History Monster / LawAndOrder

Although the series features countless killers (and non-killers) who [[MoralEventHorizon committed heinous crimes]] without remorse, many of them have a typical motive such as {{Greed}} and {{Envy}}, or sometimes even a good FreudianExcuse or [[SympatheticMurderer even symphasize with]]. Some however, have the (DIS)honor to be called a [[CompleteMonster monster...]]

* Constantin Volsky, the Russian mob boss in the two-parter "Refuge, ordered an innocent man murdered and dismembered because he had a relative who wouldn't go along with a money-laundering scheme. When he finds out that the key eyewitness for the prosecution is a 6-year-old boy, he sends assassins to kill him. They kill his mother and an A.D.A. The boy lives, but only because they didn't cut deep enough into his throat. In the second part, he orders the bombing of the precinct where the police protagonists work, just for giggles.
* Matt Bergstrom, a sadistic serial killer who tortured and killed at least six women in New York, and probably more in Texas and Washington State. Based on Ted Bundy. [[spoiler: And the true MonsterOfTheWeek: a woman with a serious case of the GreenEyedMonster, [[DisproportionateRetribution who had her brother brutally and sadistically torture her boyfriend's ex-husband]]. The brother pathetically states he meant to make it look like a psycho did it, and Abbie's quip is spot on: "Guess what - a pyscho did do it".]]
* Leon Vorgitch from "Deadlock" was in prison for killing five people. He then kills two guards and escape from prison. When the detectives come for him it results in even more deaths, including a classroom of children. When Detective Green asks Vorgitch why he killed the kids, he laughs and says "Why not?" In the end, he brags to Jack and Connie that he will escape again and kill both of them.
* Mark Bruner from the season fourteen episode "Bodies" raped and murdered no less than 17 teenage girls and kept most of their bodies rotting in an undisclosed location so he could go and admire them as they decayed. He terrified his original defense attorney so much that [=McCoy=] helped to get her reassigned, terrified Serena, visibly unnerved Briscoe, Green, and [=McCoy=]. What made him truly monstrous was his refusal to reveal the location of his dumping ground so that his victims might be identified, specifically to torture the parents so that they couldn't find closure, and to torture Jack with the knowledge that he couldn't give them that closure. While he is sentenced to death, the prospect doesn't frighten him at all, and it's unknown if the sentence was ever carried out.

* Victor Paul Gitano from "Fault" was a sadistic pedophile who lures kids in, then rapes, tortures, and kills them. He doesn't discriminate by gender either. On top of that, when trying to hunt Gitano down, things don't quite go as planned. Not only does he kill one of the two kids he had with him in a subway station full of people by slashing his throat, he almost killed Benson the same way. Then, when they corner Gitano in a warehouse, he manages to get behind Stabler and hold him at gunpoint with a shotgun. Gitano, despite knowing he'd get caught or killed at this point, outright boasts that he killed the other child he had (who was a girl) and bragged that she was a "slut" and a "real little whore" before killing her, even though he never got the chance to molest her.
* Charlie Baker from "Dominance" has murdered eleven people in about a week, after forcing them to have sex with each other first or raping the victims himself. Then he kidnapped two women, killed their boyfriends, and kept them captive on a roof. He's also been raping his little brother and beating his alcoholic father all along.
* Larry Moore aka The Woodsman from "Signature" would use his TortureCellar to terrorize and torture his victims through every conceivable means, which include hanging, burning, maiming, raping and dry drowning them. He meticulously record the sessions, and constantly plays the tapes on a loop to torment current and future captives, and occasionally abduct more than one woman at once so he could have a captive audience and so one victim can listen to another being tortured.
* William Harris from "Behave". He rapes Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, tracked her down whenever she was on the verge of putting her life together.....and repeating the process again and again. He did it with other women as well. Fortunately, the team nails him on kidnapping, ensuring that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

* Henry Messner from "Born Psychopath." He has his parents wrapped around his finger for a while, he abuses his sister, he lies about everything, he ties her to a bed while trying to set the house on fire to see if she could "melt from the inside out," he shot a cop, he slashes his mother's hand, he locks a kid in a closet, threatens to kill another one, blames everyone else for his own transgressions, and KILLS HIS NEIGHBOR'S DOG. He has no emotions. No empathy at all. What makes him special? He's '''ten years old.'''

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* The guy from the episode based on the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. He was a rich news reporter who [[spoiler:kidnapped the Jon Benet {{Expy}} to get a ransom from her mom, killed her for fear that she might identify him by ''smashing her head into a washing machine door'', and then making his mentally stunted son think he did it]].

* Constantin Volsky, the Russian mob boss in the two-parter "Refuge". He ordered an innocent man murdered and dismembered because he had a relative who wouldn't go along with a money=laundering scheme. When he finds out that the key eyewitness for the prosecution is a 6-year-old boy, he sends assassins to kill him. They kill his mother and an A.D.A. The boy lives, but only because they didn't cut deep enough into his throat. In the second part, he orders the bombing of the precinct where the police protagonists work, just for giggles.

* Mark Bruner from the season fourteen episode "Bodies". Raped and murdered no less than 17 teenage girls and kept most of their bodies rotting in an undisclosed location so he could go and admire them as they decayed. He terrified his original defense attorney so much that [=McCoy=] helped to get her reassigned, terrified Serena, visibly unnerved Briscoe, Green, and [=McCoy=]. What made him truly monstrous was his refusal to reveal the location of his dumping ground so that his victims might be identified, specifically to torture the parents so that they couldn't find closure, and to torture Jack with the knowledge that he couldn't give them that closure. While he is sentenced to death, the prospect doesn't frighten him at all, and it's unknown if the sentence was ever carried out.

* Constantin Volsky, the Russian mob boss in the two-parter "Refuge". He ordered an innocent man murdered and dismembered because he had a relative who wouldn't go along with a money laundering scheme. When he finds out that the key eyewitness for the prosecution is a six-year-old boy, he sends assassins to kill him. They murder his mother and an A.D.A. The boy lives, but only because they didn't cut deep enough into his throat. In the second part, he orders the bombing of the precinct where the police protagonists work, just for giggles.

* Leon Vorgitch from "Deadlock" was in prison for killing five people. He then kills two guards and escape from prison. When the detectives come for him it results in even more deaths, including a classroom of children. When Detective Green asks Vorgitch why he killed the kids, he laughs and says "Why not?" In the end he brags to Jack and Connie that he will escape again and kill both of them.
* Mark Bruner from the season fourteen episode "Bodies". Raped and murdered no less than 17 teenage girls and kept most of their bodies rotting in an undisclosed location so he could go and admire them as they decayed. He terrified his original defence attorney so much that [=McCoy=] helped to get her reassigned, terrified Serena, visibly unnerved Briscoe, Green, and [=McCoy=]. What made him truly monstrous was his refusal to reveal the location of his dumping ground so that his victims might be identified, specifically to torture the parents so that they couldn't find closure, and to torture Jack with the knowledge that he couldn't give them that closure. While he is sentenced to death, the prospect doesn't frighten him at all, and it's unknown if the sentence was ever carried out.

* Victor Paul Gitano from "Fault" was a sadistic pedophile who lures kids in, then rapes, tortures, and kills them. He doesn't discriminate by gender either. On top of that, when trying to hunt Gitano down, things don't quite go as planned. Not only does he kill one of the two kids he had with him in a subway station full of people by slashing his throat, he almost killed Benson the same way. And then, when they corner Gitano in a warehouse, he manages to get behind Stabler and hold him at gunpoint with a shotgun. Gitano, despite knowing he'd get caught or killed at this point, outright boasts that he killed the other child he had (who was a girl) and bragged that she was a "slut" and a "real little whore" before killing her, even though he never got the chance to molest her.

* Larry Moore aka The Woodsman from "Signature" would use his TortureCellar to terrorize and torture his victims through every conceivable means which include hanging, burning, maiming, raping and dry drowning them. He meticulously record the sessions, and constantly plays the tapes on a loop to torment current and future captives, and occasionally abduct more than one woman at once so he could have a captive audience and so one victim can listen to another being tortured.
* William Harris from "Behave". He rapes Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, tracked her down whenever she was on the verge of putting her life together.....and repeating the process again and again. And he did it with other women as well. Fortunately, the team nails him on kidnapping, ensuring that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

* Henry Messner from the newest episode, "Born Psychopath." He has his parents wrapped around his finger for a while, he abuses his sister, he lies about everything, he ties her to a bed while trying to set the house on fire to see if she could "melt from the inside out," he shot a cop, he slashes his mother's hand, he locks a kid in a closet, threatens to kill another one, blames everyone else for his own transgressions, and KILLS HIS NEIGHBOR'S DOG. He has no emotions. No empathy at all. What makes him special? He's '''ten years old.'''

* Matt Bergstrom, a sadistic serial killer who tortured and killed at least six women in New York, and probably more in Texas and Washington State. Based on Ted Bundy. [[spoiler: And the true MonsterOfTheWeek: a woman with a serious case of the GreenEyedMonster, [[DisproportionateRetribution who had her brother brutally and sadistically torture her boyfriend's ex-husband]]. The brother pathetically states he meant to make it look like a psycho did it, and Abbie's quip is spot on: "Guess what - a pyscho did do it.]]

* Matt Bergstrom, a sadistic serial killer who tortured and killed at least six women in New York, and probably more in Texas and Washington State. Based on Ted Bundy. [[spoiler: And the true MonsterOfTheWeek: a woman with a serious case of the GreenEyedMonster, [[DisproportionateRetribution who had her brother brutally and sadistically torture her boyfriend's ex-husband]].]]

* William Harris from "Behave". He rapes Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, tracked her down whenever she was on the verge of putting her life together.....and repeating the process again and again. And he did it with other women as well. Fortunately, the team nails him on kidnapping, ensuring that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars

Although the series features countless killers (and non-killers) who [[MoralEventHorizon committed heinous crimes]] without remorse, many of them have a typical motive such as {{Greed}} and {{Envy}}, or sometimes even a good FreudianExcuse. Some however, have the (DIS)honor to be called a [[CompleteMonster monster...]]

* Holly Schneider from "Theatre Tricks," who, as retaliation for how she had had to degrade herself at auditions in the past, [[spoiler: sets up her friend Meghan to get raped ''on stage.'']]

* Jacob Lowenstein, from the 1st season episode "Indifference". Using his job as a psychotherapist as a cover to sell cocaine, the man would routinely beat his wife on a daily basis, then watched as she got high on his product and turned her anger towards their children. Beating her six-year old daughter and burning their young son's hands was the only the tip of the iceberg for this woman. Their father did nothing, coming home one night and ignoring the fact that his daughter was unconscious on the floor, with her head sitting in a pool of her own blood. And when she finally succumbed to her horrendous injuries, he tried to get off scot-free by pinning all the blame on his wife.

* Rudy Amendariz and Betty Drake from the episode "Wedded Bliss." They run a sweatshop in which their workers (some of whom are literally children) are kept as prisoners and physically abused. When a city labor inspector stumbles onto their crimes, they murder him. Then they murder the two teenagers who witnessed the crime. Then they murder the seven other workers in the sweatshop to keep them from testifying that the other two worked for them. And not only do they show no remorse for their crimes, they show open contempt for their co-conspirator who does.

* On a lesser scale than the above, Darius from S9: Screwed, who does his absolute best to ruin the careers and families of everyone in range just to get himself let off for the brutal murder of a woman and her young daughter (which he absolutely committed). [[TheBadGuyWins And gets away with it too.]] After it's all over, he tells Ken to "do what [he does]: Feel nothing."

* Ken Burns' LackOfEmpathy puts most of the other perps in SVU to complete shame. While he's never actually murdered or raped anyone, Ken manipulates women into having his children, though he's not above sabotaging their birth control to get them pregnant either. He's utterly in love with himself and sees no problem with how he gets women to have his children, even though he basically abandons them afterwards. He convinced his latest girlfriend, his fiancée, to adopt a baby that was actually one of his other kids, then got the fiancée pregnant while he was cheating on her with their nanny, whom he ''also'' got pregnant. He's got at least 40 known children alone in the USA and some in Europe. When he learns one of his girlfriends had committed suicide along with their kid because Ken abandoned them, all Ken does is express quiet, unfazed outrage and asks "How dare she do that to my child." [[spoiler: It is ''very'' satisfying knowing he is killed in a very messy and painful way.]]

* Mark Bruner from the season fourteen episode ''Bodies''. Raped and murdered no less than 17 teenage girls and kept most of their bodies rotting in an undisclosed location so he could go and admire them as they decayed. He terrified his original defense attorney so much that McCoy helped to get her reassigned, terrified Serena, visibly unnerved Briscoe, Green, and McCoy. What made him truly monstrous was his refusal to reveal the location of his dumping ground so that his victims might be identified, specifically to torture the parents so that they couldn't find closure, and to torture Jack with the knowledge that he couldn't give them that closure. While he is sentenced to death, the prospect doesn't frighten him at all, and it's unknown if the sentence was ever carried out.

* Ken Burns' LackOfEmpathy puts most of the other perps in SVU to complete shame. While he's never actually murdered or raped anyone, Ken manipulates women into having his children, though he's not above sabotaging their birth control to get them pregnant either. He's utterly in love with himself and sees no problem with how he gets women to have his children, even though he basically abandons them afterwards. He convinced his latest girlfriend, his fiance, to adopt a baby that was actually one of his other kids, then got the fiance pregnant while he was cheating on her with their nanny, whom he ''also'' got pregnant. He's got at least 40 known children alone in the USA and some in Europe. When he learns one of his girlfriends had committed suicide along with their kid because Ken abandoned them, all Ken does is express quiet, unfazed outrage and asks "How dare she do that to my child." [[spoiler: It is ''very'' satisfying knowing he is killed in a very messy and painful way.]]

* Special mention should go to the guy from the episode based on the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. He was a rich news reporter who [[spoiler:kidnapped the Jon Benet {{Expy}} to get a ransom from her mom, killed her for fear that she might identify him by ''smashing her head into a washing machine door'', and then making his mentally stunted son think he did it]].

* The entire arc of the show appears to be about [[VillainProtagonist Walter White's]] slide into becoming one, with the final moment of season four being the tipping point.

Although the series features countless killers (and non-killers) who committed heinous crime without remorse, many of them have a typical motive such as {{Greed}} and {{Envy}}, or sometimes even a good FreudianExcuse. Some however, have the (DIS)honor to be called a [[CompleteMonster monster...]]

Although the series features countless killers (and non-killers) who committed the crime without remorse, many of them have a typical motive such as {{Greed}} or even a good FreudianExcuse. Some however, have the (DIS)honor to be called a [[CompleteMonster monster...]]

* Larry Moore aka The Woodsman from "Signature" would use his Torture Cellar to terrorize and torture his victims through every conceivable means which include hanging, burning, maiming, raping and dry drowning them. He meticulously record the sessions, and constantly plays the tapes on a loop to torment current and future captives, and occasionally abduct more than one woman at once so he could have a captive audience and so one victim can listen to another being tortured.

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* Larry Moore aka The Woodsman from "Signature" would use his Torture Cellar to terrorize and torture his victims through every conceivable means which include hanging, burning, maiming, raping and dry drowning them. He meticulously record the sessions, and constantly plays the tapes on a loop to torment current and future captives, and occasionally abduct more than one woman at once so he could have a captive audience and so one victim can listen to another being tortured.

* The Russian mob boss in the two-parter "Refuge". He ordered an innocent man murdered and dismembered because he had a relative who wouldn't go along with a money laundering scheme. When he finds out that the key eyewitness for the prosecution is a six-year-old boy, he sends assassins to kill him. They murder his mother and an A.D.A. The boy lives, but only because they didn't cut deep enough into his throat. In the second part, he orders the bombing of the precinct where the police protagonists work, just for giggles.