Richard White

Richard White is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Stalked". He is a serial rapist, stalker and murderer who becomes fixated on Detective Olivia Benson.

He is portrayed by Bruce Kirkpatrick.

Character overview
When White was a child, his father committed suicide, leaving him to be raised by his emotionally abusive mother. White blamed her for his father's death, and grew up to hate all women. As an adult, he became a successful realtor, but used his wealth and social status to prey on women; he would abuse and degrade any woman he was in a relationship with, and stalk them when they left him to punish them for wounding his inflated ego. He even stalked and harassed his business partner, Kimberly Phillips, until she agreed to help him defraud their clients. The law finally caught up with him when was convicted of raping his ex-girlfriend, Louise Billings, for which he was put on the sex offender registry; he did not stop terrorizing her, however, and continued stalking her years afterward.

In "Stalked"
The Special Victims Unit encounter White while investigating the rape and murder of Assistant District Attorney Karen Fitzgerald, who had prosecuted him for raping Billings. Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson interrogate White, who tries to turn the conversation around by mentioning details about Benson's personal life - and she realizes that he has been stalking her, as well.