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* "[[Recap/TheCloserS6E2HelpWanted Help Wanted]]": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Joe Meyers]] is an ICE agent who uses his position for [[SerialRapist truly horrifying purposes]]. Having eliminated his wife from the picture years ago, Meyers uses his own son--[[AbusiveParents who he regularly abuses]]--to find nannies and babysitters in the area who are illegal immigrants. Meyers then attacks, tortures, and rapes the women, using the threat of deportation out of America to keep them silent. When his latest victim turns out to be in the country completely legally, Meyers beats her to death and begins rounding up every last woman he has ever assaulted, hoping to either deport them or kill them to ensure the police don't find them. When the Major Crimes division tracks him down, Meyers uses one of his victims [[HostageSituation as a hostage]] and attempts to kill her out of spite.
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* "[[Recap/TheCloserS6E2HelpWanted Help Wanted]]": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Joe Meyers]] is an [[OppressiveImmigrationEnforcement ICE agent agent]] who uses his position for [[SerialRapist truly horrifying purposes]]. Having eliminated his wife from the picture years ago, Meyers uses his own son--[[AbusiveParents who he regularly abuses]]--to find nannies and babysitters in the area who are illegal immigrants. Meyers then attacks, tortures, and rapes the women, using the threat of deportation out of America to keep them silent. When his latest victim turns out to be in the country completely legally, Meyers beats her to death and begins rounding up every last woman he has ever assaulted, hoping to either deport them or kill them to ensure the police don't find them. When the Major Crimes division tracks him down, Meyers uses one of his victims [[HostageSituation as a hostage]] and attempts to kill her out of spite.
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->'''Brenda Johnson:''' So that's Evolution's End? You and Darren Melman killing some kids at school?\\
'''John [=McFadden=]:''' No, no, no, no. You keep on reducing this to some minuscule high-school shooting but it's so much more than that. I'm talking about setting the record. Killing the most people ever. It's about inspiring others. UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} was a great idea. But they just didn't execute it right. We will. And people will remember us as they line up to die.
-->-- ''Series/TheCloser'', "[[Recap/TheCloserS4E10TimeBomb Time Bomb]]"
[[Series/TheCloser Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson]] and the [[Series/MajorCrimes Major Crimes Unit]] have faced a large variety of vile rapists, murderers, and others. Even among the array of baddies, some stand out as [[CompleteMonster especially heinous]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Franchise-wide]]
* [[AmoralAttorney Phillip Stroh]] is the most personal and recurring foe Brenda Leigh Johnson and the Major Crimes division have ever faced. When first encountering the team, Stroh [[ProppingUpTheirPatsy uses his position as a defense attorney]] to mask the fact that he is a SerialRapist who has raped over six women and killed his latest victim. After ditching his client to take the fall, Stroh returns and is ousted as a SerialKiller who has further raped and murdered five women by strangling them to death with a chain, and after trying to stab the teenager Rusty to death, Stroh is captured. Though locked in prison, Stroh's evil continues as he uses two men he assisted in becoming serial killers to murder specific targets for him, including his own minions, before escaping confinement by murdering several innocent people. Stroh goes on a bloody rampage while tracking down his mother to acquire her fortune, butchering numerous people from his childhood, including his stepparents and first girlfriend. Stroh is revealed to have been truly wicked since birth, as he tortured his stepsister; tried to burn his family alive; and raped and murdered three young girls while [[TeensAreMonsters only a teenager]]. In the end, Stroh leaves a teenaged girl to slowly be strangled to death so he can attempt to escape justice, and uses his final moments to plead for mercy from Lieutenant Provenza, then try to shoot Provenza InTheBack.
[[AC:''Series/TheCloser'']]
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS2E7HeadOverHeels Head Over Heels]]": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Bloom]] is the owner of Opulence Films, a porn company that employed Chris Mundy. When her carelessness led to Chris being infected with HIV, Morgan [[LackOfEmpathy covered it up]] to keep him working and profit from it. This led to Chris unknowingly infecting thirteen innocent women with HIV, including his wife, and putting all of them at risk of spreading HIV further. After Chris found out the truth, attacked Morgan's son Oscar, and was killed in self-defense, Morgan covered up the death by dismembering him and spreading his corpse across LA, then attempts to [[FrameUp frame her son for her crimes]]. Even without killing anyone herself, Morgan's [[{{Greed}} selfish desire for profit]] drives her to one of the most disgusting crimes in the entire series.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS2E11Borderline Borderline]]": Hugo is a coyote who takes cruel advantage of the immigrants he smuggles across the border into America. After receiving payment to transport people, Hugo and his two partners hold them hostage once they have arrived in America, threatening their lives before they will let them go. When one truckload of immigrants failed to cow to his demands, Hugo left all 15--a child among them--locked inside the storage unit in the middle of the desert to slowly boil alive. Even when the orphaned son of two of his victims murders his partners, Hugo tries to lie his way to freedom while showing no remorse for his own countrymen whom he has extorted and murdered for years.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS3E8Manhunt Manhunt]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Lucas Daniel "Danny" Jones]] is the "[[SerialKiller PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) Killer]]". He kidnaps women who have gone through a divorce, brings them out on his boat into the middle of the ocean, and subjects them to hours or days of [[ColdBloodedTorture heinous torture]] and [[GroinAttack sexual assault]] with a cattle prod and lit cigarettes. Jones's abuse of his victims is so brutal that their internal organs are damaged from his attacks, and after he has strangled them to death, he leaves their bodies for the police to find. Having killed half a dozen women in the past, Jones restarts his spree when his wife divorces him by torturing and raping her to death, decapitating her new husband, and subjecting more women to his vicious sadism.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS4E10TimeBomb Time Bomb]]": [[StrawNihilist Evolution's End]] is a gang of [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopaths]] comprised of Darren Melman, John [=McFadden=], and Frank, who seek to [[FameThroughInfamy solidify themselves in history]] as the worst mass murderers ever. Believing UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} to have a good idea but lacking in execution, the group plans to detonate a variety of propane tanks at a highly-populated mall, then kill the hundreds of shoppers as they try to flee through the mall's exit. The only motive for Evolution's End is their own fame and a twisted belief in [[TheSocialDarwinist weeding out the weak]], hoping that their actions will inspire even more mass murders across the world.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS5E12WaiversOfExtradition Waivers of Extradition]]": [[PsychoKnifeNut Jesse Ray Moore]] is a misogynist SerialKiller with a body count of at least 16 [[WouldHitAGirl women]]. Moore uses his job as a delivery driver to cross state lines from Arizona to Texas and locate women whom he attacks and stabs to death while dressed as a ninja. Moore intentionally [[CruelAndUnusualDeath draws out the killings for maximum agony]], mutilating and grotesquely brutalizing his victims. So repulsive and brutal are the murders that the knowledge of what he has done leads Brenda to revoke a deal so she can send him to Texas to [[DeathRow face the death penalty]].
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS6E2HelpWanted Help Wanted]]": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Joe Meyers]] is an ICE agent who uses his position for [[SerialRapist truly horrifying purposes]]. Having eliminated his wife from the picture years ago, Meyers uses his own son--[[AbusiveParents who he regularly abuses]]--to find nannies and babysitters in the area who are illegal immigrants. Meyers then attacks, tortures, and rapes the women, using the threat of deportation out of America to keep them silent. When his latest victim turns out to be in the country completely legally, Meyers beats her to death and begins rounding up every last woman he has ever assaulted, hoping to either deport them or kill them to ensure the police don't find them. When the Major Crimes division tracks him down, Meyers uses one of his victims [[HostageSituation as a hostage]] and attempts to kill her out of spite.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS6E10ExecutiveOrder Executive Order]]": [[AngryWhiteMan Kevin Mason]] is a dyed-in-the-wool {{narcissist}} who turns to terrorism to satisfy his [[AttentionWhore raging desire for attention]]. Rejected from law enforcement due to his psychopathy, Mason responded by blaming affirmative action and trying to lure dozens of firefighters into a booby-trapped explosive and kill them all. Having failed in this initial scheme, Mason fatally shoots two paramedics and strangles an elderly man to death, using the latter's oxygen tanks as a carrier for home-brewed [[DeadlyGas sarin]]. Mason plans to unleash his nerve gas onto the funeral for the paramedics and kill thousands of people in a horrific fashion, all as a racist "stand" against diversity hiring.
* "Living Proof" [[Recap/TheCloserS6E13LivingProofPart1 two]]-[[Recap/TheCloserS6E14LivingProofPart2 parter]]: [[BalkanBastard Zoran Antunovich]] is a vile Serbian war criminal hiding out in Los Angeles. Once an elite [[SociopathicSoldier soldier]] for the Serbian death squads who earned the name "ghosts", Zoran was part of the mass murder and raping that went on in the Marku family's village. Zoran personally gunned down multiple members of the Marku family--[[WouldHurtAChild including an infant girl]]--before violently [[GroinAttack raping]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] multiple women with a heated knife. Taking the identity of one of his victims in an attempt to escape justice, Zoran learns years later that some members of the Marku family survived and want to expose him. In response, Zoran hunts down and murders two of the women he raped, Sara and Anila Marku, and even when he learns that Anila birthed a boy as a result of Zoran's rape, Zoran intends to kill the child to tie up all loose ends of his past.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS7E18DrugFiend Drug Fiend]]": Wally Sanders is a supplier of pharmaceuticals meant to treat cancer patients. In truth cheaply selling saltwater to numerous hospitals in big cities under the guise of cancer medicine, Wally's fake drugs have resulted in hundreds of deaths, children included, with Wally even willing to commit murder to keep the truth hidden. Despite claiming to be giving cancer patients a painless death, Wally's massive bank account shows that [[{{Greed}} his motives ultimately boil down to money]].
[[AC:''Series/MajorCrimes'']]
* "The Deep End": [[CreepyGymCoach Charles Frey]] is a high school swim coach who is convicted of killing his former champion Mateo "Matty" Torres for breaking into his home. In reality a serial [[WouldHurtAChild child molester]] who has [[SerialRapist raped]] many underage men on his team by gaining their trust, Frey has ruined their lives knowing that the statute of limitations would prevent his arrest by the time they confess. When Matty threatened to expose him after he's kicked off his swim team, Frey killed him in an endeavor to [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit frame him]] for attempted murder.
* "Special Master" two-parter: [[SerialRapist Markos Christakis]], "The Burning Man", is a SerialKiller with [[AGodAmI a god complex]] revolving around his astrological sign. Obsessed with Sagittarius and Mars since [[TeensAreMonsters his youth]], during which time he assaulted and mutilated a teenage girl, Markos began acting out his depravity on prostitutes by kidnapping, raping, and strangling them. Killing 15 women over the years, Markos kidnaps another woman to make his latest victim and tries to murder several members of Major Crimes when they come to her rescue.
* "Fifth Dynasty": [[WouldHurtAChild Chandler Ryan]] is a truly despicable son of a powerful judge who [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections uses his connections]] to get away with atrocities. Chandler [[VillainousIncest molested his own cousin]] Henry for years until Henry grew too old for his tastes, at which point Chandler began using his position as an [[AmoralAttorney immigration lawyer]] to isolate and molest his clients' children. After at least three families accused Chandler of assaulting their children, he shifted his attentions to Henry's little brother Sean, raping the boy multiple times before Henry learned of it and confronted Chandler. Chandler simply laughed in Henry's face and mocked him that both brothers "wanted it".
* "Conspiracy Theory" four-parter: [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Dr. William "Bill" Landon]] is a motivational speaker who uses his self-help seminars to mask his proclivities as one of the most prolific {{serial rapist}}s the Major Crimes Division has ever faced. Landon uses his manipulated puppet Craig Curtis, owner of the restaurant franchise Tackles, in selecting Tackles waitresses to be lured to Landon's apartment, where Landon drugs, ties up, and rapes them. Landon has raped at least 14 women across the country--heavily implied to have many more than even that--and the attacks are so brutal that multiple victims [[DrivenToSuicide attempted or succeeded in suicide]]. When one woman tried to report Landon, he used his status to instead get her thrown into prison for months and continue his assaults.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Do you really think I give a shit about this girl? I told you she was dead weight. Exactly how dead is up to you."]]
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->'''Brenda Johnson:''' So that's Evolution's End? You and Darren Melman killing some kids at school?\\
'''John [=McFadden=]:''' No, no, no, no. You keep on reducing this to some minuscule high-school shooting but it's so much more than that. I'm talking about setting the record. Killing the most people ever. It's about inspiring others. UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} was a great idea. But they just didn't execute it right. We will. And people will remember us as they line up to die.
-->-- ''Series/TheCloser'', "[[Recap/TheCloserS4E10TimeBomb Time Bomb]]"
[[Series/TheCloser Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson]] and the [[Series/MajorCrimes Major Crimes Unit]] have faced a large variety of vile rapists, murderers, and others. Even among the array of baddies, some stand out as [[CompleteMonster especially heinous]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
----
[[AC:Franchise-wide]]
* [[AmoralAttorney Phillip Stroh]] is the most personal and recurring foe Brenda Leigh Johnson and the Major Crimes division have ever faced. When first encountering the team, Stroh [[ProppingUpTheirPatsy uses his position as a defense attorney]] to mask the fact that he is a SerialRapist who has raped over six women and killed his latest victim. After ditching his client to take the fall, Stroh returns and is ousted as a SerialKiller who has further raped and murdered five women by strangling them to death with a chain, and after trying to stab the teenager Rusty to death, Stroh is captured. Though locked in prison, Stroh's evil continues as he uses two men he assisted in becoming serial killers to murder specific targets for him, including his own minions, before escaping confinement by murdering several innocent people. Stroh goes on a bloody rampage while tracking down his mother to acquire her fortune, butchering numerous people from his childhood, including his stepparents and first girlfriend. Stroh is revealed to have been truly wicked since birth, as he tortured his stepsister; tried to burn his family alive; and raped and murdered three young girls while [[TeensAreMonsters only a teenager]]. In the end, Stroh leaves a teenaged girl to slowly be strangled to death so he can attempt to escape justice, and uses his final moments to plead for mercy from Lieutenant Provenza, then try to shoot Provenza InTheBack.
[[AC:''Series/TheCloser'']]
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS2E7HeadOverHeels Head Over Heels]]": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morgan Bloom]] is the owner of Opulence Films, a porn company that employed Chris Mundy. When her carelessness led to Chris being infected with HIV, Morgan [[LackOfEmpathy covered it up]] to keep him working and profit from it. This led to Chris unknowingly infecting thirteen innocent women with HIV, including his wife, and putting all of them at risk of spreading HIV further. After Chris found out the truth, attacked Morgan's son Oscar, and was killed in self-defense, Morgan covered up the death by dismembering him and spreading his corpse across LA, then attempts to [[FrameUp frame her son for her crimes]]. Even without killing anyone herself, Morgan's [[{{Greed}} selfish desire for profit]] drives her to one of the most disgusting crimes in the entire series.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS2E11Borderline Borderline]]": Hugo is a coyote who takes cruel advantage of the immigrants he smuggles across the border into America. After receiving payment to transport people, Hugo and his two partners hold them hostage once they have arrived in America, threatening their lives before they will let them go. When one truckload of immigrants failed to cow to his demands, Hugo left all 15--a child among them--locked inside the storage unit in the middle of the desert to slowly boil alive. Even when the orphaned son of two of his victims murders his partners, Hugo tries to lie his way to freedom while showing no remorse for his own countrymen whom he has extorted and murdered for years.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS3E8Manhunt Manhunt]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Lucas Daniel "Danny" Jones]] is the "[[SerialKiller PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) Killer]]". He kidnaps women who have gone through a divorce, brings them out on his boat into the middle of the ocean, and subjects them to hours or days of [[ColdBloodedTorture heinous torture]] and [[GroinAttack sexual assault]] with a cattle prod and lit cigarettes. Jones's abuse of his victims is so brutal that their internal organs are damaged from his attacks, and after he has strangled them to death, he leaves their bodies for the police to find. Having killed half a dozen women in the past, Jones restarts his spree when his wife divorces him by torturing and raping her to death, decapitating her new husband, and subjecting more women to his vicious sadism.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS4E10TimeBomb Time Bomb]]": [[StrawNihilist Evolution's End]] is a gang of [[TeensAreMonsters teenage psychopaths]] comprised of Darren Melman, John [=McFadden=], and Frank, who seek to [[FameThroughInfamy solidify themselves in history]] as the worst mass murderers ever. Believing UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} to have a good idea but lacking in execution, the group plans to detonate a variety of propane tanks at a highly-populated mall, then kill the hundreds of shoppers as they try to flee through the mall's exit. The only motive for Evolution's End is their own fame and a twisted belief in [[TheSocialDarwinist weeding out the weak]], hoping that their actions will inspire even more mass murders across the world.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS5E12WaiversOfExtradition Waivers of Extradition]]": [[PsychoKnifeNut Jesse Ray Moore]] is a misogynist SerialKiller with a body count of at least 16 [[WouldHitAGirl women]]. Moore uses his job as a delivery driver to cross state lines from Arizona to Texas and locate women whom he attacks and stabs to death while dressed as a ninja. Moore intentionally [[CruelAndUnusualDeath draws out the killings for maximum agony]], mutilating and grotesquely brutalizing his victims. So repulsive and brutal are the murders that the knowledge of what he has done leads Brenda to revoke a deal so she can send him to Texas to [[DeathRow face the death penalty]].
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS6E2HelpWanted Help Wanted]]": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Joe Meyers]] is an ICE agent who uses his position for [[SerialRapist truly horrifying purposes]]. Having eliminated his wife from the picture years ago, Meyers uses his own son--[[AbusiveParents who he regularly abuses]]--to find nannies and babysitters in the area who are illegal immigrants. Meyers then attacks, tortures, and rapes the women, using the threat of deportation out of America to keep them silent. When his latest victim turns out to be in the country completely legally, Meyers beats her to death and begins rounding up every last woman he has ever assaulted, hoping to either deport them or kill them to ensure the police don't find them. When the Major Crimes division tracks him down, Meyers uses one of his victims [[HostageSituation as a hostage]] and attempts to kill her out of spite.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS6E10ExecutiveOrder Executive Order]]": [[AngryWhiteMan Kevin Mason]] is a dyed-in-the-wool {{narcissist}} who turns to terrorism to satisfy his [[AttentionWhore raging desire for attention]]. Rejected from law enforcement due to his psychopathy, Mason responded by blaming affirmative action and trying to lure dozens of firefighters into a booby-trapped explosive and kill them all. Having failed in this initial scheme, Mason fatally shoots two paramedics and strangles an elderly man to death, using the latter's oxygen tanks as a carrier for home-brewed [[DeadlyGas sarin]]. Mason plans to unleash his nerve gas onto the funeral for the paramedics and kill thousands of people in a horrific fashion, all as a racist "stand" against diversity hiring.
* "Living Proof" [[Recap/TheCloserS6E13LivingProofPart1 two]]-[[Recap/TheCloserS6E14LivingProofPart2 parter]]: [[BalkanBastard Zoran Antunovich]] is a vile Serbian war criminal hiding out in Los Angeles. Once an elite [[SociopathicSoldier soldier]] for the Serbian death squads who earned the name "ghosts", Zoran was part of the mass murder and raping that went on in the Marku family's village. Zoran personally gunned down multiple members of the Marku family--[[WouldHurtAChild including an infant girl]]--before violently [[GroinAttack raping]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] multiple women with a heated knife. Taking the identity of one of his victims in an attempt to escape justice, Zoran learns years later that some members of the Marku family survived and want to expose him. In response, Zoran hunts down and murders two of the women he raped, Sara and Anila Marku, and even when he learns that Anila birthed a boy as a result of Zoran's rape, Zoran intends to kill the child to tie up all loose ends of his past.
* "[[Recap/TheCloserS7E18DrugFiend Drug Fiend]]": Wally Sanders is a supplier of pharmaceuticals meant to treat cancer patients. In truth cheaply selling saltwater to numerous hospitals in big cities under the guise of cancer medicine, Wally's fake drugs have resulted in hundreds of deaths, children included, with Wally even willing to commit murder to keep the truth hidden. Despite claiming to be giving cancer patients a painless death, Wally's massive bank account shows that [[{{Greed}} his motives ultimately boil down to money]].
[[AC:''Series/MajorCrimes'']]
* "The Deep End": [[CreepyGymCoach Charles Frey]] is a high school swim coach who is convicted of killing his former champion Mateo "Matty" Torres for breaking into his home. In reality a serial [[WouldHurtAChild child molester]] who has [[SerialRapist raped]] many underage men on his team by gaining their trust, Frey has ruined their lives knowing that the statute of limitations would prevent his arrest by the time they confess. When Matty threatened to expose him after he's kicked off his swim team, Frey killed him in an endeavor to [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit frame him]] for attempted murder.
* "Special Master" two-parter: [[SerialRapist Markos Christakis]], "The Burning Man", is a SerialKiller with [[AGodAmI a god complex]] revolving around his astrological sign. Obsessed with Sagittarius and Mars since [[TeensAreMonsters his youth]], during which time he assaulted and mutilated a teenage girl, Markos began acting out his depravity on prostitutes by kidnapping, raping, and strangling them. Killing 15 women over the years, Markos kidnaps another woman to make his latest victim and tries to murder several members of Major Crimes when they come to her rescue.
* "Fifth Dynasty": [[WouldHurtAChild Chandler Ryan]] is a truly despicable son of a powerful judge who [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections uses his connections]] to get away with atrocities. Chandler [[VillainousIncest molested his own cousin]] Henry for years until Henry grew too old for his tastes, at which point Chandler began using his position as an [[AmoralAttorney immigration lawyer]] to isolate and molest his clients' children. After at least three families accused Chandler of assaulting their children, he shifted his attentions to Henry's little brother Sean, raping the boy multiple times before Henry learned of it and confronted Chandler. Chandler simply laughed in Henry's face and mocked him that both brothers "wanted it".
* "Conspiracy Theory" four-parter: [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Dr. William "Bill" Landon]] is a motivational speaker who uses his self-help seminars to mask his proclivities as one of the most prolific {{serial rapist}}s the Major Crimes Division has ever faced. Landon uses his manipulated puppet Craig Curtis, owner of the restaurant franchise Tackles, in selecting Tackles waitresses to be lured to Landon's apartment, where Landon drugs, ties up, and rapes them. Landon has raped at least 14 women across the country--heavily implied to have many more than even that--and the attacks are so brutal that multiple victims [[DrivenToSuicide attempted or succeeded in suicide]]. When one woman tried to report Landon, he used his status to instead get her thrown into prison for months and continue his assaults.
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