“ | Chief Worrell: So Kelso is your boy Petersen? And working with Phelps? A handy lad, that Kelso. Leonard Petersen: Yes, he is Chief. You can't imagine what those 2 have uncovered. It could go all the way to the top. I hope you won't be implicated. Chief Worrell: So you're the new broom Petersen? Petersen: Looks like it. Chief Worrell: And you think he will make it out of there alive? Petesen: I think he might. He is a difficult boy to get rid of. Chief Worrell: Alright Petersen. I'm listening. What's your offer? |
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~ Chief Worrell and Assistant DA Leonard Petersen before discussing the deal. |
Chief William J. Worrell is a major antagonist in the video game L.A Noire. He is the Police Chief of the LAPD. He is a member of the Suburban Redevelopment Fund, a corrupt crime syndicate made to defraud millions from the Federal Government by building fake houses in the way of an incoming freeway. He is also involved in the Vice Squad Scandal.
Biography[]
History[]
Nothing is know about his history prior to becoming Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department. It can be assumed it is similar to real-life former LAPD Police Chief Clarence Horrell which William Worrell is based on. He is a member of the SBF (Suburban Redevelopment Fund) and serves in the conspiracy to cover-up the conspiracy by using the LAPD to silence anyone who investigates or speaks out against the SBF.
Vice Scandal[]
He was involved in the Brenda Allen Vice Scandal. Brenda Allen was a prostitute who was sleeping with a Sgt. Broker (based off Sgt. Jackson) when a robber broke into the house that were staying at and Broker shot him dead. When the relationship between Allen and Stoker became well-known to the public, Brenda's relationship with other high-ranking members of the LAPD (including Chief Worrell) threatened to sink the administrations to the ground. In order to save their skins from the Vice Scandal corrupt Chief Detective of Ad Vice Roy Earle gives Chief Worrell dirt on Detective Cole Phelps (that dirt being Cole was cheating on his wife with German singer Elsa Lichtmann) in order to distract the public from the Vice Scandal and have their full attention placed on Phelps. While Phelps was in the middle of an interrogation, Chief Worrell and Captain James Donnelly of Homicide summoned Phelps to the Chief's office where they along with DA Donald Sandler fired Phelps pending a fitness review for adultery and revealed to him that his wife was pressing charges.
Suburban Redevelopment Fund[]
Chief Worrell along with Elysian Fields CEO Leland Monroe, VP of California Fire & Life Curtis Benson, Mayor Bowren, DA Sandler, Dr. Fontaine, and Raymond Gordon editor of the LA Times were the top investors of the SBF. The SBF was a crime syndicate lead by Leland Monroe to build fake houses along the path of a freeway they knew the Federal Government wanted to be built in to pocket millions from the Federal Government when the Feds used eminent domain. Chief Worrell's part was to use the LAPD as the syndicate's private army and to cover-up their crimes by silencing everyone who was either investigating or planned to speak out against the investigation.
When DA's investigator Jack Kelso, along with Arson detectives Cole Phelps and Hershel Biggs found out the truth about the conspiracy and threatened to expose them, Worrell put out a state-wide APB on Jack Kelso and ordered his officers to shoot him on site. When Jack Kelso put out a radio message to Phelps that exposed his location and destination the corrupt LAPD officers pursed his vehicle and Worrell ordered his car to be disabled. When Phelps and Biggs helped escort Kelso to the LAPD river tunnels Worrell turned the LAPD against Cole and Biggs. When Phelps and Kelso made it to the tunnel, Chief Worrell cornered them. While Phelps and Kelso went into the LA River tunnel system to look for the kidnapped Elsa Assistant DA Leonard Petersen and Chief Worrell made a deal whose details are ambiguous. It is assumed that the ones punished for the SBF were Monroe and Benson. DA Sandler stepped down in favor of Petersen while Mayor Bowren and Chief Worrell kept their jobs.
Trivia[]
- Chief Worrell is based on former LAPD Police Chief Clemence B. Horrall who was police chief of the LAPD from 1941-1949. He too was involved in the Vice Scandal and was corrupt. Unlike Worrell, Horrall resigned due to his corruption while Worrell kept his job.
- Worrell's voice actor, Ryan Cutrona, played Don Draper's father-in law in Mad Men, which also stars Aaron Staton and several other actors from L.A. Noire.
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