James "Jimmy" Wozniak

Correctional Officer James "Jimmy" Wolzniak is the main antagonist of the 2015 novel The Darkest Corners, by Kara Thomas.

The Darkest Corners
Wozniak was a prison guard who worked at the prison that the condemned Wyatt Stokes was sentenced to after the Ohio River murders. Secretly the Ohio River Monster, Wozniak had murdered three prostitutes within the past two years; his mordus operandi was robbing and stripping women before leaving their lifeless bodies alongside I-70. Despite the fact that fragments of his uniform was found on two of his past victims, Stokes was convicted regardless.

Some week after Ariel's death, Tessa began to doubt that Stokes was truly the ORM; Callie's boyfriend, Nick, informs her that Ariel had secretly advertised herself on a dating website named Connect. Before her disappearance, she had met a man on the website who only went by the name "Captain." After some lengthy investigation, Tessa obtains information from Pam, a prostitute, who explains that a friend of hers was kidnapped and nearly killed by a man that she had met over Connect. That night, Tessa, Callie, and Ryan create a fake account as to lure Captain. Sure enough, Callie received a private message from a user dubbed cpt818. Callie suggests that they meet each other at Target, and he takes the bait.

After failing to recquire the license plate number, Tessa realizes that Captain was the prison guard who had given her her father's belongings earlier. Once they learn that the killer and Jimmy Wozniak were one and the same, they attempt to convince the district attorney on their suspicions. Fearing that he would get caught, Wozniak kidnaps Callie, and takes her deep in the woods, fully intent on killing her and himself. Jay and his district arrive to the woods before he could fatally shoot Callie, and he opts to blow his own brains out stating that he wouldn't last in prison.

The case for the Ohio River Monster was eventually reopened once the missing jewlery of his victims was found after his house was thoroughly examined.