History Characters / ColdCaseVillains

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Their first victim was Zack, a JerkJock who had bullied them, sexually assaulted Tina, and beat-up Davie and Dayton when they tried to help Tina.

* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Tessie's reaction, and probably the reaction of all of his other victims, when she was first approached by Mike.

* ChildByRape: One of his victims, Regie Kunze, got pregnant from the rape, though Mike was unaware of this because she "took care of it."

* DisappearedDad: George's father is never mentioned, and was quite possibly just a total stranger, given that it is implied that George was a ChildByRape.

* HumanShield: He used his own girlfriend, Letecia, as one when they were confronted by Cedric Bubley.

* 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 [[AddledAddict drug-addicted]] SexSlave by dangling the whereabouts of one her son's bodies over her head to using his own devoted girlfriend as a HumanShield.
* ObviouslyEvil: As the leader of an extremely dangerous gang with a known feud with the Bubley family, Miguel is one of the few ''Cold Case'' culprits whose guilt is readily apparent from the beginning. However, he's also an expert at [[ShameIfSomethingHappened intimidating witnesses to his crimes]], so the episode's conflict instead consists of trying to find someone actually willing to testify against him before the last Bubley, Patrick, tries to continue the CycleOfRevenge that killed his brothers. In the end, the police are able to persuade Miguel's cousin/second-in-command, Jesus, who is in love with his boss' abused girlfriend, to flip on him for her sake.

* BetaBitch: She had two unnamed ones, one of whom was just credited as "Cheerleader #1".

* GirlPosse: She had two sycophants, one without dialogue, and the other credited as just "Cheerleader #1."

* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Even though Miguel treated his girlfriend, Letecia, like complete crap, Letecia was still unflappably attached to Miguel.

* 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.
* ObviouslyEvil: As the leader of an extremely dangerous gang with a known feud with the Bubley family, Miguel is one of the few ''Cold Case'' culprits whose guilt is readily apparent from the beginning. However, he's also an expert at [[ShameIfSomethingHappened intimidating witnesses to his crimes]], so the episode's conflict instead consists of trying to find someone actually willing to testify against him before the last Bubley, Patrick, tries to continue the CycleOfRevenge that killed his brothers. In the end the police are able to persuade Miguel's second in command, who is in love with his boss' abused girlfriend, to flip on him for her sake.

* 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.

** Miguel was eating dinner in a restaurant with his girlfriend, Letecia, when the two of them were confronted by Cedric Bubley.

* {{Sadist}}: Karin was actually willing to have sex with Mike, [[GratuitousRape but he raped her anyway]], and in 2007, Karin, while being interviewed by Kat, laments, "I just always wondered why he did it. I liked him, you know? He didn't have to force me."

* GutturalGrowler: In all of the "Mind Hunters" flashbacks, especially during his abduction of [=DeeDee=] Cooper.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: George's first victim was his own mother, Simone, who hated and abused him, and let him be raped by a man named Jacob Leonardo.

** The way that George talked about Stillman's daughter's rape and Lilly's own assault as a child, especially how he kept badgering her to tell him who "betrayed" her and if she was raped, caused Lilly to realize, "You're mother wasn't raped in this attic, you were."

A promising young Valedictorian who was shot to death in 1982. After his case is reopened, it is revealed that, beneath his All-American façade, Mike was actually a vicious SerialRapist.

* AcademicAthlete: He was a varsity jock and a straight A student who engaged in a lot of extracurricular activities like managing the local Meals on Wheels.
* AssholeVictim: One of the show's biggest, if not the biggest, so much so that he has the dubious distinction of being one of two murder victims (the other being [[Recap/ColdCaseS3E9APerfectDay Roger Mulvaney]]) to have their killer be LetOffByTheDetective. Everyone agrees that Mike got what he deserved, his murder is reclassified as a justifiable homicide, and when his "ghost" appears to Vera in the evidence room, their is no air of melancholy, Vera just looks away in disgust after giving Mike a brief DeathGlare.

* BigManOnCampus: He is described as such by Scotty.

* BullyingADragon: While being held at gunpoint by Jimmy Bartram, Mike treated the entire situation like a joke and even taunted Jimmy, telling him, "Between you and me, kid? Your sister was one Hell of a lay!"
* ChildByRape: One of his victims, Regie Kunze, got pregnant from the rape, though Mike was unaware of this because Regie "took care of it."

** After raping Tessie, he told her, "You're prettier when you smile."
** He raped Karin, even though she was actually willing to have sex with him, for no reason other than apparently just because he was a sexual {{Sadist}}.

* {{Sadist}}: Karin was actually willing to have sex with Mike, but he raped her anyway, and in 2007, Karin, while being interviewed by Kat, laments, "I just always wondered why he did it. I liked him, you know? He didn't have to force me."

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: His case was reopened when, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, someone defaced his grave with the word "Rapist."

* FemaleMisogynist: She gets called out as one by Joe after he spots her enforcing PopularIsDumb on Rainey, with Joe mentioning how ironic it is that people always say men keep women down when he just saw a woman tell another one to just [[BrainlessBeauty look pretty and act stupid]] under the threat of making it so that she would no longer be InWithTheInCrowd.

A cruel cheerleader who was involved in the death of another girl named Rainey Karlsen back in 1997.

* AccidentalMurder: While she did force feed Rainey a can of beer that was laced with GHB, she had no intention of killing her, and was totally unaware that Celeste had added an excess amount of the drug to the beer before she poured it on Rainey.

* BetaBitch: She had an unnamed one who was just credited as "Cheerleader #1."

** As Rainey is auditioning for the cheer squad, Becca tells her not to bother concentrating, as it "makes you look like you have a giant bloomer wedgie."

* BitchInSheepsClothing: This is emphasized the first time Rainey and Celeste have lunch with Becca. Becca, under the pretense of being friendly, brings up how "stupid" it was that she used to mock Celeste's overeating by calling her "The Black Hole." When Celeste meekly replies that she now buys size 6s from The Gap, Becca just says, "Ugh, I'm so pissed at them. They totally resized all their clothes to make fat people feel good. I mean, just 'cause everyone else in America weighs 5,000 pounds, don't punish me."
* TheChainOfHarm: It is implied that Becca did not make-up the cheer squad's hazing rituals, and that she herself was subjected to them back in 1996.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Her main reason for "befriending" Rainey was because she was insecure about her boyfriend Casey's interest in Rainey, leading her to want to "control" Rainey. Ironically, Casey did not care about Becca at all, even as a teenager, at one point calling her an "old jock mattress."
* CondescendingCompassion: "Losers are so pathetic. Spend all their time projecting their ugliness onto other people. It's sad, really."

* FemaleMisogynist: She gets called out as one by Joe after he spots her enforcing PopularIsDumb on Rainey, with Joe mentioning how ironic it is that people always say that men keep women down when he just saw a woman tell another one to just look pretty and act stupid under the threat of making it so that she would no longer be InWithTheInCrowd.

* FutureLoser: By 2007, she is unable to hold down a job, has had two divorces, going on three, and is desperately trying to relive her glory days through the reunion at Birmingham High School.

* ItsAllAboutMe: When first interviewed about Rainey's death, Becca blasely states, "Look, you can imagine how bad it looked for ''me'' when she turned up dead."
* 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."

* {{Manchild}}: When shown in the present, she still acts exactly like the bitchy teen that she was back in 1997.
* OhCrap: Her reaction after she rants (i.e. confesses) to Lilly about what she did to Becca.

* RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: While Rainey is overdosing, Becca runs away while telling Celeste to deal with Rainey.

* SextraCredit: While she does not have sex with Mr. Pruit, her idea of a class presentation for him is to just give a SupermodelStrut and say, "Friction. It's a real downer. How do you fix it? Lubrication."

* SympatheticMurderer: Played straight with his abusive, unloving mother who sold hin out to a rapist. Subverted with every subsequent murder victim, none of whom had anything to do with his abuse.

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* ObviouslyEvil: As the leader of an extremely dangerous gang with a known feud with the Bubley family, Miguel is one of the few ''Cold Case'' culprits whose guilt is readily apparent from the beginning. However, he's also an expert at [[ShameIfSomethingHappened intimidating witnesses to his crimes]], so the episode's conflict instead consists of trying to find someone actually willing to testify against him before the last Bubley, Patrick, tries to continue the CycleOfRevenge that killed his brothers. [[spoiler: In the end the police are able to persuade Miguel's second in command, who is in love with his boss' abused girlfriend, to flip on him for her sake]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: How Lilly defeats him.
* BreakingSpeech: In both of his episodes. In the second one, ''everything'' he says is either a this or a VillainousBreakdown.
* ChildByRape: It's implied this is why his mother hated him so much.
* CrazyPrepared: Details are spelled out in the next entry.
* DeconstructorFleet: George manages to deconstruct ''the very same show'' in his debut episode ("Mindhunters").
** He was the first SerialKiller to appear in the series, and as such he didn't have any relation with his victims, unlike other previous killers.
** He killed more than once and he '''[[ForTheEvulz liked it]]'''. His weren't the usual "rage of the moment" killings that make half of the show, but executions planned to the minimal detail.
** He knew the cops would eventually come after him and likely planned his response to their interrogation years before it happened. Instead of being caught by their usual methods, he mocked them and researched the detectives extensively to use their weaknesses against them.
** Unlike other perps, he knew (and lampshaded) when to shut his mouth and that he could walk out any time he wanted since the police did not have definitive evidence against him.
** He was a rather low-profile guy nobody paid attention to, so nobody remembered him and/or could identify him when the police asked about him years later. This also helped him to commit crimes while [[RefugeInAudacity working as a caretaker for the Police Department]].
** Since he gets away with the crime, his first episode is the first (and one of the very few) to not feature the victim's ghost appearing at the end.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** OK, his definition of "strong woman that deserves to be stripped down, hunted for miles and beheaded like an animal" is flexible enough to include a 14-year-old, but once he decides on a target, he goes after that target and no one else. In one occasion, he postponed his plans until a mother was separated from her daughter so he didn't have to threaten or physically harm the child.
** During interrogation, he implies that he did in fact threaten to harm the little girl if her mother didn't come with him, so it's more likely that he simply didn't want any witnesses or the hassle of trying to deal with two victims at once.
* EvilPlan: In "The Woods". [[spoiler: He deliberately uncovers the house where he hid the skulls of his victims so the PPD will reopen his case and his mother's, then kills the one woman that escaped him and does not bury her body to drive off the police's attention to the forest, knowing Stillman will not let Lilly go with them for fear of her being targeted by George, while correctly predicting at the same time that Lilly will not give up but go alone to the house to investigate herself. There he confronts her, takes her hostage and tries to break her resolve]].
* EyeScream: He extracted the eyes of his victims and replaced them with black glass eyes used in taxidermy when mounting deer.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: His hobby.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: How he captures his victims. A favorite tactic of serial killer Ted Bundy.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Shot dead by Lilly.]]
* LonelyFuneral: [[LampshadeHanging It's mentioned]] by Lilly in the start of the Season 3 premiere "Family" that the only people who showed up for his burial after he was KilledOffForReal were the coroner and the gravedigger.
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* MeaningfulName: This [[IncrediblyLamePun Marks man]] is a proficient marksman.
* MommyIssues: He was raised by a crazy woman who blamed him for her (non-existent) blindness and sold him out to a rapist to spare herself of the harm.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Thinks this of Lilly Rush because of some similitude in their backstories (both were raised by terrible single mothers and attacked at a young age due to their mothers being selfish; he also wanted to join the police but failed the psychological test) and wants her to admit it. However, Lilly thoroughly refutes this.
* OffWithHisHead: After shooting his victims, he cut of their heads and took them to his mother's home.
* OminousWalk: Arguably, what he likes more than killing.
* ThePerfectCrime: Technically not the first killer in the show to walk away free, but certainly the first who beats the main characters' interrogations and whom the team would like to jail but can't.
* RapeLeadsToInsanity: Was revealed to have been raped in "The Woods" as a child by an intruder, and it's also why he murders his mother.
* SelfMadeOrphan: His mother was his first kill.
* SerialKiller: Pretty much. He buried at least nine victims' heads in his mother's front yard.
* StartOfDarkness: "The Woods"
* SuicideByCop: Makes Lilly shoot him after she discovers his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* TragicVillain: Yes, he's a total bastard but it isn't his own fault he had a abusive mom, or that said mom allowed him to be raped by a pedophile to save herself.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: His MO is nearly identical to Alaskan serial killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen Robert Hansen's]]; one of the main differences is that Hansen targeted prostitutes, most of whom he raped.
** CompositeCharacter: Besides Hansen, Marks also has characteristics in common with serial killers Edmund Kemper (his first kill was his mother, who was abusive and locked him in a dark room when he was a child, and he passed most of his young years ripping dolls apart) and Charles Albright (he had an interest in taxidermy and extracted the eyes of his victims). And as mentioned above, impersonating a police officer to get close to his victims was Bundy's M.O.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Lilly realizes George was raped as a kid and uses it against him, he goes from SmugSnake to screaming madman.
* WorthyOpponent: He thinks Lilly is the one and only cop that deserves to confront him.
* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: In an especially creepy variant, he constantly talks about this ''hypothetically''. It nearly pushes Vera and Scotty to attack him in "Mindhunters", and they ''just'' restrain themselves.

* RagsToRiches: She was a "white trash" prostitute and petty criminal from Tulsa who climbed her way up to high society by becoming a BlackWidow.

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* 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.

* 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: He is a pitiless rifle marksman, 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 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.
* 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'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.
* 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]].

* 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.

* UngratefulBastard: After his victims decided to spare him, Mike, once they were out of earshot, laughed while calling them "stupid bitches" and "whores."

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