Killer Cop - TV Tropes. This person's motivations may range anywhere from monetary gain to exacting a form of street justice. Either way, expect this person to be much more dangerous than your average killer.
He (or she) may also be a civilian employee, such as a forensics expert or something. Also, if the Killer Cop is an officer, their murders are obviously committed for a reason other than to maintain a cover identity. Either the killer is a forensics expert and cleaned up so thoroughly that they got rid of the evidence or they are a savvy police officer who has investigated many crime scenes and knows how to avoid leaving evidence in the first place. Note: This is not always a given, as a Serial Killer who isn't a member of law enforcement can avoid leaving evidence as well. The amount of evidence against the person will likely lead the viewer to two conclusions. That a calculating TV Serial Killer wouldn't be stupid enough to leave that much evidence against themselves, meaning the suspect isn't the killer and. The real killer has such intimate knowledge of evidence and police work that they must be a member of law enforcement.
Like the first sign, this isn't a given, as it is possible to research forensics. The inverse of a Cop Killer, although the two tropes sometimes overlap.
Often a subtrope of The Bad Guys Are Cops. However, if they appear in a murder mystery, they probably will. He murders a suspect after he repeatedly gets Off on a Technicality and begins to do it more often. Given the legal structure in the Dredd universe, this overlaps with Hanging Judge. Eradicate life, eradicate crime. Several senior Judges used to be part of an extralegal killing squad known as the Citizens' Court, to kill criminals who fell through the cracks of the justice system. The leader made the mistake of assuming Green Arrow would agree with his crusade.
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The former is a honest cop turned into a deranged anti- cop, and latter is a Serial Killer masquerading as a police officer. He uses guns already tagged as evidence in other crimes to rob and kill drug dealers.
Ironically, the one character he doesn't kill is his partner, played by Tupac Shakur. One of the brothers is a detective. Notably, the officer (while obviously unhinged) only killed by accident, and feels extremely conflicted about trying to murder the witnesses. Stream Bandit online in english in QHD 21:9 more.
Serial killer Zeng Kaigui targeted his victims as they left with cash, shooting them and running away with their money. State’s Attorney faces tough fight to keep . Cops kill hundreds of people every year, and hardly ever are brought up on criminal charges. In the wake of Ferguson. Police brought an accused kidnapper back to his South Carolina farmland Saturday, as they feared they could have a serial killer on their hands.
After searching the entire island with infrared sensors, the FBI trainees rule out anyone else being on the island, and realize the killer is one of their own. And then it turns out that they ARE the police, having used their job to murder drug dealers and steal the crack. Mark Judd from the film Fallen Angel. It appears the Serial Killers hunted by the protagonist, ex- cop turned private eye Matthew Scudder, are with the Drug Enforcement Agency because they have police radios and DEA files on their victims. However Scudder says they're too crazy to have got into the DEA, and suggests they were civilian employees who briefly had access to the files. Later Scudder discovers one of their victims was an undercover DEA agent who had the files on her.
The Nightingale Killer from Frequency is a serial killer of women who turns out to be a fairly respected cop. Requiem, the killer who was framing Joe Pike turned out to be the guy who pushed the mail cart at police headquarters. In Demolition Angel, the person who murdered Charlie Riggio was his own partner on the Bomb Squad, Buck Daggett. In The Two Minute Rule, the man who murdered the four officers was William Cecil of the FBI Bank Squad. The protagonist from Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.
He even manages to do it in a way that causes multiple witnesses - police officers themselves - to honestly believe that the victim was shot in self- defense when he attempted to resist arrest. His purpose in so doing was to frame the person he believed was really the Boston Strangler. He had worked the original murder case and didn't believe that the person who confessed was really the killer. He also went after one in season four, a cop who'd killed her own husband and daughter and made it look like a robbery gone foul.
She was a particularly hard target because her experience allowed her to suspect Dexter was up to something pretty early on. Not a cop, but still a CSI.
The Reaper was a serial killer who had stopped killing for ten years, then started killing again. In the original run of murders, he had killed a bunch of people, but left one victim alive. Ten years later, that victim was hiding from The Reaper by living at a number of different addresses and switching between them. At one of The Reaper's crime scenes, he left the victim's address numbers written on windows in blood, leading you to think that the lead detective from the local police department might be The Reaper.
Occasionally those victims die, but he is honored as a hero cop. He tries to kill Peneloppe when he thinks she is on to him. He is completely unaware of this until he compares the bullet found at the scene to one in his gun. They end up committing several murders themselves. Plays with this as it isn't revealed that he's a cop until late on. The investigation is suspended because of . Later, it turns out that the killer was a cop who frequently solicited male prostitutes, and the reason the investigation was shut down so quickly was because the killer, in a state of panic after having committed a murder by mistake, goes to his ex- partner and long- time friend, Police Chief Stockwell, and begs for help.
The very first suspect the Major Crimes Squad is ordered to investigate is a police officer who allegedly made a threat to blow up the building. It turns out the whole thing was an argument blown out of proportion, and the officer had nothing to do with the bombing. Ironically the police rank- and- file are as willing to believe the rumor as anyone. The trope is later played straight as he tries to abduct someone and gets shot by another Corrupt Cop. He has Emergency Service Unit officers who are so dirty that they're willing to murder fellow officers who aren't on the take or become liabilities. After surviving an explosion, his sanity begins slipping, causing him to kill fellow detective Oscar Clemmons and attack Trish and Jessica.
He kills Chico Diaz when Chico prepares to snitch on Cottonmouth. Bonus points for the supernatural powers that helped him avoid leaving evidence. In the Adventure Game. Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, the killer turns out to be Ryan O'Reily, the detective working on the case. The real killer is not just a killer cop, but a killer police chief. Not to mention killer prosecutors Manfred von Karma and Godot and Jacques Portsman and killer defense attorneys Calisto Yew and Kristoph Gavin. And as of Dual Destinies, detective Bobby Fulbright, who is actually The Mole, and not even a real detective.
In Heavy Rain, it's eventually discovered that the Origami Killer is a retired police officer. Specifically, Scott Shelby. Manny Pardo from Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has a penchant for slaughtering gangsters and innocents as the Miami Mutilator. One of the killer's Atari- esque sprites in the random after- death minigames depicts him with what appears to be a gold badge (which he also has in his Easter Egg appearance in 4), the minigames depicting the murders are implied to have happened the week before the game, and on Night 5 Phone Guy all but states outright that the guard was arrested under suspicion. A lot of police officers aren't even charged with murders committed while on- duty. This was discovered after a visual reconstruction of the offender was created.
Some say Dexter was inspired by him. He killed 5. 4 people one day in 1. South Korea, and then blew himself up, along with his two final victims. The two became partners in crime, pulling people over and robbing them in her squad car. They eventually committed a violent robbery of a Vietnamese restaurant where Frank worked off- duty as a security guard. Lacaze shot and killed Officer Richard Williams, another NOPD officer moonlighting as a security guard for the restaurant, while Frank shot two of the owners' family, and tried to kill a third before other police arrived. Frank was convicted for her role in the triple- murder and was sentenced to death.
After she was sentenced, evidence came up suggesting that she'd killed her father about a year before the robbery and buried his body under her house, but the authorities chose not to prosecute her since she was already on death row.