Dr. Alan Rhodes, alias The Leopard Man, is the main antagonist of the Rizzoli and Isles book "Die Again".
Rhodes is a serial ritual killer of various people based on West African murder cults, who’s out to kill witnesses to his massacres, including the only survivor of one in Botswana who escaped.
Victims[]
- Numerous unidentified people (presumably killed and mutilated postmortem)
- Curry College, Boston: Natalie Toombs, 20 (strangled and eviscerated postmortem; buried in a tarp at the Stony Brook Reservation)
- Sacramento: Unidentified white lawyer, 50 (strangled; eviscerated and hung upside down postmortem)
- Phoenix: Unidentified Latino truck driver, 22 (tortured by cuts, burns, and castration; strangled; eviscerated and hung upside down postmortem)
- The Nevada backpackers murders:
- Unidentified woman, 35 (strangled; eviscerated and left on a tree branch postmortem)
- Unidentified woman (killed and dismembered postmortem; her remains weren’t found)
- Two unidentified men (killed and dismembered postmortem; their remains weren’t found)
- The Montana elk hunters murders:
- Unidentified man (strangled; eviscerated and left on a tree branch postmortem)
- Unidentified man (killed and dismembered postmortem; his jawbone was found in a cougar’s den)
- Unidentified man (killed and dismembered postmortem; his remains weren’t found)
- Cape Town: Elliot Gott (beat to death; stole his identity)
- The Botswana safari expedition massacre:
- Clarence Nghobo (strangled; eviscerated and left to be eaten by hyenas postmortem)
- Isao Matsunaga (strangled; eviscerated and left to be eaten by an African leopard postmortem)
- Johnny Posthumus (shot and dismembered postmortem; his remains weren’t found)
- Richard Renwick (shot and dismembered postmortem; his remains weren’t found)
- Keiko Matsunaga (shot and dismembered postmortem; her remains weren’t found)
- Sylvia Ofwegen (shot and dismembered postmortem; her remains weren’t found)
- Vivian Kruiswyck (shot and dismembered postmortem; her remains weren’t found)
- Millie DeBruin (attempted to shoot; she escaped)
- The Maine hunters murders:
- Brandon Tyrone (strangled; eviscerated and hung upside down postmortem)
- Nick Thibodeau (killed and dismembered postmortem; his remains weren’t found)
- Boston: Leon Gott (strangled; eviscerated and hung upside down postmortem; left his organs in a basket at the scene and stole his photos and money)
- Brookville: Jodi Underwood (strangled with a ligature; stole her phone, laptop, camera, and money)
- Suffolk Zoo, Boston:
- Debra Lopez (strangled; thrown into the African leopard den postmortem)
- The leopards release and escape: (attempted to kill with released leopards; failed)
- Detective Jane Rizzoli
- Dr. Maura Isles
- Numerous unidentified police
- Numerous unidentified zoo patrons
- Boston: Millie DeBruin (attempted; strangled with a ligature; she killed him instead)