| 2 | Caitlin | Bergman | A Los Angeles-based reporter. Aka: Caitie. |
| | Mary Lubbers | Gaffney | The dean of the Media School. Caitlin's good friend. |
| | Lakshmi | Anjale | Journalism Student. |
| | Angela | Chapman | An Indian girl. Anjale's best friend. Aka: Angie. |
| 3 | Scott | Canton | Caitlin's old teacher. |
| 4 | Darren | Thompson | Caitlin's acquaintance. |
| 5 | Chet | Watkins | Caitlin's acquaintance. |
| 6 | Mike | Roman | An ex-cop. |
| | Jim | Martinez | An FBI agent. |
| | Jerry | Greenwood | The lead detective from the Bloomington PD. |
| | Pablo | Picasso | Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and theatre designer. |
| | Frances | Danforth | A lady im the woods buried in nineteen fifty-five. |
| 7 | Troy | Woods | A patrol officer. |
| | Melissa | Hartman | Greenwood's wife. |
| | Connor | Hartman | Greenwood's father-in-law. |
| | Aaron | Gaffney | Mary Lubbers-Gaffney's husband. |
| 8 | Doris | Chapman | Angela's mother. |
| 9 | Paige | Lauffer | A part-time waitress in Bloomington and part-time student at IU. |
| 10 | Kieran | Michelson | One of the suspects on Angela Chapman's disappearance. |
| | David | Amireau | One of the suspects on Angela Chapman's disappearance. |
| 12 | Abigail | Renton | Bloomington Police Department's chief. |
| | Jane | Maverick | A detective. |
| 13 | Devon | Miller | Angela's roommate. |
| | Dolores | Garcia | One of Angela's friends. |
| | Mary | Pavlos | One of Angela's friends. |
| | Nathan | Fodor | Kieran and David's acquaintance. Aka: Frodo; Nate. |
| | Genevieve | | The party host. |
| 14 | Ernie | Pyle | American journalist. |
| | Laura | Baker | The student who claimed a police officer sexually assaulted her. |
| 15 | Nirvana | | American rock band. |
| | Pixies | | American alternative rock band. |
| 16 | Chad | Branford | Angela's professor. |
| 18 | Becky | | The school photographer. |
| | Douglas | Hopewell | A sheriff. |
| | Mark | Christiansen | An FBI agent from the Bloomington resident agency. |
| | Antoine | Foreman | An FBI agent from Indianapolis. |
| 24 | Jessica | | One of Lakshmi's acquaintances. |
| 25 | Adam | Fodor | Nate's older brother. |
| | Jerry | Garcia | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Lyle | Sugar | A deputy sheriff. |
| 27 | Tanya | | Mary's Aunt. |
| | Randall | Gutcherson | Nate's Fodor acquaintance. Aka: Gooch. |
| | Andrew | Jackson | 7th U.S. President. |
| 28 | Jack Fodor | | Frodo's father. |
| | Linda Fodor | | Frodo's mother. |
| 32 | Matthew | Bergman | Caitlin's father. |
| 33 | John | Mellencamp | American musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and film director. |
| | Paul | Newman | American actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur. |
| | O. J. | Simpson | American football running back. |
| | Steve | Toblowsky | One of Caitlin's acquaintances. |
| | Tony | Jeong | One of Caitlin's acquaintances. |
| | Ellen | Shaub | One of Caitlin's acquaintances. |
| 35 | Deena | | Lakshmi's friend. |
| | Chuck | Lester | Frodo's little frat brother. |
| 36 | Carol | McGovern | Lakshmi's acquaintance. |
| 37 | Drunk | Allison | Ed Thompson's acquaintance. |
| 40 | Paul | Dooley | American actor, writer and comedian. |
| 42 | Ginger | | Mary's cousin. |
| 43 | John | | Fodor's acquaintance. |
| 48 | Pablo | Escobar | Colombian drug lord and narco terrorist. |
| 49 | Jim | Martinez | Special agent. |
| 50 | Charlese | | Caitlin's acquaintance. |
| 51 | Richard | | A lawyer. |
| 53 | Chris | Shepherd | A detective. |
| 54 | Isabelle | Shepherd | Chris Shepherd's wife. |
| 55 | Bruce | | Doris Chapman's husband. |
| 57 | Ruth | Davis | Lakshmi's freshman-year roommate. |
| | Pratima | Siddal | A grammar teacher. |
| 65 | Embower | | Branford's alias. |
| 68 | William | Shakespeare | English playwright, poet, and actor. |
| 69 | Michael | Jackson | American singer-songwriter and dancer. |
| | Henry VI | | King of England. |
| | Richard III | | King of England and Lord of Ireland. |
| 73 | Adolf | Hitler | German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. |
| 74 | Stephen | King | American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime. |
| | Tennessee | Williams | American playwright. |
| | Chris | Farley | American actor and comedian. |
| 76 | Tammy | | One of Branford's students. |
| 80 | Tom | Clancy | American novelist. |
| 86 | Casey | Jones | American railroad engineer. |
