflappably attached to Miguel.
* FamilyExtermination: He and his gang killed all but two of the Bubleys.
* {{Gangbangers}}: The leader of the O's, a gang that operates out of Fairhill.
* GanglandDriveBy: This is how he killed Quincy Bubley.
* GangstaStyle: This is how he shot Vaughn Bubley.
* HumanShield: He used his own girlfriend, Letecia, as one when they were confronted by Cedric Bubley.
* ISurrenderSuckers: He pretended to give Patrick Bubley's scooter back to Patrick's older brother, Vaughn, but then turned around and shot Vaughn.
* KickTheDog: All of his scenes are just a parade of these, from stealing a scooter from a small child to turning the boy's mother into his drug-addicted sex slave by dangling the whereabouts of one her son's bodies over her head to using his own girlfriend as a HumanShield.
* {{Sadist}}: He is outright described as one by Stillman.
* SelfServingMemory: He used his own girlfriend, Letecia, as a HumanShield against Cedric Bubley, but when Maeve Bubley came to him begging to know what he did with Cedric's body, Miguel asked her if Cedric was "the same boy who put a gun on my girl."
* SexSlave: He got Maeve Bubley hooked on drugs in order to turn her into one of these when she came to him begging to know what he did with the body of one of her sons, Cedric.
* SillyReasonForWar: "Four boys dead. All over a scooter."
* SmugSnake: He is insufferably smug in all of his scenes up until he is finally jailed for killing the four Bubleys.
* TheSociopath: He stole a scooter from a young boy, shot the boy's brother when he tried to get it back, used his own girlfriend as a HumanShield when he was confronted by another one of the boy's brothers--who he then had killed--and got the mother of his victims hooked on crack and turned her into his SexSlave when she came to him begging to know what he did with the body of one of her sons, Cedric.
* VillainsOutShopping:
** Miguel's gang is introduced messing around with Patrick's scooter in Yin's Market.
** Miguel was eating dinner in a restaurant with his girlfriend, Letecia, when the two of them were confronted by Cedric Bubley.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Scooter ain't his no more."]]
-> '''Played By''': Luis Garcia
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS3E6SavingPatrickBubley Saving Patrick Bubley]]"
A vicious Latino gang leader who became embroiled in a blood feud with the Bubleys after he stole a scooter from the family's youngest son, Patrick.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When Cedric Bubley brings up how Miguel killed Vaughn, an apathetic Miguel just asks, "Vaughn? He [[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]]-looking like you?"
* DisproportionateRetribution: He shot Vaughn Bubley simply because Vaughn had annoyed him by trying to take back his younger brother Patrick's scooter, Web D.
* TheDreaded: According to Stillman, Miguel is "untouchable" because ''everyone'' fears him, even his own cousin and second-in-command, Jesus.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Even though Miguel treated his girlfriend, Letecia, like complete crap, Letecia was still unflappably attached to Miguel.
* FamilyExtermination: He and his gang killed all but two of the Bubleys.
* {{Gangbangers}}: The leader of the O's, a gang that operates out of Fairhill.
* GanglandDriveBy: This is how he killed Quincy Bubley.
* GangstaStyle: This is how he shot Vaughn Bubley.
* HumanShield: He used his own girlfriend, Letecia, as one when they were confronted by Cedric Bubley.
* ISurrenderSuckers: He pretended to give Patrick Bubley's scooter back to Patrick's older brother, Vaughn, but then turned around and shot Vaughn.
* KickTheDog: All of his scenes are just a parade of these, from stealing a scooter from a small child to turning the boy's mother into his drug-addicted sex slave by dangling the whereabouts of one her son's bodies over her head to using his own girlfriend as a HumanShield.
* {{Sadist}}: He is outright described as one by Stillman.
* SelfServingMemory: He used his own girlfriend, Letecia, as a HumanShield against Cedric Bubley, but when Maeve Bubley came to him begging to know what he did with Cedric's body, Miguel asked her if Cedric was "the same boy who put a gun on my girl."
* SexSlave: He got Maeve Bubley hooked on drugs in order to turn her into one of these when she came to him begging to know what he did with the body of one of her sons, Cedric.
* SillyReasonForWar: "Four boys dead. All over a scooter."
* SmugSnake: He is insufferably smug in all of his scenes up until he is finally jailed for killing the four Bubleys.
* TheSociopath: He stole a scooter from a young boy, shot the boy's brother when he tried to get it back, used his own girlfriend as a HumanShield when he was confronted by another one of the boy's brothers--who he then had killed--and got the mother of his victims hooked on crack and turned her into his SexSlave when she came to him begging to know what he did with the body of one of her sons, Cedric.
* VillainsOutShopping:
** Miguel's gang is introduced messing around with Patrick's scooter in Yin's Market.
** Miguel was eating dinner in a restaurant with his girlfriend, Letecia, when the two of them were confronted by Cedric Bubley.
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* 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.]]
* 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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A retired U.S. Army Officer employed as a physical training instructor at the Pennsylvania Military Institute, he helped cover-up the accidental death of one of the institution's first female cadets, Kate Butler, in 2005. While Kate's killer was arrested, Moe managed to make bail, and became a thorn in the side of the Philly PD, especially Lilly.
* TheAlcoholic:Which helped play a part in He was shown drinking on campus, and appeared to spend all of his ultimate [[spoiler: death.]]
free time drinking at a dive bar, at one point leaving it so loaded that he was unable to walk straight, which led to him getting a DUI thanks to Lilly.
* AmbiguousSituation: A lot of his backstory and how he was involved in covering-up Kate's death comes from Lilly's DyingDream, so how much, if any of it, is true to life, is unclear, including whether or not Lawrence Gardner is really dead, as his death is not mentioned after Lilly recovers, and yet he is still conspicuously absent during Moe's PerpWalk.
* ArcVillain: His storyline started at the end of Season Six, and lasted until mid-Season Seven.
* AssholeVictim:Even Moe was a scumbag, so no one really cares that he was murdered, 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 Hank Butler does mention that VengeanceFeelsEmpty.
* BailEqualsFreedom: Moe beingdead.]]
granted bail reduction is treated like this, especially by Lilly.
* BodyInABreadbox: The footlocker that he transported and buried Kate's body in, which was traced back to the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* CarFu: He tried to kill Lilly by ramming her car off of a bridge using a car borrowed from the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* CrimeAfterCrime: Hedidn't even commit the murder the team covered-up Kate's death, and when her body was discovered, he tried to kill Lilly, and then framed and killed Lawrence Gardner.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: He killed Lawrence Gardner in order to frame him for killing Kate and trying to kill Lilly.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: It is revealed to actually be "Maurice" in "Jurisprudence."
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: "I take my mother to mass on Sundays."
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He is completely stoic while being held at gunpoint by Hank Butler, not begging or resisting, and merely saying, "Sorry, Hank. It wasn't personal."
* FauxAffablyEvil: He initiallyinvestigating.
acts cordial towards Lilly and Scotty, especially compared to Commandant Murillo, but is gradually revealed to be a despicable SmugSnake.
* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: He is a fourth generation alumni of the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* FoundTheKillerLostTheMurderer: The team gets Kate's killer, but they are unable to nail Moe.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: He asks Ryan this when Ryan comes to him after accidentally killing Kate.
* IShallTauntYou: As Lilly upped her harassment of him, Moe started taunting her, hoping to goad her into doing something that would get her more than a slap on the wrist from Internal Affairs or the DA's Office.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After evading justice for many episodes, he is shot to death by Hank Butler, the father of the girl whose death he helped cover-up, at the end of "Bombers."
* LackOfEmpathy:Doesn't feel He cared more about his family's military academy of choice than he did about the lives of its cadets, even ending his MotiveRant by stating, "Excuse me if I forgot to shed a tear for Hank Butler's daughter."
* TheNeidermeyer: While no worse towards the new recruits than the other faculty members and the older cadets, it is made clear that he cared more about the academy itself than its student body, going by his callous behavior towards Kate, Lawrence, and Ryan.
* NothingPersonal: He tells Hank Butler, whose daughter's death he covered-up, this before being shot by him in "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E14Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]."
* PerpWalk: Everyone present turns their backs on Moe and Ryan as they are being perp walked out of the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: During his MotiveRant.
--> '''Moe:''' Do you know how many congressmen have graduated from P.M.I.? Twelve. Six senators, eight four-star generals. Those courts ordered us to change the way we do things here. Now here we are.\\
'''Scotty:''' Stuck installing women's latrines and tampon dispensers.\\
'''Moe:''' There are over sixty women's colleges in this country. Do you see any men banging down the doors trying to get in? [[SuddenlyShouting The value of a separate education is that it is separate!]]\\
'''Lilly:''' Sound bitter, Moe.\\
'''Moe:''' Because of this catastrophic experiment ,an army of lawyers and press stand ready to shut down the institution I love, the oneounce of remorse for thing I share with my father and his before him.
* SmugSmiler: Especially when it comes to Lilly.
--> '''Lilly:''' He smiled at me. The bastard ''smiled'' at me, boss.
* StupidCrooks: Moe's attempts at covering-up his involvement in Kate's death were incredibly sloppy, and he displayed a staggering amount of shortsightedness when he tried to kill Lilly, attempting to do it with an academy car that only he used, and afterward not even bothering to try and hide themurder cover-up.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committeddamage that was done to it when he returned it to the murder wasn't evil, just stupid and jealous, but he himself was the puppetmaster.
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival:academy after using it to attack Lilly.
* SmugSnake: Oh, yes. To Lilly and other characters.
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:He ends up He is shot in the head by Kate Butler's grieving father, Hank.
* VillainHasAPoint: Moe is a smarmy asshole, but he was not wrong to file complaints against Lilly and call her out when she began stalking and harassing him while he was on bail, doing things like calling in favors to get Moe's car booted and sabotaging Moe getting a bank loan after he was dismissed from the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His lack of previous legal entanglements, stature in the community, laudable service record, and the judge also beingkilled by ex-military led to Moe being granted what amounted to BailEqualsFreedom.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied, as he called the Pennsylvania Military Institute the "one thing I share with my fatherof the female cadet whose death he helped to cover up.]]and his before him."
* TheAlcoholic:
* AmbiguousSituation: A lot of his backstory and how he was involved in covering-up Kate's death comes from Lilly's DyingDream, so how much, if any of it, is true to life, is unclear, including whether or not Lawrence Gardner is really dead, as his death is not mentioned after Lilly recovers, and yet he is still conspicuously absent during Moe's PerpWalk.
* ArcVillain: His storyline started at the end of Season Six, and lasted until mid-Season Seven.
* AssholeVictim:
* BailEqualsFreedom: Moe being
* BodyInABreadbox: The footlocker that he transported and buried Kate's body in, which was traced back to the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* CarFu: He tried to kill Lilly by ramming her car off of a bridge using a car borrowed from the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* CrimeAfterCrime: He
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: He killed Lawrence Gardner in order to frame him for killing Kate and trying to kill Lilly.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: It is revealed to actually be "Maurice" in "Jurisprudence."
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: "I take my mother to mass on Sundays."
* FaceDeathWithDignity: He is completely stoic while being held at gunpoint by Hank Butler, not begging or resisting, and merely saying, "Sorry, Hank. It wasn't personal."
* FauxAffablyEvil: He initially
* FollowingInRelativesFootsteps: He is a fourth generation alumni of the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* FoundTheKillerLostTheMurderer: The team gets Kate's killer, but they are unable to nail Moe.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: He asks Ryan this when Ryan comes to him after accidentally killing Kate.
* IShallTauntYou: As Lilly upped her harassment of him, Moe started taunting her, hoping to goad her into doing something that would get her more than a slap on the wrist from Internal Affairs or the DA's Office.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After evading justice for many episodes, he is shot to death by Hank Butler, the father of the girl whose death he helped cover-up, at the end of "Bombers."
* LackOfEmpathy:
* TheNeidermeyer: While no worse towards the new recruits than the other faculty members and the older cadets, it is made clear that he cared more about the academy itself than its student body, going by his callous behavior towards Kate, Lawrence, and Ryan.
* NothingPersonal: He tells Hank Butler, whose daughter's death he covered-up, this before being shot by him in "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E14Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]."
* PerpWalk: Everyone present turns their backs on Moe and Ryan as they are being perp walked out of the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: During his MotiveRant.
--> '''Moe:''' Do you know how many congressmen have graduated from P.M.I.? Twelve. Six senators, eight four-star generals. Those courts ordered us to change the way we do things here. Now here we are.\\
'''Scotty:''' Stuck installing women's latrines and tampon dispensers.\\
'''Moe:''' There are over sixty women's colleges in this country. Do you see any men banging down the doors trying to get in? [[SuddenlyShouting The value of a separate education is that it is separate!]]\\
'''Lilly:''' Sound bitter, Moe.\\
'''Moe:''' Because of this catastrophic experiment ,an army of lawyers and press stand ready to shut down the institution I love, the one
* SmugSmiler: Especially when it comes to Lilly.
--> '''Lilly:''' He smiled at me. The bastard ''smiled'' at me, boss.
* StupidCrooks: Moe's attempts at covering-up his involvement in Kate's death were incredibly sloppy, and he displayed a staggering amount of shortsightedness when he tried to kill Lilly, attempting to do it with an academy car that only he used, and afterward not even bothering to try and hide the
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committed
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival:
* VillainHasAPoint: Moe is a smarmy asshole, but he was not wrong to file complaints against Lilly and call her out when she began stalking and harassing him while he was on bail, doing things like calling in favors to get Moe's car booted and sabotaging Moe getting a bank loan after he was dismissed from the Pennsylvania Military Institute.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His lack of previous legal entanglements, stature in the community, laudable service record, and the judge also being
* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied, as he called the Pennsylvania Military Institute the "one thing I share with my father
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[[folder: Caroline Hargreave]]
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChandraWest (1974) and Jane Daly (2010)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E12TheRunawayBunny The Runaway Bunny]]"
A wealthy woman who had her lawyer, Wilson Katz, hire a private detective named Harry Denton to find her runaway stepdaughter, Michelle "Bunny" Hargreave, in 1974. After Harry's remains are found buried beneath an office building in 2010, they are traced back to Caroline, who the team discover is a BlackWidow.
* TheBadGuyWins: She gets away with everything, and is last shown taunting Lilly and Stillman.
* BigFancyHouse: She lives in a virtual mansion, complete with a pond full of koi that were "flown in direct from Kyoto."
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She paints herself as an aloof, but caring woman who only wanted her stepdaughter, Bunny, back, when in reality she is a remorseless BlackWidow who wanted to have Bunny WrongfullyCommitted.
* BlackWidow: She poisoned her first husband, Melvin Grover, in 1964, and her second husband, Stan Hargreave, in 1974.
* CaringGardener: She initially seems to be this, having a large collection plants and flowers, but then it is revealed that she is a BlackWidow.
* ClassyCravat: She wears one of these during her second interview with Lilly.
* ColorMotif: The color red is emphasized in all of her flashbacks, which otherwise verge on MonochromePast.
* CrocodileTears: She sheds these when she first talks to Lilly and Scotty about Bunny.
* DestroyTheEvidence: She cremated her poisoned husbands, Melvin and Stan.
* DoesNotLikeMen: "Men are the weaker of the species."
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: By her attorney, Wilson Katz, who has UndyingLoyalty towards Caroline.
* HandshakeRefusal: She ignored Denton's outstretched hand when they first met back in 1974.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Stan's daughter, Bunny, suspected that Caroline had poisoned her father, so Caroline was going to have her WrongfullyCommitted.
* IceQueen: While watching Caroline's second interview with Lilly, Kat even remarks, "That's one cold bitch."
* InsuranceFraud: She got a big life insurance payout when her first husband, Melvin Grover, died of "food poisoning" back in 1964.
* MasterPoisoner: She cultivated foxglove, which she disguised as primrose, in order to extract its digoxin, which she used to poison Bunny's father, Stan.
* NotTheFirstVictim: She did not just kill Stan Hargreave, she also killed her earlier husband, Melvin Grover.
* ThePerfectCrime: Stan was a middle-age man with heart troubles, so it was easy for Caroline to poison him using digoxin that she had extracted from foxglove, getting away with it by having Stan cremated, with the only loose end being Stan's suspicious daughter, Bunny, who was ultimately unable to do anything to Caroline. She later had the remains of her first husband, Melvin, exhumed and cremated, to eliminate another loose end, after having Wilson Katz deal with the suspicious Harry Denton.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: After asking if Lilly has anything to go on besides her outliving her husbands, Caroline scoffs that such a thing is not unusual, as "Men are the ''weaker'' of the species."
* RagsToRiches: She was a "white trash" prostitute and petty criminal from Tulsa who climbed her way up to high society by becoming a BlackWidow.
* RetiredMonster: She used her ill-gotten gains to live a quiet life of luxury, which she was shown to still be enjoying in 2010.
* SerialKiller: She poisoned two of her husbands, and then had Harry Denton killed by Wilson Katz.
* SmugSmiler: She has a hoity smirk plastered on her face throughout her second interview with Lilly.
* SmugSnake: She is pompous throughout her second interview with Lilly, only faltering when Bunny is revealed to still be alive, and even then she quickly recovers, and goes right back to being smug towards Lilly.
* ThatManIsDead: When Lilly brings up her past as Mandy Mae Smith, Caroline claims, "I'm no longer that person."
* TheVamp: She had her attorney, Wilson Katz, completely wrapped around her little finger, so much so that he killed Harry Denton for her, and refused to act against her when he was arrested for Harry's murder in 2010.
* WickedStepmother: To her second husband's daughter, Bunny, who she was going to have WrongfullyCommitted.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She does nothing to help Wilson Katz, her undyingly loyal attorney, when he goes down for killing Harry Denton.
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/ChandraWest (1974) and Jane Daly (2010)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E12TheRunawayBunny The Runaway Bunny]]"
A wealthy woman who had her lawyer, Wilson Katz, hire a private detective named Harry Denton to find her runaway stepdaughter, Michelle "Bunny" Hargreave, in 1974. After Harry's remains are found buried beneath an office building in 2010, they are traced back to Caroline, who the team discover is a BlackWidow.
* TheBadGuyWins: She gets away with everything, and is last shown taunting Lilly and Stillman.
* BigFancyHouse: She lives in a virtual mansion, complete with a pond full of koi that were "flown in direct from Kyoto."
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She paints herself as an aloof, but caring woman who only wanted her stepdaughter, Bunny, back, when in reality she is a remorseless BlackWidow who wanted to have Bunny WrongfullyCommitted.
* BlackWidow: She poisoned her first husband, Melvin Grover, in 1964, and her second husband, Stan Hargreave, in 1974.
* CaringGardener: She initially seems to be this, having a large collection plants and flowers, but then it is revealed that she is a BlackWidow.
* ClassyCravat: She wears one of these during her second interview with Lilly.
* ColorMotif: The color red is emphasized in all of her flashbacks, which otherwise verge on MonochromePast.
* CrocodileTears: She sheds these when she first talks to Lilly and Scotty about Bunny.
* DestroyTheEvidence: She cremated her poisoned husbands, Melvin and Stan.
* DoesNotLikeMen: "Men are the weaker of the species."
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: By her attorney, Wilson Katz, who has UndyingLoyalty towards Caroline.
* HandshakeRefusal: She ignored Denton's outstretched hand when they first met back in 1974.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Stan's daughter, Bunny, suspected that Caroline had poisoned her father, so Caroline was going to have her WrongfullyCommitted.
* IceQueen: While watching Caroline's second interview with Lilly, Kat even remarks, "That's one cold bitch."
* InsuranceFraud: She got a big life insurance payout when her first husband, Melvin Grover, died of "food poisoning" back in 1964.
* MasterPoisoner: She cultivated foxglove, which she disguised as primrose, in order to extract its digoxin, which she used to poison Bunny's father, Stan.
* NotTheFirstVictim: She did not just kill Stan Hargreave, she also killed her earlier husband, Melvin Grover.
* ThePerfectCrime: Stan was a middle-age man with heart troubles, so it was easy for Caroline to poison him using digoxin that she had extracted from foxglove, getting away with it by having Stan cremated, with the only loose end being Stan's suspicious daughter, Bunny, who was ultimately unable to do anything to Caroline. She later had the remains of her first husband, Melvin, exhumed and cremated, to eliminate another loose end, after having Wilson Katz deal with the suspicious Harry Denton.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: After asking if Lilly has anything to go on besides her outliving her husbands, Caroline scoffs that such a thing is not unusual, as "Men are the ''weaker'' of the species."
* RagsToRiches: She was a "white trash" prostitute and petty criminal from Tulsa who climbed her way up to high society by becoming a BlackWidow.
* RetiredMonster: She used her ill-gotten gains to live a quiet life of luxury, which she was shown to still be enjoying in 2010.
* SerialKiller: She poisoned two of her husbands, and then had Harry Denton killed by Wilson Katz.
* SmugSmiler: She has a hoity smirk plastered on her face throughout her second interview with Lilly.
* SmugSnake: She is pompous throughout her second interview with Lilly, only faltering when Bunny is revealed to still be alive, and even then she quickly recovers, and goes right back to being smug towards Lilly.
* ThatManIsDead: When Lilly brings up her past as Mandy Mae Smith, Caroline claims, "I'm no longer that person."
* TheVamp: She had her attorney, Wilson Katz, completely wrapped around her little finger, so much so that he killed Harry Denton for her, and refused to act against her when he was arrested for Harry's murder in 2010.
* WickedStepmother: To her second husband's daughter, Bunny, who she was going to have WrongfullyCommitted.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: She does nothing to help Wilson Katz, her undyingly loyal attorney, when he goes down for killing Harry Denton.
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* LackOfEmpthy: Despite being put through a similar ordeal herself, she still set Rainey and Celeste up to be sexually assaulted by the football players, and when Celeste began crying after ten of the boys had their way with her, an annoyed Becca just told her to stop her "sniveling."
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* LackOfEmpthy: LackOfEmpathy: Despite being put through a similar ordeal herself, she still set Rainey and Celeste up to be sexually assaulted by the football players, and when Celeste began crying after ten of the boys had their way with her, an annoyed Becca just told her to stop her "sniveling."
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* LackOfEmpthy: Despite being put through a similar ordeal herself, she still set Rainey and Celeste up to be sexually assaulted by the football players, and when Celeste began crying after ten of the boys had their way with her, an annoyed Becca just told her to stop her "sniveling."
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* NoSympathy: Despite being put through a similar ordeal herself, she still set Rainey and Celeste up to be sexually assaulted by the football players, and when Celeste began crying after ten of the boys had their way with her, an annoyed Becca just told her to stop her "sniveling."
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* GreaterScopeVillain: She did not kill Mike, but is still the overarching villain of the episode, with the nightmarish things that Kateryna endured under Linda's ownership being what drove her to snap and kill Mike.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: She did not kill Mike, but she is still the overarching villain of the episode, with the nightmarish things that Kateryna endured under Linda's ownership being what drove her to snap and kill Mike.
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* ConfusionFu: Roy killed people in uniforms at night, but otherwise acted with complete randomness due to being driven to kill by hallucinations, and that, coupled with Roy being grounded enough to still do things like lie to protect himself, baffled investigators to such an extent that the only way that they could get him was through a desperate "sweetheart deal" PleaBargain.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: He initially only harmed himself, but his aunt's unwitting encouragement caused him to become a SerialKiller.
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* AssholeVictim: She was a prolific con artist whose actions drove a man to suicide, who met her comeuppance when she tried to browbeat her son into helping her murder his own girlfriend in order to commit InsuranceFraud.
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* AssholeVictim: She was a prolific con artist whose actions drove a man to suicide, who met got her comeuppance when she tried to browbeat her son into helping her murder his own girlfriend in order to commit InsuranceFraud.
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* FreudianExcuse: Margot grew up poor trailer trash, was regularly beaten by her mother, and found a form of escapism in old film, the glamourous women of which she idolized and wanted to be like, with her favorite being Creator/AudreyHepburn in ''[[Film/Sabrina1954 Sabrina]].''
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* FreudianExcuse: Margot grew up poor trailer trash, was regularly beaten by her mother, and found a form of escapism in old film, films, the glamourous women of which she idolized and wanted to be like, with her favorite being Creator/AudreyHepburn in ''[[Film/Sabrina1954 Sabrina]].''
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!Serial Killers
[[folder:George Marks]]
!!George Marks
->'''Played By''': Creator/JohnBillingsley
[[folder:George Marks]]
!!George Marks
->'''Played By''': Creator/JohnBillingsley
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->'''Played By''': Creator/JohnBillingsley
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[[caption-width-right:330:"You have no idea of the things a woman will beg you to do if you'll just let her live."]]
-> '''Played By''': Nick Price (1972) and Creator/JohnBillingsley (1985-2005)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E9MindHunters Mind Hunters]]" and "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E23TheWoods The Woods]]"
-> '''Played By''': Nick Price (1972) and Creator/JohnBillingsley (1985-2005)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E9MindHunters Mind Hunters]]" and "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E23TheWoods The Woods]]"
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carl_healey.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I wish that we could have met under different circumstances."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I wish that we could have met under different circumstances."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/josh_freely.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"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."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"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."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/john_harding.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"The five stages of dying. The first is denial. Then anger. Then bargaining. Depression and acceptance."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"The five stages of dying. The first is denial. Then anger. Then bargaining. Depression and acceptance."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cameron_coulter.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"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."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neal_hanlon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Let him bleed."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"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."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neal_hanlon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Let him bleed."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitch_hathaway.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/becca_abrams.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Losers are so pathetic. Spend all their time projecting their ugliness onto other people. It's sad, really."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Losers are so pathetic. Spend all their time projecting their ugliness onto other people. It's sad, really."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/linda_boyka.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Nachalnik just means boss. Could be anyone."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Nachalnik just means boss. Could be anyone."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ed_marteson.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Always, Romeo."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Always, Romeo."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/margot_chambers.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"We reached the end of the line, baby. But with this, not only do we disappear, we do it rich. Then you can buy any kind of normal you want."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"We reached the end of the line, baby. But with this, not only do we disappear, we do it rich. Then you can buy any kind of normal you want."]]
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[[folder:Moe Kitchener]]
!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
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!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played
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-> '''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS6E22TheLongBlueLine The Long Blue Line]]" through "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E14Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]"
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roy_brigham_anthony.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"God's work can be brutal."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"God's work can be brutal."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ramon_delgado.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"What we have is special. We are Bonnie and Clyde. And it feels good, right?"]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/martha_puck.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm not cool. But I believe in love that changes your life from black and white to color."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"What we have is special. We are Bonnie and Clyde. And it feels good, right?"]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/martha_puck.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I'm not cool. But I believe in love that changes your life from black and white to color."]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/malik_6.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I was the smallest, the weakest, but they didn't care. And now I take everything from them."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I was the smallest, the weakest, but they didn't care. And now I take everything from them."]]
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[[folder:Paul Shepard]]
!!Paul Shepard
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shepard_paul_554.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JBBlanc
* BadBoss: When an employee doesn't lock up Paul's store, allowing vandals to get in, Paul fires the guy despite his apologies and offer to help repair the damage. Then, after being exposed as a SerialKiller and with nothing left to lose, Paul goes back and kills the poor guy.
* BeardOfEvil: A villain with a very prominent one.
* BerserkButton: The phrase "Nobody cares." His first kill is a random customer on the last night before his father's drive-in theater closes down, who tells him that "nobody cares" about such businesses anymore as TechnologyMarchesOn. Paul's father had recently committed suicide over losing the business, and Paul saw the man as practically dancing on his grave with that comment (not that the customer had any way of knowing this, of course). His subsequent victims are killed for a variety of reasons, but merely using the phrase in Paul's vicinity is enough to put a target on someone's back.
* 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 his skill fades as he becomes panicked.
* 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 personal philosophy and the people whom he feels were responsible for ruining his life. Paul uses the latter bit as a hit list.
* 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.
* FreudianExcuse: His father's suicide.
* 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.
* JustOneLittleMistake: Probably shouldn't have kept that incriminating magazine subscription.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: As mentioned, his goal is to kill off the people he sees as responsible for his family's financial struggles.
* SerialKiller: His nine victims make him the second-most prolific killer on the show, behind George Marks with eleven.
* SeriousBusiness: ''Literature/EastOfEden''.
* ShootTheMessenger: Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad'ss loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second 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 they stated, was 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.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Paul is overweight, bespectacled, and about fifteen years older than his conventionally attractive wife.
* VillainousBreakdown: When the police began closing in, he devolved into a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree_killer spree killer]].
!!Paul Shepard
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shepard_paul_554.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JBBlanc
* BadBoss: When an employee doesn't lock up Paul's store, allowing vandals to get in, Paul fires the guy despite his apologies and offer to help repair the damage. Then, after being exposed as a SerialKiller and with nothing left to lose, Paul goes back and kills the poor guy.
* BeardOfEvil: A villain with a very prominent one.
* BerserkButton: The phrase "Nobody cares." His first kill is a random customer on the last night before his father's drive-in theater closes down, who tells him that "nobody cares" about such businesses anymore as TechnologyMarchesOn. Paul's father had recently committed suicide over losing the business, and Paul saw the man as practically dancing on his grave with that comment (not that the customer had any way of knowing this, of course). His subsequent victims are killed for a variety of reasons, but merely using the phrase in Paul's vicinity is enough to put a target on someone's back.
* 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 his skill fades as he becomes panicked.
* 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 personal philosophy and the people whom he feels were responsible for ruining his life. Paul uses the latter bit as a hit list.
* 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.
* FreudianExcuse: His father's suicide.
* 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.
* JustOneLittleMistake: Probably shouldn't have kept that incriminating magazine subscription.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: As mentioned, his goal is to kill off the people he sees as responsible for his family's financial struggles.
* SerialKiller: His nine victims make him the second-most prolific killer on the show, behind George Marks with eleven.
* SeriousBusiness: ''Literature/EastOfEden''.
* ShootTheMessenger: Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a bank secretary who took phone calls about his dad'ss loan (and who his dad had already harassed into quitting her job with abusive phone calls). The second 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 they stated, was 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.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Paul is overweight, bespectacled, and about fifteen years older than his conventionally attractive wife.
* VillainousBreakdown: When the police began closing in, he devolved into a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree_killer spree killer]].
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!!Paul Shepard
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[[caption-width-right:350:"At first, I thought I'd gone mad. Then I realized it wasn't me, it's the world that's gone mad."]]
-> '''Played By:'''
* BadBoss: When an employee doesn't lock up Paul's store, allowing vandals to get in, Paul fires the guy despite his apologies and offer to help repair the damage. Then, after being exposed as a SerialKiller and with nothing left to lose, Paul goes back and kills the poor guy.
* BeardOfEvil: A villain with a very prominent one.
* BerserkButton: The phrase "Nobody cares." His first kill is a random customer on the last night before his father's drive-in theater closes down, who tells him that "nobody cares" about such businesses anymore as TechnologyMarchesOn. Paul's father had recently committed suicide over losing the business, and Paul saw the man as practically dancing on his grave with that comment (not that the customer had any way of knowing this, of course). His subsequent victims are killed for a variety of reasons, but merely using the phrase in Paul's vicinity is enough to put a target on someone's back.
* 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 his skill fades as he becomes panicked.
* 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 personal philosophy and the people whom he feels were responsible for ruining his life. Paul uses the latter bit as a hit list.
* 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.
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E12Sabotage Sabotage]]"
* FreudianExcuse:
* GeekyTurnOn:
* JustOneLittleMistake: Probably shouldn't have kept
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: As mentioned, his goal is
* SerialKiller: His nine victims make him
* MadBomber: He went on
* SeriousBusiness: ''Literature/EastOfEden''.
* ShootTheMessenger: Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is
* UglyGuyHotWife: Paul is overweight, bespectacled, and about fifteen years older than his conventionally attractive wife.
* VillainousBreakdown: When the police began closing in, he devolved into a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree_killer
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[[folder:John Smith]]
!!John Smith
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DamonHerriman
!!John Smith
->'''Played By:''' Creator/DamonHerriman
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!!John Smith
->'''Played
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Once hope is gone, dying is just a formality."]]
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-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E15TheRoad The Road]]"
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[[folder:Alessandro Rossilini]]
!!Alessandro Rossilini
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KimCoates
* FreudianExcuse: He only became a MadBomber after he got laid off from his job, had his daughter die from cancer when her screening got delayed, had his marriage fall apart, and had his house destroyed to make way for a tech company, only for that to be made pointless when the company when bankrupt after the tech market crashed.
* MadBomber: He went on a bombing spree to get back at the system, or more accurately, anyone he associates with the system.
!!Alessandro Rossilini
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/KimCoates
* FreudianExcuse: He only became a MadBomber after he got laid off from his job, had his daughter die from cancer when her screening got delayed, had his marriage fall apart, and had his house destroyed to make way for a tech company, only for that to be made pointless when the company when bankrupt after the tech market crashed.
* MadBomber: He went on a bombing spree to get back at the system, or more accurately, anyone he associates with the system.
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!!Alessandro Rossilini
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-> '''Played By:'''
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E18TheLastDriveIn The Last Drive-In]]" and "[[Recap/ColdCaseS7E19Bullet Bullet]]"
* BadBoss: When an employee doesn't lock up Paul's store, allowing vandals to get in, Paul fires the guy despite his apologies and offer to help repair the damage. Then, after being exposed as a SerialKiller and with nothing left to lose, Paul goes back and kills the poor guy.
* BeardOfEvil: A villain with a very prominent one.
* BerserkButton: The phrase "Nobody cares." His first kill is a random customer on the last night before his father's drive-in theater closes down, who tells him that "nobody cares" about such businesses anymore as TechnologyMarchesOn. Paul's father had recently committed suicide over losing the business, and Paul saw the man as practically dancing on his grave with that comment (not that the customer had any way of knowing this, of course). His subsequent victims are killed for a variety of reasons, but merely using the phrase in Paul's vicinity is enough to put a target on someone's back.
* 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 his skill fades as he becomes panicked.
* 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 personal philosophy and the people whom he feels were responsible for ruining his life. Paul uses the latter bit as a hit list.
* 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.
* FreudianExcuse: His father's suicide.
* GeekyTurnOn: He
* JustOneLittleMistake: Probably shouldn't have kept that incriminating magazine subscription.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: As mentioned, his goal is to kill off
* SerialKiller: His nine victims make
* SeriousBusiness: ''Literature/EastOfEden''.
* ShootTheMessenger: Five of Paul's victims were targeted solely for this reason. One is a
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* VillainousBreakdown: When the police began closing in, he devolved into a
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* BullyHunter: He sees himself as this, when in reality is his victims are just completely innocent children, with the realization of this causing him to be DrivenToSuicide.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Lilly gets him to let Tyrell Hobbs go by pointing out that he has become like the very boys who had victimized, a revelation which caused Malik to be DrivenToSuicide.
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* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Lilly gets him to let Tyrell Hobbs go by pointing out that he has become like the very boys who had victimized, victimized him, a revelation which caused Malik to be DrivenToSuicide.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a modern day Theseus, righting wrongs by punishing those who deserve it by using their own methods against him, when in reality his victims are just innocent children and he is nothing but a demented SerialKiller.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a modern day Theseus, righting wrongs by punishing those who deserve it by using their own methods against him, them, when in reality his victims are just innocent children and he is nothing but a demented SerialKiller.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: He starved his victims and forced them to stand on a small square spot for days, causing them to develop shin splints and abrasions under their feet, and slashed their faces before finally killing them via SlashedThroat.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: He starved his victims and forced them to stand on in a small square spot for days, causing them to develop shin splints and abrasions under their feet, and slashed their faces before finally killing them via SlashedThroat.
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* RealNameAsAnAlias: John Doe's real name turns out to be... John Harding.
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* MrSmith: He introduces himself as "John Doe." The lack of originality is noted by Lilly.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: John Doe's real nameturns turned out to be... John Harding.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: John Doe's real name
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[[folder: Malik]]
-> '''Played By:''' Steven Wash Jr. (1986) and Jamil Walker Smith (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E8ItTakesAVillage It Takes a Village]]"
A highly unstable African-American man who kidnapped, tortured, and killed any young Black boys who managed to beat him at an arcade game called ''Defector III.''
* AGodAmI: "They were laughing. Yet Theseus knew his day would come. That fed him. It was his source of strength. It gave purpose to his miserable life. Made him invincible. Immortal. God. He found them, one by one. And he did exactly what they had done to him."
* ArcNumber: 17. The numbers of the storage units that he rented all added up to it, and it turned out to have been the number of the shower room that he had his finger traumatically cut off in while at Pritchard House.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: He used the alias Theseus "Theo" Gamble.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Lilly caused him to realize that he had become like the very boys who had victimized him, a revelation which caused him to be DrivenToSuicide.
* BodyInABreadbox: He placed the bodies of all of his victims in freezers, which led to his undoing when one of them broke down in 2007.
* BullyMagnet: He was small and weak as a child, and so was easily pushed around by bigger and tougher boys at Pritchard House.
* CallingCard: He cut off the left index fingers of all of his victims, in reference to how he had his own cut off by older boys back in 1986.
* CassandraTruth: He told a doctor what Grimes was doing to him and the other boys at Pritchard House, and while the story did unnerve the doctor, he did not do anything about it, so Malik and the other boys remained at Grimes's mercy at Pritchard House.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He starved his victims and forced them to stand on a small square spot for days, causing them to develop shin splints and abrasions under their feet, and slashed their faces before finally killing them via SlashedThroat.
* ConnectTheDeaths: All of his victims were taken from arcades that contained a game called ''Defector III.''
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: He says that he had no one, without any elaboration, which is why he ended up in a JuvenileHell.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: He had an odd, almost child-like voice, and that, coupled with his small stature, caused him to be mistaken for a child by a few people, including a witness named Byron.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lilly making him realize that he had become the exact type of person who had victimized him and who he (deludedly) believed he was punishing caused him to kill himself, making him the final of his five intended victims instead of Tyrell Hobbs.
* EyeObscuringHat: He is shown wearing one of these in all of the flashbacks to him doing things like renting a storage unit and abducting Shemar.
* {{Fingore}}: He cut off the left index fingers of all of his victims, in reference to how he had his own cut off by older boys back in 1986.
* FreudianExcuse: He ended up in a notoriously brutal JuvenileHell called Pritchard House, where the worst counselor's preferred punishment was a collective one in which one boy's actions would lead to their entire ward being forced to stand in place in small squares for days at a time, something that was especially hard on the runty Malik. When Malik sassed the counselor, he reacted by giving the other boys who were being punished for Malik's troublemaking carte blanche to do whatever they wanted to him, so they beat him down and crudely amputated one of his fingers using a piece of mirror that one of them had fashioned into a SinisterShiv.
* GigglingVillain: He giggles creepily in a few flashbacks, and when he is first confronted by Lilly and Scotty.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: This plays during the finale, when he is cornered by Lilly and Scotty.
* HeelRealization: Lilly caused him to realize that he had become just as bad as the boys who had victimized him, causing him to commit suicide after releasing Tyrell Hobbs.
* JuvenileHell: Pritchard House, the Hellish juvenile facility that he ended up in 1986. It is more infamously known as "The Pit."
* MeaningfulRename: He renamed himself after Theseus, a Greek hero who, as Stillman simplistically put it, would "do to bad guys what they did to others."
* MisplacedRetribution: Instead of going after his childhood bullies or even people who were similar to them, he targeted completely innocent children who were able to beat him at a game called ''Defector III.''
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: No one noticed the pattern of young Black boys disappearing until the bodies of the victims were unearthed in 2007. One police officer even ignored one boy's father's request that they put out an Amber Alert for his son, on the basis that the boy had probably just run off and become a [[{{Gangbangers}} Gangbanger]].
--> '''Lorraine Henderson:''' I spoke to detectives, over the years. Didn't nobody mention to me that there were other boys missing. Why? They had to know that monster was out there. Didn't they?
* MistakenAge: His slight build and CreepyHighPitchedVoice led an arcade owner named Byron to assume that he was only about 14 or 15.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: He chose his victims using ''Defector III'', a ''Franchise/MortalKombat''-style arcade game that resonated with him because the losing fighter's death animation entailed being knocked into an abyss called The Pit, and his FreudianExcuse involved being a loser in a JuvenileHell that was nicknamed "The Pit."
* NoFullNameGiven: He is only known as Malik.
* NotTheFirstVictim: After Shemar Reynold's body was found in a storage unit in 2007, the detectives discovered that the person who had rented the unit had rented three other units under the same name, leading to the discovery of three more victims, with the earliest one being from 1999.
* ObviouslyEvil: Unlike a lot of the show's other villains, it is apparent right from the start that there is something definitely wrong with Malik. A man who he rented a storage unit from could not remember much about what he looked like, but he did remember that Malik came off as seriously "touched" [in the head]. Unfortunately, ChildrenAreInnocent, so they did not really see anything too "off" about Malik.
* PetTheDog: He lets Tyrell Hobbs go after being talked down by Lilly.
* PsychoKnifeNut: He was a serial killer who used a knife to slash the faces of his victims before killing them via SlashedThroat. He would also slice off their left index fingers, in reference to his own left index finger having been cut off back in 1986.
* PunishmentBox: He forced his victims to stand in a square that was drawn on the floor for days, a punishment that he and other boys were also subjected to in Pritchard House.
* RageQuit: He gets angry if he does well and ''wins'' at ''Defector III'', with there being a flashback where he is shown abruptly quitting and storming off after beating a boy named Corey.
--> '''Malik:''' I thought you were a winner, man. [...] You lost. You wasted my time.
* RedRightHand: He always wears gloves to cover up his missing finger, which was sliced off back in 1986.
* {{Sadist}}: He viciously tortured his victims, and filmed it, with Lilly musing that one of the films ending without the victim's murder even being shown means that the killer does not even care about killing, all that really matters to him is the ColdBloodedTorture.
* SerialKiller: He kidnapped, tortured, and murdered four (nearly five) young boys in a spree that lasted from 1999 to 2007.
* SlashedThroat: He slit the throats of all of his victims before subjecting them to {{Fingore}}. He also kills himself this way in front of Lilly and Scotty.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He hangs out at arcades, spying on any boys who play a game called ''Defector III.''
--> '''Malik:''' I don't play just anybody. Only those who know how to dominate.
* SnuffFilm: He filmed his victims' torment, and we see some of the footage that was shot of Shemar Reynolds. The footage cutting off just before Shemar's death led Lilly to conclude that the killer does not actually care about the act of murder, just ColdBloodedTorture.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Lilly gets him to let Tyrell Hobbs go by pointing out that he has become like the very boys who had victimized, a revelation which caused Malik to be DrivenToSuicide.
* TortureCellar: He turned rented storage units into these, soundproofing them and filming his victims being tortured in them before eventually finishing them off via SlashedThroat. He would then clean the place up and leave the body of the victim in a freezer, one of which was finally discovered in 2007.
* VideoArcade: He would troll these for young boys, taking any who managed to beat him at a game called ''Defector III.''
* WhereItAllBegan: He took his fifth and final intended victim to the abandoned JuvenileHell where he was beaten down and had one of his fingers cut off back in 1986.
* WouldHurtAChild: His victims were all children, the youngest of whom was only 9.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a modern day Theseus, righting wrongs by punishing those who deserve it by using their own methods against him, when in reality his victims are just innocent children and he is nothing but a demented SerialKiller.
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-> '''Played By:''' Steven Wash Jr. (1986) and Jamil Walker Smith (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E8ItTakesAVillage It Takes a Village]]"
A highly unstable African-American man who kidnapped, tortured, and killed any young Black boys who managed to beat him at an arcade game called ''Defector III.''
* AGodAmI: "They were laughing. Yet Theseus knew his day would come. That fed him. It was his source of strength. It gave purpose to his miserable life. Made him invincible. Immortal. God. He found them, one by one. And he did exactly what they had done to him."
* ArcNumber: 17. The numbers of the storage units that he rented all added up to it, and it turned out to have been the number of the shower room that he had his finger traumatically cut off in while at Pritchard House.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: He used the alias Theseus "Theo" Gamble.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Lilly caused him to realize that he had become like the very boys who had victimized him, a revelation which caused him to be DrivenToSuicide.
* BodyInABreadbox: He placed the bodies of all of his victims in freezers, which led to his undoing when one of them broke down in 2007.
* BullyMagnet: He was small and weak as a child, and so was easily pushed around by bigger and tougher boys at Pritchard House.
* CallingCard: He cut off the left index fingers of all of his victims, in reference to how he had his own cut off by older boys back in 1986.
* CassandraTruth: He told a doctor what Grimes was doing to him and the other boys at Pritchard House, and while the story did unnerve the doctor, he did not do anything about it, so Malik and the other boys remained at Grimes's mercy at Pritchard House.
* ColdBloodedTorture: He starved his victims and forced them to stand on a small square spot for days, causing them to develop shin splints and abrasions under their feet, and slashed their faces before finally killing them via SlashedThroat.
* ConnectTheDeaths: All of his victims were taken from arcades that contained a game called ''Defector III.''
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: He says that he had no one, without any elaboration, which is why he ended up in a JuvenileHell.
* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: He had an odd, almost child-like voice, and that, coupled with his small stature, caused him to be mistaken for a child by a few people, including a witness named Byron.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lilly making him realize that he had become the exact type of person who had victimized him and who he (deludedly) believed he was punishing caused him to kill himself, making him the final of his five intended victims instead of Tyrell Hobbs.
* EyeObscuringHat: He is shown wearing one of these in all of the flashbacks to him doing things like renting a storage unit and abducting Shemar.
* {{Fingore}}: He cut off the left index fingers of all of his victims, in reference to how he had his own cut off by older boys back in 1986.
* FreudianExcuse: He ended up in a notoriously brutal JuvenileHell called Pritchard House, where the worst counselor's preferred punishment was a collective one in which one boy's actions would lead to their entire ward being forced to stand in place in small squares for days at a time, something that was especially hard on the runty Malik. When Malik sassed the counselor, he reacted by giving the other boys who were being punished for Malik's troublemaking carte blanche to do whatever they wanted to him, so they beat him down and crudely amputated one of his fingers using a piece of mirror that one of them had fashioned into a SinisterShiv.
* GigglingVillain: He giggles creepily in a few flashbacks, and when he is first confronted by Lilly and Scotty.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: This plays during the finale, when he is cornered by Lilly and Scotty.
* HeelRealization: Lilly caused him to realize that he had become just as bad as the boys who had victimized him, causing him to commit suicide after releasing Tyrell Hobbs.
* JuvenileHell: Pritchard House, the Hellish juvenile facility that he ended up in 1986. It is more infamously known as "The Pit."
* MeaningfulRename: He renamed himself after Theseus, a Greek hero who, as Stillman simplistically put it, would "do to bad guys what they did to others."
* MisplacedRetribution: Instead of going after his childhood bullies or even people who were similar to them, he targeted completely innocent children who were able to beat him at a game called ''Defector III.''
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: No one noticed the pattern of young Black boys disappearing until the bodies of the victims were unearthed in 2007. One police officer even ignored one boy's father's request that they put out an Amber Alert for his son, on the basis that the boy had probably just run off and become a [[{{Gangbangers}} Gangbanger]].
--> '''Lorraine Henderson:''' I spoke to detectives, over the years. Didn't nobody mention to me that there were other boys missing. Why? They had to know that monster was out there. Didn't they?
* MistakenAge: His slight build and CreepyHighPitchedVoice led an arcade owner named Byron to assume that he was only about 14 or 15.
* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: He chose his victims using ''Defector III'', a ''Franchise/MortalKombat''-style arcade game that resonated with him because the losing fighter's death animation entailed being knocked into an abyss called The Pit, and his FreudianExcuse involved being a loser in a JuvenileHell that was nicknamed "The Pit."
* NoFullNameGiven: He is only known as Malik.
* NotTheFirstVictim: After Shemar Reynold's body was found in a storage unit in 2007, the detectives discovered that the person who had rented the unit had rented three other units under the same name, leading to the discovery of three more victims, with the earliest one being from 1999.
* ObviouslyEvil: Unlike a lot of the show's other villains, it is apparent right from the start that there is something definitely wrong with Malik. A man who he rented a storage unit from could not remember much about what he looked like, but he did remember that Malik came off as seriously "touched" [in the head]. Unfortunately, ChildrenAreInnocent, so they did not really see anything too "off" about Malik.
* PetTheDog: He lets Tyrell Hobbs go after being talked down by Lilly.
* PsychoKnifeNut: He was a serial killer who used a knife to slash the faces of his victims before killing them via SlashedThroat. He would also slice off their left index fingers, in reference to his own left index finger having been cut off back in 1986.
* PunishmentBox: He forced his victims to stand in a square that was drawn on the floor for days, a punishment that he and other boys were also subjected to in Pritchard House.
* RageQuit: He gets angry if he does well and ''wins'' at ''Defector III'', with there being a flashback where he is shown abruptly quitting and storming off after beating a boy named Corey.
--> '''Malik:''' I thought you were a winner, man. [...] You lost. You wasted my time.
* RedRightHand: He always wears gloves to cover up his missing finger, which was sliced off back in 1986.
* {{Sadist}}: He viciously tortured his victims, and filmed it, with Lilly musing that one of the films ending without the victim's murder even being shown means that the killer does not even care about killing, all that really matters to him is the ColdBloodedTorture.
* SerialKiller: He kidnapped, tortured, and murdered four (nearly five) young boys in a spree that lasted from 1999 to 2007.
* SlashedThroat: He slit the throats of all of his victims before subjecting them to {{Fingore}}. He also kills himself this way in front of Lilly and Scotty.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He hangs out at arcades, spying on any boys who play a game called ''Defector III.''
--> '''Malik:''' I don't play just anybody. Only those who know how to dominate.
* SnuffFilm: He filmed his victims' torment, and we see some of the footage that was shot of Shemar Reynolds. The footage cutting off just before Shemar's death led Lilly to conclude that the killer does not actually care about the act of murder, just ColdBloodedTorture.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Lilly gets him to let Tyrell Hobbs go by pointing out that he has become like the very boys who had victimized, a revelation which caused Malik to be DrivenToSuicide.
* TortureCellar: He turned rented storage units into these, soundproofing them and filming his victims being tortured in them before eventually finishing them off via SlashedThroat. He would then clean the place up and leave the body of the victim in a freezer, one of which was finally discovered in 2007.
* VideoArcade: He would troll these for young boys, taking any who managed to beat him at a game called ''Defector III.''
* WhereItAllBegan: He took his fifth and final intended victim to the abandoned JuvenileHell where he was beaten down and had one of his fingers cut off back in 1986.
* WouldHurtAChild: His victims were all children, the youngest of whom was only 9.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He sees himself as a modern day Theseus, righting wrongs by punishing those who deserve it by using their own methods against him, when in reality his victims are just innocent children and he is nothing but a demented SerialKiller.
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* ConArtist: Ramon seduced and swindled women out of their money and valuables using video dating services, and took Martha (who was initially just another mark) along as an accomplice after meeting her in 1989.
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* ConArtist: ConMan: Ramon seduced and swindled women out of their money and valuables using video dating services, and took Martha (who was initially just another mark) along as an accomplice after meeting her in 1989.
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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 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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[[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.
!!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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!!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.
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!!Moe Kitchener
->'''Played By''': Creator/DanielBaldwin
* TheAlcoholic: Which helped play a part
-> '''Played By:''' Creator/MonetMazur
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS5E5ThickAsThieves Thick as Thieves]]"
A prolific con artist who, with the help of her son, Spencer, committed crimes all over the country before being shot in
* AbusiveParents: "Mom beat the crap out of her daily, yeah, Margie would watch the old movies to escape."
* AssholeVictim:
* BoomerangBigot: Margot called Kylie trailer trash... even though
* ConMan: She had a long rap sheet for offenses like fraud and check kiting, used her own son as
* CrimeAfterCrime: He didn't even
* ConspicuousConsumption: The characters realize that there is more to "Jane Doe" than they thought when they discover that she had high-end breast implants that, at the
* DidntSeeThatComing: She outright said this when she was betrayed by Spencer.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When confronted by Spencer and Kylie, Margot pleaded, "I did it all for you... because I love you. You're the
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Spencer was
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't feel one ounce of remorse for
* TheManBehindTheMan: Subverted. The cadet who actually committed the murder wasn't evil, just stupid
* TheNeidermeyer: Treats the cadets like crap.
* TheRival: to
*
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:He ends up
* FakingTheDead: She was going to fake her own death by murdering Kylie Cramer as part of an InsuranceFraud scam that would pay out three million dollars to her and Spencer.
* FalseFriend: She pretended to befriend Kylie Cramer to set her up to be killed by
* FalseRapeAccusation: Margot and Spencer used this as part of
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[[folder:Margot Chambers]]
!!Margot Chambers
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MonetMazur
* FateWorseThanDeath: She
* FoodSlap: She threw her drink in
* FreudianExcuse: Margot grew up poor trailer trash, was regularly beaten by her mother, and found a form of escapism in old film, the glamourous women of which she idolized and wanted to be like, with her favorite being Creator/AudreyHepburn in ''[[Film/Sabrina1954 Sabrina]].''
*
* GoodTimesMontage: Margot is introduced sipping champagne, buying flashy new clothes and jewelry, driving a sweet car, and applying for membership at a fancy club before she is shown being found half-dead by the Philly PD.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: She intended to have a woman, who [[IdenticalStranger
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* IncestSubtext: Margot and Spencer's relationship was... unsettlingly close and possessive, leading to a totally understandable case of RelativeError.
* InsuranceFraud: She planned on faking her own death for a three million dollar life insurance payout that would be given to Spencer.
* KillAndReplace: This was her plan for Kylie Cramer.
* LackOfEmpathy: When confronted by a man who blamed her for ruining his brother and driving him to suicide, Margot just shrugged and said, "He had fun while it lasted."
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Margot and Spencer were essentially slightly less bloodthirsty versions of murderous mother-son con artist duo [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sante_Kimes Sante and Kenny Kimes]].
* RagsToRiches: Margot was born poor trailer trash, but used con artistry to become a RichBitch.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: While she used different last names, her first name was always Margot.
* RelativeError: Everyone assumed that Spencer was Margot's boyfriend, and they only learned that he was actually her son when it revealed by Lenny Delpy.
* TeenPregnancy: Based on her and Spencer's ages, the team assume that Margot must have had him when she was around 14.
* PosthumousCharacter: She finally died in 2007, and the episode centers around finding out who shot her back in 1989.
* ThePowerOfHate: Jeffries jokingly suggests that the reason why Margot hung on for so long was to spite Spencer and Kylie and prevent them from claiming her multi-million dollar life insurance policy, which ended up expiring three years before Margot finally croaked in 2007.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: She was obsessed with the film ''[[Film/Sabrina1954 Sabrina]]'', with her son (who she named after a character from it) mentioning that she "must have seen it a thousand times."
* TheSpook: After being shot, Margot became a no one from nowhere until her death eighteen years later, when the serial numbers on her breast implants were traced back to Doctor Jeremy Fincher.
* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Margot was shot in the head in 1989, and survived... until 2007.
--> '''Abby:''' This woman suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, resulting in a massive stroke. Bullet fragments dormant in the brain accelerated the process.\\
'''Lilly:''' You saying almost twenty years dying in a hospital bed is accelerated?\\
'''Abby:''' I'm saying the bullet killed your victim. Just took some time doing it.
* UnusualPopCultureName: Spencer's birthname is actually Linus Larrabee, Creator/HumphreyBogart's character in the film ''[[Film/Sabrina1954 Sabrina]].''
* VillainousMotherSonDuo: She was a con artist whose partner was her own son, Spencer.
* YouGotGuts: When Spencer and Kylie showed up to kill her, Margot admitted, "I didn't think you [Spencer] had it in you. Honestly, I didn't see it coming at all. Work of art, darling. And who knew you [Kylie] had a brain?"
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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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[[folder: Mitch Hathaway]]
-> '''Played By:''' Rick Ravanello (1987) and Creator/MitchPileggi (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E19Offender Offender]]"
A grieving father who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987. After getting out of prison, he began killing a sex offender a day, and announced that he would only stop once the police found out who really killed Clay.
* AntiVillain: Mitch was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his own son, whose case he forces the Philly PD to reopen and make their top priority by murdering {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* CriminalMindGames: He keeps calling Scotty during his spree, and left a note with his first victim bluntly explaining his motive, "I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."
* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle variation, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
* FrameUp: After raping and killing Clay, Cliff Burrell planted photographs of his own son, Johnny, on Mitch. This ended up being irrelevant to the investigation, though, as Tara Hathaway (the one who found the pictures) never came forward with them, in a misguided attempt to protect the Burrells.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Mitch was an average, everyday man when he went to prison, and after he got out, he became a hardened VigilanteMan.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Mitch was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987, and only exonerated in 2007.
* MurderSuicide: How he intended to end his spree, by killing himself along with Clay's real killer, Cliff Burrell.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His victims were registered sex offenders, like Harold Dixon (who molested half a dozen boys) and Ernie Grabowski (who practically brags about how he groomed boys into giving him "consent").
* SpreeKiller: While he had the mentality and methodology of a SerialKiller, Mitch killing a person a day while evading the authorities, who were fully aware of his identity, makes him closer to a SpreeKiller.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He secretly follows Scotty throughout the investigation into who really killed Clay.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mitch is talked into surrendering peacefully by his pleading ex-wife, Tara.
* ToughLove: While Mitch did love his son and was not abusive towards him, he was also not quite one for coddling, and raised Clay to believe that the best way to overcome something was to just "walk it off."
* TraumaCongaLine: His son was raped and murdered, he was blamed for it, his wife left him because of it, and he spent twenty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2007.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The concept of a vigilante using the sex offender registry to find victims was taken from double-murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) Stephen Marshall]].
* VigilanteMan: He killed pedophiles in order to spur the Philly PD into finding the one who killed his son, Clay.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All Mitch wants is justice for the son who he failed to protect back in 1987.
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-> '''Played By:''' Rick Ravanello (1987) and Creator/MitchPileggi (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E19Offender Offender]]"
A grieving father who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987. After getting out of prison, he began killing a sex offender a day, and announced that he would only stop once the police found out who really killed Clay.
* AntiVillain: Mitch was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his own son, whose case he forces the Philly PD to reopen and make their top priority by murdering {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* CriminalMindGames: He keeps calling Scotty during his spree, and left a note with his first victim bluntly explaining his motive, "I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."
* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle variation, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
* FrameUp: After raping and killing Clay, Cliff Burrell planted photographs of his own son, Johnny, on Mitch. This ended up being irrelevant to the investigation, though, as Tara Hathaway (the one who found the pictures) never came forward with them, in a misguided attempt to protect the Burrells.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Mitch was an average, everyday man when he went to prison, and after he got out, he became a hardened VigilanteMan.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Mitch was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987, and only exonerated in 2007.
* MurderSuicide: How he intended to end his spree, by killing himself along with Clay's real killer, Cliff Burrell.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His victims were registered sex offenders, like Harold Dixon (who molested half a dozen boys) and Ernie Grabowski (who practically brags about how he groomed boys into giving him "consent").
* SpreeKiller: While he had the mentality and methodology of a SerialKiller, Mitch killing a person a day while evading the authorities, who were fully aware of his identity, makes him closer to a SpreeKiller.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He secretly follows Scotty throughout the investigation into who really killed Clay.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mitch is talked into surrendering peacefully by his pleading ex-wife, Tara.
* ToughLove: While Mitch did love his son and was not abusive towards him, he was also not quite one for coddling, and raised Clay to believe that the best way to overcome something was to just "walk it off."
* TraumaCongaLine: His son was raped and murdered, he was blamed for it, his wife left him because of it, and he spent twenty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2007.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The concept of a vigilante using the sex offender registry to find victims was taken from double-murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) Stephen Marshall]].
* VigilanteMan: He killed pedophiles in order to spur the Philly PD into finding the one who killed his son, Clay.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All Mitch wants is justice for the son who he failed to protect back in 1987.
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[[folder: Mitch Hathaway]]
-> '''Played By:''' Rick Ravanello (1987) and Creator/MitchPileggi (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E19Offender Offender]]"
A grieving father who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987. After getting out of prison, he began killing a sex offender a day, and announced that he would only stop once the police found out who really killed Clay.
* AntiVillain: Mitch was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his own son, whose case he forces the Philly PD to reopen and make their top priority by murdering {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* CriminalMindGames: He keeps calling Scotty during his spree, and left a note with his first victim bluntly explaining his motive, "I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."
* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle variation, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
* FrameUp: After raping and killing Clay, Cliff Burrell planted photographs of his own son, Johnny, on Mitch. This ended up being irrelevant to the investigation, though, as Tara Hathaway (the one who found the pictures) never came forward with them, in a misguided attempt to protect the Burrells.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Mitch was an average, everyday man when he went to prison, and after he got out, he became a hardened VigilanteMan.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Mitch was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987, and only exonerated in 2007.
* MurderSuicide: How he intended to end his spree, by killing himself along with Clay's real killer, Cliff Burrell.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His victims were registered sex offenders, like Harold Dixon (who molested half a dozen boys) and Ernie Grabowski (who practically brags about how he groomed boys into giving him "consent").
* SpreeKiller: While he had the mentality and methodology of a SerialKiller, Mitch killing a person a day while evading the authorities, who were fully aware of his identity, makes him closer to a SpreeKiller.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He secretly follows Scotty throughout the investigation into who really killed Clay.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mitch is talked into surrendering peacefully by his pleading ex-wife, Tara.
* ToughLove: While Mitch did love his son and was not abusive towards him, he was also not quite one for coddling, and raised Clay to believe that the best way to overcome something was to just "walk it off."
* TraumaCongaLine: His son was raped and murdered, he was blamed for it, his wife left him because of it, and he spent twenty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2007.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The concept of a vigilante using the sex offender registry to find victims was taken from double-murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) Stephen Marshall]].
* VigilanteMan: He killed pedophiles in order to spur the Philly PD into finding the one who killed his son, Clay.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All Mitch wants is justice for the son who he failed to protect back in 1987.
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-> '''Played By:''' Rick Ravanello (1987) and Creator/MitchPileggi (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E19Offender Offender]]"
A grieving father who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987. After getting out of prison, he began killing a sex offender a day, and announced that he would only stop once the police found out who really killed Clay.
* AntiVillain: Mitch was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his own son, whose case he forces the Philly PD to reopen and make their top priority by murdering {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* CriminalMindGames: He keeps calling Scotty during his spree, and left a note with his first victim bluntly explaining his motive, "I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."
* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle variation, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
* FrameUp: After raping and killing Clay, Cliff Burrell planted photographs of his own son, Johnny, on Mitch. This ended up being irrelevant to the investigation, though, as Tara Hathaway (the one who found the pictures) never came forward with them, in a misguided attempt to protect the Burrells.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Mitch was an average, everyday man when he went to prison, and after he got out, he became a hardened VigilanteMan.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Mitch was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987, and only exonerated in 2007.
* MurderSuicide: How he intended to end his spree, by killing himself along with Clay's real killer, Cliff Burrell.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His victims were registered sex offenders, like Harold Dixon (who molested half a dozen boys) and Ernie Grabowski (who practically brags about how he groomed boys into giving him "consent").
* SpreeKiller: While he had the mentality and methodology of a SerialKiller, Mitch killing a person a day while evading the authorities, who were fully aware of his identity, makes him closer to a SpreeKiller.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He secretly follows Scotty throughout the investigation into who really killed Clay.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mitch is talked into surrendering peacefully by his pleading ex-wife, Tara.
* ToughLove: While Mitch did love his son and was not abusive towards him, he was also not quite one for coddling, and raised Clay to believe that the best way to overcome something was to just "walk it off."
* TraumaCongaLine: His son was raped and murdered, he was blamed for it, his wife left him because of it, and he spent twenty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2007.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The concept of a vigilante using the sex offender registry to find victims was taken from double-murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) Stephen Marshall]].
* VigilanteMan: He killed pedophiles in order to spur the Philly PD into finding the one who killed his son, Clay.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All Mitch wants is justice for the son who he failed to protect back in 1987.
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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: His girlfriend, Bridget, was quite fond of him, admitting that she never "got over him" even after he moved while also asserting 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 got over him" him even after he moved while also asserting that he was "a good person" when interviewed by Lilly and Vera.
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* 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."
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* ShootTheHostageTaker: A police sniper does this, but Ed survives the shot, and retaliates by shooting Stillman.
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[[folder: Linda Boyka]]
-> '''Played By:''' Brenda Wehle
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E22Cargo Cargo]]"
The head of a [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] sex trafficking ring that is centered in Philadelphia, her illicit activities (which she oversees under the name "Nachalnik") came to light after the team reopened the case of Mike Chulaski, a longshoreman who was murdered in 2005.
* BadBoss: Kiril became a dead man walking after he screwed-up selling Lena to Mike.
* TheBaroness: She is a cold, intimidating Russian woman, and a top-level [[HumanTraffickers Human Trafficker]].
* CigaretteBurns: Her trademark way of punishing girls who were too spirited was to burn their feet with cigarettes, something which Kateryna mimicked to make it look like Nachalnik had killed Mike.
* ColdBloodedTorture: She had any girls who copped an attitude tortured, usually via CigaretteBurns.
* TheDreaded: ''Everyone'' fears Nachalnik.
--> '''Kiril:''' You talk about Nachalnik, you disappear.
* FearsomeFoot: When we finally meet Nachalnik, the camera shows their approaching feet before moving up to reveal Linda.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Kateryna killed Mike, and then made him look like a victim of her abusive, murderous pimp, Nachalnik.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She did not kill Mike, but is still the overarching villain of the episode, with the nightmarish things that Kateryna endured under Linda's ownership being what drove her to snap and kill Mike.
* HumanTraffickers: She falsely promises desperate young Eastern European girls jobs in America, and then puts them to work as {{Sex Slave}}s.
* TheMafiya: She runs a sex trafficking branch of it that is centered in Philadelphia.
* NotMeThisTime: She turned out to have had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of Mike Chulaski.
* PragmaticVillainy: Lena was valuable, but also a hassle, so when the opportunity to get rid of her and make money doing it came up, Linda agreed to Mike's offer to buy Lena, despite previously threatening to kill Mike.
* RedBaron: A mysterious, elusive human trafficker who is initially known only as "Nachalnik" (the Russian word for "Boss").
* SamusIsAGirl: Everyone assumed that Nachalnik was a man, but "he" turned out to actually be a woman named Linda Boyka.
* TheSpook: The FBI has been working for years to take down Nachalnik, but has had little luck, as she is ''very'' good at covering her tracks, with no one even knowing her gender until the team stumbled onto her identity while investigating the murder of Mike Chulaski.
* SmugSnake: She is dripping with smarm throughout her interrogation, believing herself to be untouchable, and even mocking Stillman for believing that being in police custody will protect Kiril.
* TheQueenpin: She runs an Eastern European sex trafficking ring out of Philadelphia.
* TomTheDarkLord: The fearsome "Boss" is revealed to actually be named Linda.
* VillainsOutShopping: She was in the middle of reading and drinking tea when Mike came back to buy Lena.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She operates a small community center that is dedicated to helping immigrants, but it is just a front, the main purpose of which is recapturing girls who have escaped from Nachalnik.
* WouldHurtAChild: Two of the girls that were shown in one of her brothels looked to be even younger than Lena, who herself was only 15.
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-> '''Played By:''' Brenda Wehle
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E22Cargo Cargo]]"
The head of a [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] sex trafficking ring that is centered in Philadelphia, her illicit activities (which she oversees under the name "Nachalnik") came to light after the team reopened the case of Mike Chulaski, a longshoreman who was murdered in 2005.
* BadBoss: Kiril became a dead man walking after he screwed-up selling Lena to Mike.
* TheBaroness: She is a cold, intimidating Russian woman, and a top-level [[HumanTraffickers Human Trafficker]].
* CigaretteBurns: Her trademark way of punishing girls who were too spirited was to burn their feet with cigarettes, something which Kateryna mimicked to make it look like Nachalnik had killed Mike.
* ColdBloodedTorture: She had any girls who copped an attitude tortured, usually via CigaretteBurns.
* TheDreaded: ''Everyone'' fears Nachalnik.
--> '''Kiril:''' You talk about Nachalnik, you disappear.
* FearsomeFoot: When we finally meet Nachalnik, the camera shows their approaching feet before moving up to reveal Linda.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Kateryna killed Mike, and then made him look like a victim of her abusive, murderous pimp, Nachalnik.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She did not kill Mike, but is still the overarching villain of the episode, with the nightmarish things that Kateryna endured under Linda's ownership being what drove her to snap and kill Mike.
* HumanTraffickers: She falsely promises desperate young Eastern European girls jobs in America, and then puts them to work as {{Sex Slave}}s.
* TheMafiya: She runs a sex trafficking branch of it that is centered in Philadelphia.
* NotMeThisTime: She turned out to have had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of Mike Chulaski.
* PragmaticVillainy: Lena was valuable, but also a hassle, so when the opportunity to get rid of her and make money doing it came up, Linda agreed to Mike's offer to buy Lena, despite previously threatening to kill Mike.
* RedBaron: A mysterious, elusive human trafficker who is initially known only as "Nachalnik" (the Russian word for "Boss").
* SamusIsAGirl: Everyone assumed that Nachalnik was a man, but "he" turned out to actually be a woman named Linda Boyka.
* TheSpook: The FBI has been working for years to take down Nachalnik, but has had little luck, as she is ''very'' good at covering her tracks, with no one even knowing her gender until the team stumbled onto her identity while investigating the murder of Mike Chulaski.
* SmugSnake: She is dripping with smarm throughout her interrogation, believing herself to be untouchable, and even mocking Stillman for believing that being in police custody will protect Kiril.
* TheQueenpin: She runs an Eastern European sex trafficking ring out of Philadelphia.
* TomTheDarkLord: The fearsome "Boss" is revealed to actually be named Linda.
* VillainsOutShopping: She was in the middle of reading and drinking tea when Mike came back to buy Lena.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She operates a small community center that is dedicated to helping immigrants, but it is just a front, the main purpose of which is recapturing girls who have escaped from Nachalnik.
* WouldHurtAChild: Two of the girls that were shown in one of her brothels looked to be even younger than Lena, who herself was only 15.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: We get a glimpse into Ramon and Martha's life together, and looked far from perfect, with Martha sulking while Ramon, having found another mark, asks her, "This loser's into ferns. You know anything about that?"
* FreudianExcuse: Martha's mother dropped dead from a stroke when she was four, and she spent two days alone with the corpse before being found, with it being implied that Martha's childhood was unpleasant even before this, as she felt that her mother was "''finally'' happy" when she died on Martha.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Ramon's love for Martha appeared to have truly bloomed after she began helping him with his crimes, as he noticeably acted much more affectionate towards her after she described to him how she conned Buella Stiffler.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Martha was so desperate for love that she stuck by her boyfriend even after finding out that he was a con artist, and convinced him to stay with her by encouraging him to become a SerialKiller.
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* StoryboardingTheApocalypse: Neal's sketchbook contained detailed drawings of the planned mall massacre, right down to a drawing him and Cameron shooting each other with the caption, "The End."
* TeensAreMonsters: While the show had plenty of other teenage murderers, Cameron and Neal stand out due murdering ''fifteen'' people in a massacre that they committed ForTheEvulz and to achieve FameThroughInfamy.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: As Lillyputs put it, they looked "so normal."
* TeensAreMonsters: While the show had plenty of other teenage murderers, Cameron and Neal stand out due murdering ''fifteen'' people in a massacre that they committed ForTheEvulz and to achieve FameThroughInfamy.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: As Lilly
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* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle example, variation, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
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[[folder: Ed Marteson]]
-> '''Played By:''' Joe Reegan
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E24Stalker Stalker]]"
A young man who, under the username Romeo, became obsessed with Kim Jacobi after starting an online relationship with her, unaware that he was actually talking to Kim's mother, Emily.
* AxCrazy: After Kim remembers that he was the one who killed her family, Ed snaps and takes her hostage while ranting, "You're not gonna take her from me. Not again. I'll kill her before I let you do it. I'll kill all of you!"
* CameraFiend: He obsessively photographed Kim, and camera flashes and snaps are used for all of the episode's FlashbackEffects.
* TheCracker: He hacked the Jacobi's computers to show slideshows of Kim, and was described as a "hacker pain in the ass" by Kat.
* DestroyTheEvidence: After the attack on the Jacobis, he smashed all of their computers in a failed attempt to keep the police from finding out about the online relationship between him and Kim (actually Emily).
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Ed has literally only one innocuous scene (the pre-credits one, to boot) prior to TheReveal.
* DramaticIrony: When Emily Jacobi tried to pull a TakeMeInstead, Ed shot her while saying, "I don't want you." Emily was the one who Ed had fallen in love with online, not Kim.
* FaceFramedInShadow: This is how he appears in every flashback prior to TheReveal.
* FamilyExtermination: He killed every member of the Jacobi family except for Kim (though not for lack of trying on his part).
* FrameUp: After massacring the Jacobis, he made it look like Mr. Jacobi had committed PaterFamilicide.
* FreudianExcuse: It is implied that the reason why he is so warped is because his family was abusive, going by a flashback in which he states, "No one ever rescued me from my family, but I'm gonna do it for you because I love you, Kim."
* HarassingPhoneCall: When Emily stopped communicating with him online, Ed started calling Kim.
--> '''Ed:''' I know you wanted to call someone and cry, but there was no one to call.\\
'''Kim:''' How'd you know I wanted to call someone?\\
'''Ed:''' Because. I'm watching you.
* HostageSituation: He accompanies Kim to the precinct for her follow-up interview, and when Kim realizes that Ed was the one who killed her family, Ed whips out a gun, grabs her, and shoots Stillman and Lilly.
* IfICantHaveYou: "You're not gonna take her from me. Not again. I'll kill her before I let you do it."
* IJustWantToBeLoved: His implicitly abusive upbringing has left him desperate for love, and he shoots Lilly while asking her, "You don't think somebody could love me, huh?"
* InTheBack: Scotty killed Ed by shooting him in the back, though he was too late to stop Ed from shooting Lilly.
* IRejectYourReality: When both Lilly and Kim reveal that Kim was not the one who he had an online relationship with, Ed adamantly refuses to believe it, and remains convinced that it was Kim who was in love with him all of the way up until he is killed by Scotty.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Noticing how dysfunctional Kim's family was, he decided to kill all of the other Jacobis in order to "free" Kim.
* LovingAShadow: He thought that he was in an online relationship with Kim Jacobi, when in reality he was just being catfished by Kim's mother, Emily.
* MadeOfIron: Ed tanks being shot by a police sniper, and manages to shoot both Stillman and Lilly before finally being taken down by Scotty.
* NotGoodWithRejection: When Kim unsurprisingly freaked out after Ed murdered her family, he shot her too, though she survived and only fell into a ConvenientComa.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: He got a job as an orderly or a male nurse in order to stay close to the comatose object of his obsession, Kim Jacobi.
* PetTheDog: He ultimately lets Kim go, [[BaitTheDog but]] then he shoots Lilly.
* SomethingAboutARose: He sends roses and love notes to Kim, both before and after killing the rest of the Jacobis.
* SpreeKiller: He killed three (nearly four) members of a family in 2006, and a few months later caused a HostageSituation at the police station, during which he shot and nearly killed Stillman and Lilly.
* StalkerWithACrush: For Kim Jacobi, unaware that he had actually been seduced by Kim's mother, Emily.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ed was an EMT-turned dedicated nurse to Kim Jacobi... who he is revealed to have put into her ConvenientComa after killing the rest of the Jacobis.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Kim's younger brother, Stewart.
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-> '''Played By:''' Joe Reegan
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E24Stalker Stalker]]"
A young man who, under the username Romeo, became obsessed with Kim Jacobi after starting an online relationship with her, unaware that he was actually talking to Kim's mother, Emily.
* AxCrazy: After Kim remembers that he was the one who killed her family, Ed snaps and takes her hostage while ranting, "You're not gonna take her from me. Not again. I'll kill her before I let you do it. I'll kill all of you!"
* CameraFiend: He obsessively photographed Kim, and camera flashes and snaps are used for all of the episode's FlashbackEffects.
* TheCracker: He hacked the Jacobi's computers to show slideshows of Kim, and was described as a "hacker pain in the ass" by Kat.
* DestroyTheEvidence: After the attack on the Jacobis, he smashed all of their computers in a failed attempt to keep the police from finding out about the online relationship between him and Kim (actually Emily).
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Ed has literally only one innocuous scene (the pre-credits one, to boot) prior to TheReveal.
* DramaticIrony: When Emily Jacobi tried to pull a TakeMeInstead, Ed shot her while saying, "I don't want you." Emily was the one who Ed had fallen in love with online, not Kim.
* FaceFramedInShadow: This is how he appears in every flashback prior to TheReveal.
* FamilyExtermination: He killed every member of the Jacobi family except for Kim (though not for lack of trying on his part).
* FrameUp: After massacring the Jacobis, he made it look like Mr. Jacobi had committed PaterFamilicide.
* FreudianExcuse: It is implied that the reason why he is so warped is because his family was abusive, going by a flashback in which he states, "No one ever rescued me from my family, but I'm gonna do it for you because I love you, Kim."
* HarassingPhoneCall: When Emily stopped communicating with him online, Ed started calling Kim.
--> '''Ed:''' I know you wanted to call someone and cry, but there was no one to call.\\
'''Kim:''' How'd you know I wanted to call someone?\\
'''Ed:''' Because. I'm watching you.
* HostageSituation: He accompanies Kim to the precinct for her follow-up interview, and when Kim realizes that Ed was the one who killed her family, Ed whips out a gun, grabs her, and shoots Stillman and Lilly.
* IfICantHaveYou: "You're not gonna take her from me. Not again. I'll kill her before I let you do it."
* IJustWantToBeLoved: His implicitly abusive upbringing has left him desperate for love, and he shoots Lilly while asking her, "You don't think somebody could love me, huh?"
* InTheBack: Scotty killed Ed by shooting him in the back, though he was too late to stop Ed from shooting Lilly.
* IRejectYourReality: When both Lilly and Kim reveal that Kim was not the one who he had an online relationship with, Ed adamantly refuses to believe it, and remains convinced that it was Kim who was in love with him all of the way up until he is killed by Scotty.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Noticing how dysfunctional Kim's family was, he decided to kill all of the other Jacobis in order to "free" Kim.
* LovingAShadow: He thought that he was in an online relationship with Kim Jacobi, when in reality he was just being catfished by Kim's mother, Emily.
* MadeOfIron: Ed tanks being shot by a police sniper, and manages to shoot both Stillman and Lilly before finally being taken down by Scotty.
* NotGoodWithRejection: When Kim unsurprisingly freaked out after Ed murdered her family, he shot her too, though she survived and only fell into a ConvenientComa.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: He got a job as an orderly or a male nurse in order to stay close to the comatose object of his obsession, Kim Jacobi.
* PetTheDog: He ultimately lets Kim go, [[BaitTheDog but]] then he shoots Lilly.
* SomethingAboutARose: He sends roses and love notes to Kim, both before and after killing the rest of the Jacobis.
* SpreeKiller: He killed three (nearly four) members of a family in 2006, and a few months later caused a HostageSituation at the police station, during which he shot and nearly killed Stillman and Lilly.
* StalkerWithACrush: For Kim Jacobi, unaware that he had actually been seduced by Kim's mother, Emily.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ed was an EMT-turned dedicated nurse to Kim Jacobi... who he is revealed to have put into her ConvenientComa after killing the rest of the Jacobis.
* WouldHurtAChild: He shot Kim's younger brother, Stewart.
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[[folder: Mitch Hathaway]]
-> '''Played By:''' Rick Ravanello (1987) and Creator/MitchPileggi (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E19Offender Offender]]"
A grieving father who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987. After getting out of prison, he began killing a sex offender a day, and announced that he would only stop once the police found out who really killed Clay.
* AntiVillain: Mitch was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his own son, whose case he forces the Philly PD to reopen and make their top priority by murdering {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* CriminalMindGames: He keeps calling Scotty during his spree, and left a note with his first victim bluntly explaining his motive, "I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."
* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle example, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
* FrameUp: After raping and killing Clay, Cliff Burrell planted photographs of his own son, Johnny, on Mitch. This ended up being irrelevant to the investigation, though, as Tara Hathaway (the one who found the pictures) never came forward with them, in a misguided attempt to protect the Burrells.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Mitch was an average, everyday man when he went to prison, and after he got out, he became a hardened VigilanteMan.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Mitch was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987, and only exonerated in 2007.
* MurderSuicide: How he intended to end his spree, by killing himself along with Clay's real killer, Cliff Burrell.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His victims were registered sex offenders, like Harold Dixon (who molested half a dozen boys) and Ernie Grabowski (who practically brags about how he groomed boys into giving him "consent").
* SpreeKiller: While he had the mentality and methodology of a SerialKiller, Mitch killing a person a day while evading the authorities, who were fully aware of his identity, makes him closer to a SpreeKiller.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He secretly follows Scotty throughout the investigation into who really killed Clay.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mitch is talked into surrendering peacefully by his pleading ex-wife, Tara.
* ToughLove: While Mitch did love his son and was not abusive towards him, he was also not quite one for coddling, and raised Clay to believe that the best way to overcome something was to "just walk it off."
* TraumaCongaLine: His son was raped and murdered, he was blamed for it, his wife left him because of it, and he spent twenty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2007.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The concept of a vigilante using the sex offender registry to find victims was taken from double-murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) Stephen Marshall]].
* VigilanteMan: He killed pedophiles in order to spur the Philly PD into finding the one who killed his son, Clay.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All Mitch wants is justice for the son who he failed to protect back in 1987.
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-> '''Played By:''' Rick Ravanello (1987) and Creator/MitchPileggi (2007)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E19Offender Offender]]"
A grieving father who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987. After getting out of prison, he began killing a sex offender a day, and announced that he would only stop once the police found out who really killed Clay.
* AntiVillain: Mitch was wrongly convicted of raping and murdering his own son, whose case he forces the Philly PD to reopen and make their top priority by murdering {{Asshole Victim}}s.
* CriminalMindGames: He keeps calling Scotty during his spree, and left a note with his first victim bluntly explaining his motive, "I'm gonna take out a piece of garbage every day till you solve the murder of my son Clayton Hathaway."
* DeathFlight: A non-vehicle example, in that he took his victims up to the roofs of tall buildings and then threw them off of them, with Ernie Grabowski landing on a CarCushion.
* FrameUp: After raping and killing Clay, Cliff Burrell planted photographs of his own son, Johnny, on Mitch. This ended up being irrelevant to the investigation, though, as Tara Hathaway (the one who found the pictures) never came forward with them, in a misguided attempt to protect the Burrells.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Mitch was an average, everyday man when he went to prison, and after he got out, he became a hardened VigilanteMan.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Mitch was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of his own son, Clay, in 1987, and only exonerated in 2007.
* MurderSuicide: How he intended to end his spree, by killing himself along with Clay's real killer, Cliff Burrell.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: His victims were registered sex offenders, like Harold Dixon (who molested half a dozen boys) and Ernie Grabowski (who practically brags about how he groomed boys into giving him "consent").
* SpreeKiller: While he had the mentality and methodology of a SerialKiller, Mitch killing a person a day while evading the authorities, who were fully aware of his identity, makes him closer to a SpreeKiller.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He secretly follows Scotty throughout the investigation into who really killed Clay.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Mitch is talked into surrendering peacefully by his pleading ex-wife, Tara.
* ToughLove: While Mitch did love his son and was not abusive towards him, he was also not quite one for coddling, and raised Clay to believe that the best way to overcome something was to "just walk it off."
* TraumaCongaLine: His son was raped and murdered, he was blamed for it, his wife left him because of it, and he spent twenty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2007.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The concept of a vigilante using the sex offender registry to find victims was taken from double-murderer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer) Stephen Marshall]].
* VigilanteMan: He killed pedophiles in order to spur the Philly PD into finding the one who killed his son, Clay.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: All Mitch wants is justice for the son who he failed to protect back in 1987.
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/BrunoCampos (Ramon) and Emily Nelson (Martha)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E9LonelyHearts Lonely Hearts]]"
A con artist couple, Ramon would seduce and swindle lonely women, who he would then murder with the help of his partner, Martha.
* AmbiguousSituation: It is unclear if Martha was right about Ramon wanting to kill her, especially since it is clear that Ramon actually did love Martha.
* AssholeVictim: Martha was initially assumed to just be someone who Ramon had swindled and killed, but then it turned out that she became his accomplice and encouraged him to become a SerialKiller. Despite this, her and Ramon's serene-seeming "ghosts" are still shown at the end of the episode, with Ramon appearing to Stillman, and Martha to Lilly.
--> '''Kat:''' Well, this is a big, fat waste of time. Solving a murderer's murder.
* TheBigBoard: Ramon kept a rented storage unit full of big boards containing information on all of his marks, including Martha.
* TheBluebeard: Ramon would marry desperate women at quickie chapels, take all of their money, and then have them killed by Martha.
* CarFu: Once he was done with them, Ramon would set his victims up to be run over by Martha.
* CarpetOfVirility: Ramon, something that is most apparent in the shirtless photo of him that is examined by Scotty.
* TheCasanova: Ramon got with and used ''nineteen'' women through video dating services, all of whom were insecure and easily swayed; a more confidant woman, like Martha's roommate, Stephanie, could immediately tell that Ramon was a {{Slimeball}}.
* CommonLawMarriage: Though Ramon eventually did end up proposing to Martha.
* ConArtist: Ramon seduced and swindled women out of their money and valuables using video dating services, and took Martha (who was initially just another mark) along as an accomplice after meeting her in 1989.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Martha was an orphan, which is part of the reason why her case went cold so fast after she was murdered back in 1989.
* CreepyMortician: Martha worked as mortician's assistant before becoming a SerialKiller.
* {{Cuckold}}: Martha bemoaned having essentially become one, stating, "I've become a terrible person. And for what? So that I can pretend to be your sister while some girl who thinks she's your wife climbs all over you?"
* DestructiveRomance: Martha refused to dump Ramon even after finding out that he was criminal, and together the two entered an unstable relationship in which they became {{Serial Killer}}s.
* DissonantSerenity: During her first date with Ramon, Martha cheerfully described how, when she was four, her mother had a fatal stroke, and she spent two days alone with her corpse before a neighbor found her and called 911.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ramon shot himself when the IRS finally caught-up with him, and also due to apparent despair over Martha.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Martha became paranoid that Ramon was going to kill her, and while he may have considered it at the time, the circumstances of his suicide (he shot himself while watching her video dating tape) indicate that he really did love Martha.
--> '''Lilly:''' Her face was the last thing he wants to see before the lights go out? Got to be more than a con. Maybe it's a love thing.
* FatAndSkinny: Martha (fat) and Ramon (skinny).
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: While Martha did convince Ramon to start killing people, she was portrayed as the more sympathetic of the two, eventually becoming overwhelmed with guilt over what she had become, which led her to turn on Ramon.
* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: In a way, as Martha was the one who actually killed the women who were seduced and had their money taken by her sugar daddy, Ramon.
* FlowerInHerHair: Martha wore a big red flower in her hair so that Ramon would spot her immediately during their first date at The Perfumed Rose.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Martha realized the error of her ways, and enlisted Eugenia Karpathian to help her kill Ramon. Unfortunately, Eugenia was still in love with Ramon, and she killed Martha.
* HeelRealization: While examining an heirloom that she and Ramon had taken from one of their victims, Martha started crying, and stammered, "I've become a terrible person."
* HotGuyUglyWife: Ramon was a handsome LatinLover who fell in love with the dowdy, overweight, and awkward Martha.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Ramon, during his first date with Martha, was obviously creeped out when she cheerfully described how, as a child, she spent two days alone with her mother's dead body before a neighbor found her and called 911.
--> '''Ramon''' ([[StunnedSilence after a very long, awkward pause]]): That's sad, Martha.
* InLoveWithLove: Martha was a self-described "sappy romantic" who spent all of her time reading ChickLit and who stuck by Ramon even after realizing that he was con artist when she walked in on him right in the middle of stealing her TV.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Ramon was a con artist who just wanted to steal from Martha, but then he fell in love with Martha.
* InstantDeathBullet: Martha dropped dead immediately after being shot by Eugenia.
* InsuranceFraud: Afraid that Ramon was going to kill her, Martha took out a life insurance policy on him in preparation for killing him first, though before she could do anything she herself was murdered by Eugenia Karpathian.
* InTheBack: Martha was killed when she shot in the back with a .45 by Eugenia Karpathian.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Martha, a woman who was complicit in five murders, was herself killed by a woman named Eugenia Karpathian.
* LadyMacbeth: While Ramon was already a criminal when he met Martha, she was the one who encouraged him to graduate from con artist to SerialKiller.
* LatinLover: Ramon, who used it to his advantage by seducing and swindling women like Eugenia Karpathian.
* LineOfSightName: Martha's alias, Serena Montagne, was taken from a RomanceNovel.
* TheLostLenore: Ramon still pined for Martha after her death, and committed suicide while watching the video dating tape that she made back in 1989.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ramon and Martha killed all of their victims by making them look like hit and run accidents, one in New Jersey, one in New York, and the other three in Philadelphia.
* TheMourningAfter: Ramon never got over Martha, and killed himself while watching the video dating tape that she made back in 1989.
* NerdGlasses: Martha wore giant spectacles, and considered herself to be "not cool."
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The two were based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck]], an American serial killer couple who were active during the 1940s.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Ramon might have been planning to kill Martha, who decided to kill him first by trying to shoot him with a .45.
* OutlawCouple: The two are even compared to Bonnie and Clyde by Ramon.
* PosthumousCharacter: Ramon committed suicide just prior to the events of the episode, while Martha was murdered in 1989.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Martha was Ramon's lover, but pretended to be his sister while he was seducing and swindling other women, so their flirtatious behavior around each other creeped out Reverend Love.
* RetiredMonster: While Ramon continued to committ financial crimes after Martha's death, there is no indication that he killed anyone else after 1989.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the two were based mainly on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck]], the concept of financially-motivated serial killers disposing of their victims via staged hit and run "accidents" was taken from the then-recent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_Murders Black Widow Murders]].
* SerialKiller: The two swindled and killed five women over the course of several months in 1989.
* ShrineToSelf: When he notices that Ramon's home is full of pictures of himself, Scotty muses, "Guy's got a little crush on himself."
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Martha. As Kat put it, "The novels got to her head."
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/BrunoCampos (Ramon) and Emily Nelson (Martha)
-> '''Episode(s):''' "[[Recap/ColdCaseS4E9LonelyHearts Lonely Hearts]]"
A con artist couple, Ramon would seduce and swindle lonely women, who he would then murder with the help of his partner, Martha.
* AmbiguousSituation: It is unclear if Martha was right about Ramon wanting to kill her, especially since it is clear that Ramon actually did love Martha.
* AssholeVictim: Martha was initially assumed to just be someone who Ramon had swindled and killed, but then it turned out that she became his accomplice and encouraged him to become a SerialKiller. Despite this, her and Ramon's serene-seeming "ghosts" are still shown at the end of the episode, with Ramon appearing to Stillman, and Martha to Lilly.
--> '''Kat:''' Well, this is a big, fat waste of time. Solving a murderer's murder.
* TheBigBoard: Ramon kept a rented storage unit full of big boards containing information on all of his marks, including Martha.
* TheBluebeard: Ramon would marry desperate women at quickie chapels, take all of their money, and then have them killed by Martha.
* CarFu: Once he was done with them, Ramon would set his victims up to be run over by Martha.
* CarpetOfVirility: Ramon, something that is most apparent in the shirtless photo of him that is examined by Scotty.
* TheCasanova: Ramon got with and used ''nineteen'' women through video dating services, all of whom were insecure and easily swayed; a more confidant woman, like Martha's roommate, Stephanie, could immediately tell that Ramon was a {{Slimeball}}.
* CommonLawMarriage: Though Ramon eventually did end up proposing to Martha.
* ConArtist: Ramon seduced and swindled women out of their money and valuables using video dating services, and took Martha (who was initially just another mark) along as an accomplice after meeting her in 1989.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Martha was an orphan, which is part of the reason why her case went cold so fast after she was murdered back in 1989.
* CreepyMortician: Martha worked as mortician's assistant before becoming a SerialKiller.
* {{Cuckold}}: Martha bemoaned having essentially become one, stating, "I've become a terrible person. And for what? So that I can pretend to be your sister while some girl who thinks she's your wife climbs all over you?"
* DestructiveRomance: Martha refused to dump Ramon even after finding out that he was criminal, and together the two entered an unstable relationship in which they became {{Serial Killer}}s.
* DissonantSerenity: During her first date with Ramon, Martha cheerfully described how, when she was four, her mother had a fatal stroke, and she spent two days alone with her corpse before a neighbor found her and called 911.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ramon shot himself when the IRS finally caught-up with him, and also due to apparent despair over Martha.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Martha became paranoid that Ramon was going to kill her, and while he may have considered it at the time, the circumstances of his suicide (he shot himself while watching her video dating tape) indicate that he really did love Martha.
--> '''Lilly:''' Her face was the last thing he wants to see before the lights go out? Got to be more than a con. Maybe it's a love thing.
* FatAndSkinny: Martha (fat) and Ramon (skinny).
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: While Martha did convince Ramon to start killing people, she was portrayed as the more sympathetic of the two, eventually becoming overwhelmed with guilt over what she had become, which led her to turn on Ramon.
* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: In a way, as Martha was the one who actually killed the women who were seduced and had their money taken by her sugar daddy, Ramon.
* FlowerInHerHair: Martha wore a big red flower in her hair so that Ramon would spot her immediately during their first date at The Perfumed Rose.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Martha realized the error of her ways, and enlisted Eugenia Karpathian to help her kill Ramon. Unfortunately, Eugenia was still in love with Ramon, and she killed Martha.
* HeelRealization: While examining an heirloom that she and Ramon had taken from one of their victims, Martha started crying, and stammered, "I've become a terrible person."
* HotGuyUglyWife: Ramon was a handsome LatinLover who fell in love with the dowdy, overweight, and awkward Martha.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Ramon, during his first date with Martha, was obviously creeped out when she cheerfully described how, as a child, she spent two days alone with her mother's dead body before a neighbor found her and called 911.
--> '''Ramon''' ([[StunnedSilence after a very long, awkward pause]]): That's sad, Martha.
* InLoveWithLove: Martha was a self-described "sappy romantic" who spent all of her time reading ChickLit and who stuck by Ramon even after realizing that he was con artist when she walked in on him right in the middle of stealing her TV.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Ramon was a con artist who just wanted to steal from Martha, but then he fell in love with Martha.
* InstantDeathBullet: Martha dropped dead immediately after being shot by Eugenia.
* InsuranceFraud: Afraid that Ramon was going to kill her, Martha took out a life insurance policy on him in preparation for killing him first, though before she could do anything she herself was murdered by Eugenia Karpathian.
* InTheBack: Martha was killed when she shot in the back with a .45 by Eugenia Karpathian.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Martha, a woman who was complicit in five murders, was herself killed by a woman named Eugenia Karpathian.
* LadyMacbeth: While Ramon was already a criminal when he met Martha, she was the one who encouraged him to graduate from con artist to SerialKiller.
* LatinLover: Ramon, who used it to his advantage by seducing and swindling women like Eugenia Karpathian.
* LineOfSightName: Martha's alias, Serena Montagne, was taken from a RomanceNovel.
* TheLostLenore: Ramon still pined for Martha after her death, and committed suicide while watching the video dating tape that she made back in 1989.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ramon and Martha killed all of their victims by making them look like hit and run accidents, one in New Jersey, one in New York, and the other three in Philadelphia.
* TheMourningAfter: Ramon never got over Martha, and killed himself while watching the video dating tape that she made back in 1989.
* NerdGlasses: Martha wore giant spectacles, and considered herself to be "not cool."
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The two were based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck]], an American serial killer couple who were active during the 1940s.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Ramon might have been planning to kill Martha, who decided to kill him first by trying to shoot him with a .45.
* OutlawCouple: The two are even compared to Bonnie and Clyde by Ramon.
* PosthumousCharacter: Ramon committed suicide just prior to the events of the episode, while Martha was murdered in 1989.
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Martha was Ramon's lover, but pretended to be his sister while he was seducing and swindling other women, so their flirtatious behavior around each other creeped out Reverend Love.
* RetiredMonster: While Ramon continued to committ financial crimes after Martha's death, there is no indication that he killed anyone else after 1989.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: While the two were based mainly on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Fernandez_and_Martha_Beck Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck]], the concept of financially-motivated serial killers disposing of their victims via staged hit and run "accidents" was taken from the then-recent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_Murders Black Widow Murders]].
* SerialKiller: The two swindled and killed five women over the course of several months in 1989.
* ShrineToSelf: When he notices that Ramon's home is full of pictures of himself, Scotty muses, "Guy's got a little crush on himself."
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Martha. As Kat put it, "The novels got to her head."
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* NoSympathy: Despite being put through a similar ordeal herself, she still set Rainey and Celeste up to be sexually assaulted by the football players, and when Celeste began crying after ten of the boys had their way with her, an annoyed Becca just told her to stop her "sniveling."
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* RapeAsBackstory: She mentions offhandedly that she was pressured into having sex with (or just outright raped by) a dozen football players back in 1996.
