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| “ | You can't take your eyes off me. Truth is, without me, you wouldn't exist. I'm the Un-You. | „ |
| ~ Bruner taunting Jack McCoy. |
Mark Bruner is the main antagonist in the Law & Order episode "Bodies". He is a serial killer of teenage girls who puts his own lawyer in legal jeopardy by showing him the location of his victims.
He was portrayed by Ritchie Coster, who also portrayed Carlo Parisi in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Dietrich Banning in The Tuxedo, The Chechen in The Dark Knight, Arthur Blisterman in CSI: Las Vegas, and Pope in The Walking Dead.
Biography[]
Bruner is a cab driver who, over the span of a few years, brutally rapes and murders over a dozen teenage girls, and keeps their bodies in a secure location where he sometimes goes to admire them and relive the experience of killing them. He takes sadistic amusement in the suffering his victims' families, as well as in ruining his lawyer's career. He is so sadistic and cruel that even his first legal aid attorney, who has spent her career defending violent criminals, is afraid of him.
He believes that killing gives him Godlike power, and that he is the reason for the very existence of those who seek to bring him to justice. He is so obsessed with keeping his secret that he won't even reveal it when Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy threatens him with the death penalty.
At the end of the episode, he is found guilty of the murders, and is presumably sentenced to death.
Trivia[]
- Bruner is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. "The Green River Killer, a serial killer of prostitutes and runaways.
- Richard Grissom, a serial killer convicted of the disappearances of three women who still have never been found, reportedly from being housed in a storage locker after they were murdered.
- Robert Garrow, a serial rapist and later spree killer whose lawyers were later taken to trial so they would divulge where the remains of some of his murder victims were, in what's known as the "Buried Bodies Case".
External links[]
- Mark Bruner at the Law & Order Wiki
- Mark Bruner on the Pure Evil Wiki
