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  • Complete Monster: The despicable Miguel Maldonado is one of the few killers in the show whose evil is clear from the get-go. A gang leader and a swaggering thug who happily uses his own devoted girlfriend as a Human Shield, nobody testifies against Miguel for fear of lethal reprisal. In 1999, Miguel stole a scooter from a kid named Patrick Bubley, and murdered his older brother just for trying to get the scooter back. This kicked off a long-standing feud between him and the Bubleys that would lead to most of the family dying: Miguel killed Patrick's second eldest brother for standing up to him, his third for dealing on the wrong street, and his fourth who gives up his life in a futile attempt at retribution. In his cruelest move, Miguel torments the Bubleys' mother, Maeve, by forcing her to have sex with him in exchange for the location of one of her sons' bodies, then gets her hooked on cocaine to keep her as his Sex Slave. Even the team is notably put off by Miguel's atrocities: "Four boys dead. All over a scooter".

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