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* An EvilScientist in LoisAndClark states she always uses people who won't be missed for her experiments... and is very distressed to learn the latest subject was undercover.

* An EvilScientint in LoisAndClark states she always uses people who won't be missed for her experiments... and is very distressed to learn the latest subject was undercover.

* Happens a lot on ''CriminalMinds''. One episode has a cop (who himself has some mental problems [[CassandraTruth no one will believe him]]) find out homeless people are being murdered by the hundred in his town and no one is doing a thing.
** These are usually referred to as "housecleaners". The fourth season finale involves this on a large scale [[spoiler:and in fact the only reason anyone realises is because the brother of one of the missing confesses to the crime in order to draw attention to it.]]

* The newer ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has similar episodes.

* ''MonsieurVerdoux'' intends to test his undetectable poison on a homeless girl, but she turns out to be so beautiful and charming that he changes his mind.

* ''AmericanPsycho'': One of Patrick's first murders (that we see at least) is him stabbing a homeless man to death and [[KickTheDog stomping his dog to death.]]

* In {{Portal}} 2, the recorded messages of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cave Johnson]] showed his first batch of MadScience tests were carried out using the 'best and brightest'. In the second set of tests from years later, his recorded message introduces himself as the man you might know from the 1968 [[InferredHolocaust missing astronaut Senate hearings]], and is now offering his new batch of test subjects 60 bucks, and mentions how much nicer the waiting room must be compared with the park benches the test subjects were sleeping on before.

* The first test subjects of Aperture Science from ''{{Portal}}'' were this. They were promised 60 bucks.

* In Portal 2, the recorded messages of [[PointyHairedBoss Cave Johnson]] showed his first batch of MadScience tests were carried out using the 'best and brightest'. In the second set of tests from years later, his recorded message introduces himself as the man you might know from the 1968 [[InferredHolocaust missing astronaut Senate hearings]], and is now offering his new batch of test subjects 60 bucks, and mentions how much nicer the waiting room must be compared with the park benches the test subjects were sleeping on before.

* The villain of the second ''{{Thief}}'' uses the homeless to create his army of {{Steampunk}} cyborgs. It is explicitly stated that the nobles don't notice or care, and the victims (who "will not be missed by anyone of consequence") are being arrested by the Watch, shipped and converted in small groups so that it goes unreported.

* The villain of the second ''{{Thief}}'' uses the homeless to create his army of {{Steampunk}} cyborgs.

* In ''VForVendetta'', along with other "undesirables", homeless people are arrested and used as test subjects.

Compare DisposableSexWorker, for a profession at risk of violent crimes. Contrast MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome.

* In ''TheLastDaysOfFoxhound, Revolver Ocelot claims that Moscow has the best hobos for the purposes of torture (and invites Sniper Wolf to join him).

* A Stephen King novella called ''AptPupil'' about a teenager who kills homeless people.

* Happens alot on ''CriminalMinds''. One episode has a cop (who himself has some mental problems [[CassandraTruth no one will believe him]] find out homeless people are being murdered by the hundred in his town and no one is doing a thing.

* In the pilot of the ''{{Robocop}}'' tv series the bad guys were harvesting homeless people for their brains, and only got caught when they moved from homeless to an OCP company secretary.
* At least one murder on LawAndOrderCriminalIntent was hoping that the police wouldn't look too hard at a bunch of dead homeless people turning up. Big mistake.
* In ''[[Series/TheCape The Cape]]'', several lived in the train yard where Vince "died." They're being arrested on trumped up charges rather than killed though.

* Both ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had episodes about homeless people being abducted for use as slave labor.

* The villains of the novel ''RainbowSix'' use homeless people as test subjects for their plan. The book spends quite some time following them as they have no clue what's going on.

* In the pilot of the ''{{Roboocop}}'' tv series the bad guys were harvesting homeless people for their brains, and only got caught when they moved from homeless to an OCP company secretary.

And that is precisely what the SerialKiller, MadScientist, hungry monster and TheMafia are counting on. These exceedingly vulnerable {{Innocent Bystander}}s are frequently killed and abducted for fun, spare parts, [[ImAHumanitarian to sate hunger]] or for a spare dead body. They can be sure the police won't push the investigation too hard; at least [[{{Anvilicious}} not until]] a [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome rich, beautiful (and preferably female) character is kidnapped or killed.