Leopold Strauss

Leopold Strauss is a supporting antagonist in Red Dead Redemption II. He was voiced by Howard Pinhasik.

Biography
Leopold Strauss was born circa 1846 in Vienna, Austria in poverty. By the age of fourteen, his older brother was a petty chef who would beat up even poorer people for money. Strauss's father sold his own daughter into slavery at the age of nine. He whipped and beat her. It broke the heart of Strauss's mother and even his older brother. However, Strauss laughed so hard that it almost brought him to tears. Strauss, his parents, and his older brother came to Texas in the United States. There, Strauss had become a debt collector, bookkeeper, and accountant all over the southern United States, but after robbing a general store, he had to flee to Louisiana on foot. There, he took a poor, lost, and fatherless Micah Bell as his own son. He and Micah would be inducted into Dutch van der Linde's gang in early 1899, where Leopold would handle much of the gang's accounting. Unfortunately for Dutch, bringing Leopold and Micah into his gang was the biggest mistake he had ever made. Alongside Micah, he would later on betray Dutch's gang for the Pinkertons. He was also rumored to have killed his grandmother when he was only thirteen as she "disrespected him" according to some Bureau of Investigation files. He was a member of Micah Bell's gang alongside Cleet and Joe.

Death
After Arthur Morgan kills Bell and most of his gang members, Strauss and some others are killed by John Marston as he's heading up the mountains in a short shootout.

Trivia

 * Alongside Micah Bell, he is the only villain in the Red Dead series to be Pure Evil. He is also in the same game as him.