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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The serial killer from ''It Takes a Village'' and the one from ''Sabotage''. The second one from Offender also qualifies, given that he had been wrongfully incarcerated for murdering his own child for 20 years, was freed largely on a technicality (prime evidence was contaminated) and his own wife abandoned him. By the time he finally confronts the bastard who murdered his child and framed him for the deed he's completely lost it.
** Phil, one of the robbers from ''Dog Day Afternoons'', also qualified as such. Despite his cold, almost murderous exterior, he actually had somewhat of a heart, and actually wanted to get out of the robbery business for good, unlike his boss Julius Carver, and even attempted to warn Roween Ryan about Julius' lying nature as well as his having another accomplice that he seduced to helping him rob the bank. When she decided to have Julius be turned in, Phil also attempted to stand up to Julius when he ordered for her to be executed, but unfortunately, he was verbally and emotionally broken by Julius' words, and thus ended up having to kill her anyways. At the end, despite his being the murderer, you actually have to pity him.
** Another is the [[spoiler:Congressman]] in "Late Returns," if you can even call him a "destroyer" at all. As a teenager, he was [[spoiler:taken advantage of by his controlling older sister, and ultimately [[AccidentalMurder kills his girlfriend essentially on a reflex]] when her touch caused him to have flashbacks to his sister abusing him]].

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* NightmareFuel: Many of the death scenes, especially Mitchell Bayes' in ''Churchgoing People'' and the young girl in ''Mindhunters'', with her scream of "I want my Daddy!".
** John Smith's entire MO. Some of his victims had even managed to somehow carve messages into the wall of the cell, messages which appeared to grow increasingly desperate and illegible. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf5FruRHbNg The beginning]] of ''Rampage'' was also pretty horrific, considering how out of nowhere it was.
** ''Offender'', in which the killer lured his unsuspecting victim into his garage with the promise of helping him (the boy had fallen and cut his knee). As the killer walked towards him, the boy turned to face him, and in the split second before the garage door closed, his eyes widened in knowing terror.
** ''The Letter'', in which the victim is held down and gang-raped, then accidentally smothered when her would-be lover puts his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams.
*** Though that scene in ''The Letter'' could be interpreted as him suffocating her to spare her the more painful death the group would have planned.
*** When he takes his hands away, the body is still moving. [[BrainBleach Think about it.]]
** The brutal lynching of the victim in ''Strange Fruit'', with Dr. King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech playing in the background tops everything.
** The sheer ease with which many of the killers have readjusted to their normal lives after ending someone else's can be quite disturbing, especially if they've actually moved up in the world after committing the crime. An example is the woman in "[[spoiler:Scadenfreude]];" a lowly hairstylist in the past, she owns the entire salon in the present and displays no regrets about having murdered her best friend to get there, or one of the killers in [[spoiler: Blood On The Tracks]], who enticed her ex-lover to murder her husband, then killed her friend as well, then spent the next 26 years living the life of Riley using her friend's identity (they looked very much alike), again, showing little remorse for her actions--when she feebly protests to Lily that she loved her husband, a disbelieving Lily snaps, "You've got a funny way of showing it."

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* CompleteMonster:
** Josh Freely from season 1's "Fly Away" was the first and worst in what would become a long line of secondary villains more despicable than the actual killer. A social worker working with emotionally-ustable parents, he is in reality a brutal pedophile who uses his position to find new victims. Freely piles emotional abuse onto the parents, making them feel as though they're worthless, so they surrender their kids to him, and if that doesn't work he's more than happy to fudge his own records so his superiors order the children removed. His abuse eventually reaches the point that one such mother murders her daughter rather than let Freely take her.
** The season 1 finale, "Lovers' Lane," brings us Jim Larkin, a [[VillainousGlutton slovenly glutton]] and serial rapist. Too lazy to even abduct victims himself, he instead badgers his abused and weak-willed son to do so for him, usually unattractive teenage girls he pretends to befriend. His assaults are absolutely brutal, reaching the point at which he murders one of his victims simply for calling him "disgusting."
** Roger Mulvaney, of season 3's "A Perfect Day," is without question the worst {{Domestic Abuse}}r in the series. A DirtyCop who ruthlessly beats his wife and two daughters, he eventually, once she decides to leave him for another man, resolves that [[IfICantHaveYou if he can't have them, nobody could]], kidnapping the three of them and making his wife watch as he throws one of the girls from a tall bridge.
** Rayanne Leland from season 5's "Spiders" is a sugary-sweet stay-at-home mom who also happens to run a Neo-Nazi coven out of her basement. When her son Truitt murders a Hispanic woman, Truitt's girlfriend, Tamyra, turns to Rayanne for help, only to find to her horror that Rayanne wholeheartedly supports her son's actions, and calmly tells Tamyra that all Hispanics should be exterminated, [[DissonantSerenity her warm, loving smile never leaving her face]]. When Tamyra threatens to go to the police, Rayanne browbeats the most insecure and sympathetic member of the coven, Elliot, into murdering her.
** John Smith from season 5's "The Road" is the most horrific SerialKiller seen on the show. [[EnfantTerrible Disturbed since childhood]], he described the sight of watching a woman drown while doing nothing to save her as the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, and dedicated his adult life to replicating that "beauty." Abducting women who were perfectly happy with their lives, Smith brought them to special cellars where he sealed them off, watching as they went insane from isolation before finally leaving them there to starve.
** Daniel Patterson from season 5's "Slipping" is the ultimate [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslighter]]. [[GreenEyedMonster Insanely jealous of his wife's skill at poetry]], he hatched a plan to both steal her work for his own and get rid of her. With the aid of his slavishly-devoted housekeeper, he did everything in his power to drive his wife insane and ultimately to suicide, maintaining a facade of a caring husband all the while. When he failed to break her, he murdered her himself. To prevent his stepdaughter from knowing the truth he sent her to a notoriously harsh boarding school, believing his story that her mother committed suicide for 45 years.

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