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Caleb Hoff is the main antagonist of the Chicago PD episode "Due Process". He was a serial killer and rapist who was released after suing the city of Chicago for illegal arrest.
He was portrayed by David Lind, who also portrayed Jeff in Five Nights at Freddy's.
Biography[]
Past[]
His mother died when he was 5 years old, and his abusive father abandoned him when he was 7 years old. Hoff would then be out in an orphanage where it is implied that he would start having violent behaviors, at the age of 15 he was arrested for car theft and assault of the driver a 16-year-old girl. Some Years later, Hoff would rape college student Nina Campbell but managed to get away. Nina was so scared that she would refuses a rape kit or testify against him and because he used a condom there was no other evidence. He started to feel untouchable after that, so he started murdering. His first homicide was Denise Bush. He would steal a cab and tricked Bush into getting in. He then raped and killed Bush. He would then murder Meredith Cheney. Cheney would get inside Hoff's stolen cab and was then raped and killed by Hoff with her body never being found. Then he would murder a girl named Victoria Lee. Hoff attacked her and raped and killed her but not before being spotted by a witness. In this homicide would be where the detective, Lisa Martinez, would arrest Hoff, Martinez suspected that he was staying at an address, but he had no evidence or warrant, Martinez would force her way in by brutalizing Hoff's roommate and getting him to sign consent forms.
Martinez would find Hoff's shirt that was stained with Victoria's blood. Hoff would claim that he had been the victim of police brutality and an unlawful arrest, so conviction integrity reviewed the case, and he was released. Hoff would sue the city and would win, even the mayor himself publicly apologized to him, before the events of the episode. Hoff would once again prepare to kill, buying condoms and stealing a black Honda.
Due Process[]
At the beginning of the episode, he uses the black Honda car that he had stolen to pick up a couple the Larsons, during the whole trip he stared at the wife Jessica. The husband Ben asked him to let them get out of the car, Hoff said to just get out of the car Ben. Ben did not want to and took his wife's hand to get out of the car together, but Hoff shot Ben and kidnapped Jessica, then left and burned the car and then took Jessica to a factory where he had previously worked. There he would rape her and cruelly murdered her by strangulation. Thanks to some security cameras from the place where the black Honda was stolen, Hoff is identified, Hank Voight easily recognizes him because of the demand that Hoff had made to the city, Hank tells his team that they had to solve the case under due process, since they could not risk a lawsuit by Hoff. The suspicions are corroborated after Ben Larson manages to identify Hoff, later he would pose as a taxi driver and kidnap Renee Ferguson. This would follow the same modus operandi, abandons the car and burns it to then take Renee inside a building to later rape and murdered her by bashing her head with a metal object. Thanks to some photographs it is possible to identify a partner of Hoff. Hank Voight and Adam Ruzek question Kenny Rose, a drug dealer, but refuses to cooperate and is charged with drug possession and arrested. Hank realizes that Hoff is hiding in an old metal factory and goes there. Hank enters the place, but finds Lisa Martinez, who had arrived to take justice into her own hand, Hoff shoots Hank as soon as he sees him. Hank enters the factory where a shootout begins against Hoff, at one point Hoff is he runs out of bullets and is cornered, but before Hank can Hoff throws himself from a considerable height, presumably to escape or kill himself, but after the fall Hoff only suffers minor injuries, Hoff writhes in pain on the ground. Finally, Hoff surrenders, but Martinez arrives. She wanted to execute Hoff for all the damage he had done, but Hank manages to persuade her and finally Hoff is arrested for all the rapes and murders he committed.
Killed Victims[]
- Denise Bush: Raped and then killed by Caleb Hoff: Mentioned.
- Meredith Cheney: Raped and then killed by Caleb Hoff, hid her body and was never found: Mentioned.
- Victoria Lee: Raped and then killed by Caleb Hoff: Mentioned.
- Jessica Larson: Raped and then strangled by Caleb Hoff.
- Renee Ferguson: Raped and then beaten with a metal object on the head by Caleb Hoff.
External links[]
- Caleb Hoff on the Chicago PD Wiki
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