Richard Thompson (The Bone Collector)

Marcus Andrews also known as Richard Thompson was a forensics cop in Syracuse who had planted false evidence framing six people, one committing suicide, and thanks to a detective Lincoln Rhyme, he was sentenced to six years in prison, where he was brutalized everyday due to him being a cop.

A few years later, Lincoln got into an accident which left him paralyzed neck down, and Richard became his technician, but Lincoln didn't realise that he was the killer he has arrested before. Richard began abducting victims in a taxi and leaving clues in order to see if Lincoln can solve the whereabouts of the victims before they meet their grisly demise, with the help of officer Amelia Donaghy. Richard used inspiration from a book called The Bone Collector, which details murders in New York many years before.

His first two victims are a couple Alan and Lindsey Rubin. Richard kills Alan leaving him on a Civil War-era railroad bed with clues to his kidnapped wife's whereabouts. Richard takes her to an underground steam junction where he handcuffs her and tapes her mouth in front of a pipe. It is too late and when the officers arrive, she is killed by steam. Richard left clues where she died.

His third victim was a student, who he bound and gagged and gutted in a warehouse, leaving him for the rats. By time Amelia arrived, he was dead after been eaten alive by the rats. The next two victims were an old man and his granddaughter, and tied them up in a pier for them to drown. Luckily, Amelia came across the Bone collector book in a library and managed to find them. However, it is unfortunate that the grandfather died.

Richard then went onto kill Lincoln, and murdered Lincoln's nurse Thelma and Captain Howard Cheney before revealing himself to be the murderer to Lincoln and his motives. He then planned on completely paralyzing Lincoln, making him a "vegetable". However, Lincoln manages to make the bed collapse onto Richard's hand crushing it, and bites into his throat. Richard goes to stab Lincoln, but Amelia arrives on time and shoots and kills Richard.

Known Victims

 * 5 unnamed people (framed)
 * 1 unnamed man (framed, committed suicide)
 * Alan Rubin (kidnapped, murdered, buried his body at a railway station)
 * Lindsay Rubin (kidnapped, tied up, tortured, murdered)
 * 1 unnamed student (gagged and gutted in a warehouse, eaten alive by the rats)
 * Unnamed old man and his granddaughter (tied to a pier, both drowned)
 * Captain Howard Cheney (stabbed)
 * Thelma (stabbed)
 * Lincoln Rhyme (assaulted, attempted to stab)

Crimes Committed

 * Serial Murder
 * Kidnapping
 * Assault
 * Torture
 * Attempted Murder