Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c.1928

                    Height:  6’4”

                    Eyes:  grey

                    Hair:  white

Nationality:    Ukrainian/Canadian  (*??*)

Affiliation:    RCMP (forensics); Special X

Early Life:    Avacomovitch was born on a rural collective in the Ukraine.  Both his parents were killed when he was 14 during the Nazi advance on Stalingrad.  Subsequently, Avacomovitch was raised by the State and given a first-class education.  He went on to university, where he studied under Gerasimov for a time and earned four degrees.

Career:    Avacomovitch was a leading forensic scientist in the Soviet Academy of Science.  In 1963 he cracked a serial murder case in East Berlin and was awarded the Order of Lenin.  He then defected to the West and settled in Canada, where he was promptly employed by the RCMP.  He developed several major new forensic techniques both in the Soviet Union and in Canada, which have been adopted by agencies around the world. 

He first worked with Robert DeClerq on a case in 1965, and the two formed a close relationship.  DeClerq requested Avacomovitch be called in to help on the Headhunter case in 1982, during which he examined several pieces of evidence, including the remains of some of the victims.

When DeClerq accepted the head position of Special X in 1987, it was on the condition that Avacomovitch be assigned.  During Cutthroat case that followed, Avacomovitch worked on the Kwan-Windigo Mountain link, uncovering the motive behind the Kwan’s actions in Canada.

Misc. Info:    Joe wears a trademark Stetson hat, bought when he first arrived in Canada.  He was referred to by Time as “the Renaissance Tech”.

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BOND, Jenna

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1962

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  cobalt blue 

                    Hair:  sandy

Nationality:    American

Affiliation:    FBI; San Juan Sheriff’s Dept.

Early Life:    Bond’s father, Hank Bond, was sheriff of San Juan County twelve times running.  He raised her a tomboy on Orcas Island, teaching her swimming, sailing and so on.

Career:    Bond left the Islands in her teens to go to college in Seattle.  She ended up joining the FBI, where she met her husband, Don, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.  Don was  kidnapped, tortured and murdered by members of a Bogota Drug Cartel during a routine drug bust in the late ’80’s/early ’90’s.  Finding herself pregnant shortly after Don’s death, she left the FBI and returned to live with her mother and daughter on Orcas Island, becoming a deputy at the sheriff’s office.

Bond made contact with Nick Craven whilst investigating Fitzroy Campbell’s disappearance during the Burnt Bones case, and was determined to find him after he was abducted by Mephisto (as Craven’s experience was tragically close to Don’s).  After being kicked off the Campbell case when the FBI took over, she went to Robert DeClerq and asked to help find Craven.  Working on her own, she went to Madrona Island and found the Silver Skull coveted by Mephisto, but was attacked and raped by Mephisto’s henchmen, “The Druids”.  Having sworn revenge, she accompanied the FBI’s HRT raid on Mephisto’s base on Shipwreck Island and killed her three rapists in a shootout.

During the Death’s Door investigations, she worked with Special X in tracking down Dr. Ryland Fletcher.  While she was away, Mephisto had her daughter Becky kidnapped with the double intention of using her as a guinea pig in his current scheme, and as revenge for Bond’s role in thwarting his earlier one.  Bond deputised Zinc Chandler long-distance when the FBI refused to investigate Ebbtide Island, thus allowing Chandler to raid the island without the threat of later reprisals.

Misc. Info:    Bond began a relationship with Nick Craven in the aftermath of the Burnt Bones case.

BOND, Rebecca (Becky)

Bond’s daughter, Becky is being taught “krav maga”, a self-defence technique.  Becky was kidnapped from her home on Mephisto’s orders by “The Undertaker” while Bond was away.  She was kept in a cell in the dungeons on Ebbtide Island next to Anna, a progeric girl abducted for use in Mephisto’s experiments.  Becky was released by Gill Macbeth, and the two escaped the dungeons being pursued by “The Undertaker”.  Using what she had learned from her mother and her self-defence course, Becky saved Macbeth’s life by pushing “The Undertaker” over a cliff, but also fell herself, being caught by Ed “Mad Dog” Rabidowski.

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CHAN, Eric

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  -

Nationality:    Canadian (Chinese descent)

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    Chan’s great-great-grandfather emigrated to Canada from China in 1859, working in the Cariboo Mines of British Columbia.  Later, the family established a grocery business in Vancouver and it was assumed that the youngest son Eric would follow in the trade.  However, at the age of 10, Chan announced that he wanted to join the Mounted, much to the disappointment and disapproval of his family.  At first his applications were rejected, but with the Chinese Heroin trade becoming a threat in Canada, the RCMP eventually saw the writing on the wall and accepted Chan – the RCMP’s first non-white recruit – in c.1961.

Career:    Chan trained at Depot Division in 1961, and owing to his “difference”, was not readily accepted by his fellow recruits.  Consequently, Chan worked hard to become the RCMP’s expert on the Triads and heroin trade.  His efforts paid off when, in 1974, he expelled “Five Dragons” (a group of corrupt ex-Hong Kong Police in league with the Triads) from Vancouver, and subsequently established the Asian Gang Squad. 

Chan was the RCMP’s first qualified psychological profiler.  He attended the University of British Columbia and got an Honours degree in random processes and probability.  By combining his computing skills with psychological profiling skills, Chan effectively “computerised” the Force by establishing VCAS (Violent Crimes Analysis Section).  His efforts were rewarded by his promotion to Inspector, and his skills were used during the Headhunter case in 1982, when he programmed a dragnet in an attempt to identify and locate the killer.

Robert DeClerq demanded Chan’s presence as a condition of his accepting the position of head of Special X – Chan was appointed Head of Administration.  As part of Special X, he blew a Hong Kong Police attempt at a cover-up during the Cutthroat case, thereby helping solve the case, and worked on the Ripper case.

He trained at the FBI Behavioural Science Unit at Quantico for 10 months in 1989-90.  He then helped  Rusty Lewis build MaCROS, the program which became ViCLAS.  In recognition of Chan’s achievements, he was promoted to Deputy Commissioner in Dec 1993, thus becoming the “top cop” in British Columbia and the Yukon.

Misc. Info:    Married to Sally, Chan had one daughter, Peggy, born c. 1961.  Peggy committed suicide c. June 1993 after being released from Riverview Asylum, where she had been admitted suffering from depression following a traumatic event in China in 1979.

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CHANDLER, Zinc

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1948

                    Height:  6’2”

                    Eyes:  steel grey

                    Hair:  steel grey

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    Chandler was raised on the family farm near Rosetown, Saskatchewan.  The farm had been settled in c.1870, and it was expected that Chandler would continue to work it along with his younger brother, Tom.  His father was a frequently abusive alcoholic, who hated the police after being beaten unconscious during the Regina Riots.  He would force Chandler to “run the gauntlet of the Bards” - a “game” in which Chandler would have to correctly name the author of a quoted passage or be cuffed on the ear.  This, together with his father’s verbal abuse of his mother, led to Chandler thoroughly resenting his father and leaving home at the first opportunity, to join the RCMP.

Career:    Chandler joined the RCMP in about 1968, to spite his father.  In 1975, his partner Ed Jarvis was killed during a mysterious mix-up in Mexico.  Chandler then made a solo “revenge” trip against the killers, smashing the “Mexican Brown Connection” in the process, though details of this incident are rather hazy.         

Chandler was involved in the Ghoul case in 1986, during which he worked with FBI Agent Carol Tate.  The case took him to London, where he located and killed Saxon Hyde.  He was subsequently appointed to Special X.

Robert DeClerq called Chandler in on the Cutthroat case to investigate the murder of Judge Hutton Murdoch, and he worked again with Carol Tate.  The case took him to Hong Kong and China on the trail of the Kwans.  The case proved a devastating one for Chandler – his mother, ex-lover and son (see misc. info, below) were all murdered by “Cutthroat”, with Chandler himself framed for the murder of the latter two.  Chandler was suspended from duty because of this, but he pursued the case on his own in Hong Kong where he was shot in the head, the injury causing him to become epileptic, though his seizures are kept under control with drugs (Dilantin).

For the next 5 years, suspended from the Force, Chandler worked on his family farm until he was finally cleared of involvement in the murders of his ex-lover and son.  In December 1992, DeClerq asked Chandler to take his place in what was meant to be a mystery weekend for charity, but ended up being a wholesale slaughter on Deadman’s Island (the Ripper case).  Chandler was near-fatally stabbed in the back whilst rescuing Katt from the killer, but was reinstated to his position as Inspector in the Force in the aftermath of the case, though he was on sick-leave until his back wound healed.

Chandler was promoted to Head of Operations, Special X, following Jack MacDougall’s death in 1994.  He was then sent to Africa shortly thereafter on the Evil Eye case, searching for one Nigel Hammond.  In the course of his search, he himself became a target, but survived being hunted by “The Grays”.

After returning to Canada, he led a Crisis Management Team (Operation Ironhorse) during the Totem Lake siege, which was eventually resolved peacefully.  When DeClerq reorganised Special X, Chandler was made head of Operations A.  He led the search of Saturna Island for Nick Craven during the Burnt Bones case.

Whilst in Seattle on various cases with FBI and Seattle PD, he got involved in the Hangman case.  During this case, his girlfriend Alex Hunt was killed.  Chandler arrested lawyer Ethan Shaw for her murder, but when Shaw was released on a technicality, Chandler pursued the matter on his own and eventually caught and killed the man really responsible for Hunt’s murder – Shaw’s partner Jeffrey Kline.

As Head of Operations A, Chandler worked on the Death’s Door case, being deputised by Jenna Bond so that he could lead the raid Ebbtide Island (in American territory) where Mephisto was holding Gill Macbeth and Becky Bond without there being reprisals from the American authorities afterwards.

Misc. Info:    During the Ghoul case, Chandler had a brief liaison with Deborah Lane, by whom he fathered a son, Travis, born c. October 1986.  Both Deborah and Travis were murdered during the Cutthroat case, with the killer framing Chandler for the deaths (he was later cleared).  On both occasions that Chandler worked with Carol Tate there was a relationship – the pair became engaged in March 1987, but Carol was killed 10 days later whilst apprehending the Cutthroat killer.  In December 1992, Chandler met writer Alexis Hunt whilst on Deadman’s Island, and stayed at her Oregon home whilst recovering from his stabbing.  By the time of the Shrink case, they were officially living together in Canada, but Hunt was murdered during the Hangman case.

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CHARTRAND, Francois

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  -

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    Commissioner RCMP; (Special X)

Early Life:    -

Career:    As Commissioner, Chartrand is the Head of all Mounties.  He represented Robert DeClerq in the internal investigation into DeClerq’s actions during the October Crisis of 1970.

He called DeClerq out of retirement to take control of the Headhunter case in 1982.  When he established Special X in the wake of the Headhunter case, he offered the top position to DeClerq.

Misc. Info:    -

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CRAVEN, Nick (Nicholas John)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  December 7, 1956   

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  blond (*??*)

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    Craven was born into a family with a history of service in the Force in Medicine Hat, Alberta.  His mother Dora was the only child of strict Mennonites, who eloped at age 16 with Mountie Ted Craven, ten years her senior.  Nick was born two years later – the same night, Ted Craven died from a gunshot wound.  Although an inquest was held, both Dora Craven and Ted’s sister Eleanor were cleared. 

The story of Craven’s birth is connected to the Evil Eye case of December 1993 – Dora gave birth to twins, one of whom was fathered by Ted Craven, the other by an African Antiquities agent by the name of Nigel Hammond.  One twin was placed with a convent, whilst Craven was raised by Dora.  Years later, the twin tracked down his mother and killed her – he turned out to be a top geneticist, Colin Wood.

Mother and son moved to Vancouver shortly after the birth, where Craven’s mother found employment at Riverview Asylum.  Craven had wanted to be newspaperman until teenage years, when his mother was injured in a car crash after which Craven rebelled and get into drug use, etc.  Things changed when he saved a little girl from being hit by a train – at his mother’s suggestion, he joined the Mounties. 

Career:    Craven joined the RCMP, his first post was in southern Alberta.  As a Corporal in North Vancouver in December 1992, he oversaw the investigation of the Brigid Marsh killing, and was appointed to Special X when they took over the case.

After his mother was murdered on December 7 1993, Craven was arrested for the crime by Corporal Rachel Kidd.  He was consequently suspended and faced court, but was eventually acquitted when the real killer used the same instrument and MO used on Dora on Sergeant Bill Tipple whilst Craven was in prison.

 During the Shrink case, Craven investigated the Bron Wren angle and identified Anda Carlisle as one of Wren’s victims, alerting DeClerq to the fact, which led to the final solving of the case.  After this, he quit Special X following a failed relationship with pathologist Gill Macbeth, moving to Pender Island to command the small Outer Gulf Islands detachment.

Whilst working on the Burnt Bones case with Jenna Bond, Craven was abducted on the orders of Mephisto and kept chained in a dungeon on Shipwreck Island, where he was tortured and interrogated.  He lost a hand and an ear, both of which were sent to the authorities (Robert DeClerq and Jenna Bond) in order to force them to find the hoard coveted by Mephisto.  When the FBI sent a HRT to Shipwreck Island, Mephisto took Craven hostage to cover his escape, but when the boat was rammed Craven was pulled out of the water by Luke Wentworth.

Craven was fitted with a mechanical hand and prosthetic ear by plastic surgeon Dr. David Denning.  He returned to RCMP service in the Islands, and worked with Special X again on the Death’s Door case.

Misc. Info:    Craven had a relationship with pathologist Gill Macbeth during the Ripper and Evil Eye cases.  Macbeth fell pregnant, but miscarried after the Red Serge Ball sinking.  They subsequently broke up.  Craven then began a relationship with Jenna Bond after the Burnt Bones case.

Long family history of service:-

John Craven fought against the French and at the Boston massacre.

William Craven fought against Napoleon.

Great-Great Grandfather Rex Craven won the Victoria Cross at Rorke’s Drift.

Grandfather and father both served in RCMP.

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DeCLERQ, Robert

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  November 4, c.1930

                    Height:  tall

                    Eyes:  dark

                    Hair:  dark, greying

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    DeClerq’s ancestors were Cajuns who lived in the bayous of Terrebone before settling in Canada.  His father, an artist and bomber pilot during the war, was killed by a drunk driver when DeClerq was 9, and his mother died of cancer shortly thereafter, just before his 10th birthday.  After this, he went to live with an aunt in Quebec, where he picked up an interest in military tactics and history, which prompted him to join the force.

Career:    DeClerq’s first posting was in the far north during the 1950’s, with Alfred Spann as his mentor.  His extraordinary abilities led to his becoming the youngest person to reach rank of Superintendent, and he was considered the best homicide man on the Force.

DeClerq left the RCMP after the October Crisis of 1970, during which his wife Kate was murdered and daughter Jane kidnapped.  Despite being banned from the case, DeClerq hunted down the killers and slaughtered them, tragically not in time to save his daughter’s life.  An internal investigation cleared DeClerq, but he retired anyway, moving to Vancouver.

Twelve years later in 1982, DeClerq was recalled to duty at the request of Commissioner Chartrand to lead the Headhunter case.  This case took it’s toll – the personal taunts from the killer aimed at DeClerq and apparent lack of progress saw him taken off the case and he almost committed suicide.  Although the case was eventually closed, it also claimed the life of his second wife Genevieve.

DeClerq was appointed Chief Superintendent after the case, and was offered the top position of the newly-formed Special X by Chartrand, but he returned to retirement to mourn the loss of his wife.

Five years later, DeClerq accepted the position of Head of Special X – a move partly out of loyalty to Jack MacDougall.  This was on condition that Special X be moved from Ottawa to Vancouver, and that certain individuals be appointed (Eric Chan, Joe Avacomovitch, Jack MacDougall).  During the cases he subsequently worked on, several attempts were made on his life – a kidnapping during the Cutthroat case, and a murder attempt during the Ripper case, both of which were thwarted by his dog, Napoleon.

DeClerq was again targeted personally in the Shrink case, the killer mailing a shrunken head to him.  He consequently reopened the Headhunter case, revising Al Flood’s notes to eventually arrive at the same point that Flood had ten years earlier, and ended up locating and killing “the Headhunter”, Katherine Spann, in her hideaway.  Later, he figured out Anda Carlisle’s role in Spann’s crimes, thereby closing the Headhunter case for good.

Going north with Katt to investigate the murders up there, he was again targeted personally by the killer, this time because of his link with Alfred Spann.  When Katt was kidnapped by the killer, DeClerq went after her alone as ordered by the killer.  Both were rescued by Mad Dog, who had been sent out to follow by Zinc Chandler.

In the Burnt Bones case, he was yet again taunted by the villain, this time via email.  He worked with Jenna Bond to find Craven, and  brought in geoprofiler Kim Rossmo to successfully locate Mephisto’s base.  He then accompanied the FBI’s HRT raid on Shipwreck Island.

During the Death’s Door case, DeClerq arrested Dr. Ryland Fletcher, who agreed to give evidence against the real killers in exchange for the charges against him being dropped.  It was also during this case that DeClerq’s lover, pathologist Gill Macbeth, was targeted by Mephisto as revenge for DeClerq’s role in the Burnt Bones case. 

Misc. Info:    DeClerq is a published author, his two books being “Those Who Wore The Tunic” and “Bagpipes, Blood and Glory”.  A work-in-progress during his second retirement was a history of World War I (this book is possibly unfinished?).  Previous to and during the Burnt Bones case, he was researching book on the Klondike Gold Rush, called “Yukon”.

Following the Ripper case, he took in the apparently-orphaned Katt, acting as her legal guardian.  Although Katt’s natural mother was later contacted, they came to a shared custody arrangement.

He began relationship with Gill Macbeth immediately preceding the Death’s Door case.

DeCLERQ, Kate

DeClerq’s first wife, whom he met c.1957 whilst she was performing in “Romersholme” on Broadway.  They had a daughter, Jane, in c.1965.  Kate shot to death by terrorists during the October Crisis of 1970.

DeCLERQ, Jane

Robert’s and Kate’s daughter, born c. 1965.  She was five years old when she was kidnapped by terrorists during the October Crisis of 1970 and murdered (broken neck).

DeCLERQ, Genevieve

Robert’s second wife, whom he met in the mid 1970’s when he enrolled in a UBC self-analysis course which she ran.  They were married less than a year later.  Genevieve was a psychologist, 20 years younger than DeClerq, with blue eyes and auburn hair.  Detective Al Flood developed a crush on her and told her of his suspicions about the Headhunter case.  She was killed by a ricocheting bullet fired during a shootout in the aftermath of the Headhunter case in December 1982. 

NAPOLEON

Robert’s dog, a German Shepherd, given to him by Commissioner Chartrand following Genevieve’s death.  Fully attack-trained at the RCMP Dog Service in Alberta, he has twice saved his master’s life.  The first time, he thwarted an abduction attempt during the Cutthroat case.  The second, he ended a murder attempt during the Ripper case, during which he was stabbed in the belly and throat, but was saved by emergency treatment from a local obstetrician before being rushed to the vets.  His spleen was removed, but Napoleon recovered.

KATT  (Kathleen Baxter, Katarina Darke)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  1978

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  blue (cobalt)

                    Hair:  ash-blonde

Nationality:    American/Canadian (*??*)

Born in Boston in 1978 to Corinne Baxter, Katt was kidnapped by Luna Darke as a baby and taken to Bowen Island, BC.  She lived there until she was taken to Deadman’s Island by Luna Darke after Private Investigator Pete Trytko had tracked them down (and was subsequently murdered by Luna).  Luna was killed on the island, and Katt was kidnapped by “Skull” to be used as a human altar, but was saved by Zinc Chandler.

Now effectively an orphan, she was taken in by Robert DeClerq who acted as her legal guardian – their first “bonding” session was a trip to Egypt.  Contact was established with her natural mother, Corinne Baxter, during the Evil Eye case, but a joint-custody arrangement was reached as Katt wanted to join the RCMP and therefore must be a Canadian citizen. 

Katt went north with DeClerq during the Shrink case, as she had a school assignment related to the Totam Lake affair.  She was kidnapped by the killer and kept chained up, then released to be hunted down and killed.  DeClerq went after her, and both he and Katt were saved by Mad Dog when he shot the killer at the last moment.

At time of the Death’s Door case, Katt was in London attending “finishing school”.

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FLOOD, Almore  (Al)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1947

                    Height:  6’

                    Eyes:  blue-grey

                    Hair:  strawberry blond

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    VPD Major Crimes

Early Life:    Flood’s younger brother, a junkie, was apparently murdered.  His father was an alcoholic, killed in a plane crash in December 1954, for which Flood felt (unreasonably) responsible.  This guilt developed into a complex about death and blood, which was compounded by a neurosis about severed heads.

Career:    As a detective with VPD Major Crimes, Flood worked with the RCMP on the Headhunter case.  After the case was “closed”, Flood had doubts about John Lincoln Hardy’s guilt and proceeded to investigate the matter on his own.  His neurosis about severed heads – exacerbated by the case - prompted him to enlarge the pictures sent to the police, and in doing so, he noticed the leaves in the photo of Natasha Wilkes’ head.  This led him ultimately to the real killer.

Flood told Genevieve DeClerq of his findings, but as they were on their way to alert DeClerq, they were ambushed by the killer and both were killed.  The killer planted evidence against Flood to make it appear that he was “a cop on the edge” and was therefore responsible for the events that occurred that night.

When Robert DeClerq reopened the Headhunter case a decade later, he used Flood’s notes and followed the same path Flood had to finally get the real killer – Katherine Spann.

Misc. Info:    The Headhunter case played on Flood’s neurosis, so he went to Dr. George Ruryk, suffering depression, who suggested he attend a self awareness course run by Genevieve DeClerq.  He fell in love with her and chose her to tell of his findings.  Flood was also an amateur astronomer.

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GHOST KEEPER  (Bob George)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  black

Nationality:    Canadian (Plains Cree)

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    Ghost Keeper, whose western name is Bob George, was born and raised on the Duck Lake Reserve in Saskatchewan.  A medicine man, he went on a spirit quest as a boy, where he honed his tracking skills.

Career:    Ghost Keeper began as a Special Constable in a Native self-policing program on the Duck Lake reserve.  His success at tracking down fugitives led to him being employed as a Hairs and Fibres Technician with the Crime Detection Lab.  Later promoted to Head of Regional Forensic Identification Support Service, Ghost Keeper was known as “The Human Vacuum Cleaner” and “The Tracker”.  Brought in to work on the Keate murder during the Ghoul case, he subsequently joined Special X.

As Staff Sergeant, Ghost Keeper worked on several Special X cases, including the Maxwell murder in the Cutthroat case and searching Ravenscourt in the Ripper case.  During the Evil Eye case, Ghost Keeper’s examination of Bill Tipple’s head wound securely linked that murder to the killing of Dora Craven and effectively ensured Nick Craven’s acquittal, and also demonstrated his sharp-shooting ability by killing Gunter Schreck in a car chase/shootout.

In the Shrink case, Ghost Keeper was recalled from the Residential School Paedophilia Task Force to act as Second-In-Command of Zinc Chandler’s Crisis Management Team at Totem Lake, with separate orders to track down the northern killer.  He approached Herb McCall with an alternative way to end the Totem Lake siege, and arranged for the native issues to be resolved peacefully.  His success was rewarded with his promotion to Inspector, and becoming Head of Operations B after Katherine Spann’s demise.

During the raid on Ebbtide Island in the Death’s Door case, he saved the lives of both Zinc Chandler, whom he pulled from a sinking helicopter, and Mad Dog, by shooting “The Undertaker”.

Misc. Info:    As well as working with the RCMP, Ghost Keeper also runs sweat lodges to help troubled Indian kids sent to him by their tribal elders.

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 HUNT, Alexis  (Alex)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1965

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  blue

                    Hair:  honey blonde

Nationality:    American

Hunt spent her childhood in Portland, Oregon.  Her father, Jackson Hunt, was a top criminal lawyer, later becoming a High Court Judge.  Hunt, fascinated by abnormal psychology as a result of her father’s job, was intending to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer, so she studied Psychology at the University of Oregon, doing her Master’s thesis on serial killer H.H.Holmes.  Her studies were put on hold when her mother was killed in a car crash, and her father diagnosed with brain cancer.  Hunt then moved to Cannon Beach, Oregon, and nursed her father for three years until his death in November 1992.  Her thesis was published under the title “House of Horrors: The Case Of H.H.Holmes”, gaining moderate success, but a proposed follow-up volume on Dr. Marcel Petiot was rejected by the publishers.

Hunt joined in the Deadman’s Island mystery weekend to “get away from things” following her father’s death and the rejection of her book.  She survived the ordeal, sustaining a broken leg.  It was here that she met Zinc Chandler, who recuperated from his near-fatal stabbing at her house in Cannon Beach while she wrote the book “Deadman’s Island: The Case Of Skull And Crossbones”.  Having established their relationship, Hunt sold her house and moved to Canada with Chandler.

During the Evil Eye case, Hunt was asked by Robert DeClerq to do some research on the Africa/Rorke’s Drift angle while Special X were suspended from the case.  Her research located some important files belonging to Dora Craven, and though she was attacked and injured by the killer, she reported her findings to Chandler and DeClerq, who were then able to follow up and help solve the case.  She subsequently published “Pandora’s Box: The Case Of Evil Eye”.

Hunt was following the Hangman crimes because of her relationship with Chandler, and was intending to write a book about them.  During this case, she went on a writer’s cruise and was murdered by Jeffrey Kline in a copycat killing, so that he could make a name for himself.

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KIDD, Rachel

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1957-8

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  brown

                    Hair:  black

Nationality:    African-American/Canadian (*??*)

Affiliation:    RCMP

Early Life:    Kidd was born in Birmingham, Alabama.  Her father was attacked and castrated by Ku Klux Klan, and the family subsequently moved to Seattle.  Kidd had decided to join the Mounties by age 12.

She attended the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, and entered into a sham marriage with a gay student, Tony, in order to get citizenship.  Shortly after  Tony died, Kidd was accepted into the RCMP in a “visible minority” recruitment drive. 

Career:    Kidd was the first Black to reach the rank of Corporal.  Bill Tipple had a lot of faith in her ability and requested she be appointed to his department, Coquitlam GIS.  Kidd was put in charge of the Dora Craven murder during the Evil Eye case, and, suspecting Nick Craven of the crime, had him arrested on the basis of DNA evidence (which turned out to have been manipulated).  The case against Craven was eventually dismissed.

Kidd later worked on the Jayne Curry hanging during the Hangman case.

Misc. Info:    Kidd was involved in a relationship with forensic specialist Dermott Toop.

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LEWIS, Rusty

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1953

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  red

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    -

Career:    Lewis partnered Monica Macdonald on a Flying Squad during the Headhunter case, working on the Matthew Paul Pitt angle.

After the Headhunter case, he was eventually posted to North Vancouver Detachment, working on sex crimes.  He then transferred to Major Crime, studying psychology and computer programming at night.  Lewis became Special X’s resident psychological profiler and computer whiz.  From 1992, he worked with Eric Chan setting up MaCROS, the program which he later turned into ViCLAS, and was then made Head of the Section after Chan’s promotion to Deputy Commissioner. 

Asked by Robert DeClerq to check on Campbell query in the Burnt Bones case, Lewis made the link with the murder of Malcolm Campbell in Florida the previous May.

He also worked on the Death’s Door case, accompanying the Mounties to California on the “Picasso” killings, where together with Kim Rossmo he found Dr. David Denning to be the more likely suspect.

Lewis is also a member of the Musical Ride.

Misc. Info:    Lewis possibly had a relationship with Monica Macdonald during the Headhunter case.

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MACBETH, Gill

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  December 3, c. 1952

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  green

                    Hair:  auburn

Nationality:    Canadian (*??*)

Affiliation:    Forensic Pathologist

Early Life:    Macbeth was born in Barbados, where her father owned a chain of Caribbean hotel/resorts, which Macbeth inherited after his death.  Macbeth’s mother was the first female pathologist in the Commonwealth, dying of hepatitis when Macbeth was 12.  Presumably of Scottish extraction, Macbeth attended the Highland Games on occasion during her early years, and attended school in London.

Career:    Working at Vancouver General Hospital (**??** - is this what VGH stands for?) and considered the best forensic pathologist around, Macbeth worked an many Special X cases.  She performed autopsies on Brigid Marsh and Zoe & Chloe during the Ripper case, and on Dora Craven (at Nick Craven’s request) and Bill Tipple in the Evil Eye case.

As well as working in the morgue, Macbeth also examines bodies in-situ.  She worked on-scene at the murder site of the four UBC students and on Bron Wren’s body in the Shrink case, and on the Jayne Curry and Alex Hunt murder sites during the Hangman case..

Misc. Info:    Macbeth keeps a pair of birds, Binky (a Greenwinged Macaw) and Gabby (a West African Grey). 

She began a relationship with Nick Craven during the Ripper case, and became pregnant in late 1993 but suffered a miscarriage after the Good Luck City cruise ship sank during the Red Serge Ball.  Although she had saved Craven’s life by stabbing “Evil Eye” as he was about to kill Craven, Macbeth blamed Craven for the loss of the baby and they subsequently broke up.  She then set her sights on Robert DeClerq, whom she conquered during the Death’s Door case.

Macbeth underwent plastic surgery with Dr. David Denning, and was attacked by him at the isolated Panacea Clinic.  This was allowed/encouraged to happen by Mephisto as revenge against Robert DeClerq for his role in thwarting Mephisto’s scheme in the Burnt Bones case.  Escaping into the dungeons, she released Mephisto’s captive Becky Bond, killed Denning and was then pursued by “The Undertaker”.  The pursuit ended when Becky pushed “The Undertaker” over a cliff as he was about to kill Macbeth.

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MACDONALD, Monica

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  5’6”

                    Eyes:  brown

                    Hair:  brown

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP

Early Life:    Macdonald studied Fine Arts at college with an eye to becoming an Interior Designer, but ended up joining the RCMP.

Career:    She partnered Rusty Lewis in a Flying Squad during the Headhunter case, working on the Matthew Paul Pitt angle.

During the Burnt Bones case, she was training in geoprofiling with Kim Rossmo.

Misc. Info:    Macdonald possibly had a relationship with Rusty Lewis during the Headhunter case.

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MacDOUGALL, Jack

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1930

                    Height:  short

                    Eyes:  blue

                    Hair:  -

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    MacDougall was raised in Scotland.

Career:    MacDougall’s first posting with the RCMP was in the far north, in the Arctic Circle.  MacDougall formed the first Headhunter Squad with James Rodale, and remained a central part of the team after DeClerq was given command of the second Headhunter Squad.

In 1987, he was threatened with expulsion from the RCMP after his former lover, Peter Brent, publicly “outed” him after the relationship ended.  DeClerq, however, demanded that MacDougall be his second-in-command of Special X as a proviso of his taking command. DeClerq got his way, and MacDougall was appointed Head of Special X Operations.

Working on the Cutthroat case, MacDougall was part of the team that searched for and located the Kwan’s expedition to Windigo Mountain.

MacDougall was killed in December 1993, clubbed and disembowelled by “Evil Eye”.

Misc. Info:    -

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RABIDOWSKI, Ed (Mad Dog)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1950

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  gunbarrel blue

                    Hair:  jet black

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    Rabidowski’s father was a trapper in the Yukon, who taught his son how to handle firearms from a very early age. 

Career:    Corporal Rabidowski is the RCMP’s resident firearms expert and sharp-shooter.  He led the ERT raids on the Iron Skulls Motorbike gang in the Headhunter case, on Ravenscourt in the Ripper case, and on the Somali drug-running base during the Evil Eye case.  Sent north during the Totem lake siege in the Shrink case, Rabidowski’s shooting skills saved the lives of Robert DeClerq and Katt.

During the raid on Ebbtide Island during the Death’s Door case, he also saved Becky Bond, catching her as she fell from a cliff, sustaining cracked ribs in the process.

Misc. Info:    Rabidowski was the winner 5 years running in the annual RCMP marksman competition.  He met stripper Brittany Starr when he puller her over for a driving offence, later taking her to the Red Serge Ball.  The pair were married by the time of the Death’s Door case.

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RAND, Hilary

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c.1931

                    Height:  tall

                    Eyes:  china blue

                    Hair:  -

Nationality:    English

Affiliation:    Murder Squad, Scotland Yard

Early Life:    Rand’s mother died during the German bombing of Coventry in 1940, and her father died from Alzheimer's Disease in 1963.  Both her father and grandfather were Yard detectives.  Her fiancée, Philip Moore, was killed in a car crash late in 1963, and Rand subsequently suffered a miscarriage.  She never married, concentrating instead on her career..

Career:    Rand played a “minor part” in the investigation of Ronnie and Reggie Kray in the 1960’s.  She then made a major breakthrough in a contract murder case, and was subsequently promoted through the ranks during the 1970’s as the Yard’s “token woman”.

Detective Chief Superintendent Rand was appointed commander of the new Murder Squad in 1985 to investigate the Vampire Killer case because first 3 victims were pre-teen girls.  Owing to an apparent lack of progress, her position was in danger by January 1986, but after being personally targeted by the Sewer and Bomber killers, she retained her position.  The case was eventually solved and Rand remained commander of the new Murder Squad.

By January 1994, she held rank of Commander, and helped Special X out by doing some tracking down on Nigel Hammond on the Evil Eye case, and on the Mummy theft during the Death’s Door case.

Misc. Info:    -

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ROSSMO, Kim

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  -

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    VPD; “Honorary Member” of Special X

Early Life:    Rossmo was raised on the Prairies in Saskatchewan.  A maths whiz at school, he passed his Grade 12 exams with a perfect score after only a week of classes.  He briefly went to University, but worked as a Private Eye for a while before returning to Uni to study Criminology

Career:    Rossmo joined the VPD while doing a Masters Degree in criminology, followed by a PhD in which he came up with a formula geographically targeting criminals.  The end result was “Rigel”, which he completed in 1995 after 6 years work.  The VPD promoted him rapidly to the rank of Detective Inspector in order to keep him with them when several offers of employment were made from the FBI and others.

Rossmo worked with Special X on the Burnt Bones case to narrow the search area for Mephisto, and accessed satellite/orthophotos to locate a stone circle on Shipwreck Island, thereby pinpointing Mephisto and allowing Special X to raid the island and save Nick Craven.

In the Death’s Door case, he accompanied Special X to California, where he found that the “Picasso” killings did not fit the geoprofile of the main suspect Dr. Ryland Fletcher, but pointed instead to Dr. David Denning.  He also geoprofiled a map found by Zinc Chandler in Denning’s office to locate Ebbtide Island, thus uncovering Mephisto’s involvement in the case.

Misc. Info:    Rossmo occasionally lectures at the FBI’s Behavioural Science Lab at Quantico, and teaches a class on Forensic Behavioural Science at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

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SCARLETT, Rick

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1955

                    Height:  6’2”

                    Eyes:  brown

                    Hair:  light brown

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP

Early Life:    Scarlett spent his boyhood in Alberta, the son of a Mountie in ‘K’ division, and had wanted to be in the RCMP from a very young age.

Career:    Scarlett partnered Katherine Spann in one of the Flying Squads on the Headhunter case, following the John Lincoln Hardy angle.  He was promoted to Corporal after Hardy had been brought down.

Scarlett did not get into Special X, so he returned to GIS and assumed Nick Craven’s position when Craven joined Special X.  He later oversaw the recovery of murdered P.I. Pete Trytko’s body from Bowen Island.

In the Shrink Case, Scarlett was Corporal at UBC Detachment, and worked with Special X on the Bron Wren and Students’ killings.  He was then sent to track down Steve Rackstraw when Robert DeClerq reopened the Headhunter case.  He worked again with Special X during the Death’s Door case, when he brought in the victim from the beach on Point Grey.

Misc. Info:    -

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SPANN, Katherine

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  5’11”

                    Eyes:  Blue

                    Hair:  Honey Blonde

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    Spann was born in Quebec.  Her father, Mountie Alfred Spann, was the illegitimate son of the RCMP’s legendary Wilfred Blake.  Alfred was listed as having gone missing whilst on patrol, but in reality her mother, Susannah, had poisoned Alfred whilst living in Montreal after years of abuse, buried him up north and moved to New Orleans, where young Spann was herself subject to abuse as Susannah took her hatred of Alfred out on her daughter. 

After Susannah’s death, Spann lived with her maternal grandmother in various exotic places such as Tahiti and Martinique.  After her grandmother’s death in 1968 or ’69, Spann volunteered for work with the US Peace Corps in Ecuador.  Whilst there, she took a bad acid trip, sparking the first psychotic episode in a mental illness which would later result in the Headhunter case.

Career:    Spann joined the RCMP in the first intake of women into the Force in 1974, and ranked amongst the top of the troop.

Spann partnered Rick Scarlett in a Flying Squad in the Headhunter case, following the John Lincoln Hardy angle.  She was promoted to Corporal after taking down Hardy, who she managed to frame for the murders that she herself was responsible for.  After being injured in a shootout with Al Flood, Spann was on extended leave, returning to duty in late 1986/early 1987.

Spann often served overseas – she had been on assignment in Iran previous to the Headhunter case, and had been working in Thailand, India, Colombia, Haiti and the Far East in the period between her return to duty and the Shrink case.  Promoted to Sergeant by December 1993, Spann helped on the investigation of Jack MacDougall’s murder.  She was the immediate superior of Nick Craven within Special X by March 1994.

Spann was sent to investigate the murders in the north during the Shrink case, and was promoted to Inspector and appointed Head of Operations B when Robert DeClerq reorganised Special X.  Her first job in this role was to reopen the Headhunter case, where she sought again to deflect suspicion from herself.  However, DeClerq also worked on the case, and Spann was shot and killed by DeClerq after he traced her to her hideout.

Misc. Info:    Spann – “a deeply-repressed psychotic homophobe” - IS the Headhunter.  Al Flood, suspecting that Hardy was not guilty of the murders, eventually figured out the truth about the Headhunter, but was killed and framed by Spann, who managed once again to keep herself free from suspicion.

Later, Spann became patient of Dr. Anda Carlisle, herself having suffered from being abused as a child, who warped Spann’s psychosis even further by impersonating “mother” to get revenge on her own abuser, Bron Wren, whom she ordered Spann to kill.  When Robert DeClerq reopened the Headhunter case, Carlisle ordered Spann to kill George Ruryk, and Spann was killed by DeClerq shortly thereafter.

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TATE, Carol

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  c. 1950

                    Height:  6’

                    Eyes:  blue

                    Hair:  strawberry blonde

Nationality:    American

Affiliation:    FBI

Early Life:    Tate was a tomboy as a kid.  She had been married at some point, but was divorced in 1984.

Career:    Tate worked with Zinc Chandler on the Keate murder during the Ghoul case in 1986.

Tate was reunited with Chandler the next year whilst working on the Murdoch murder in the Cutthroat case.  During this case, she was shot and injured while following up a lead on Ewan Kwan.  She then went to Hong Kong to be with Chandler following his shooting.  After a raid on the Kwan’s headquarters, she apprehended the escaping “Cutthroat”, but was killed by a knife thrown to her heart.  She did, however, manage to kill “Cutthroat” before dying.

Misc. Info:    Tate and Chandler had a brief affair during the Ghoul case, and resumed the relationship whilst working together on the Cutthroat case.  They became engaged in March 1987, but Tate was killed less than two weeks later.

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TIPPLE, William (Bill)

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  5’10”

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  -

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP

Early Life:    -

Career:    Tipple spent 5 years as an electronic surveillance specialist.  He joined in the Headhunter case when he brought in evidence regarding suspect John Lincoln Hardy.  He was promoted to Sergeant after Hardy was taken down. 

Following the Headhunter case, Tipple began an investigation into West Coast Organised Crime, and survived an attempt on his life when a thief tripped the car bomb meant for him. 

As Head of Plain Clothes Police in Coquitlam GIS in December 1993, he was Rachel Kidd’s boss during the Evil Eye case.  He was murdered by “Evil Eye” after giving evidence at Nick Craven’s murder trial – clubbed, disembowelled, his heart cut out and ritually burned.  Tipple’s death ultimately cleared Craven of the charges against him, as his killer used the same instrument and MO as he had when he murdered Dora Craven.

Misc. Info:    -

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WOZNEY, Christine

Vital Stats:    D.O.B.:  -

                    Height:  -

                    Eyes:  -

                    Hair:  blonde

Nationality:    Canadian

Affiliation:    RCMP; Special X

Early Life:    -

Career:    Wozney was in the second co-educational troop to be inducted into the RCMP in 1976.  She spent a year on general duty in North Vancouver, then 4 years in Maple Ridge, and then 11 years in Burnaby working on sex assaults.  She then moved to Serious Crime, from whence she was invited to Special X as a ViCLAS expert.

She worked on the Death’s Door case, using ViCLAS to identify several other cases both in Canada and the US similar to the Island murders then being investigated, and also identified the “Picasso” killings in Los Angeles as being probably related to the current investigations.

Misc. Info:    -