History Monster / LawAndOrder

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E6Redemption Redemption]]": [[IntimidatingRevenueService Arthur Blessard]], also known as the "[=SoHo=] Strangler", claimed the lives of 21 different women before he was caught. His MO would involve using his job in the IRS to enter the women's homes, and once given access would proceed to bind them to their beds where he would then beat, rape, and even [[ImAHumanitarian bite chunks of flesh off their bodies]] before strangling them to death. He first started this in 1983, claiming seven victims in New York City before framing a [[DisabledMeansHelpless mentally disabled man]], [[KindHeartedSimpleton Roger Berry]], when the cops were closing on to him. With Roger taking the fall, Blessard went to other cities across the country killing even more women, as well as evolving from strangling to slitting throats. After hearing of Roger's release from prison, Blessard returns back to New York and kills more women there, all so he can frame Roger once more and watch him return to prison.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]" & Season 15: [[FauxAffablyEvil William Lewis]], born Lewis Williams and known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Beast]]", is the ArchEnemy of Detective Olivia Benson. His [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken manner]] and [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon good looks]] hide the fact that he is a killer, rapist, and sadistic torturer. His MO is going from state to state, under different aliases, kidnapping, raping and torturing women, regardless of age, for hours and even days on end. When he was young, he watched his babysitter get raped and killed in front of him; he describes it as the best day of his life. Eventually he kidnaps Benson, forces her to watch as he kills the father and rapes the mother of his defense attorney. After killing a cop and taking Benson to a house to rape her, he takes a maid and young girl hostage. When Benson turns the tables on him, he deliberately tries to provoke her to kill him, an experience he makes Benson relive during his trial. After his escape, he kills another cop, rapes a nurse and kidnaps a young girl. When Benson confronts him, he takes her hostage again, but becomes turned off by his initial molestations, so he decides to force her into a game of RussianRoulette. He ends up fatally shooting himself as one last way of tormenting Benson, [[ThanatosGambit figuring she'll be accused of his murder]].

-->— '''William Lewis''', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]", after telling Detectives Benson and Amaro in graphic detail what he did to one of his victims (including putting out cigarettes on her)

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E6EverybodysFavoriteBagman Everybody's Favorite Bagman]]" & "The Torrents of Greed" [[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E15TheTorrentsOfGreedPartOne two]]-[[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E16TheTorrentsOfGreedPartTwo parter]]: [[TheDon Frank Masucci]] was the franchise's first recurring villain, and one of the worst. Loaning out his henchman Antonio "Tony" Scalisi to a group of corrupt city officials, Masucci had Scalisi kill Councilman Chuck Halsey on their behalf, then had Scalisi murdered after he was released by EADA Benjamin Stone, leaving the officials to take the fall for a racket he was complicit in. In a later appearance, Masucci and his brother-in-law Harv Biegel sent thugs to assault store owners who [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse refused to buy bootleg cigarettes]], leaving one man dead and one man crippled. Indicted for, among other crimes, the murder of Trucking Union President Russel Mackey, Masucci sabotaged the prosecution by forcing leg-breaker Joe Pilefski to perjure himself, and had Biegel killed when he became concerned his brother-in-law was getting ready to turn on him. After Biegel and Mackey's bodies—along with over a dozen others—were retrieved from a mass grave site in New Jersey, Masucci found himself re-indicted, only to be assassinated on orders from his sister, Katherine Biegel, who feared, with cause, that she was next on his hit list.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS14E1Bodies Bodies]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Mark Bruner]] is a sexual sadist responsible for the rapes of at least 17 [[WouldHurtAChild teenage girls]]. Murdering the girls afterwards, Bruner would keep the bodies in an unknown location so he could admire their bodies as they decayed. After being arrested, Bruner refuses to tell the parents of his victims where their bodies were, [[KickTheDog purely so they couldn't get closure]]; however, he shows his lawyer Tim Schwimmer the bodies, which forces him to keep it secret due to attorney-client privilege and leads to Schwimmer being arrested as an accomplice. Unnerving even Briscoe, Green, and McCoy, Bruner stands out as one of the worst within the original series.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E6Redemption Redemption]]": [[IntimidatingRevenueService Arthur Blessard]], also known as the "SoHo Strangler", claimed the lives of 21 different women before he was caught. His MO would involve using his job in the IRS to enter the women's homes, and once given access would proceed to bind them to their beds where he would then beat, rape, and even [[ImAHumanitarian bite chunks of flesh off their bodies]] before strangling them to death. He first started this in 1983, claiming seven victims in New York City before framing a [[DisabledMeansHelpless mentally disabled man]], [[KindHeartedSimpleton Roger Berry]], when the cops were closing on to him. With Roger taking the fall, Blessard went to other cities across the country killing even more women, as well as evolving from strangling to slitting throats. After hearing of Roger's release from prison, Blessard returns back to New York and kills more women there, all so he can frame Roger once more and watch him return to prison.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E17Pursuit Pursuit]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Adam Grafton]] is a sadistic killer and rapist with over forty victims to his name over at least 25 years. Starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Grafton would claim his victims—some of whom, including TV host Alicia Harding's younger sister Vanessa, were in their mid-teens at most—in clumps and paralyze them from the chest down by stabbing them in a certain area, rape them repeatedly, and viciously stab them to death to finish them off, but not before stabbing them in their lung, collapsing it and preventing the victim from screaming for help. In the present day, Grafton is obsessed with mentally toying with Alicia about his role in her sister's death by stalking her and sending her bloody pieces of old evidence from the case. When Alicia insults him on live TV, Grafton flies into a rage and brutally murders EADA Sonya Paxton, including before trying to hunt down and murder Alicia, which leads to his arrest. At the end of the episode, even on DeathRow, Grafton coldly and smugly, if not gleefully, tells Detective Benson about all the women he's killed without so much as a hint of remorse.
* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS15E12JerseyBreakdown Jersey Breakdown]]": [[AmoralAttorney Robert "Bobby" Masconi]], the Hudson County Prosecutor, is a corrupt New Jersey legal official and the clandestine business partner of nightclub entrepreneur and racketeer Perry Cannavaro. In addition to facilitating the [[HumanTrafficking trafficking]] and [[SexSlave prostitution]] of underage girls using Perry's clubs, Masconi abuses his position as a prosecutor to have 90% of juvenile offenders who come through the chambers of Judge Daniel Dolan—who Masconi had extorted by having the latter photographed being serviced by an underage prostitute—sent to the routinely abusive and inhumane [[JuvenileHell Knollwood Juvenile Facility]]. In turn, Masconi receives money for every offender Dolan sends to [[PrivateProfitPrison the institution]], laundering the money through a bogus publicity firm, and using the money for real estate purchases. Having sexually assaulted Claire Wilson, a teenage server working at one of Perry's clubs, Masconi has Claire [[FelonyMisdemeanor sent to Knollwood on fraud charges]]—behind Perry's back—[[SheKnowsTooMuch to silence her]] when he realizes Detective Olivia Benson and her squad are investigating the matter.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS20E21Exchange Exchange]]": [[WolfInSheepsClothing Richard Matthews]] poses as a benevolent foster father when in reality he’s a serial predator. Taking in teenage girls, Matthews would rape them while [[ForcedToWatch forcing his wife to watch]], recording the act for his own purposes; he would also pimp them out to other men and record those sessions as well. Setting his eyes on the Barassi twins, Matthews [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslit]] them into believing their father raped them before taking them himself, raping them for years under the guise of love. When confronted with his crimes, Matthews insists that what he did to his victims was "beautiful", choosing to [[SpitefulSuicide commit suicide]] rather than face justice for his crimes.

* "A Time of Faith" two-parter: [[SubparSupremacist Robert Olsen]] is a plain-looking [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White supremacist]] responsible for [[HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil the firebombing of multiple churches in the Black community]], endangering scores of civilians and successfully killing two people. After his accomplice, Jeffrey Lloyd, is caught attempting to burn down an unoccupied church by NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Tommy McNamara, and is subsequently used as an informant, Olsen [[NeckSnap snaps Jeffrey's neck]] and [[DestinationDefenestration tosses him out the window]], resulting in his own eventual arrest.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'''s "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]" & ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'''s "For God and Country": [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Nathaniel Rausch]] (only appearing in "For God and Country") is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 Black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all Black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch [[MakeAnExampleOfThem kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking]], with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".
* ''Series/ChicagoFire'''s "Nobody Touches Anything", ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E7ChicagoCrossover Chicago Crossover]]" & ''Series/ChicagoPD'''s "They'll Have to Go Through Me": [[WouldHurtAChild Bob Clinton]] (only appearing in "Chicago Crossover") is the {{sadist}}ic "middle man" of the "Chess and Checkers Club", a depraved child pornography ring which exploits troubled street children and orphans. Getting children from a local youth center, Clinton [[MurderDotCom livestreams]] the abuse, torture, and rape he inflicts on them, with pedophiles from around world adding their own recommendations of what disgusting and vile sex acts they want said kids to experience. Clinton [[EvilGloating taunts his victims]] before the livestreams begin and draws out their pain, and in the past had even been responsible for forcing Detective Lindsey's brother into this and totally destroying him. Clinton has done this to dozens of kids over fifteen years and is even stopped right before he attempts to rape his latest victim.

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-->-- '''William Lewis''', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]", after telling Detectives Benson and Amaro in graphic detail what he did to one of his victims (including putting out cigarettes on her)

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* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E6EverybodysFavoriteBagman Everybody's Favorite Bagman]]" & "The Torrents of Greed" [[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E15TheTorrentsOfGreedPartOne two]]-[[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E16TheTorrentsOfGreedPartTwo parter]]: [[TheDon Frank Masucci]] was the franchise's first recurring villain, and one of the worst. Loaning out his henchman Antonio "Tony" Scalisi to a group of corrupt city officials, Masucci had Scalisi kill Councilman Chuck Halsey on their behalf, then had Scalisi murdered after he was released by EADA Benjamin Stone, leaving the officials to take the fall for a racket he was complicit in. In a later appearance, Masucci and his brother-in-law Harv Biegel sent thugs to assault store owners who [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse refused to buy bootleg cigarettes]], leaving one man dead and one man crippled. Indicted for, among other crimes, the murder of Trucking Union President Russel Mackey, Masucci sabotaged the prosecution by forcing leg-breaker Joe Pilefski to perjure himself, and had Biegel killed when he became concerned his brother-in-law was getting ready to turn on him. After Biegel and Mackey's bodies--along with over a dozen others--were retrieved from a mass grave site in New Jersey, Masucci found himself re-indicted, only to be assassinated on orders from his sister, Katherine Biegel, who feared, with cause, that she was next on his hit list.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS14E1Bodies Bodies]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Mark Bruner]] is a sexual sadist responsible for the rapes of at least 17 [[WouldHurtAChild teenage girls]]. Murdering the girls afterwards, Bruner would keep the bodies in an unknown location so he could admire their bodies as they decayed. After being arrested, Bruner refuses to tell the parents of his victims where their bodies were, [[KickTheDog purely so they couldn't get closure]]; however, he shows his lawyer Tim Schwimmer the bodies, which forces him to keep it secret due to attorney-client privilege and leads to Schwimmer being arrested as an accomplice. Unnerving even Briscoe, Green, and [=McCoy=], Bruner stands out as one of the worst within the original series.

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* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E6Redemption Redemption]]": [[IntimidatingRevenueService Arthur Blessard]], also known as the "[=SoHo=] Strangler", claimed the lives of 21 different women before he was caught. His MO would involve using his job in the IRS to enter the women's homes, and once given access would proceed to bind them to their beds where he would then beat, rape, and even [[ImAHumanitarian bite chunks of flesh off their bodies]] before strangling them to death. He first started this in 1983, claiming seven victims in New York City before framing a [[DisabledMeansHelpless mentally disabled man]], [[KindHeartedSimpleton Roger Berry]], when the cops were closing on to him. With Roger taking the fall, Blessard went to other cities across the country killing even more women, as well as evolving from strangling to slitting throats. After hearing of Roger's release from prison, Blessard returns back to New York and kills more women there, all so he can frame Roger once more and watch him return to prison.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS4E20Dominance Dominance]]": [[ManipulativeBastard Charlie Baker]] had in the past raped his brother Billy, and then beat up his alcoholic father when they were caught; Charlie continues to beat his father. [[SpreeKiller In the span of a week]], Charlie has either killed, or manipulated the weak-willed Billy into killing, around 10 people, but not before forcing them to have sex with each other first. Then he kidnapped two women, killed their boyfriends, and kept them captive on a roof.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E19Fault Fault]]": [[GunmanWithThreeNames Victor Paul Gitano]] is a deplorable [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] and described as a "[[{{Sadist}} sadist]]...[who]...chooses children because they're just easier to control.". Responsible for the molestation of over a dozen children [[TeensAreMonsters as a teenager]], Gitano takes a fancy to torturing, raping, and murdering kids as an adult. Kidnapping two children for his sick desires, Gitano [[SlashedThroat slits one of the kid's throats]] when the police hunt him in a subway. Cornered at a warehouse, Gitano boasts how he murdered the other child, claiming she was a slut, before trying to kill Stabler with a shotgun.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E17Pursuit Pursuit]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Adam Grafton]] is a sadistic killer and rapist with over forty victims to his name over at least 25 years. Starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Grafton would claim his victims—some of whom, including TV host Alicia Harding's younger sister Vanessa, were in their mid-teens at most--in clumps and paralyze them from the chest down by stabbing them in a certain area, rape them repeatedly, and viciously stab them to death to finish them off, but not before stabbing them in their lung, collapsing it and preventing the victim from screaming for help. In the present day, Grafton is obsessed with mentally toying with Alicia about his role in her sister's death by stalking her and sending her bloody pieces of old evidence from the case. When Alicia insults him on live TV, Grafton flies into a rage and brutally murders EADA Sonya Paxton, including before trying to hunt down and murder Alicia, which leads to his arrest. At the end of the episode, even on DeathRow, Grafton coldly and smugly, if not gleefully, tells Detective Benson about all the women he's killed without so much as a hint of remorse.
* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS15E12JerseyBreakdown Jersey Breakdown]]": [[AmoralAttorney Robert "Bobby" Masconi]], the Hudson County Prosecutor, is a corrupt New Jersey legal official and the clandestine business partner of nightclub entrepreneur and racketeer Perry Cannavaro. In addition to facilitating the [[HumanTrafficking trafficking]] and [[SexSlave prostitution]] of underage girls using Perry's clubs, Masconi abuses his position as a prosecutor to have 90% of juvenile offenders who come through the chambers of Judge Daniel Dolan--who Masconi had extorted by having the latter photographed being serviced by an underage prostitute--sent to the routinely abusive and inhumane [[JuvenileHell Knollwood Juvenile Facility]]. In turn, Masconi receives money for every offender Dolan sends to [[PrivateProfitPrison the institution]], laundering the money through a bogus publicity firm, and using the money for real estate purchases. Having sexually assaulted Claire Wilson, a teenage server working at one of Perry's clubs, Masconi has Claire [[FelonyMisdemeanor sent to Knollwood on fraud charges]]--behind Perry's back--[[SheKnowsTooMuch to silence her]] when he realizes Detective Olivia Benson and her squad are investigating the matter.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS20E21Exchange Exchange]]": [[WolfInSheepsClothing Richard Matthews]] poses as a benevolent foster father when in reality he’s a serial predator. Taking in teenage girls, Matthews would rape them while [[ForcedToWatch forcing his wife to watch]], recording the act for his own purposes; he would also pimp them out to other men and record those sessions as well. Setting his eyes on the Barassi twins, Matthews [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslit]] them into believing their father raped them before taking them himself, raping them for years under the guise of love. When confronted with his crimes, Matthews insists that what he did to his victims was "beautiful", choosing to [[SpitefulSuicide commit suicide]] rather than face justice for his crimes.

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* "Shibboleth": [[WouldHitAGirl Frank [=McNare=]]] is a repulsive SerialKiller with a penchant for targeting young, physically fit women. Choosing his victim, Frank would then strip them to their underwear and tie them up by their neck and ankles, causing the victim to asphyxiate themselves when they got too tired from holding their position. A sadist at heart, Frank would repeatedly taunt the police by sending letters about their failure, and in one instance [[ForcedToWatch forced an officer to hear]] the dying pleas of one of his victims. Despite stopping his killings due to marrying a woman who'd he [[DomesticAbuse repeatedly abuse]], Frank resumes his homicides when diagnosed with cancer. Hearing his son, [[ParentalAbandonment who he had abandoned]], was a suspect for his latest murder spree, Frank happily lets him take the fall for his crimes, viewing him as weak and pathetic.

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* "A Time of Faith" two-parter: [[SubparSupremacist Robert Olsen]] is a plain-looking [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White supremacist]] responsible for [[HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil the firebombing of multiple churches in the Black community]], endangering scores of civilians and successfully killing two people. After his accomplice, Jeffrey Lloyd, is caught attempting to burn down an unoccupied church by NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Tommy [=McNamara=], and is subsequently used as an informant, Olsen [[NeckSnap snaps Jeffrey's neck]] and [[DestinationDefenestration tosses him out the window]], resulting in his own eventual arrest.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder''[='s=] "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]" & ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''[='s=] "For God and Country": [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Nathaniel Rausch]] (only appearing in "For God and Country") is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 Black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all Black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch [[MakeAnExampleOfThem kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking]], with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".
* ''Series/ChicagoFire''[='s=] "Nobody Touches Anything", ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''[='s=] "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E7ChicagoCrossover Chicago Crossover]]" & ''Series/ChicagoPD''[='s=] "They'll Have to Go Through Me": [[WouldHurtAChild Bob Clinton]] (only appearing in "Chicago Crossover") is the {{sadist}}ic "middle man" of the "Chess and Checkers Club", a depraved child pornography ring which exploits troubled street children and orphans. Getting children from a local youth center, Clinton [[MurderDotCom livestreams]] the abuse, torture, and rape he inflicts on them, with pedophiles from around world adding their own recommendations of what disgusting and vile sex acts they want said kids to experience. Clinton [[EvilGloating taunts his victims]] before the livestreams begin and draws out their pain, and in the past had even been responsible for forcing Detective Lindsey's brother into this and totally destroying him. Clinton has done this to dozens of kids over fifteen years and is even stopped right before he attempts to rape his latest victim.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E18Manhunt Manhunt]]": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Darryl Kern]] is a [[SociopathicSoldier former soldier]] discharged for believing that soldiers enjoy killing. Taking that enjoyment to the streets, Kern makes a hobby of raping, [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]], and murdering women, granting him the moniker the "Bowery Stalker". When his hideout is discovered by the police, they discover his victim's bodies, some which are of [[WouldHurtAChild children]], buried there, amounting to around 30 deaths. Having his assistant Posey, a mentally fragile man, kidnap a woman and her daughter, Kern [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills Posey]] and then tries to kill his kidnapped victims.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E7Charisma Charisma]]": [[ConMan Eugene Hoff]], alias [[MeaningfulRename Abraham Ophion]], is the pedophilic leader of a {{cult}} of his 100 followers, which included his preteen victims and their families. Hoff separates the married couples, because he said that they couldn't be soldiers of God if they were slaves to the flesh, and uses all the women and girls of his cult for sexual favors, fathering 1 living and 6 dead children with them. His earliest victim was a 4-year-old Jamie Buchman, who her father caught in the same room with a near-naked Hoff, causing his family to leave the church. Growing paranoid, Hoff began to prepare his followers for war, filling their heads with the idea of the U.S. Government coming to kill them. He was also a greedy man, killing John Cramer and lying to his wife for John's million-dollar bank account and only keeping his latest victim Melanie alive so he can claim her two-million-dollar trust fund after their baby is born. Hoff is ultimately a [[FalseProphet depraved individual]] who [[BlasphemousBoast believes himself to be greater than God]].

* "Shibboleth": [[WouldHitAGirl Frank [=McNare=]]] nicknamed Body By Jake or BBJ, killed physically fit young women by stripping them down to their underwear and hog-tying them up by their necks and right ankle, and, when they would get tired of holding their position, they would strangle themselves. He had eluded the authorities since the 1980s and would send taunting letters to them over the years saying they were too stupid to capture him. While killing his most recent victim, he had called the cops ''before'' her death with the anticipation that she would, [[SoundOnlyDeath only for the dispatcher to hear the woman's last words being her begging for her life]]. [=McNare=] had abruptly stopped the killings because he had married a woman who let him torture her, but once she was diagnosed with cancer and as was dying of the disease, he resumed the homicides. Upon finding out the son [[ParentalAbandonment he had willingly abandoned years earlier]]-—yet had refused to let his stepfather properly adopt him--was a viable suspect in the most recent killing, he was more than pleased to let him take the fall for all of them, even though the man only had knowledge of anything about it because as a child he found a picture of one of his that left his scarred. Even as the son was still willing to go to trial for six murders, Goren allowed him to overhear [=McNare=] bragging to Eames about how pathetic and weak he is and how glad he was able to get him out of his hair, not feeling the least bit remorseful for any of his actions. In being convinced by Goren that he was nothing like him, his horrified and visibly upset son gave him up and as he called him out on his behavior upon his arrest, [=McNare=] disowns him one final time.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS4E6Angels Angels]]": [[WouldHurtAChild Anthony "Tony" Damon]] is the pompous, greedy head of [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Global Voyages Travel Agency]], a front for child [[HumanTrafficking trafficking]], child {{sex tourism}}, and child pornography. Through Global Voyages, Tony regularly arranges for wealthy child predators to rape children abroad and record the instances on camera at a base price of $5,000. Additionally, Tony facilitates the smuggling and false adoption of children as {{sex slave}}s in the United States. With the death of a client, Bret Jansen, Tony tries to downplay his connection to Jansen when asked by the SVU. Arrested by Detective John Munch while Munch is posing as a prospective client, Tony falsely accuses another client of murdering Jansen and attempts to shift blame onto the perpetrators for the recorded sexual abuse, only for said client to later reveal that Tony directly facilitated the actions of his clientele.

-->-- '''William Lewis''', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]"; after telling Detectives Benson and Amaro in graphic detail what he did to one of his victims (including putting out cigarettes on her)

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* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS14E1Bodies Bodies]]: [[WouldHitAGirl Mark Bruner]] is a sexual sadist responsible for the rapes of at least 17 [[WouldHurtAChild teenage girls]]. Murdering the girls afterwards, Bruner would keep the bodies in an unknown location so he could admire their bodies as they decayed. After being arrested, Bruner refuses to tell the parents of his victims where their bodies were, [[KickTheDog purely so they couldn't get closure]]; however, he shows his lawyer Tim Schwimmer the bodies, which forces him to keep it secret due to attorney-client privilege and leads to Schwimmer being arrested as an accomplice. Unnerving even Briscoe, Green, and [=McCoy=], Bruner stands out as one of the worst within the original series.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]" through "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS15E20BeastsObsession Beast's Obsession]]": [[FauxAffablyEvil William Lewis]], born Lewis Williams and known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Beast]]", is the ArchEnemy of Detective Olivia Benson. His [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken manner]] and [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon good looks]] hide the fact that he is a killer, rapist, and sadistic torturer. His MO is going from state to state, under different aliases, kidnapping, raping and torturing women, regardless of age, for hours and even days on end. When he was young, he watched his babysitter get raped and killed in front of him; he describes it as the best day of his life. Eventually he kidnaps Benson, forces her to watch as he kills the father and rapes the mother of his defense attorney. After killing a cop and taking Benson to a house to rape her, he takes a maid and young girl hostage. When Benson turns the tables on him, he deliberately tries to provoke her to kill him, an experience he makes Benson relive during his trial. After his escape, he kills another cop, rapes a nurse and kidnaps a young girl. When Benson confronts him, he takes her hostage again, but becomes turned off by his initial molestations, so he decides to force her into a game of RussianRoulette. He ends up fatally shooting himself as one last way of tormenting Benson, [[ThanatosGambit figuring she'll be accused of his murder]].

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]"[[/labelnote]] & ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 4's "For God and Country"[[/labelnote]]: [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Nathaniel Rausch]] (only appearing in "For God and Country") is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 Black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all Black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch [[MakeAnExampleOfThem kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking]], with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".
* ''Series/ChicagoFire'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 3's "Nobody Touches Anything"[[/labelnote]]; ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 16's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E7ChicagoCrossover Chicago Crossover]]"[[/labelnote]]; ''Series/ChicagoPD'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 2's "They'll Have to Go Through Me"[[/labelnote]]: [[WouldHurtAChild Bob Clinton]] (only appearing in "Chicago Crossover") is the {{sadist}}ic "middle man" of the "Chess and Checkers Club", a depraved child pornography ring which exploits troubled street children and orphans. Getting children from a local youth center, Clinton [[MurderDotCom livestreams]] the abuse, torture, and rape he inflicts on them, with pedophiles from around world adding their own recommendations of what disgusting and vile sex acts they want said kids to experience. Clinton [[EvilGloating taunts his victims]] before the livestreams begin and draws out their pain, and in the past had even been responsible for forcing Detective Lindsey's brother into this and totally destroying him. Clinton has done this to dozens of kids over fifteen years and is even stopped right before he attempts to rape his latest victim.

-->--'''William Lewis''', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]"; after telling Detectives Benson and Amaro in graphic detail what he did to one of his victims (including putting out cigarettes on her)

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS17E9Deadlock Deadlock]]": [[SpreeKiller Leon Vorgitch]] was in prison for killing five people. He then kills two guards and escape from prison. When the detectives come for him, there are even more deaths, including several [[WouldHurtAChild students]] from a classroom Vorgitch had taken hostage. 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.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E18Manhunt Manhunt]]": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Darryl Kern]], also known as the "Bowery Stalker", made a habit out of abducting, raping, torturing and killing women; his victims numbered at least 30. He was a [[SociopathicSoldier former soldier]] who was discharged because he believed that soldiers enjoyed killing. His journal states that he is planning to survive an upcoming radical war, and create a new generation from {{sex slave}}s, but later admits during questioning that he's simply having fun at the expense of the police. When his hideout is found, at least fifteen bodies, later 18, are found buried in his bunker alone, including 3 kids. He also has his assistant, a mentally fragile man named Posey, help him kidnap a woman and her young daughter. Kern then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills Posey]], and plans to kill his hostages before he is arrested by Canadian police.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E19Fault Fault]]": [[GunmanWithThreeNames Victor Paul Gitano]] was a pedophile who lured kids in, regardless of gender, then raped, tortured, and killed them, He had previously molested a 9-year-old-girl, and had also raped and brutally tortured a 12-year-old boy. 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 [[SlashedThroat slashing the 9-year-old's throat]], but 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 only 7, 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. Even as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Gitano was bad, having claimed to have sexually assaulted over a dozen children. He is described as not a "classic" pedophile, but as a "{{sadist}}...[who]...chooses children because they're just easier to control."

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E17Pursuit Pursuit]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Adam Grafton]] is a sadistic killer and rapist with over forty victims to his name over at least 25 years. Starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Adam would claim his victims—some of whom, including TV host Alicia Harding's younger sister Vanessa, were in their mid-teens at most--in clumps and paralyze them from the chest down by stabbing them in a certain area, rape them repeatedly, and viciously stab them to death to finish them off, but not before stabbing them in their lung, collapsing it and preventing the victim from screaming for help. In the present day, Adam's obsessed with mentally toying with Alicia about his role in her sister's death by stalking her and sending her bloody pieces of old evidence from the case. When Alicia insults him on live TV, Adam flies into a rage and brutally murders EADA Sonya Paxton, including before trying to hunt down and murder Alicia, which leads to his arrest. At the end of the episode, even on death row, he coldly and smugly, if not gleefully, tells Detective Benson about all the women he's killed without so much as a hint of remorse.

* "Death Roe": [[ManipulativeBastard Tommy Onerato]] is a cruel master manipulator who runs a successful restaurant with his daughter and son-in-law, who had recently gone missing. When a restaurant food critic is killed [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because she gave a previous--and later to be discovered poisoned--meal at the eatery a bad review]], he allows his daughter's husband to take the blame because it appears that he did it in order to save the restaurant. While it is initially suspected that the son-in-law either is on the run or had committed suicide, it's later discovered that Onerato killed the man himself [[CruelAndUnusualDeath and put his remains through a meat grinder]], due to him both trying to break away and start his own restaurant and a family with his daughter, whom we later learn he had been [[ParentalIncest sexually abusing since she was a little girl]] to the point that he looks at her only as a sex object instead of his own flesh and blood. He then tells her that it was a good thing not to become pregnant, viciously telling her that ChildrenAreAWaste. Even as he is arrested for both murders, it's still seen as a [[PyrrhicVictory hollow victory]], as he has still managed to ruin the business and the daughter's livelihood, leave her a psychologically damaged young widow and boast to her as he was being led away that [[IfICantHaveYou no one else will ever want her once the truth comes out about the true nature of their relationship]].

* "To The Bone": [[EvilMatriarch Chesley Watkins]] is a foster mother driven by {{greed}} and [[MyMasterRightOrWrong complete control/obedience of others]]. She has taken in several young boys, raised them as her own and years after they aged out and she is no longer able to collect the money for having them, brought back a few of her more loyal sons and taught them to commit robbery and murder for money. She had the men rob various homes of their valuables and [[LeaveNoSurvivors kill any and all occupants inside]] by using [[MacheteMayhem a machete.]] She then [[CopKiller sets up an investigating officer to be killed by Logan]] in a twisted effort to try and stop one of her sons involved in the crime, Antonio, from being killed and convince the man to turn himself in, before having his brothers brutally stab him anyway [[HeKnowsTooMuch before he's able to speak with detectives]]. As she and her other sons are then arrested, she throws Logan's own troubled relationship with his mother back in his face while being interrogated by him and lawyering up, refusing to answer any more questions. In a final act of power, she tricks one of her other sons, Floyd, into confessing to the crimes and in proving his loyalty one last time, he commits suicide via jumping out of a window, [[KarmaHoudini allowing her not to be charged in the murders]] and the strong belief that she will only continue to manipulate more children into killing.

* "Color Lines": [[EvilReactionary Duane Armstrong]], otherwise known as the "[[MadBomber Omega Bomber]]", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] former US Army Sergeant turned terrorist who holds progressive society in contempt. Having killed six people previously, Duane leaves [[CallingCard fragments with the Greek letter "Omega"]] in his bombs, calling and taunting the police after each attack. Antagonizing NYPD Detectives Eddie Torres and J. C. Williams after his most recent attack, Duane attacks a Congressman with a bomb in his smoke detector while continuing to antagonize Torres and Williams. Finally, Duane plans to attack a US Army General [[PassedOverPromotion who received a promotion instead of him]] at an event with 100 people in attendance, but is thwarted by the police.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Are you feeling sad? Thinking about someone you're never gonna see again?...You're gonna cry his name out at some point. They always do]]."]]

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* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS14E1Bodies Bodies]]": [[WouldHitAGirl Mark Bruner]] raped and murdered no fewer 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 [[KickTheDog 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.

* "Color Lines": [[EvilReactionary Duane Armstrong]], otherwise known as the "[[MadBomber Omega Bomber]]", is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] former US Army Sergeant turned terrorist who holds progressive society in contempt. With a previous body count of six, Duane makes a habit of leaving [[CallingCard a fragment with the Greek letter "Omega"]] in his bombs, as well as calling and taunting the police after his attacks. Antagonizing NYPD Detectives Eddie Torres and J. C. Williams after his most recent attack, Duane proceeds to attack a Congressman with a bomb in his smoke detector, subsequently planting a firecracker at the precinct to further antagonize Williams and Torres. As a final target, Duane plans to attack a US Army General [[PassedOverPromotion who received a promotion instead of him]] at an event with 100 people in attendance, but is thwarted by the police.

[[AC:''Series/{{FBI}}'' & {{SpinOff}}s]]
[[folder:Examples]]
* Original series:
** "[[Recap/FBIS01E01 Pilot]]": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Robert Lawrence]] is a wealthy, smug, smarmy [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Neo-Nazi]] and the secret mastermind behind a [[MadBomber bombing spree]] throughout southern Brooklyn. A year prior, Lawrence attempted to blow up a synagogue he had campaigned against. Forming an alliance with the ruthless El Salvador gang [[TheCartel MS-13]], Lawrence aims to take over the drug trade from the [[GangBangers Mac Bawlers]], planning to use the money to further his white supremacist agenda and hoping that by using the MS-13 it will spark a race war between them and the other black gangs. Lawrence has an entire apartment building blown up, killing over twenty residents, including children, all to kill the Mac Bawlers leader. Then later sets off another bomb, killing their second leader and his girlfriend. Foiled in his attempt to blow up a rec center used as an unofficial neutral ground by all the gangs and realizing the FBI is onto him, Lawrence has the final bomb filled with nails and shrapnel and placed at a community meeting in response to crisis, intending to kill hundreds of civilians.
** "[[Recap/FBIS01E02 Green Birds]]": [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Khalim Barhom]] is an egotistic ISIS chemical weapons expert, notorious for [[DeadlyGas gas bombings]] throughout Syria and Iraq. Arriving in America, Barhom targeted vulnerable disenfranchised teenager girls through the website, the Dark Jihad. Brainwashing the girls into proving their loyalty to him, Barhom has them enact terrorist attacks using the deadly neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin, with a spray bottle that is rigged to inject them with the same poison after use as [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they were no longer useful]]. His first attack on a popular deli's [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink salad bar]] succeeded in causing thirteen people to die in agony over several hours, and nine more to be hospitalized. Planning four more attacks each on public eateries such as a farmers' market and a hotel breakfast buffet hoping to kill as many people as possible. Succeeding in causing two more deaths, Barhom planned to continue his spree in other cities throughout the rest of America, until the entire country was consumed by fear of their own food. Confronted by the FBI, Barhom took a hostage at knife point and revealed his pride in "his work", boasting about it being his "path to glory".
** "[[Recap/FBIS01E03 Prey]]": [[AxCrazy Stephan "Snake" Tsarko]] is a stoic, but sadistic, misogynistic psychopath, who works as [[TheBrute the muscle]] of Jacob Roscha's HumanTrafficking ring. Snake and two of his goons spend three days straight gang raping each woman to break their wills--[[SerialRapist having done so to over fifty women]]--then brand them with a heated knife, before they are forced into prostitution, some even forcibly given cosmetic surgery to increase their value. Keeping the women in line through fear, Snake personally murders anyone who breaks a rule or get ill, [[SerialKiller having done so already to eighteen women]]. Admitting to only be involved to fulfill his enjoyment of others' suffering, Snake openly enjoys murder, stabbing each victim thirty times in a euphoric mania. Snake then cuts out [[CreepySouvenir their brands, which along with some photos and locks of hair he keeps as souvenirs]]. He buries the bodies in full view of his balcony, so he can spend evenings reminiscing about each murder with a drink or a cigar. Upon the FBI closing in, Snake attempts to tie up the loose ends, murdering the doctor who provided surgery by throwing him out of his apartment window, and attempts to strangle Agent Bell. Caught, Snake turns on the others to ensure his own protection.
** "[[Recap/FBIS01E17 Apex]]": [[MadArtist Robert Burke IV]] is a member of the wealthy Burke family, and secretly a "sick and twisted" {{narcissist}} with an [[CameraFiend obsession with photography]], who moonlights as the Apex Killer. Using a conservative dating website to find victims who won't tell their families, Burke [[SleazyPhotoshoot lures out women he wants to photograph]], drugging them so they're paralyzed but conscious. Taking them back to his private studio Burke rapes and then slowly strangles the women with a cord, all while photographing them. Dumping their bodies specifically so the light and location will look beautiful for the crime scene photographs. Having already done this to seven victims under the radar, following his wife leaving him for drugging and raping her, Burke switches MO, deciding he wants {{fame|Through Infamy}}. Killing three women in his native Manhattan so the authorities will connect the deaths, Burke sends a letter to the mayor's office to take control of the narrative, declaring killing his "birthright". Corned by the FBI, Burke declares himself "Apex" and dies trying to kill his eleventh victim.
* ''[[Series/FBIMostWanted Most Wanted]]'':
** "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS01E04 Caesar]]": [[{{Narcissist}} Cleo Wilkins]] is an egotistic, cold-blooded thug with delusions of grandeur. A senior member of the [[GangBangers Rolling Sixes]], upon discovering their leader and her childhood friend Tyrone Jackson wanted to retire, Cleo [[ResignationsNotAccepted murdered him for going "soft"]]. Personally attacking a meeting of two treacherous Sixes and three Loco Diablo members, Cleo massacred them all, starting a [[MobWar brutal gang war]] on the streets of the Bronx so that she could live out her fantasy of being a great military leader. [[TheStarscream Taking over the Sixes]], Cleo began expanding their drug trafficking and organizing attacks on the Diablo's, resulting in five more murders. Enjoying her newfound publicity, Cleo attempted to capitalize on it, lying that the authorities had killed Jackson and framing their efforts as an attack on their community, hoping to escalate events into a full-blown race war. Executing another Six for treachery, Cleo planned to rob the Diablo's stash house and use the funds to win the war. Only active a single week, Cleo managed to cause death and destruction on a scale few could match.
** "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS02E08 Vanished]]": [[WouldHurtAChild Samuel Smith]], despite appearing a charismatic unassuming man, is secretly a selfish pedophile and a dangerous sexual predator. At only [[TeensAreMonsters 14]], Samuel abducted and raped an 8-year-old boy, before drowning him in a lake. As a grown man he kidnapped 11-year-old David Caine, isolating him in the middle of nowhere to [[SexSlave use for his perversions]]. Over the next nine years, Samuel regularly raped and brutalized David, even baiting him to try to escape just to [[HopeCrusher further crush his hope]], leaving David so psychologically broken he forgot his identity and name. Following David reaching adulthood, Samuel began targeting another child, Caleb Vaughter. Seducing Caleb's mother Caroline Vaughter to get close to him, Samuel stabbed Caroline and her elderly mother to death. Imprisoning Caleb in a makeshift bunker, Samuel planned to wait until the heat died down then [[MindRape break him]] as he did with David. Cornered by the FBI, Samuel, not willing to face prison, committed suicide, leaving Caleb to suffocate to death, his last words taunting the agents that they would never find him.
* ''[[Series/FBIInternational International]]'''s "Trying To Grab Smoke": [[{{Slimeball}} Lloyd Eckersley and Fred Dobbins]] are a smug, slimy duo of predators, who roped in over 100 vulnerable young women into their pornography business, falsely promising the material would never be shown in the USA. [[SerialRapist Personally participating in each video]], the duo [[SexualExtortion coerced or flat-out threatened their victims into participating in extremely explicit acts]], then uploaded the videos online for profit. Fleeing the country to avoid criminal charges, the duo in retaliation posted the personal information of each woman who tried to sue them online and sent copies of their videos to all their contacts. The resulting harassment led to Kayla Clancy [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]], which Lloyd and Fred [[MockingTheMourner tormented her father over]]. Setting up in Prague and going into business with Antek Kral, the duo were soon producing videos again with local vulnerable women, while using Kral's site to ensure none of their victims videos could be taken down.
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* "A Time of Faith" two-parter: [[AngryWhiteMan Robert Olsen]] is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain White supremacist]] responsible for [[HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil the firebombing of multiple churches in the Black community]], endangering scores of civilians and successfully killing two people. After his accomplice, Jeffrey Lloyd, is caught attempting to burn down an unoccupied church by NYPD Detectives J. C. Williams and Tommy [=McNamara=], and is subsequently used as an informant, Olsen [[NeckSnap snaps Jeffrey's neck]] and [[DestinationDefenestration tosses him out the window]], resulting in his eventual arrest.

[[AC:''Series/{{FBI}}'' & ''[[Series/FBIMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' SpinOff]]

* ''Most Wanted'':

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E18Manhunt Manhunt]]": [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Darryl Kern]], also known as The Bowery Stalker, made a habit out of abducting, raping, torturing and killing women; his victims numbered at least 30. He was a [[SociopathicSoldier former soldier]] who was discharged because he believed that soldiers enjoyed killing. His journal states that he is planning to survive an upcoming radical war, and create a new generation from {{sex slave}}s, but later admits during questioning that he's simply having fun at the expense of the police. When his hideout is found, at least fifteen bodies, later 18, are found buried in his bunker alone, including 3 kids. He also has his assistant, a mentally fragile man named Posey, help him kidnap a woman and her young daughter. Kern then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills Posey]], and plans to kill his hostages before he is arrested by Canadian police.
* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E6Redemption Redemption]]": [[IntimidatingRevenueService Arthur Blessard]] claimed the lives of 21 different women before he was caught. His MO would involve using his job in the IRS to enter the women's homes, and once given access would proceed to bind them to their beds where he would then beat, rape, and even [[ImAHumanitarian bite chunks of flesh off their bodies]] before strangling them to death. He first started this in 1983, claiming seven victims in New York City before framing a [[DisabledMeansHelpless mentally disabled man]], [[KindHeartedSimpleton Roger Berry]], when the cops were closing on to him. With Roger taking the fall, Blessard went to other cities across the country killing even more women, as well as evolving from strangling to slitting throats. After hearing of Roger's release from prison, Blessard returns back to New York and kills more women there, all so he frame Roger once more and watch him return to prison.

* [[TheDon Frank Masucci]] was the franchise's first recurring villain, and one of the worst. [[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E6EverybodysFavoriteBagman Loaning out his henchman]] Antonio "Tony" Scalisi to a group of corrupt city officials, Masucci had Scalisi kill Councilman Chuck Halsey on their behalf, then had Scalisi murdered after he was released by EADA Benjamin Stone, leaving the officials to take the fall for a racket he was complicit in. Reappearing in "The Torrents of Greed" [[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E15TheTorrentsOfGreedPartOne two]]-[[Recap/LawAndOrderS1E16TheTorrentsOfGreedPartTwo parter]], Masucci and his brother-in-law Harv Biegel sent thugs to assault store owners who [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse refused to buy bootleg cigarettes]], leaving one man dead and one man crippled. Indicted for, among other crimes, the murder of Trucking Union President Russel Mackey, Masucci sabotaged the prosecution by forcing leg-breaker Joe Pilefski to perjure himself, and had Biegel killed when he became concerned his brother-in-law was getting ready to turn on him. After Biegel and Mackey's bodies--along with over a dozen others--were retrieved from a mass grave site in New Jersey, Masucci found himself re-indicted, only to be assassinated on orders from his sister, Katherine Biegel, who feared, with cause, that she was next on his hit list.

* [[FauxAffablyEvil William Lewis]], born Lewis Williams and known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Beast]]", is the ArchEnemy of Detective Olivia Benson. His [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken manner]] and [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon good looks]] hide the fact that he is a killer, rapist, and sadistic torturer. Appearing in season 14's finale "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]" and in season 15, his MO is going from state to state, under different aliases, kidnapping, raping and torturing women, regardless of age, for hours and even days on end. When he was young, he watched his babysitter get raped and killed in front of him; he describes it as the best day of his life. Eventually he kidnaps Benson, forces her to watch as he kills the father and rapes the mother of his defense attorney. After killing a cop and taking Benson to a house to rape her, he takes a maid and young girl hostage. When Benson turns the tables on him, he deliberately tries to provoke her to kill him, an experience he makes Olivia relive during his trial. After his escape, he kills another cop, rapes a nurse and kidnaps a young girl. When Benson confronts him, he takes her hostage again, but becomes turned off by his initial molestations, so he decides to force her into a game of RussianRoulette. He ends up fatally shooting himself as one last way of tormenting Olivia, [[ThanatosGambit figuring she'll be accused of his murder]].

[[AC:{{Crossover}}s]]
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]"[[/labelnote]] & ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 4's "For God and Country"[[/labelnote]]: [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Nathaniel Rausch]] (only appearing in "For God and Country") is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 Black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all Black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch [[MakeAnExampleOfThem kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking]], with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".
* ''Series/ChicagoFire'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 3's "Nobody Touches Anything"[[/labelnote]]; ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 16's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E7ChicagoCrossover Chicago Crossover]]"[[/labelnote]]; ''Series/ChicagoPD'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 2's "They'll Have to Go Through Me"[[/labelnote]]: [[WouldHurtAChild Bob Clinton]] (only appearing in "Chicago Crossover") is the {{sadist}}ic "middle man" of the "Chess and Checkers Club", a depraved child pornography ring which exploits troubled street children and orphans. Getting children from a local youth center, Clinton [[MurderDotCom livestreams]] the abuse, torture, and rape he inflicts on them, with pedophiles from around world adding their own recommendations of what disgusting and vile sex acts they want said kids to experience. Clinton [[EvilGloating taunts his victims]] before the livestreams begin and draws out their pain, and in the past had even been responsible for forcing Detective Lindsey's brother into this and totally destroying him. Clinton has done this to dozens of kids over fifteen years and is even stopped right before he attempts to rape his latest victim.

* "Refuge" [[Recap/LawAndOrderS9E23RefugePartOne two]]-[[Recap/LawAndOrderS9E24RefugePartTwo parter]]: [[TheMafiya Constantin Volsky]] 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, [[WouldHurtAChild 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, [[ForTheEvulz just for giggles]].

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]"[[/labelnote]] & ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 4's "For God and Country"[[/labelnote]]: [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Rausch]] (only appearing in "For God and Country") is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch [[MakeAnExampleOfThem kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking]], with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".

* [[FauxAffablyEvil William Lewis]], born Lewis Williams and known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFrom the Beast]]", is the ArchEnemy of Detective Olivia Benson. His [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken manner]] and [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon good looks]] hide the fact that he is a killer, rapist, and sadistic torturer. Appearing in season 14's finale "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]" and in season 15, his MO is going from state to state, under different aliases, kidnapping, raping and torturing women, regardless of age, for hours and even days on end. When he was young, he watched his babysitter get raped and killed in front of him; he describes it as the best day of his life. Eventually he kidnaps Benson, forces her to watch as he kills the father and rapes the mother of his defense attorney. After killing a cop and taking Benson to a house to rape her, he takes a maid and young girl hostage. When Benson turns the tables on him, he deliberately tries to provoke her to kill him, an experience he makes Olivia relive during his trial. After his escape, he kills another cop, rapes a nurse and kidnaps a young girl. When Benson confronts him, he takes her hostage again, but becomes turned off by his initial molestations, so he decides to force her into a game of RussianRoulette. He ends up fatally shooting himself as one last way of tormenting Olivia, [[ThanatosGambit figuring she'll be accused of his murder]].

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E15Execution Execution]]": [[GunmanWithThreeNames Matthew Linwood Brodus]] was a criminal on DeathRow. Prior to being captured, he was a killer and rapist who kidnapped women from different places and took them to his hideout. From there he would not only rape, but also [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] them for several hours. The victims would succumb to this and die, at which point he would continue to [[ILoveTheDead rape their corpses]]. He has done this to at least 12 women, with the bodies mutilated and disfigured beyond identification. Before his execution could be performed, another victim appeared where he blinded her as well as performing his usual MO. When Detective Elliot Stabler sought to get a confession out him so that the victim's family could get closure, Brodus not only confessed to the deed, while showing absolutely no remorse about it, but as a way to [[HopeSpot spite him and the family]] he attacks the detective where prison guards to come then came and brutally beat him down severely injuring him, thus temporarily avoiding his execution.

* "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E15UndercoverMother Undercover Mother]]" & "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E23SurrenderingNoah Surrendering Noah]]": [[HumanTraffickers Johnny Drake, alias Johnny D.]] is a brutal sex trafficker and rapist, having spent the past two decades kidnapping women and [[SexSlave selling them into prostitution]]. Often, Johnny would rape them himself or order his men to gang rape them. One of his victims was a young woman named Eli, with whom he conceived a child. When first arrested, Johnny is caught with four prisoners in his hideout, taking one of them at gunpoint. Johnny is charged with seventeen accounts of kidnapping, rape and trafficking, but learns of his son Noah, whom Benson is adopting; he decides to use Noah as his ticket to freedom, making Benson out to be a woman with a vendetta, and seeks parental rights for Noah to spite Benson's wish not have Noah be part of that kind of life. To intimidate his witnesses, he has one of his pimps murdered, but when five of them testify anyways, he snaps in court, taking one officer hostage, and shooting another officer and the judge, before [[CopKiller killing said hostage]] and attempting to kill Detective Nick Amaro.

Although the ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' franchise features countless people who 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 a motive one can sympathize with]]. Some {{serial killer}}s, {{serial rapist}}s, and others, however, have the (dis)honor to be called a [[CompleteMonster monster]].

* [[TheMafiya Constantin Volsky]], from season 9's [[Recap/LawAndOrderS9E23RefugePartOne two]]-[[Recap/LawAndOrderS9E24RefugePartTwo part]] finale "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, [[WouldHurtAChild 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, [[ForTheEvulz just for giggles]].
* [[WouldHitAGirl Mark Bruner]], from season 14's premier "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS14E1Bodies Bodies]]", raped and murdered no fewer 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 [[KickTheDog 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.
* [[SpreeKiller Leon Vorgitch]], from season 17's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS17E9Deadlock Deadlock]]", was in prison for killing five people. He then kills two guards and escape from prison. When the detectives come for him, there are even more deaths, including several [[WouldHurtAChild students]] from a classroom Vorgitch had taken hostage. 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.

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* [[FromCamouflageToCriminal Darryl Kern]], also known as The Bowery Stalker, from season 2's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E18Manhunt Manhunt]]", made a habit out of abducting, raping, torturing and killing women; his victims numbered at least 30. He was a [[SociopathicSoldier former soldier]] who was discharged because he believed that soldiers enjoyed killing. His journal states that he is planning to survive an upcoming radical war, and create a new generation from {{sex slave}}s, but later admits during questioning that he's simply having fun at the expense of the police. When his hideout is found, at least fifteen bodies, later 18, are found buried in his bunker alone, including 3 kids. He also has his assistant, a mentally fragile man named Posey, help him kidnap a woman and her young daughter. Kern then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills Posey]], and plans to kill his hostages before he is arrested by Canadian police.
* [[IntimidatingRevenueService Arthur Blessard]], from season 3's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E6Redemption Redemption]]", claimed the lives of 21 different women before he was caught. His MO would involve using his job in the IRS to enter the women's homes, and once given access would proceed to bind them to their beds where he would then beat, rape, and even [[ImAHumanitarian bite chunks of flesh off their bodies]] before strangling them to death. He first started this in 1983, claiming seven victims in New York City before framing a [[DisabledMeansHelpless mentally disabled man]], [[KindHeartedSimpleton Roger Berry]], when the cops were closing on to him. With Roger taking the fall, Blessard went to other cities across the country killing even more women, as well as evolving from strangling to slitting throats. After hearing of Roger's release from prison, Blessard returns back to New York and kills more women there, all so he frame Roger once more and watch him return to prison.
* [[GunmanWithThreeNames Matthew Linwood Brodus]], from season 3's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS3E15Execution Execution]]", was a criminal on death row. Prior to being captured, he was a killer and rapist who kidnapped women from different places and took them to his hideout. From there he would not only rape, but also [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] them for several hours. The victims would succumb to this and die, at which point he would continue to [[ILoveTheDead rape their corpses]]. He has done this to at least 12 women, with the bodies mutilated and disfigured beyond identification. Before his execution could be performed, another victim appeared where he blinded her as well as performing his usual MO. When Detective Elliot Stabler sought to get a confession out him so that the victim's family could get closure, Brodus not only confessed to the deed, while showing absolutely no remorse about it, but as a way to [[HopeSpot spite him and the family]] he attacks the detective where prison guards to come then came and brutally beat him down severely injuring him, thus temporarily avoiding his execution.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Charlie Baker]], from season 4's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS4E20Dominance Dominance]]", had in the past raped his brother Billy, and then beat up his alcoholic father when they were caught; Charlie continues to beat his father. [[SpreeKiller In the span of a week]], Charlie has either killed, or manipulated the weak-willed Billy into killing, around 10 people, but not before forcing them to have sex with each other first. Then he kidnapped two women, killed their boyfriends, and kept them captive on a roof.
* [[ConMan Eugene Hoff]], alias [[MeaningfulRename Abraham Ophion]], from season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E7Charisma Charisma]]", is the pedophilic leader of a {{cult}} of his 100 followers, which included his preteen victims and their families. Hoff separates the married couples, because he said that they couldn't be soldiers of God if they were slaves to the flesh, and uses all the women and girls of his cult for sexual favors, fathering 1 living and 6 dead children with them. His earliest victim was a 4-year-old Jamie Buchman, who her father caught in the same room with a near-naked Hoff, causing his family to leave the church. Growing paranoid, Hoff began to prepare his followers for war, filling their heads with the idea of the U.S. Government coming to kill them. He was also a greedy man, killing John Cramer and lying to his wife for John's million-dollar bank account and only keeping his latest victim Melanie alive so he can claim her two-million-dollar trust fund after their baby is born. Hoff is ultimately a depraved individual who [[BlasphemousBoast believes himself to be greater than God]].
* [[GunmanWithThreeNames Victor Paul Gitano]], from season 7's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS7E19Fault Fault]]", was a pedophile who lured kids in, regardless of gender, then raped, tortured, and killed them, He had previously molested a 9-year-old-girl, and had also raped and brutally tortured a 12-year-old boy. 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 [[SlashedThroat slashing the 9-year-old's throat]], but 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 only 7, 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. Even as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Gitano was bad, having claimed to have sexually assaulted over a dozen children. He is described as not a "classic" pedophile, but as a "{{sadist}}...[who]...chooses children because they're just easier to control."
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Luke Dixon]], from season 8's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E5Confrontation Confrontation]]", is among the more heinous rapists in the series. As he thinks that children with imperfections shouldn't be accepted by the public, he tries to create a "MasterRace" by impregnating his victims. He operates by using master keys to break in his victims house, forcing them to urinate so he could know their menstrual cycles, and raping them again at the day of ovulation. Dixon has done so to 19 women, including one that he murdered after she confronted him, and another who has been raped thrice and [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide due to the emotional trauma]]. Finally, before getting arrested, Dixon attempted to kill Detective Dani Beck with a knife. With the unique nature of his crimes taking RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil to a new level, Luke Dixon, despite not having an inordinately large number of victims, managed to stand out in a series dealing with sexual crimes.
* [[WouldHitAGirl Adam Grafton]], from season 12's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E17Pursuit Pursuit]]", is a sadistic killer and rapist with over forty victims to his name over at least 25 years. Starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Adam would claim his victims—some of whom, including TV host Alicia Harding's younger sister Vanessa, were in their mid-teens at most--in clumps and paralyze them from the chest down by stabbing them in a certain area, rape them repeatedly, and viciously stab them to death to finish them off, but not before stabbing them in their lung, collapsing it and preventing the victim from screaming for help. In the present day, Adam's obsessed with mentally toying with Alicia about his role in her sister's death by stalking her and sending her bloody pieces of old evidence from the case. When Alicia insults him on live TV, Adam flies into a rage and brutally murders EADA Sonya Paxton, including before trying to hunt down and murder Alicia, which leads to his arrest. At the end of the episode, even on death row, he coldly and smugly, if not gleefully, tells Detective Benson about all the women he's killed without so much as a hint of remorse.

* [[HumanTraffickers Johnny Drake, alias Johnny D.]], from season 16's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E15UndercoverMother Undercover Mother]]" and the season finale "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS16E23SurrenderingNoah Surrendering Noah]]", is a brutal sex trafficker and rapist, having spent the past two decades kidnapping women and [[SexSlave selling them into prostitution]]. Often, Johnny would rape them himself or order his men to gang rape them. One of his victims was a young woman named Eli, with whom he conceived a child. When first arrested, Johnny is caught with four prisoners in his hideout, taking one of them at gunpoint. Johnny is charged with seventeen accounts of kidnapping, rape and trafficking, but learns of his son Noah, whom Benson is adopting; he decides to use Noah as his ticket to freedom, making Benson out to be a woman with a vendetta, and seeks parental rights for Noah to spite Benson's wish not have Noah be part of that kind of life. To intimidate his witnesses, he has one of his pimps murdered, but when five of them testify anyways, he snaps in court, taking one officer hostage, and shooting another officer and the judge, before [[CopKiller killing said hostage]] and attempting to kill Detective Nick Amaro.

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* [[ManipulativeBastard Tommy Onerato]], from season 4's "Death Roe", is a cruel master manipulator who runs a successful restaurant with his daughter and son-in-law, who had recently gone missing. When a restaurant food critic is killed [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because she gave a previous--and later to be discovered poisoned--meal at the eatery a bad review]], he allows his daughter's husband to take the blame because it appears that he did it in order to save the restaurant. While it is initially suspected that the son-in-law either is on the run or had committed suicide, it's later discovered that Onerato killed the man himself [[CruelAndUnusualDeath and put his remains through a meat grinder]], due to him both trying to break away and start his own restaurant and a family with his daughter, whom we later learn he had been [[ParentalIncest sexually abusing since she was a little girl]] to the point that he looks at her only as a sex object instead of his own flesh and blood. He then tells her that it was a good thing not to become pregnant, viciously telling her that ChildrenAreAWaste. Even as he is arrested for both murders, it's still seen as a [[PyrrhicVictory hollow victory]], as he has still managed to ruin the business and the daughter's livelihood, leave her a psychologically damaged young widow and boast to her as he was being led away that [[IfICantHaveYou no one else will ever want her once the truth comes out about the true nature of their relationship]].
* [[WouldHitAGirl Frank [=McNare=]]], from season 4's "Shibboleth", nicknamed Body By Jake or BBJ, killed physically fit young women by stripping them down to their underwear and hog-tying them up by their necks and right ankle, and, when they would get tired of holding their position, they would strangle themselves. He had eluded the authorities since the 1980s and would send taunting letters to them over the years saying they were too stupid to capture him. While killing his most recent victim, he had called the cops ''before'' her death with the anticipation that she would, [[SoundOnlyDeath only for the dispatcher to hear the woman's last words being her begging for her life]]. [=McNare=] had abruptly stopped the killings because he had married a woman who let him torture her, but once she was diagnosed with cancer and as was dying of the disease, he resumed the homicides. Upon finding out the son [[ParentalAbandonment he had willingly abandoned years earlier]]-—yet had refused to let his stepfather properly adopt him--was a viable suspect in the most recent killing, he was more than pleased to let him take the fall for all of them, even though the man only had knowledge of anything about it because as a child he found a picture of one of his that left his scarred. Even as the son was still willing to go to trial for six murders, Goren allowed him to overhear [=McNare=] bragging to Eames about how pathetic and weak he is and how glad he was able to get him out of his hair, not feeling the least bit remorseful for any of his actions. In being convinced by Goren that he was nothing like him, his horrified and visibly upset son gave him up and as he called him out on his behavior upon his arrest, [=McNare=] disowns him one final time.
* [[EvilMatriarch Chesley Watkins]], from season 5's "To The Bone", is a foster mother driven by {{greed}} and [[MyMasterRightOrWrong complete control/obedience of others]]. She has taken in several young boys, raised them as her own and years after they aged out and she is no longer able to collect the money for having them, brought back a few of her more loyal sons and taught them to commit robbery and murder for money. She had the men rob various homes of their valuables and [[LeaveNoSurvivors kill any and all occupants inside]] by using [[MacheteMayhem a machete.]] She then [[CopKiller sets up an investigating officer to be killed by Logan]] in a twisted effort to try and stop one of her sons involved in the crime, Antonio, from being killed and convince the man to turn himself in, before having his brothers brutally stab him anyway [[HeKnowsTooMuch before he's able to speak with detectives]]. As she and her other sons are then arrested, she throws Logan's own troubled relationship with his mother back in his face while being interrogated by him and lawyering up, refusing to answer any more questions. In a final act of power, she tricks one of her other sons, Floyd, into confessing to the crimes and in proving his loyalty one last time, he commits suicide via jumping out of a window, [[KarmaHoudini allowing her not to be charged in the murders]] and the strong belief that she will only continue to manipulate more children into killing.
* [[AntagonistTitle Dr. Abel Hazard]], from season 9's "Abel & Willing", is a [[PsychoPsychologist psychologist]] who became obsessed with pushing the limits of human goodness after learning that Nazis forced his grandfather to kill his grandmother. Hazard would kidnap innocent couples for him to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on]] before [[SadisticChoice forcing them to kill each other, or else he would kill them himself]], having already done this to eleven couples in five different cities. Even when one person chose to kill herself to save her spouse, thus disproving Hazard's theory, Hazard continues his murders anyway, [[NeverMyFault refusing to believe that he is wrong]].

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* [[SmugSnake Franklin Barnes]], from season 4's "Don't Read the News", is a family man who moonlights as a vicious SerialKiller who preys on young African-American sex workers on the South Side. After luring a girl into his car, Barnes drives them to a secluded area, where he strangles and shoots them before [[ILoveTheDead having sex with their dead body]], taking photographs all the while. In 2008, Barnes claimed at least ten lives, with his only surviving victim being Cherry, a fifteen-year-old who was rendered infertile after she was brutally assaulted and left for dead by Barnes. After seemingly taking a nearly decade-long break, Barnes resurfaces and kills three more girls, with one of them being his son Ricky's girlfriend, Grace. Barnes sets Ricky up [[FrameUp to take the fall for all of the murders]], but is caught anyway after he is recognized by Cherry. During interrogation, Barnes smugly implies that he has dozens of other victims, and when asked how he could throw his own son under the bus, coldly replies, "He'll get over it."

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 6's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E13CharmCity Charm City]]"[[/labelnote]] & ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' [[labelnote:Episode]]Season 4's "For God and Country"[[/labelnote]]: [[WesternTerrorists Colonel Alexander Rausch]] is a former intelligence officer turned [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist killer]]. He [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates the recently-laid-off Brian Egan]] into setting off a gas bomb of [[DeadlyGas silver arsenic]] on the New York Subway, killing 20 black people and injuring others. Several years earlier, he had Egan commit a similar attack on a Baltimore church, resulting in six fatalities, all black people. Once Egan is captured, Rausch kills Egan's wife to prevent him from talking, with Egan's teenage son surviving due to hiding. When captured, Rausch admits that his goal is to provoke a race war, claiming he wants "the mongrels to stop feeding on the hard work and good faith of the rest of us", and that when "you have a cancer, you cut it out".

* [[WouldHitAGirl Adam Grafton]], from season 12's "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS12E17Pursuit Pursuit]]", is a sadistic killer and rapist with over forty victims to his name over at least 25 years. Starting as a [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]], Adam would claim his victims—some of whom, including TV host Alicia Harding's younger sister Vanessa, were in their mid-teens at most--in clumps and paralyze them from the chest down by stabbing them in a certain area, rape them repeatedly, and viciously stab them to death to finish them off, but not before stabbing them in their lung, collapsing it and preventing the victim from screaming for help. In the present day, Adam's obsessed with mentally toying with Alicia about his role in her sister's death by stalking her and sending her bloody pieces of old evidence from the case. When Alicia insults him on live TV, Adam flies into a rage and brutally murders [[spoiler:EADA Sonya Paxton]], including before trying to hunt down and murder Alicia, which leads to his arrest. At the end of the episode, even on death row, he coldly and smugly, if not gleefully, tells Detective Benson about all the women he's killed without so much as a hint of remorse.

* [[EvilMatriarch Chesley Watkins]], from season 5's "To The Bone", is a foster mother driven by {{greed}} and [[MyMasterRightOrWrong complete control/obedience of others]]. She has taken in several young boys, raised them as her own and years after they aged out and she is no longer able to collect the money for having them, brought back a few of her more loyal sons and taught them to commit robbery and murder for money. She had the men rob various homes of their valuables and [[LeaveNoSurvivors kill any and all occupants inside]] by using [[MacheteMayhem a machete.]] She then [[CopKiller sets up an investigating officer to be killed by Logan]] in a twisted effort to try and stop one of her sons involved in the crime, Antonio, from being killed and convince the man to turn himself in, before having his brothers brutally stab him anyway [[HeKnowsTooMuch before he's able to speak with detectives]]. As she and her other sons are then arrested, she throws Logan's own troubled relationship with his mother back in his face while being interrogated by him and lawyering up, refusing to answer any more questions. In a final act of power, she tricks one of her other sons, Floyd, into confessing to the crimes and in proving his loyalty one last time, [[spoiler:he commits suicide via jumping out of a window]], [[KarmaHoudini allowing her not to be charged in the murders]] and the strong belief that she will only continue to manipulate more children into killing.

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* [[FauxAffablyEvil William Lewis]], known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFrom the Beast]]", is the ArchEnemy of Detective Olivia Benson. His [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken manner]] and [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon good looks]] hide the fact that he is a killer, rapist, and sadistic torturer. Appearing in season 14's finale "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS14E24HerNegotiation Her Negotiation]]" and in season 15, his MO is going from state to state, under different aliases, kidnapping, raping and torturing women, regardless of age, for hours and even days on end. When he was young, he watched his babysitter get raped and killed in front of him; he describes it as the best day of his life. Eventually he kidnaps Benson, forces her to watch as he kills the father and rapes the mother of his defense attorney. After killing a cop and taking Benson to a house to rape her, he takes a maid and young girl hostage. When Benson turns the tables on him, he deliberately tries to provoke her to kill him, an experience he makes Olivia relive during his trial. After his escape, he kills another cop, rapes a nurse and kidnaps a young girl. When Benson confronts him, he takes her hostage again, but becomes turned off by his initial molestations, so he decides to force her into a game of RussianRoulette. He ends up fatally shooting himself as one last way of tormenting Olivia, [[ThanatosGambit figuring she'll be accused of his murder]].