History Sandbox / MonsterDiagnosisMurder

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS4E4XMarksTheMurder X Marks the Murder]]" Part 1: [[HeManWomanHater Michael Dern]] is a misogynistic SerialKiller who, due to his own self-pitying, has made it his mission in life to hunt down and kill women. Using his job as a gas station attendant, Michael charms women into letting him near them before murdering them. Gaining an obsession with police consultant Dr. Mark Sloan, Michael targets his friend Dr. Andrea and gleefully reveals how he plans to kill her. Michael ultimately reveals he aims to increase his victim count by two or three a day [[AttentionWhore just to bask in the attention]], and is happy to mock Sloan with how much his victims suffered, just to mess with him.

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E9MurderTimesFour Murder x 4]]": [[IndirectSerialKiller Ernest Rogin]] is the head of the [[MurderInc Montana Mutual insurance company]], which acts as a front for [[ProfessionalKiller his assassination business]]. Rogin forces [[TerminallyIllCriminal terminally ill patients]] into being his pet assassins, or else their insurance won't be paid to their families, and is perfectly happy ruining the lives of desperate people who just want to provide for their families. Rogin's assassins end up cutting a path of destruction across the city, from a drive-by shooting that kills a woman to a bludgeoned real estate agent, and the shooting of a travel sales agent that leads to an entire room taken hostage and threatened. When Rogin is confronted by Dr. Mark Sloan and his son Steve to try and stop his latest killer from taking out their victim, Rogin shrugs and holds it over their heads in an attempt to weasel out of consequences, stating that her death "won't be on my conscience. I don't have one"

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E9MurderTimesFour Murder x 4]]": [[IndirectSerialKiller Ernest Rogin]] is the head of the [[MurderInc Montana Mutual insurance company]], which acts as a front for [[ProfessionalKiller his assassination business]]. Rogin forces [[TerminallyIllCriminal terminally ill patients]] into being his pet assassins, or else their insurance won't be paid to their families, and is perfectly happy running the lives of desperate people who just want to provide for their families. Rogin's assassins end up cutting a path of destruction across the city, from a drive-by shooting that kills a woman; a bludgeoned real estate agent; and the shooting of a travel sales agent that leads to an entire room taken hostage and threatened. When Rogin is confronted by Dr. Mark Sloan and his son Steve to try and stop his latest killer from taking out their victim, Rogin shrugs and holds it over their heads in an attempt to weasel out of consequences, stating that her death "won't be on my conscience. I don't have one"

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E9MurderTimesFour Murder x 4]]": [[ProfessionalKiller Ernest Rogin]] is the head of the [[MurderInc Montana Mutual insurance company]], which acts as a front for his assassination business. Rogin forces [[TerminallyIllCriminal terminally ill patients]] into being his pet assassins, or else their insurance won't be paid to their families, and is perfectly happy running the lives of desperate people who just want to provide for their families. Rogin's assassins end up cutting a path of destruction across the city, from a drive-by shooting that kills a woman; a bludgeoned real estate agent; and the shooting of a travel sales agent that leads to an entire room taken hostage and threatened. When Rogin is confronted by Dr. Mark Sloan and his son Steve to try and stop his latest killer from taking out their victim, Rogin shrugs and holds it over their heads in an attempt to weasel out of consequences, stating that her death "won't be on my conscience. I don't have one"

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS4E4XMarksTheMurder X Marks the Murder]]" Part 1: [[HeManWomanHater Michael Dern]] is a misogynistic SerialKiller who, due to his own self pitying, has made it his mission in life to hunt down and kill women. Using his job as a gas station attendant, Michael charms women into letting him near them before murdering them. Gaining an obsession with police consultant Dr. Mark Sloan, Michael targets his friend Dr. Andrea and gleefully reveals how he plans to kill her. Michael ultimately reveals he aims to increase his victim count by two or three a day just to bask in the attention and is happy to mock Sloan with how much his victims suffered, just to mess with him.

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E9MurderTimesFour Murder x 4]]": [[ProfessionalKiller Ernst Rogin]] is the head of the [[MurderInc Montana Mutual insurance company]], which acts as a front for his assassination business. Rogin forces [[TerminallyIllCriminal terminally ill patients]] into being his pet assassins or else their insurance won't be paid to their families, and is perfectly happy running the lives of desperate people who just want to provide for their families. Rogin's assassins end up cutting a path of destruction across the city from a drive by shooting that kills a woman, a bludgeoned real estate agent and the shooting of a travel sales agent that leads to an entire room taken hostage and threatened. When Rogin is confronted by Dr. Mark Sloan and his son Steve to try and stop his latest killer from taking out their victim, Rogin shrugs and holds it over their heads in an attempt to weasel out of consequences stating that her death "won't be on my conscience. I don't have one"

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderTheSilentPartner The Silent Partner]]'': [[JackTheRipoff Freddy Meeks]] is a SerialKiller known as "The Silent Partner" who specializes in copying the killings of other killers. A true crime author and police consultant, Meeks becomes so fascinated by murder that he begins to murder others. Meeks uses his position to learn the modus operandi of various wanted Serial Killers and then copies their murders so that the killing is assumed to be one of their sprees. Operating for years, Meeks' operation is only discovered by Dr. Mark Sloan finding discrepancies in his cases, and as a, result Meeks tries to off him. Framing his old friend Lou as the killer, Meeks frames his death as a suicide in a way to escape punishment. Ultimately, when confronted, Meeks [[ForTheEvulz admits that he kills for the sheer thrill of it]].

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS4E4XMarksTheMurder X Marks the Murder]]" Part 1: Michael Dern

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS6E9MurderTimesFour Murder x 4]]": Ernest Rogin

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderTheSilentPartner The Silent Partner]]'': Freddy Meeks

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS3E9LivingOnTheStreetsCanBeMurder Living on the Streets Can Be Murder]]": Cheryl Dante, real name Cheryl Ormand, is a disgraced medical practitioner who has decided to turn her talents to a more depraved pursuit. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Masquerading as the kind head of a charitable organization for the homeless]], Cheryl uses her institute to cover up the fact that she is killing the homeless and [[OrganTheft harvesting their organs]] to sell to wealthy clients. Cheryl has done this to many people across the country, her latest spree involving at least 5 victims left dead in the streets. When her partner-in-crime Tom Winston tries to back out of the ordeal, Cheryl tries to murder him before attempting to vivisect Dr. Sloan for investigating her.

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderThePastTense The Past Tense]]'': [[EvilOldFolks Dan Marlowe]], seemingly just a harmless old widower with terminal cancer, turns out to be the first--and possibly the most sadistic--[[SerialKiller killer]] Mark ever fought. A lifelong psychopath motivated by [[ForTheEvulz nothing but his need for stimulation]], Dan enjoys paralyzing his victims to leave them [[AndIMustScream aware but helpless]] against everything he does to them. Mostly targeting women, over years Dan he leaves one in a running car that goes off a cliff; throws another down the stairs; buries another alive; cuts one victim's throat when she's already suffocating, just to increase her agony; and finally outright tortures his final victim to death, keeping her alive for fifteen minutes before she expires. Approaching the end of his life due to his cancer, Dan hopes to make Mark his masterpiece, planning to torture him for hours before taking out his heart and showing it to him while he's alive. Even after he's gunned down, the novel ends with the haunting implication Dan not only killed [[TilMurderDoUsPart his own wife]], but Mark's as well.

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderThePastTense The Past Tense]]'': Dan Marlowe, seemingly just a harmless old widower with terminal cancer, turns out to be the first--and possibly the most sadistic--killer Mark ever fought. A lifelong psychopath motivated by nothing but his need for stimulation, Dan enjoys paralyzing his victims to leave them aware but helpless against everything he does to them. Mostly targeting women, over years Dan he leaves one in a running car that goes off a cliff; throws another down the stairs; buries another alive; cuts one victim's throat when she's already suffocating, just to increase her agony; and finally outright tortures his final victim to death, keeping her alive for fifteen minutes before she expires. Approaching the end of his life due to his cancer, Dan hopes to make Mark his masterpiece, planning to torture him for hours before taking out his heart and showing it to him while he's alive. Even after he's gunned down, the novel ends with the haunting implication Dan not only killed his own wife, but Mark's as well.

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderThePastTense The Past Tense]]'': Dan Marlowe

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderTheDeadLetter The Dead Letter]]'': Jimmy Cale, initially seeming to be the novel's AssholeVictim, secretly [[FakingTheDead faked his own murder]] and framed his own so-called best friend Bob Yankton for it, resulting in Yankton facing capital charges. Cale reinvents himself as "Robin Mannering", mostly to escape charges of embezzlement, but also to leave a life he hates, including a wife who divorced him for his womanizing and a teenage daughter he hates just for existing. Cale systematically murders anyone [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knows his identity]], resulting in almost half-a-dozen murders even before the book has started, and hires a hitman to kill a private detective on his case, resulting in the detective going off a cliff. When Cale thinks he's dying of a rare form of lymphoma and needs a compatible blood donor to survive, Cale opts to use [[OffingTheOffspring his daughter]]--and subsequently orders the hitman to rape, torture and murder her afterward so he's rid of her, threatening the same fate for her mother first. Cale even plans to [[UngratefulBastard kill everyone involved with the operation he thinks is going to save his life]] to once again cover up his identity, not even planning on sparing his hitman.

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderThePastTense The Past Tense]]'' novel: Dan Marlowe
* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderTheDeadLetter The Dead Letter]]'' novel: Jimmy Cale, initially seeming to be the novel's AssholeVictim, secretly [[FakingTheDead faked his own murder]] and framed his own so-called best friend Bob Yankton for it, resulting in Yankton facing capital charges. Cale reinvents himself as "Robin Mannering", mostly to escape charges of embezzlement, but also to leave a life he hates, including a wife who divorced him for his womanizing and a teenage daughter he hates just for existing. Cale systematically murders anyone [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knows his identity]], resulting in almost half-a-dozen murders even before the book has started, and hires a hitman to kill a private detective on his case, resulting in the detective going off a cliff. When Cale thinks he's dying of a rare form of lymphoma and needs a compatible blood donor to survive, Cale opts to use [[OffingTheOffspring his daughter]]--and subsequently orders the hitman to rape, torture and murder her afterward so he's rid of her, threatening the same fate for her mother first. Cale even plans to [[UngratefulBastard kill everyone involved with the operation he thinks is going to save his life]] to once again cover up his identity, not even planning on sparing his hitman.

Dr. Mark Sloan and his cop son Steve have fought literally hundreds of killers through the [[LongRunners lonn run]] of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'', but some criminals go [[CompleteMonster a step further]].

-->--'''Dan Marlowe''', ''The Past Tense''

-->"''I killed Muriel because I wanted to and because I knew I could get away with it. I wanted to see what it was like to look into a healthy person's eyes, someone untouched by illness or old age, at the instant they realized they were going to die and were powerless to stop it. It's unbelievably exciting. Better than sex. Better than anything.''"

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* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS3E9LivingOnTheStreetsCanBeMurder Living on the Streets Can Be Murder]]": Cheryl Dante, real name Cheryl Ormand, is a disgraced medical practitioner who has decided to turn her talents to a more depraved pursuit. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Masquerading as the kind head of a charitable organization for the homeless]], Cheryl uses her institute to cover up the fact that she is killing the homeless and [[OrganTheft harvesting their organs]] to sell to wealthy clients. Cheryl has done this to many people across the country, her latest spree involving at least 5 victims left dead in the streets, and when her partner-in-crime Tom Winston tries to back out of the ordeal, Cheryl tries to murder him before attempting to vivisect Dr. Sloan for investigating her.

* ''[[Literature/DiagnosisMurderTheDeadLetter The Dead Letter]]'' novel: Jimmy Cale, initially seeming to be the novel's AssholeVictim, secretly [[FakingTheDead faked his own murder]] and framed his own so-called best friend Bob Yankton for it, resulting in Yankton facing capital charges. Cale reinvents himself as "Robin Mannering", mostly to escape charges of embezzlement, but also to leave a life he hates, including a wife who divorced him for his womanizing and a teenage daughter he hates just for existing. Cale systematically murders anyone [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knows his identity]], resulting in almost half-a-dozen murders even before the book has started, and hires a hitman to kill a private detective on his case, resulting in the detective going off a cliff. When Cale thinks he's dying of a rare form of lymphoma and needs a compatible blood donor to survive, Cale opts to use [[OffingTheOffspring his daughter]]--and subsequently orders the hitman to rape, torture and murder her afterward so he's rid of him, threatening the same fate for her mother first. Cale even plans to [[UngratefulBastard kill everyone involved with the operation he thinks is going to save his life]] to once again cover up his identity, not even planning on sparing his hitman.

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS4E17DelusionsOfMurder Delusions of Murder]]": [[SerialRapist Dr. Gavin Reed]] is a [[PsychoPsychologist repulsive therapist]] who has a dark secret: he [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexually abuses]] his patients while they are under hypnosis. Gavin psychologically torments his patients while he sexually abuses them, and his actions nearly lead to one dying from a hemorrhaging due to a miscarriage. Reed has been slowly driving his patient Barbara Bennings [[DrivenToMadness insane]] with both his sexual abuse and drugs. After Reed's wife threatens to expose his habits if he doesn't hand over his company, Reed hypnotises Barbara to take the fall and stabs his wife InTheBack. Framing Barbara, Reed is fully prepared to make her take the fall for his crimes and later tries to murder her himself after she confronts him.

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS3E9LivingOnTheStreetsCanBeMurder Living on the Streets Can Be Murder]]": Cheryl Ormand is a disgraced medical practitioner who has decided to turn her talents to a more depraved pursuit. Masquerading as the kind head of a charitable organization for the homeless, Cheryl uses her institute to cover up the fact that she is killing the homeless and harvesting their organs to sell to wealthy clients. Cheryl has done this to many people across the country, her latest spree involving at least 5 victims left dead in the streets, and when her partner-in-crime Tom Winston tries to back out of the ordeal, Cheryl tries to murder him before attempting to vivisect Dr. Sloan for investigating her.

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS3E9LivingOnTheStreetsCanBeMurder Living on the Streets Can Be Murder]]": [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16738556630A78599000&page=414#comment-10337 Cheryl]]

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS4E17DelusionsOfMurder Delusions of Murder]]": [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16738556630A78599000&page=303#comment-7573 Dr. Gavin Reed]]

* "[[Recap/DiagnosisMurderS3E9LivingOnTheStreetsCanBeMurder Living on the Streets Can Be Murder]]": Cheryl