Deaths
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Below are all deaths - murder victims, murder investigations, and others - that occur in the span of the In Death books, including weapon, cause of death, and the perpetrator. This list does not include any attacks on persons that do not result in death.
| Book | Victim | Cause of Death | Weapon | Perpetrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naked in Death | Sharon DeBlass | shot in head, chest and groin | Smith & Wesson Model 10 | Gerald DeBlass |
| Lola Starr (Alice Williams) | SIG 210, 1980 | Derrick Rockman | ||
| Georgie Castle | Ruger P90 | |||
| Gerald DeBlass | Gunshot | suicide | ||
| Joseph Finestein | poisoned | pie | Hetta Finestein | |
| Glory in Death | Cicely Towers | slash across throat | long-bladed knife | C. J. Morse |
| Yvonne Metcalf | ||||
| Louise Kirski | ||||
| C. J. Morse's mother (pre-book) | ||||
| Immortal in Death | Boomer (Carter Johannsen) | strangulation & blunt trauma | thin baseball bat | Lt. Jake Casto |
| Hetta Moppett (pre-book) | blunt trauma to the head | |||
| Pandora | excessive trauma | cane | ||
| Cockroach (Lament Ro) | blunt trauma to the head | iron pipe | ||
| Jerry Fitzgerald | drug overdose | Immortality, morphine and Zeus | ||
| Rapture in Death | Drew Mathias | hanging | suicide by mind control via subliminals found virtual reality goggles | Dr. Reeanna Ott |
| S. T. Fitzhugh | slashed wrists | |||
| Senator Pearly | jumping | |||
| Cerise Devane | ||||
| Dr. Reena Ott | Electric shock to the throat | Police Stunner | suicide | |
| Ceremony in Death | Det. Sgt. Frank Wojinsky | cardiac arrest by drugs | Digitalis and Zeus | Selina Cross & Alban |
| Alice Lingstrom | chased into street and hit by car | paranoia | ||
| Lobar (Robert Allen Mathias) | removal of heart | athame | ||
| Thomas Wineburg | stabbed in heart | |||
| Louis Trivane | stabbed in throat & disembowelment | Mirium Hopkins | ||
| Selina Cross | slashed throat | Alban | ||
| Alban | stabbed in heart | Jamie Lingstrom | ||
| Vengeance in Death | Thomas X. Brennen | disembowelment, amputation | Liam Calhoun | |
| Shawn Conroy | exsanguination | |||
| Jennie O'Leary | slow hanging | rope | ||
| Liam Calhoun | overload of nervous system | stunner | Roarke | |
| Holiday in Death | Marianna Hawley | rape, sodomy, strangulation | Christmas garland | Simon Lastrobe |
| Sarabeth Greenbalm | ||||
| Donnie Ray Michael | ||||
| Brent Holloway | ||||
| Midnight in Death | Harold Wainger | torture and hanging (strangulation) | nylon strapping rope (hangman's noose) | David Palmer |
| APA Stephanie Ring | ||||
| Carl Neissan | ||||
| Conspiracy in Death | Snooks (Samuel Petrinsky) | removal of heart | surgical instruments | Dr. Michael Waverly |
| Erin Spindler | removal of kidneys | |||
| Jilessa Brown | removal of liver | |||
| Officer Ellen Bowers | blunt trauma | metal pipe | ||
| Dr. Tia Wo | injection of barbiturates | drug overdose | ||
| Jan the nurse | blunt trauma to head, single blow | |||
| Dr. Westley Friend (pre-book) | injection of barbiturates | drug overdose | ||
| Loyalty in Death | J. Clarence Branson | Drilled to the wall through the heart | Branson 8000 Drill | Lisbeth Cooke |
| Colonel Howard (Fixer) Bassi | Beaten and drowned in river | Droids | Cassandra (Clarissa & B. Donald Branson) | |
| 300+ unlisted victims | Bomb explosion in Tea Room of Plaza Hotel | Terrorist bombs | ||
| Lieutenant Anne Malloy and "less than 400" unlisted victims | Bomb explosions and panicked stampede for exits in Madison Square Garden | |||
| B. Donald Branson | Fall from crown of Statue of Liberty. | Gravity | Misadventure | |
| Clarissa Branson (Charlotte Rowan) | Jump from crown of Statue of Liberty | Suicide | ||
| Witness in Death | Richard Draco | stabbed in heart during stage performance of Witness for the Prosecution | butcher knife | Areena Mansfield |
| Linus Quim | coerced suicide | hanging | ||
| Judgment in Death | Detective Taj Kohli | blunt trauma to head | metal baseball bat | Sergeant Arthur Clooney |
| Lieutenant Alan Mills | chest cut, from neck to stomach; disembowelment | knife | ||
| Captain Boyd Bayliss | drowning | taped-down to bathtub | ||
| Lewis | unknown drug | pressure syringe to heart | Unknown female assassin | |
| Clarence Haggerty | shot in the head | police issued weapon | Eve Dallas | |
| Betrayal in Death | Darlene French | raped, beaten and strangled | two-foot sterling silver wire | Sylvester Yost |
| Jonah Talbot | ||||
| Sylvester Yost | slashed across throat | mug shard | suicide | |
| Mick Connelly | stabbed in stomach | knife | Michel Gerade | |
| Interlude in Death | Reginald Weeks | bludgeoned to death | metal bat | Bryson Hayes |
| Zita Vinter | suicide drugs | drugged in wine | ||
| Douglas Skinner (former Commander) | suicide | drugs | voluntary suicide | |
| Seduction in Death | Bryna Bankhead | rape and drug overdose | rape drugs Whore & Rabbit | Kevin Morano |
| Grace Lutz | Lucias Dunwood | |||
| Dr. Theodore McNamara | bludgeoning, drowning | lamp | Lucias Dunwood & Kevin Morano | |
| Kevin Morano | poisoned | unidentified drug | Lucias Dunwood | |
| Lucias Dunwood | suicide | |||
| Reunion in Death | Marsha Stibbs (pre-book) | hit to the head | glass table | Maureen Brighton |
| Julianna's three husbands (pre-book) | poisoned | cyanide | Julianna Dunne | |
| Walter C. Pettibone | ||||
| Henry Mouton | ||||
| Eli Young | ||||
| Spencer Campbell | ||||
| Purity in Death | Ralph Wooster | bludgeoned | baseball bat | Louis K. Cogburn |
| Louis K. Cogburn | police stunner(s) | light & sound frequencies, severe inter-cranial pressure driving victim to suicide | The Purity Seekers | |
| Detective Kevin Holloway | tranqed | |||
| Chadwick Fitzhugh | slit own throat | |||
| Mary Ellen George | hanged self | |||
| Nick Greene | stabbed self in heart | |||
| Hannah Wade | stabbed repeatedly | kitchen knife | Nick Greene | |
| Dru Geller | light & sound frequencies | The Purity Seekers | ||
| Portrait in Death | Rachel Howard | stabbed through heart | stiletto | Gerald Stevenson (Steve Audrey) |
| Kenby Sulu | ||||
| Alicia Dilbert | ||||
| Siobhan Brody (Roarke's mother, pre-series) | beaten to death | Patrick Michael Roarke | ||
| Imitation in Death | Jacie Wooton | slit throat, massive blood loss (killed à la Jack the Ripper) | Scalpel | Niles Renquist |
| Lois Gregg | sexually assaulted and strangled (killed à la Boston Strangler) | Robe sash/belt | ||
| Remember When | Andrea Jacobs | slash across throat | stiletto | Trevor Whittier |
| Tina Cobb | severe trauma to head, torso, set on fire | baton | ||
| Divided in Death | Felicity Kade | stunned, fourteen stab wounds to chest | bread knife | Blair Bissel |
| Carter Bissel | stunned, eighteen stab wounds to chest | |||
| Chloe McCoy | suicide pills | drugged | ||
| Joseph Powell | laser to carotid artery | military laser | ||
| Visions in Death | Elisa Maplewood | beating, rape, strangulation, removal of eyes | red ribbon | John Blue |
| Lily Napier | ||||
| Marjorie Kates | ||||
| Breen Merriweather | ||||
| Ineza Blue | ||||
| Ten Unknown Women | ||||
| Annalisa Sommers | Celina Sanchez | |||
| Survivor in Death | Inga Snood | slash across throat | combat knife | Corporal Jilly Isenberry, Sergeant Roger Kirkendall, Sergeant Isaac Clinton |
| Grant Swisher | ||||
| Keelie Swisher | ||||
| Coyle Swisher | ||||
| Linnie Dyson | ||||
| Meredith Newman | ||||
| Detective Owen Knight | ||||
| Detective James Preston | ||||
| Corporal Jilly Isenberry | broken neck | fall down stairs | ||
| Origin in Death | Dr. Wilfred B. Icove | stabbed in chest | scalpel | Deena Flavia |
| Dr. Wilfred Icove, Jr. | Avril Icove | |||
| Evelyn Samuels | Deena Flavia | |||
| Deena Flavia | laser blast | laser | Jonah Delacourt Wilson (clone) | |
| Dr. Wilfred B. Icove (clone) | ||||
| Jonah Delacourt Wilson (clone) | Eve Dallas and Roarke | |||
| Memory in Death | Rosie O'Hara (pre-book) | explosion in nightclub | bomb | unnamed terrorist |
| Max "Tubbs" Lawrence | jumped out of window under the influence of drugs | Zeus | misadventure | |
| Leo Jacobs | crushed by falling body | Max Lawrence | ||
| Trudy Lombard | fractured skull by multiple blows | sap | Zana Lombard (Marnie Ralston) | |
| Haunted in Death | Radcliff C. Hopkins | bullets to torso, arm, and head | 9mm Smith & Wesson | Maeve Buchanan |
| Bobbie Bray (pre-book) | single bullet to head | Hop Hopkins | ||
| Born in Death | Sophia Belego (pre-book) | unknown | unknown | Winfield Chase |
| Emily Jones (pre-book) | head trauma | |||
| Natalie Copperfield | strangulation after torture | manual | ||
| Bick Byson | ||||
| Randall Sloan | hanging | tranquilized then hanged | ||
| Madeline Bullock | broken neck | manually | ||
| Innocent in Death | Trevor Straffo (pre-book) | broken neck, head trauma | push down stairs | Rayleen Straffo |
| Adele Versy (pre-book) | overdose | surgical paralytic substance | ||
| Craig Foster | poisoned | ricin | ||
| Reed Williams | paralyzed by poison, drowned | surgical paralytic substance | ||
| Eternity in Death | Gregor Pensky (pre-book) | Exsanguination from twin puncture wounds in neck | artificial vampire fangs | Dorian Vadim |
| Tiara Kent | ||||
| Allesseria Carter | ||||
| Dorian Vadim | Stabbed in chest | Wooden Stake | Eve Dallas | |
| Creation in Death | Edwina Spring (pre-book) | Torture, Exsanguination by cut wrist | Tortured with knife, blow torch, drugs, needles, and dry ice | Robert Lowell Sr. |
| Corrine Dagby (pre-book) | Robert Lowell Jr. | |||
| Melissa Congress (pre-book) | ||||
| Anise Waters (pre-book) | ||||
| Joley Weitz (pre-book) | ||||
| Eighteen Unknown Women (pre-book) | ||||
| Sarifina York | ||||
| Gia Rossi | ||||
| Strangers in Death | Reginald Thomas Anders (pre-book) | Fractured skull | Shoved in the shower and slammed head into Italian marble | Ava Anders |
| Ned Custer (pre-book) | Slit throat and castration | Knife | ||
| Thomas Aurelius Anders | Strangulation | Tranquilized then strangled by rope | Suzanne Custer | |
| Ritual in Death | Ava Marsterson | Ritual killing, Slit throat, Multiple stab wounds | Multiple Drugs, knives | Silas Pratt, 12 others |
| Brian Trosky | Hammer to cave in his own skull | Drugged and hypnotized | Silas Pratt, 12 others | |
| Salvation in Death | Nick Soto (pre-book) | Multiple stab wounds | Knife | Lino Martinez and Penelope Soto |
| Ronnie Edwards (pre-book) | Bombing at a school auditorium in 2043 | Bomb | The Soldados/Lino Martinez & Penelope Soto | |
| Kobie Smith (pre-book) | ||||
| Quinto Turner (pre-book) | ||||
| Three unnamed minors (pre-book) | ||||
| Joseph Turner (pre-book, year 2044) | hanging | Suicide | ||
| José Ortega (pre-book) | Drug overdose | Unnamed drugs | Unintentional suicide | |
| Miguel Flores (pre-book) | Multiple stab wounds | Unknown | Steve Chávez | |
| Steve Chávez (pre-book) | Unknown | Unknown | Lino Martinez | |
| Lino Martinez | Poisoning | Potassium cyanide | Juanita Rodriguez Turner | |
| Jimmy Jay Jenkins | Billy Crocker | |||
| Promises in Death | Amaryllis Coltraine | Full impact to throat | Police Issue Stunner | Cleo Grady (On command of Max Ricker) |
| Rod Sandy | Stabbed through torso | stilleto | ||
| Kindred in Death | Deena MacMasters | Raped, beaten, sodomized, strangled | Darrin Pauley | |
| Karlene Robins | ||||
| Missing in Death | Dana Buckley | Slit throat | Bone Dagger | Ivan Draski |
| Fantasy in Death | Bart Minnock | Beheaded | Sword (Holo game) | Levar (Var) Hoyt |
| Indulgence in Death | Melly Bristow (pre-book) | Broken neck | Manually | Winston Dudley IV and Sylvester Moriarity III |
| Linette Jones (pre-book) | Beaten | Tire Iron | ||
| Architect (pre-book) | Garroted | Wire | ||
| Larinda Villi (pre-book) | Stabbed through heart | Unknown | ||
| Jamal Houston | Bolt through neck | Crossbow | Sylvester Moriarity III | |
| Ava Crampton | Stabbed through heart | Bayonet | Winston Dudley IV | |
| Luc Delaflote | Impaled through heart | Harpoon | Sylvester Moriarity III | |
| Adrianne Jonas | Hanged | Bullwhip | Winston Dudley IV | |
| Possession in Death | Gizi Szabo | Stabbed | Dagger | Sasha Korchov |
| Vanessa Warwich, Allegra Martin, Lucy Quinn and five others (pre-book) | Slit throat | |||
| Sasha Korchov | Stunned | Police-issue Stunner | Eve Dallas | |
| Treachery in Death | Charlie Ochi | Electrocution | Homemade Jammer | Bruster Lowe, Leon Slater and Jimmy K Rogan |
| Rickie Keener | Poisoned | Apparent (manipulated) Overdose | Detective Carl Bix (on orders from Lieutenant Renee Oberman) | |
| Detective William Garnet | Sliced Throat | Military Knife | ||
| Detective Gail Devin (pre book) | Broken Neck | Unknown | ||
| Detective Strumb (pre-book) | unknown | unknown | unknown (on orders from Lieutenant Renee Oberman) | |
| New York to Dallas | Alice McQueen (pre-book) | slit throat | knife | Isaac McQueen |
| Carla Bingham (pre-book) | ||||
| Patricia Coppley (pre-book) | ||||
| Nancy Draper (pre-book) | ||||
| 4 unnamed victims (pre-book) | ||||
| Riker's Nurse (pre-book) | ||||
| Sylvia Prentice (aka Stella) | ||||
| Officer Malvie | laser scalpel | Sylvia Prentice (aka Stella) | ||
| Chaos in Death | Jennifer Darnell | strangulation | manual | Dr. Chaos (alter ego to Ken Dickerson) |
| Coby Vix | bludgeoned | pipe | ||
| Wilson Bickford | multiple stab wounds | 4-inch, jagged-edged knife | ||
| Eton Billingsly | multiple stab wounds and bites | knife and teeth | ||
| Celebrity in Death | Cecil Silcock | head trauma | cast iron skillet | Paul Havertoe |
| K. T. Harris | head trauma, drowned | pushed, dragged into pool | Joel Steinburger | |
| A. A. Asner | smashed skull | maltese falcon statue | ||
| Bryson Kane (pre-book) | broken neck and other injuries | fall/pushed down stairs | ||
| Marlin Dessler (pre-book) | internal bleeding and other injuries | fall/pushed off cliff | ||
| Angelica Caulfield and unborn fetus (pre-book) | overdose | drugs | ||
| Jacoby Miles (pre-book) | beaten | ten-pound dumbbell | ||
| Sherri Wendell (pre-book) | fall, drowned | drugs, pushed | ||
| Buster Pearlman (pre-book) | overdose | drugs and alcohol | ||
| Allys Beaker (pre-book) | fractured skull | slipped in shower | ||
| Delusion in Death | Lance Abrams, John Burke, Joseph Cattery, Paul Garrison, D B Graham, Travis Greenspan, Evie Hydelburg, Wendy McMahon, Cherie Quinz, Cate Simpson, Hilly Simpson, Macie Snyder, Amie Stewart, Gwen Talbert, Brenden Wang, Katrina and 68 unnamed victims. | Multiple and varied injuries from weapons of opportunity | Psyco-active Chemical Warfare Gas | Lewis Callaway |
| Jeni Curve, Brenda Deitz, Carly Fisher, Allison Nighly and 40 unnamed victims. | ||||
| Calculated in Death | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Thankless in Death | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Taken in Death | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Note: "stunner" and "laser" are both terms used interchangeably for the fictional weapons that the NYPSD carry in the In Death books; they release a strong electrical, laser-like stun that can do anything from incapacitating to killing the victim.
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“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)