History Monster / SilentWitness

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* ''[[Literature/DrSamanthaRyanMysteryTheSpidersWeb The Spider's Web]]'': [[SerialKiller Eric Chambers]] is a vicious murderer who has been [[SerialRapist raping]] and murdering teenage boys for decades. A psychopath since childhood, Eric [[{{Patricide}} murdered his own father]] and his father's lover when he was only [[TeensAreMonsters 15]], before dumping their bodies in a well and forcing his mother to cover it up. Returning to his village after serving in the army, Eric lured in two homeless teenagers and raped them before strangling them to death. Going on to the internet and assuming the handle of "The Spider", Eric groomed teenagers with an interest in computers by providing them with valuable equipment, before abducting, raping, and strangling them to death, killing at least 14. Targeting Simon Vickers, Eric did the same to him and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident staged a fake drink driving accident]], before drowning Simon’s friend Dominic in a river when he tried to blackmail him. Realizing a local poacher saw him, Eric snapped the man's neck before torching his house. Caught by the police, Eric tried to frame the kindly Reverend Peter Andrews for his crimes, before attempting to murder Sam and her nephew Ricky when their guards were down.

* "Commodity": [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Sami Rashid]] initially appearing a friendly, shy young man is in fact a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain hate-filled anti-Semite]] and a vicious terrorist who funds his cause by targeting the children of wealthy Jews. Having used Eva Liron to grant him access to his targets, Sami then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness brutally murdered her]] with a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath combination of hydrochloric acid and slow suffocation]]. His attempted abduction accidentally killing the autistic Nathan Freeman, Sami murdered Nathan's mother and began blackmailing Jewish football star Isaac Dreyfus. While collecting the money Sami [[EvilNephew murdered his loving uncle Mousa]] for daring to work with a Jew. Discovering Isaac was planning to leave the country, Sami slowly suffocated his co-worker and left a bomb rigged to kill as many as possible to deal with the police, then kidnapped Isaac's eight-year-old daughter Zara. Having no intention of returning the girl, he left Zara locked up unconscious and upon receiving the money crippled Isaac, leaving the latter alive [[CruelMercy solely to suffer]] knowing he'd taken everything from him.

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* "Deadhead": [[ManipulativeBastard James "Jim" Bell]] is an unconventional SerialKiller driven by feelings of supremacy at ending lives without lifting a finger. His MO is to slowly push vulnerable people deeper into depression all while posing as their friend, until they agree to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]], with his first victim being his own [[{{Patricide}} father]]. Using an unofficial chatroom for people suffering from suicidal thoughts to find victims, Bell manipulated pilot Rowan Cole into killing himself while mid-flight. When Rowan's flight is cancelled and he has to hitch a ride on an ambassador's plane, Bell forced Cole to poison the pilot and crash the plane despite knowing there were other passengers on board, two dying in the crash. When his next victim Peter Sachs got cold feet at the last second, Bell simply shot him and [[NeverSuicide staged it as a suicide]]. Targeting Kyle Cunningham, Bell preyed on the recent death of his son until a broken Kyle attempted to end his life, convinced everyone was better off without him.

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'''Conor Flannery:''' They take up resources. They contribute nothing...They're a condemned building, aren't they? Rotting from the inside. Look at you--useless, no good to anyone. What is the point of you?
-->--"One Day", before Conor tries to kill Clarissa.

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* "Safe": [[WouldHurtAChild Keenan Barnes]] is a viciously cruel gang leader. Grooming vulnerable children, Keenan [[SerialRapist subjects them to a brutal gang rape as an initiation]]. After Errol defects upon witnessing Keenan rape a 13-year-old girl, Keenan has his artery cut so that Errol will be conscious and terrified as he dies, with Errol only surviving due to the intervention of Leo. Keenan then shoots a rival dead [[HarmfulToMinors in front of numerous children]] and manipulates Errol's 10-year-old brother AJ into joining. When Errol is killed by a rival gang, Keenan forces AJ to knife a man to death in public, getting one of his men to do it when AJ refuses and forcing him to watch. For daring to speak to the police, Keenan [[FedToTheBeast has AJ fed alive to a dog]], opting to [[AgonizingStomachWound knife him in the stomach so that he will suffer in agony before expiring]], and then attempts to rape an underage girl before being arrested.

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* "Lift Up Your Hearts": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Ramush]] is a sociopathic drug dealer who floods the streets of London with a lethal strain of fentanyl. [[SerialRapist Regularly using the drug to incapacitate and rape female addicts]], Ramush forces his sidekick Rudi to target [[WouldHurtAChild schools]], as children and teenagers make the easiest targets. When an addict dies from taking the drug and another female one is nearly rendered permanently brain-damaged, Ramush is not only [[LackOfEmpathy apathetic]] but pleased with the potency. Gathering the dealers together at a club, Ramush targets the girlfriend of one and gives her a cigarette with a lethal amount of fentanyl [[ForTheEvulz for a laugh]], which results in her dying in front of all her friends and family. When the previously mentioned drug addict returns for more, Ramush rapes her, before throttling her to death with his belt for a thrill. Deciding that the three dealers are more trouble than they are worth, Ramush orders Rudi to kill all three of them, resulting in one getting knifed to death in an elevator. When the two gang up on Rudi and kill him, Ramush becomes enraged--only due to losing a valuable resource--and beats one to death in front of terrified diners. Dismissing Rudi's death, Ramush attempts to blackmail a child into selling drugs for him before attempting to knife the final dealer to death, as well as the brother and father of the girl he killed when they attempt to stop him.

* ''[[Literature/DrSamanthaRyanMysteryTheSpidersWeb The Spider's Web]]'': [[SerialKiller Eric Chambers]] is a vicious murderer who has been [[SerialRapist raping]] and murdering teenage boys for decades. A psychopath since childhood, Eric [[{{Patricide}} murdered his own father]] and his father's lover when he was only [[TeensAreMonsters 15]], before dumping their bodies in a well and forcing his mother to cover it up. Returning to his village after serving in the army, Eric lured in two homeless teenagers and raped them before strangling them to death. Going on to the internet and assuming the handle of "The Spider", Eric groomed teenagers with an interest in computers by providing them with valuable equipment, before abducting, raping, and strangling them to death, killing at least 14. Targeting Simon Vickers, Eric did the same to him and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident staged a fake drink driving accident]], before drowning Simon’s friend Dominic in a river when he tried to blackmail him. Realizing a local poacher saw him, Eric snapped the man's neck before torching his house. Caught by the police, Eric tried to frame the kindly Reverend Peter Andrews for his crimes, before attempting to murder Sam and her nephew Ricky when their guards were down.

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* ''The Spider's Web'': [[SerialKiller Eric Chambers]] is a vicious murderer who has been [[SerialRapist raping]] and murdering teenage boys for decades. A psychopath since childhood, Eric [[{{Patricide}} murdered his own father]] and his father's lover when he was only [[TeensAreMonsters 15]], before dumping their bodies in a well and forcing his mother to cover it up. Returning to his village after serving in the army, Eric lured in two homeless teenagers and raped them before strangling them to death. Going on to the internet and assuming the handle of "The Spider", Eric groomed teenagers with an interest in computers by providing them with valuable equipment, before abducting, raping, and strangling them to death, killing at least 14. Targeting Simon Vickers, Eric did the same to him and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident staged a fake drink driving accident]], before drowning Simon’s friend Dominic in a river when he tried to blackmail him. Realizing a local poacher saw him, Eric snapped the man's neck before torching his house. Caught by the police, Eric tried to frame the kindly Reverend Peter Andrews for his crimes, before attempting to murder Sam and her nephew Ricky when their guards were down.

->'''Clarissa Mullery''': You killed those people!\\
'''Conor Flannery''': They take up resources. They contribute nothing...They're a condemned building, aren't they? Rotting from the inside. Look at you--useless, no good to anyone. What is the point of you?

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* "Deadhead": [[ManipulativeBastard James "Jim" Bell]] is an unconventional SerialKiller driven by feelings of supremacy at ending lives without lifting a finger. His MO is to slowly push vulnerable people deeper into depression all while posing as their friend, until they agree to [[DrivenToSuicide kill themselves]], with his first victim being his own [[{{Patricide}} father]]. Using an unofficial chatroom for people suffering from suicidal thoughts to find victims, Bell manipulated pilot Rowan Cole into killing himself while mid-flight. When Rowan's flight is cancelled and he has to hitch a ride on an ambassador's plane, Bell forced Cole to poison the pilot and crash the plane despite knowing there were other passengers on board, two dying in the crash. When his next victim Peter Sachs got cold feet at the last second, Bell simply shot him and [[NeverSuicide staged it as a suicide]]. Targeting Kyle Cunningham, Bell preyed on the recent death of his son until a broken Kyle attempted to end his life, convinced everyone was better off without him.

* "Redhill": [[AssholeVictim James Wade]] has the distinction of being the least sympathetic victim ever encountered by the Lyell Centre. A pedophile SerialKiller, Wade, when barely in his teens, [[CainAndAbel repeatedly tortured his younger sister Miriam with a knife]]. As a grown man, Wade, having used Miriam as a template to find out what he enjoyed, took to [[WouldHurtAChild preying upon little girls]]. Kidnapping them, in one incident laying a trap then luring his victim away by pretending to help, he would rape and torture the child before finally killing her. Succeeding in murdering nine victims by his grisly MO before his arrest, Wade died [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating despised throughout the entire country]] with not a single personal mourning his passing.

* "Identity": [[AxCrazy Abdul "Al" Wilson]] is a psychopathic KnightTemplar who deems refugees fleeing war torn areas of Syria to be "Filthy Kafirs". Concocting a horrifying scheme to make money for a local religious sect, Abdul manipulates a friend of his into letting him join a people smuggling operation. Being given access to a van full of vulnerable people, Abdul drives it to a completely deserted location and abandons everyone inside to die a horrific, days long death. Abdul then sets about {{blackmail}}ing the loved ones of everyone in the van, callously ignoring all their pleas and beating up one who tries to protest. Smirking upon hearing that another van will be arriving, Abdul kills one of his partners by slashing his throat and throwing him off a building and clobbers his friend to death with a crowbar when he turns on him in horror at Abdul's operation. Confronted by the head of the people smugglers, Yussef, Abdul decides to kill him when the man calls him an impostor. Hijacking another van and attempting to give the people in it the exact same fate as his previous victims, Abdul attempts to decapitate Yussef when he intervenes.

* "One Day": [[OrderliesAreCreeps Conor Flannery]] and [[DeadlyDoctor Dr. Kahari]] are a twisted duo out get rich by preying upon the most vulnerable. Hiding behind the facade of an attentive carer, Conor is a bully who physically and verbally abuses the people in his care using an illegal stun gun to shock them into compliance, repeatedly breaking Kevin [=McDowd=]'s hands and regularly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] the vulnerable Serena Prentice. Conspiring together they [[SickbedSlaying murder numerous sick, elderly or disabled people]] in their care for money, subtly poisoning them and then writing off the deaths as natural causes. To prevent Kevin's mother exposing him Conor drugged her with a lethal combination causing her to lose control while driving, barely avoiding killing numerous pedestrians before fatally crashing. Confronted by Clarissa Murry, Conor boasted his contempt for their victims, dismissing what he and Kahari do as "condemned buildings" before trying to kill her.

* "Lift Up Your Hearts": [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Ramush]] is a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] drug dealer who floods the streets of London with a lethal strain of fentanyl. [[SerialRapist Regularly using the drug to incapacitate and rape female addicts]], Ramush forces his sidekick Rudi target schools, [[WouldHurtAChild as children and teenagers make the easiest targets]]. When an addict dies from taking it and another female one is nearly rendered permanently brain damaged, Ramush is not only apathetic but pleased with the potency. Gathering the dealers together at a club, Ramush targets the girlfriend of one and gives her a cigarette with a lethal amount of fentanyl [[ForTheEvulz for a laugh]], which results in her dying in front of all her friends and family. When the previously mentioned drug addict returns for more, Ramush rapes her, before throttling her to death with his belt [[KicktheDog for a thrill]]. Deciding that the three dealers are more trouble than they are worth, Ramush orders Rudi to kill all three of them, resulting in one getting knifed to death in an elevator. When the two gang up and kill Rudi, Ramush becomes enraged and beats one to death in front of terrified diners. Dismissing Rudi’s death, Ramush attempts to blackmail a child into selling drugs for him before attempting to knife the final dealer to death, as well as the brother and father of the girl he killed when they attempt to stop him.

* "Deadhead": [[ManipulativeBastard James "Jim" Bell]] is an unconventional SerialKiller driven by feelings of supremacy at endings lives without lifting a finger. His MO is to slowly push vulnerable people deeper into depression all while posing as their friend, until they agree [[DrivenToSuicide to kill themselves]], with his first victim being his own [[{{Patricide}} father]]. Using an unofficial chatroom for people suffering from suicidal thoughts to find victims, Bell manipulated pilot Rowan Cole into killing himself while mid-flight. When Rowan's flight is cancelled and he has to hitch a ride on an ambassador's plane, Bell forced Cole to poison the pilot and crash the plane despite knowing there were other passengers on board, two dying in the crash. When his next victim Peter Sachs got cold feet at the last second Bell simply shot him and staged it as a suicide. Targeting Kyle Cunningham, Bell preyed on the recent death of his son until a broken Kyle attempted to end it, convinced everyone was better off without him.