The media report the murder of former star quarterback Doc Dugan by car explosion. The CBI keeps quiet that the actual victim is Doc's devoted assistant Jake Stewart, who ...

Undercover narcotics officer Yolanda Concepcion was murdered while investigating drug trade and/or money laundering in slick crime baron Omar Vega's nightclub. Bitter wid ...

Michelle Carter (19) was abducted, throat slit and dumped in a San Joaquin park, the MO used 4 times before in Fresno. Patrick encourages Lisbon to pick one from the poli ...

Resort town Fairmont's police chief Marnie Green was shot fatally in head and chest off duty, transported in her police car and dumped. She uncharacteristically arrested ...

Patrick soon realizes that the fatally stabbed corpse of outsider Sanchez only seems washed up on the coast of San Felix island, being on the wrong side to come from the ...

Patrick and the new team's boss, psychology-majored Special Agent Luther Wainwright, immediately like and respect each-other in a provocative way, locking horns from the ...

Conner Flint (9), only son of widow Elisabeth 'Beth' Flint, one of Patrick's former psychic scam victims, has been kidnapped from his school bus stop. Beth refuses to bel ...

Popular society gym coach Markus Kuzmenko, a former swimmer and serial womanizer, is found at home, skull crushed with a gym weight. Adulterorus clients probably feared e ...

After shooting Tim Carter, who admitted being Red John, Patrick waits to be arrested. The whole team is suspended, but decides to go all the way for him, even resorting t ...

Now Hightower is found by the team but unwilling to hide out more than 48 hours longer with her kids, Patrick believes to be at an advantage as Red John ignores how close ...

Alan Dinkler (27, no record) robs Drake Vermilion's Sacramento cash office he works in for a mere $50,000 from the much richer vault, so Patrick assumes the real target w ...

Concert violinist Eleanor Artega is shot dead outside her mother Isabella's NE Sacremento shop. Ex Orlando Yglesias, a Lincoln Avenue Hermanos petty gang member, fled fro ...

In Hangtree, Carson, jailer Walter Parsell, who aspires a detective career and studies criminology, is found on the street outside a robbed jeweler, fatally stabbed as wi ...

Ted Fisher is killed during a possibly staged break-in at his repair-workshop for troubled youths, which is roughed-up as if searched in vain, like his apartment, althoug ...

San Francisco dating agency Symphony's CEO John Flynn (48) was twice shot in the chest fatally and dumped in a marina. Patrick immediately suspects slick, young widow Eri ...

Hedge fund Wilder broker Timothy Hartley, Nathan Vella's partner, is shot and has his throat slit in a field 100 miles from his even richer wife Peregrine née Cook's Hil ...

Married gay Dr. Micah Newton (42) is found on a 24-hours golf club, skull smashed with a single expert club blow, by a colleague, according to Patrick. Lisbon's rudeness ...

Rich Precolumbian archaeology professor Manuel Montero, also a well-reputed traded in antiquities, is murdered in the Nothern Calirfornia Museum of Anthropology. He was m ...

Gold mining town Hadley's sheriff Trey Hughes calls the CBI after fellow prospector Melinda Drew found and former software developer Rick Loomis, divorced and recently mo ...

While Van Pelt relieves US Marshal Gorman protecting Justin DeGeorge, the key witness against drug baron Adrian Essex, she's knocked out and the witness murdered. His dau ...

Angelino documentary maker Amber Sutherland is shot at home while turning a movie to promote Crane Creek mayor Kenyon Bagshaw's national political ambition. The local pol ...

Hernando family lemony factory worker Fernanda Talan's week-old corpse, skull violently smashed twice, is found on a cars graveyard. Patrick smells a rat and uses the gua ...

Author Charlotte Mitchell is found in a locker, shot dead during a freestyle fight between promoter-manager Leonard 'Len' Artash's KO-victorious boy Manny Flaco and hot-t ...

At Christmas time in Sacramento, mail order Christmas gifts entrepreneur Bernard Ripple falls to his death in his fancy Santa suit, drunk and carrying a suicide note on a ...

Smalltown Vineland sheriff Mullery's deputies Nelson Capel and Lance Connor and Mullery's cousin EMT Todd Johnson's fiancée Keeley Farlowe were all found killed, though ...

Patrick is kidnapped and handcuffed in a basement, where the kidnapper is shot by his young female accomplice, Rachel, who promises him a torturous death to revenge her d ...

Former Soviet officer Yuri Bajoran is blown to smithereens by a bomb in his office while the CBI interrupted his take over talks with even richer tycoon Walter Mashburn t ...

Gentle children's books illustrator Austin Marr (23) is stabbed to death in strict federal judge Pauline Fitwilliam's guest house. Austin was the lover of her contrary yo ...

Californian former horse race jockey Bill Sutton is found beaten to death on the tracks. Patrick and the CBI team investigate possible motives from ruthless colleague - a ...

Convicted sociopath Henry Dahl is shot ten times trough the head in his San Francisco motel room shortly after his release on account of faulty DNA evidence. Patrick is o ...

Junky Celia Jovanovich's body washes up the Sacramento River. She was rehabilitated after joining Bret Styles's Visualize cult two years ago, and has its tattoo. She was ...

Wealthy San Francisco investment broker Landon Wale (45) was shot in the Sacremento company K-Ram's HQ. Patrick is criticizing the questioning technique of the detective ...