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Serial Killings, Specific Target

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Serial Killings, Specific Target	comment	A killer has a particular target in mind but wants to avoiding drawing attention to their death specifically for whatever reason, usually to conceal the true motive for the murder. So they decide to disguise the specific murder and its motive by killing a bunch of other people who share characteristics with the intended target in order to make the killings look like the work of a serial killer, and thus throw the detectives off the scent. Related to Crime After Crime, another trope that often involves secondary murders surrounding a primary one, but with a crucial difference: with Crime After Crime, the killer ends up having to commit additional murders that weren't originally planned (e.g. of witnesses and/or blackmailers) in order to conceal the first murder, while with Serial Killings, Specific Target, the murderer plans right from the start to kill the extra victims simply to create a smokescreen for the primary murder. This trope therefore represents another level of heinousness and is very likely to push the killer over the Moral Event Horizon. Subtrope of Serial Killer and Smokescreen Crime. Related to Make It Look Like an Accident and the Inverted form of Murder by Mistake, both of which are other ways to disguise the significance of a murder victim. Compare Needle in a Needle Stack, a trope about hiding something among things that look similar, so that even if it's noticed, people won't think it's special. Compare Trial Run Crime. BE WARNED: Spoilers abound on this page.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_10960116	comment	Coreline: A Tale Of Two Maris offers a case where the "specific target" isn't any of the people being killed; the murder is attempting to frame Captain Makinami for their crimes by targeting villains that resemble the Joker R gang in order to make it appear she's attempting a pre-emptive strike upon the gang. Oh, and they're sprinkling in some innocent victims as "collateral damage" as well.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_119af31d	comment	In the second volume of Batman: Earth One, the Riddler is a Mad Bomber who commits seemingly random acts of mass murder. However, Batman discovers that the Riddler is actually attempting to kill the four other crime bosses who control Gotham's underworld after the death of the Penguin, and killing a ton of innocent people in the process hides that his bombings are targeted assassinations. So too does his riddle theme, which hides his true motives, since, unlike most incarnations, he doesn't care at all if you answer his riddles correctly or not.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_126fd213	comment	Peter Gunn: "The Crossbow" centers around three seemingly random murders (an elderly recluse, a carnival fire-eater, and a judge) who were killed by a stolen crossbow. Suspicion falls on the weapon's owner, who was having problems with the judge concerning a possible property acquisition. However, a fourth murder happens while the owner is being detained by police. That death, along with forged checks found at the judge's murder scene, leads Gunn to the real killer - the judge's disillusioned son, who used the checks to support a gambling habit.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_1370761	comment	Scream Queens (2015): In one episode, Dean Munsch's ex-husband is brutally murdered, and the evidence ultimately points to his current girlfriend, who ends up institutionalized. We find out at the end of the episode, however, that the Dean herself did it, taking advantage of the Red Devil killings as a cover, all so that she could get revenge on her ex and the student for whom he left her. Bizarrely, the other murders seemed to be completely irrelevant. Munsch gets away with it, but no one seems to seriously believe that Feather is the Red Devil.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In "Raw", a sniper shoots several children playing in their school's yard. One of the murdered children is the authentic target; the sniper shot the others intentionally to muddy the waters and make it seem like a random crime.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_191fdda0	comment	In Brookmyre's A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, the chief villain kills everyone on a passenger jet simply in order to fake his own death.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_1b7190c7	comment	Jack Reacher (the adaptation of the novel One Shot) has Reacher discover the first victim in a mass shooting was simply a test-fire to verify the shooting conditions for the sniper, the second was the real victim, the remaining three were to disguise the targeted kill as a random mass shooting. The apparent "miss" was to provide a pristine bullet that could be linked to the patsy being framed for the whole thing.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2101f81a	comment	Charlie's Angels: "The Sandcastle Murders", whose villain plans to kill his wife to inherit her property and chooses to kill several women of similar appearance first (at one point targeting Kris) to evade suspicion.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_21a6320c	comment	In the Red features a serial killer targeting bank managers. It turns out that he has a particular motive for the death of one specific bank manager, and all the other killings are just to disguise that connection.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_21f00169	comment	In the Lord Darcy book Ten Little Wizards, wizards are murdered in seemingly impossible ways with taunting references to a rhyme similar to that in And Then There Were None. The intent was to make one deliberate murder of a wizard appear to be another locked-room mystery, instead of pointing to the wizard's entourage.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: In "Page Turner," the killer poisons his wife with thallium and then coats a book in the library where she works with it, knowing that others will be exposed. After another two people die, he launches a lawsuit against the city and the library.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_22b62a34	comment	DCI Banks: In "Innocent Graves", the killer murders a second girl using exactly the same M.O. as his first killing. The second killing is designed to make it look like a serial killer is at work.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2717dc7e	comment	Miss Congeniality: This is the Big Bad's plan to get away with murdering the winner of the "Miss United States" beauty pageant: they set the whole thing up to look like it was committed by a notorious serial killer calling themselves "The Citizen". This plan backfires when "The Citizen" is captured by the FBI partway through the film, leaving the villains to improvise a new set of possible notes that would frame other criminals for the attack.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2ab52cee	comment	In The ABC Murders, the killer sets up an alphabetical motif: someone whose name begins with A is killed in a city that begins with A, and so forth. The "C" murder is the significant one; the victim is a wealthy man, killed by his brother in order to inherit his vast estate. The work is something of a modern Trope Codifier, as some later works have referred to serial killings hiding a motive for killing a specific target as "A.B.C. murders."
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2ba48a26	comment	In the pilot of Castle, the killer murders his sister for her money, then stages the murder to look like something out of one of Castle's books and commits two similar murders so it'll look like one of her clients — who's obsessed with the books — did it. Castle sums up the trope beautifully:
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2ce70ac5	comment	In the Kung Fu Panda story The Eyes of the Wolverine, the initial turning point of the story occurs when it is revealed that the kung fu assassin that is being hunted down is targeting the main character, Jo.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2e621178	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2e621178	comment	A case in The Good Wife involved a man who had seemingly murdered his ex-wife by shooting her before committing a series of similar sniper attacks against other women (and one man) in order to deflect suspicion away from himself and make it look like his ex was simply the victim of a serial killer. But then it turns out that he didn't kill his ex or anyone else, and that there really is a serial killer, one with a pattern (he met all of the female victims through dating websites, so they all had the same astrological sign) and everything. Investigators had failed to discern this earlier because of how wholeheartedly convinced they were that the prime suspect did it and because the male victim (who the killer had accidentally shot while aiming at someone else) threw them off.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2fe9c4b0	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_2fe9c4b0	comment	In Days of Our Lives, the Salem Stalker killed one woman (who was going to marry the man she loved) and was forced to keep killing people in order to cover up the murders.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_311d8bb5	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_311d8bb5	comment	Three Act Tragedy has one that is disguised as a Crime After Crime. An aged clergyman is killed by poison, and a respectable doctor is killed in a similar fashion at a different party that involves the same guest list. This is meant to mislead the investigators to think that the first victim was the intended target, and the second one has discovered something about the killer and has to be silenced. In fact, the intended victim is the second one, and the first one was randomly chosen. A mystery for much of the story was that the first murder seemed to lack a motive, as nobody benefited from the death and the clergyman had no known foes. It turned out that the killer just needed a random victim and let fate decide who would drink the poison.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_31e24f1e	comment	In Joker: The Devil's Advocate, The Joker is framed for murder when several people come into contact with stamps laced with his trademark Joker venom. The real culprit was a businessman who wanted to get rid of his wife without a messy divorce and had access to a stockpile of Joker venom that was stashed in a warehouse he owned. The scheme falls apart once Batman discovers that particular bit of info during his investigation. Batman is hindered throughout by the fact that everyone else around him wants the Joker to be executed and finally gone regardless of his actual guilt. And to top it off the Joker himself wonâ€™t cooperate with Batmanâ€™s investigation.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_342c4c18	comment	Modesty Blaise: In "The Grim Joker", the Goodchild brothers commit a series of bizarre murders designed to look like the work of a madman. They intend to murder their uncle as the last victim so they can inherit his fortune. Unfortunately for them, they choose Willie Garvin as their penultimate victim.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_3436775c	comment	The Medium episode "A Cure For What Ails You" combined this with "Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder: 5 strangers, all of whom wanted someone close to them dead meet in an airport lobby due to a delayed flight. One of them works as a chemist and suggests poisoning them with tainted painkillers: since none of the people have any connection between them, the deaths would be blamed on a single tamperer a la the Tylenol poisonings.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_36f5e759	comment	In The Maze Agency story "The Return of Jack the Ripper?", a random—nearly fatal—mugging attempt on one member of the Ripperologists gives a member the inspiration to kill their intended victim then try to kill the other members of the club to make it look like an organised series of attacks (including the first, unrelated attack).
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_39e45334	comment	Poirot: "The ABC Murders" and "Three Act Tragedy" both feature a murderer deliberately targeting other people to conceal their true motivations for the one murder that actually mattered to them. (See Literature above).
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_4091eb35	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_4091eb35	comment	Played with in After the Funeral. A wealthy man dies seemingly of natural causes. At his funeral, one of the family members, a reclusive aunt, strongly implies he was actually murdered. She is met with confusion and disbelief, but the next day she ends up dead - ostensibly because she knew too much. The villain's plan was actually to pull a Kill and Replace on the reclusive aunt all along. They never even murdered the wealthy man at all (who really did die of natural causes). But by masquerading as the real aunt at the funeral and implying he was murdered, they could gain all the benefits of this trope.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_40b27fe3	comment	Fargo: Season Three: V.M. Varga, seeking to assert his control over Emmit Stussey following the death of Emmit's brother Ray, has Meemo kill two men named Stussy in St. Cloud and Eden Valley in ways that mimic the deaths of Ennis and Ray. He does this to make it seem like all four were killed by a very unusual serial killer and, in doing so, voids Emmit's confession to his brother's death. He even hires a willing patsy who "confesses" to the whole thing.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_40b4d50d	comment	Father Brown: One of the earliest examples (though the disguise is an intentionally provoked military battle rather than a serial killing) is "The Sign Of The Broken Sword" (1911) by G. K. Chesterton. In his own words:
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_41547877	comment	Not exactly a serial killing, but Towards Zero has a case where the murder victim and the intended target are not the same. Instead, the criminal murders an old lady and tries to ensure that their intended victim be charged with the crime and hanged for it.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_446532c8	comment	Marcella: The series 1 killer is this. Henry Gibson only intended to kill Grace but covers it up by killing others to impersonate the plastic bag killer.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_4dcec435	comment	Downplayed in The Body in the Library, in which one additional victim is killed so that the murderers can swap the two bodies and burn one of them beyond recognition, confusing the investigators. In this case, the intended victim was seen as a prospective heiress for a man who viewed her as a surrogate daughter. The other victim was a random teenage girl with a coincidental resemblance to the intended victim. The killers counted on people confusing the identities of two nearly identical victims.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_5194858f	comment	Emmett attempts to invoke this when he plans to murder Belinda in Silverblade #2. He dresses as the killer from the Slasher Movie Quack Killers and plans to leave behind the mask and shotgun so the police will think it is a crazed fan rather than someone with a specific grudge against Belinda.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_58af2679	comment	Played with in The Silence of the Lambs. The villain is a Serial Killer, but what he's trying to cover up is the death of his first victim, who is connected to him. He hid her body more thoroughly than his later victims, so it was only discovered after the police had established that a random pattern serial killer was at work, thus preventing them realising the relevance of that crime until much later.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_60f95f8	comment	Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of Santa's Beard", two men dressed as Santa are killed, seemingly at random. Several large department stores then receive extortion letters warning that their Santa will be murdered in their store unless they make a large cash payment to the killer. However, the first two Santas were the intended victims all along, and the extortion attempt is a smokescreen.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: In "The Winds of Change", the murderer Peter Mossop killed his best friend Joe Tellford before murdering his wife Jennifer, because he knew that if suspicion fell on him following his wife's death, no one would believe that he would have killed his best friend.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_625e571	comment	In the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Poison", Trudy Pomeranski uses poisoned OTC painkillers to murder her husband and then plants them on store shelves so that she can sue the manufacturer while appearing to be just another grieving relative. This episode was inspired by the Tylenol murders.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_64494e71	comment	An episode of Walker, Texas Ranger dealt with a man and woman hitman pair who covered up their targets by killing 7 other random people alongside their target. Their current target is ADA Alex Cahill.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_6a57803d	comment	The Streets of San Francisco: In "Legion of the Lost", Roy Richardson is a greedy businessman who seeks to ensure that the rightful heir of his boatyard corporation, Paul Thomas, never claims his inheritance. Knowing Paul is currently homeless and living among vagrants, Richardson has his hatchet man, Terry, go about beating homeless men to death over the course of several nights, leaving three bodies in his wake. Richardson then tries to have Paul himself beaten to death, hoping for it to look like just another serial killing, and Paul's best friend Jake is killed in the process.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_6cbac6bb	comment	The Moving Finger has another variation. The killer sends anonymous letters with false accusations to everyone in town, which leads one woman to seemingly commit suicide. It was actually murder, of course, and the letters were sent to distract from the intended target in the vein of this trope.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_6f734712	comment	In the Smallville fic Does One Kiss Change Everything?, Lois and Chloe explicitly use The ABC Murders as an example when investigating murders committed by Wallace Echolls, a meteor freak with the ability to phase through solid objects who killed multiple victims to ensure he wouldn't be suspected of murdering his parents for the inheritance. When he tries to kill Lois after she identifies him as the guilty party, Clark captures Wallace and traps him in the Phantom Zone.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_796aa60f	comment	Wolverine & Gambit: Victims: One of the victims of the London serial killer is actually Big Bad Arcade's loyal assistant Miss Locke. Arcade lost control and accidentally killed her, and the murders that followed are intended to disguise what happened. Even his ally Martinique is unaware of the truth, and thinks Arcade's seeking revenge on the heroes, not trying to frame them for his own crime. She quits when she discovers the truth.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_7ae0b293	comment	Invoked in Bedlam as a possible motive for a series of bombings with no apparent connection. Criminal profiler Fillmore Press first thinks the bomber might be "burying his treasure" and compares it to a shell game — which cup is the ball under? Subverted in that he dismisses this idea as too organized, feeling that the bomber is striking randomly to show that he can hit anywhere.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_7c8b61ad	comment	Immortal X-Men: Mister Sinister, who has a seat on the mutant nation Krakoa's ruling Quiet Council, tries to kill as many of his fellow councillors as he can. Partly because it makes the next stage of his plot easier, but mostly because it hides the fact that his one essential target is Hope, who's key to the nation's Resurrective Immortality programme. He eventually succeeds, and his success sets up the Sins of Sinister storyline.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_7df0e02c	comment	Starman: Mad Bomber the Infernal Doctor Pip was hired by a member of the Sloane family to kill his wife with a bomb and to keep setting up explosives in populated areas to cover his tracks, which Pip was happy to oblige.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_7fe745c0	comment	The serial killer in Murder is Easy kills anyone who is in any way disliked by their real target, with the ultimate goal of pinning all the murders on him. If that sounds completely insane, that's because it is.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_8095ea4e	comment	Played with in Happy Death Day; the killer is trying to eliminate the main protagonist, a college student, and not only does she have no qualms about murdering anyone in her path, but she willingly releases a known serial killer notorious for targeting co-eds from custody to create a fall guy should she succeed and/or to have a backup plan should she fail.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: The serial killer targeting elderly couples in the "Blades" story arc from Legends of the Dark Knight #32-34. The killer is the heir of one particular couple. Another story has men dressed like Batman being murdered. Gordon wonders if it's possible the killer is trying to cover up one specific victim, citing the trope and how the costumes add to the confusion. A variation appears in the KGB Beast's first story. The Beast is out to eliminate those involved in a U.S. defense program. Batman and the police are ready for the Beast to strike at one scientist at a dinner party. What they never expect is for the Beast to poison the entire party of 80 people just to ensure he gets the scientist. In one Detective Comics annual (a Whole Episode Flashback to when Bruce was studying detection under a man named Harvey Harris) a spree killing variant of this is used. Around 1950, Richard Hunt, the leader of a KKK group, got the others drunk and convinced them to attack an African-American shantytown and kill most of the residents. Unbeknownst to the others (who had a collective My God, What Have I Done? moment when they sobered up and disbanded the group), Hunt wasn't motivated by simple homicidal racism, but by the fact that one of the shantytown residents was a black woman he'd fathered a child with, who was threatening to expose him. The whole incident was covered up and even the people aware of it assumed it had just been a random hate crime rather than a calculating murder designed to protect a Dark Secret that Hunt believed would destroy his social status. In Joker: The Devil's Advocate, The Joker is framed for murder when several people come into contact with stamps laced with his trademark Joker venom. The real culprit was a businessman who wanted to get rid of his wife without a messy divorce and had access to a stockpile of Joker venom that was stashed in a warehouse he owned. The scheme falls apart once Batman discovers that particular bit of info during his investigation. Batman is hindered throughout by the fact that everyone else around him wants the Joker to be executed and finally gone regardless of his actual guilt. And to top it off the Joker himself wonâ€™t cooperate with Batmanâ€™s investigation. In the second volume of Batman: Earth One, the Riddler is a Mad Bomber who commits seemingly random acts of mass murder. However, Batman discovers that the Riddler is actually attempting to kill the four other crime bosses who control Gotham's underworld after the death of the Penguin, and killing a ton of innocent people in the process hides that his bombings are targeted assassinations. So too does his riddle theme, which hides his true motives, since, unlike most incarnations, he doesn't care at all if you answer his riddles correctly or not. Merrymaker used the chaos created by the League of Smiles to murder those he believed had wronged, such as his ex-wife and her lawyer, knowing the murders would be blamed on them.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_827c5e91	comment	Simon Ark: In "The Treasure of Jack the Ripper", it is revealed that the Jack the Ripper murders were a cover for the murder of five specific prostitutes: the mutilation of the bodies being designed to hide the theft of a patch of skin from each of the victims. Placed together, these tattoos form a Treasure Map. In "The Avenger from Outer Space", a killer makes a carefully planned series of murders look like the work of a local lunatic.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_867f2c52	comment	The plot of Shooter concerns an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in which an Ethiopian archbishop was killed, the film's protagonist being framed for the attack. It turns out that the archbishop was the real target all along, as he was threatening to expose the involvement of an American oil company in a massacre in an African village. Killing him would've just made for a Revealing Cover-Up... unless they did it while he was meeting with the President, in which case all the focus would've been on the attempt made on the President's life and the archbishop would've been forgotten.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: Constable Crabtree proposes this as the explanation for the multiple deaths in "Murdoch on the Corner". He posits a long-standing feud between two neighboring shopkeepers is the real motive, and that one of the antagonists killed the other people merely to cover his tracks. Murdoch and Brackenreid suggest this to the man in an interrogation, and the man tells them they are crazy. The true explanation for the serial deaths in "Twisted Sisters". A man is being blackmailed by a woman who works for him, and during their argument, she hits her head. The man knows she was involved in another death some years earlier (along with several other women), so he disposes of his blackmailer and the other women to divert suspicion from himself. While he's at it, his actions point to a Persian university professor who had been romantically involved with the young white woman who had died years ago, and his own secret involves his interracial marriage. The murderer in "Dr Osler Regrets" poses as a serial killer euthanizing the over-sixties with chloroform. Further complicated by the killer copycatting a Suicide, Not Murder he had an alibi for.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_89b7cf47	comment	Rizzoli & Isles: In "Rebel Without a Pause", a sniper misses their shot at their target on their first attempt and kills someone else. They do another random shooting to make the police think this a series of random attacks before making another attempt on their original target. In "Bite Out Of Crime", a sniper shoots a couple of random victims to cover the fact he is after one particular target.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_8a2895c0	comment	In the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain, this happens often enough for the detectives to have a shorthand term for it, "classic smokescreen". One example: In the novel Long Time, No See, a murderer wants a particular blind person dead, so he kills a number of other blind people to make it look like the work of a serial killer.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_8cc38cbf	comment	The Further Adventures of the Joker: Used in the story "The Fifty-Third Card". While Batman is out of town, Jim Gordon starts seeing a pattern in murders. A singing group called "The Four Aces", a "king of comedy," a "queen of cosmetics," etc. At first, he seems paranoid but as more victims pile up, others realize all these victims are somehow connected to playing cards and thus it has to be the Joker. The final victim is to be the king of a small European nation visiting Gotham but Batman returns in time to stop it. The Joker is seen running off to a helicopter only for it to crash. Talking to Gordon later, Batman delivers the startling news that this was never the Joker at all. Rather, the king's cousin, Herbert, wanted the throne himself but knew just killing the king would be too suspicious. By making it look like the king was the victim of a wild Joker spree, Herbert could take the crown without suspicion. Gordon is rocked that 51 innocent people were killed to cover up a regicide but Batman then reveals that the helicopter crashed because it was sabotaged.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the NCIS episode "Designated Target", the killer targets black taxi drivers who immigrated to the US from Africa, with the intended target being a political refugee from an unnamed dictatorship. The team gets involved because a Rear Admiral was killed as well in one of the killings as collateral damage.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_8d81f086	comment	In Monk, some of the murderers of the week attempt to do this: "Mr. Monk and the 12th Man": a rich man is being blackmailed by someone who served on the jury in a court case he was involved in years before. Not knowing which juror it is, he starts killing them all. Unlike many of these examples, where people try to cover up their crimes by making them look like serial killings, this guy didn't know the exact identity of the person he wanted dead but had it narrowed down to 12 people. "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again": A guy named Paul Gilstrap wants to kill his wife by poisoning one of the Neptune chocolate bars she ate every night before bed. But he couldn't just poison one chocolate bar as the police would immediately suspect him. Therefore, he poisoned not one, but several candy bars, which he then took to his local Beach's Market and dropped back into circulation. The idea is that several random people would die from poisoned candy bars, including his wife, and the police would assume these deaths were the work of an anonymous serial killer. Except, the plan goes awry when he gets caught returning the tetrachlorodrine poison he used, which means Gilstrap is forced to abort his plan because if anyone dies now from a poisoned candy bar, the police will immediately find him. This forces him to go back to the supermarket, and get all of the poisoned candy bars out of circulation. He fails to get two of them: one going to Ambrose's house, and another that falls into the possession of an armored car driver. Seeing that the driver has already taken a bite, Gilstrap knows that he has to act fast because if the driver simply collapses in the parking lot, the police would have the body autopsied. So he catches up to the driver at his truck, and after the poison hits the driver and he collapses, Gilstrap grabs the driver's pistol and shoots him five times, on the thought that the police won't look for evidence of poisoning in the body of a shooting victim. Then he goes after the poisoned bar that ends up at Ambrose's house. "Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy": A doctor kills his date, but realizes that the cake in her stomach has gold leaf, which would show up in an autopsy and lead police to the one restaurant that does this and he'd get caught. So he kills one street performer in a ritualistic manner similar to a serial killer and sends taunting messages to the police proclaiming himself as one to distract detectives until the stomach content decomposes. "Mr. Monk's 100th Case" takes a twist on this type of spree. In this one, a serial killer is strangling young women and stealing their lipstick (a calling card). However, it turns out that the supposed fourth and final victim of this killer is in fact the work of a copycat trying to frame the original killer. Inverted in "Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse": A paramedic leaves Voodoo Dolls in delivery packages at the homes of dead or dying patients she shows up to save, giving the impression the dolls were already there when the person died and that it is either the work of a very crafty serial killer or even that some kind of magic was involved. She finally sends one to her still living elderly uncle, who she then poisons with an untraceable drug for the inheritance, but he is the only one she actually murdered as the others died in freak accidents (hit by a baseball or struck by lightning).
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals. In "Man Without A Past", The Mafia set off a bomb in a London restaurant, hoping the IRA will be blamed instead of their target who ironically was tipped off and never showed. Unfortunately Bodie took the intended victim's reservation for a date and is out for revenge after she gets seriously injured in the blast.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): In "Condemned", Wilson Fisk decides that Detective Christian Blake is a liability that needs to be eliminated because he leaked secrets to Matt Murdock under duress. He has an ESU sniper take a position on a rooftop overlooking a scene where Blake and Hoffman are overseeing a hostage standoff caused by Matt overpowering a rookie police officer who caught him holed up with Vladimir. If just Blake gets shot, the police will comb through every aspect of his life and career to find a potential motive for why someone would want to kill him, and will eventually find his connection to Fisk. So the sniper also shoots two uniformed cops nearby, making it look like Blake was randomly targeted, and heads off deeper inquiries. In "Nelson v. Murdock", several people are poisoned at a charity benefit that Fisk is throwing, including his girlfriend Vanessa Marianna. As Fisk later uncovers, Leland Owlsley orchestrated the whole affair because he and Madame Gao think Fisk's relationship with Vanessa is distracting him from his criminal ventures, and the other poisoning victims were an attempt to make it look like Fisk's enemies tried to kill him. In "The Devil You Know", Fisk has FBI agent Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter dress up in a Daredevil costume and attack the New York Bulletin. The main target of the attack is Jasper Evans, who Dex is under orders to eliminate so he can't go on the record to having been paid to shank Fisk as part of Fisk's scheme to manipulate the FBI into letting him out of prison. But before he kills Evans, Dex first murders a bunch of Karen's coworkers, wounds Karen's boss Mitchell Ellison and Foggy, and also critically injures Matt after a drawn out fight around the office. These killings enable Fisk to discredit Karen on account of her affiliation with Daredevil while simultaneously tarnishing the reputation of Matt (the real Daredevil), and make Evans' death look random.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: A serial arsonist turns out to be doing this, and Conan specifically cites The ABC Murders when explaining it.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_9bb59653	comment	A recurring foe on The Blacklist is the Freelancer, who specializes in causing huge disasters, often written off as massive accidents, willing to kill dozens or even hundreds of innocent people just to cover his one true target.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_9dfa8216	comment	Law & Order sometimes has these: In the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Poison", Trudy Pomeranski uses poisoned OTC painkillers to murder her husband and then plants them on store shelves so that she can sue the manufacturer while appearing to be just another grieving relative. This episode was inspired by the Tylenol murders. In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a man killed his wife and then killed another woman for this exact reason. However, it doesn't fool the detectives, as they note that the second killing was cold and detached, whereas the original victim died brutally, showing that the murderer had a lot of genuine rage towards the first one but didn't care at all about the second. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In "Raw", a sniper shoots several children playing in their school's yard. One of the murdered children is the authentic target; the sniper shot the others intentionally to muddy the waters and make it seem like a random crime. In one episode of the original series, a sniper kills four people across the city at apparent random. It turns out that one of the victims was targeted, and the other three were killed to create the illusion of a random spree.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_9f5af515	comment	Forensic Files: "Postal Mortem" and "Something's Fishy" both feature killers diverting attention from their main targets by killing additional people.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_a3d2bcec	comment	Done on a larger scale in the Modesty Blaise novel The Night of Morningstar, which features a terrorist group who claim a different ideology with each attack and seem to be working to no apparent purpose. It turns out that they're being run by an officer of Soviet intelligence and most of their attacks are to confuse things so that it won't be obvious when they commit an attack that advances the Soviet Union's aims.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_a49a890c	comment	A variation: in Preacher, Herr Starr is given the task of murdering two journalists in an insane asylum in such a way that the authorities do not investigate too deeply. Being a pragmatic man, Starr simply blows up the entire asylum, so that investigators will have several hundred potential targets to sort through (and to avoid posthumously vindicating the journalists, who were sent to the asylum before they could reveal too much about the Grail). Rather than a serial killing, it's a mass murder, but the intent is the same.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_a4db7d1	comment	Joe Pickett: An inadvertent version occurs in Blood Trail. The authorities think there is a serial killer targeting hunters. However, the killer is actually after five specific men who happen to be hunters.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_abd72896	comment	Painkiller Jane: A (mostly) non-lethal version of this occurs in "Trial by Fire." The only person that the Neuro was interested in killing was his own wife, so he set a bunch of victimless house fires before killing her by setting their own home on fire; fortunately for him, the blame for the fires ended up being placed on Connor.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_b083559a	comment	Batwoman (2019): In "A Narrow Escape", Robles apes the Detonator's MO to make people think the original has returned, but in fact he's trying to destroy buildings which contain evidence of his crimes. He's caught because it's too suspicious that the Detonator would just happen to target locations of specific importance to him.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_b390c231	comment	Im Giving You A Nightcall: The apparent serial killer's various victims have one thing in common: all of them were previously assisted or rescued by the vigilante Fullmetal.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_b906592f	comment	One of The Thirteen Problems, "The Herb of Death", features a downplayed example, crossing over with Make It Look Like an Accident. The killer spiked their target's drink with a fatal dose of digitalis, then made sure to slip foxglove leaves (which contain digitalis) into everyone else's food so that everyone would come down with symptoms and obscuring the fact that the victim was specifically targeted. Even if someone realized that the poisoning was deliberate, they would have no way of knowing who the target was and would be unable to solve the case.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_bd447006	comment	A variant is done in the 1944 Sherlock Holmes film The Pearl of Death: Bad guys are looking for a pearl which was hidden in one of six china busts of Napoleon. They track down the owners of the busts and hire the Creeper to kill them, and then break open the bust to see if it's the right one. To cover their tracks, the Creeper breaks all of the victim's china, to disguise the fact that they're only really interested in the Napoleon busts.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_c675b3d7	comment	In the Star Trek Expanded Universe (non-canonical) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel "The Siege" (by Peter David), DS9 is terrorized by a series of mysterious killings. It turns out the killer is a psychopathic shape-shifter hired by a rival Ferengi to kill Quark and needed the serial killings to remove any suspicion (as revenge is illegal under Ferengi law).
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_c7b79375	comment	A variant in The Alphabet Killer: The murderer initially targeted a single victim, a girl named Carla Castillo. The fact that she had an Alliterative Name and few other details made the lead detective think there had to be a serial killer behind it and she drove herself crazy trying to prove it. While in a support group, she met the killer without knowing it and related stories of how she'd lost her job to him. He felt bad for her, so he committed more murders of girls with alliterative names so that the police would see that her theory had been correct and give her back her job.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_c822f1f3	comment	Jake and the Fatman: In "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", a serial killer who's targeting winos taunts McCabe with phone calls before each killing. However, his real target is his brother who is living on the streets, and the other murders and the calls to McCabe are theatrics designed to hide this fact. After a journalist is dumped by her lover, she murders his wife and makes it look like the work of a Serial Killer in "More Than You Know".
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_ca2870fb	comment	In Puella Magi Oriko Magica, it's revealed the reason why Kirika is killing magical girls (under Oriko's orders) because she and Oriko were planning to go after Madoka to stop her from becoming a world-destroying witch.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: In one episode, a comedian dies from drinking a poisoned bottle of water. Then a kid dies from drinking the same brand. The first victim was the target, the killer (a rival comedian who hated his style) says he blames the CSIs for not finding the poisoned bottle in time as he's arrested after confessing out of remorse. Done with a serial rapist in "Helpless", where it turns out that his first two rapes were 'dress rehearsals' so he could have all of the details worked out by the time he went for his intended victim. One of the tie-in comics features a Jack the Ripper copycat who turns out to have targeted one specific girl and then killed a bunch of other women picked out at random so he could frame somebody from a Ripperologist convention that was in town. An unintentional example in "Code Blue Plate Special". When his brother refuses to agree to sell off their diner for a huge payday, an owner decides to have someone stage a robbery with the specific aim of shooting the brother. But it goes horribly wrong when his brother fights back and ends up removing the guy's mask. Panicking, the guy proceeds to shoot the other seven people in the diner. The owner then came out of hiding to shoot the guy himself and make it look like he was a random customer. The guy defends himself on how it was just a bad idea gotten out of hand but Nick coldly points out how they realized his own daughter was still alive and saw the whole thing, so he shot her himself to cover the massacre up.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: The episode "Won't Be Fooled Again" featured a serial bomber who kills or seriously injures several people with bombs left in packages at their homes. It turns out that the bomber was an antiquities dealer who had sold several forgeries to buyers. When one of them, an old woman, discovered that a collection of coins she had bought were fakes and he was in danger of being exposed, he sent her the first of his bombs, killing her, and then sent more bombs to random people to make her murder look like a part of a bombing spree. "Sniper Sniped" has the BAU team dealing with what appears to be a sniper rampage in Dallas, and finally finding that the Cold Sniper behind them is a mercenary hired by a rich domestic abuser out to eliminate his runaway wife, killing his way through the "underground railroad" she used to escape. "Unforgettable" has a nurse murdering several Federal government employees through lethal injections in order to disguise the murder of her husband as part of a wider conspiracy by Russia and claim his life insurance policy.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_d4f05601	comment	Ben Snow: In "The Ripper of Storeyville", a Serial Killer is preying on the prostitutes of Storeyville; the Red Light District of New Orleans. The killer deliberately mimics the M.O. of Jack the Ripper, causing authorities to worry that the original Ripper may have resurfaced in America (the story is set in 1901). However, the killer is actually deliberately murdering four prostitutes who are the only people who could expose the Dead Person Impersonation his partner is undertaking.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_da0875de	comment	Inverted in Ancestral Vices. Emmelia, the only one convinced that Walden Yapp didn't murder the diminutive Willy Coppett, sets out on a spree of attempting to kidnap other Persons of Restricted growth to make it appear that the culprit is still at large.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_db9f04ba	comment	Alias Smith and Jones: In "The Fifth Victim", the killer tries to disguise the murder of his ex-lover's husband by killing men who were all in a particular poker game, after first faking evidence that someone in the game had been cheating. The issue gets confused when he does try to kill the husband; the man kills him instead but then keeps quiet, afraid he'll be accused of the other killings.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_e4dd9d0d	comment	In Jagged Edge, at least one other woman was assaulted in the same manner as Paige Forrester, raising speculation that there's a serial rapist/killer on the loose and that it's responsible for Paige's murder, rather than Jack. It turns out that Jack himself attacked the other woman to create such doubt.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "The Scarecrow Murders", Barnaby and Winter investigate a series of killings were the bodies of the victims are left dressed and posed as Scary Scarecrows. The idea of a Serial Killer is floated, but Barnaby points out there are too many inconsistencies; including that serial killers refine their technique as they progress, but all three murder methods in this case were radically different. It turns out to be a case of Everybody Did It with three different killers working together to take revenge on an online gambling company that ruined their lives, and used the scarecrow motif in the hope it would taken as the work of serial killer targeting people randomly.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_eb049de6	comment	Moriarty's plot in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows relies on funding Bomb-Throwing Anarchists in France and Germany in hopes of igniting a War for Fun and Profit. He directs them to bomb a Franco-German business conference in Paris, but only to guarantee the assassination of a particular German industrialist—whose death makes Moriarty the largest shareholder. Or rather, to obfuscate the assassination of that industrialist; he has Moran snipe the German at roughly the same time, and the bomb blast is just to stop people from looking for the bullet hole.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_efa49b17	comment	The Mentalist: In "Carnelian Inc.", a series of threats against the title corporation ends with one of the executives being murdered via Chute Sabotage. Later a second executive is shot. However, the second executive was always the real target, with the first murder being random to create the impression of a maniac with a grudge against the company.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_efcb91f8	comment	Solar Pons: In "The Adventure of the Sussex Archers", a would-be murderer sends a cryptic warning to the six members of the eponymous archery club, and then murders one of them; shooting him with an arrow. He intends his actual target to be the second victim, while making the murders appear to be an act of vengeance for a suspicious death the Sussex Archers were connected to twenty years earlier.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_f1c84c54	comment	Jack Reacher: In The Visitor (known as Running Blind in the States), Reacher is taken in by the FBI because he matches the criminal profile of a currently active serial killer, but cleared of suspicion almost immediately and forced to aid in the search of the real killer. The twist in the end is that the killer was The Profiler herself, whose real target was her stepsister. She had deliberately chosen the other victims so she could plausibly fabricate a profile pointing to someone with an entirely different kind of motivation. In One Shot, the antagonists murder their intended target and several bystanders, planting evidence to make it look like a random mass shooting by a disgruntled veteran.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_f40b9420	comment	Teen Power Inc.: Not killings, but in Danger in Rhyme, a series of bombings is meant to cover up of one of the later properties hit.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_f43b3a51	comment	Diagnosis: Murder: In "The Bela Lugosi Blues", the owner of a failing football team hires a killer vampire*yes, really. to murder his star player—who is planning on leaving the team—so he can collect on the $20 million life insurance policy he has on the player. The player is on L.A.'s Most Eligible Bachelor list, so the killer murders two other bachelors on the list so it won't be obvious the footballer was the intended target.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_fcf34eec	comment	In the first Full Metal Panic! novel, Gauron seeks to cover up kidnapping Kaname on her school trip by blowing up the airliner her class is flying on, scattering pieces of everyone across the Sea of Japan. Under the circumstances, nobody would have been able to tell she hadn't been on the plane when it exploded.
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Serial Killings, Specific Target / int_fd96c2bc	comment	In one Judge Dredd story, Dredd is attempting to track down a serial killer, with the taunting assistance of PJ Maybe. Judge Corrigan looks into old cases and finds a number of eldsters who had their top buttons cut off their shirts when they died. This leads them to a different killer, who had murdered his father to collect an inheritance and also killed two others to make it look like a serial killer. He had intended to kill a few more to sell the case but decided against it when the deaths were logged as natural causes.
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