| Pro | Joe | Pike | Uniformed LAPD police officer |
| | Abel | Wozniak | Joe's partner |
| | Ramona Ann | Escobar | Missing 5-year-old girl |
| | Leonard | DeVille | Pedophile, suspected kidnapper |
| | Paulette | Wozniak | Abel's wife |
| | Evelyn | Wozniak | Abel's daughter |
| | Fahreed | Abouti | Island Palms hotel manager |
| 1 | Lucy | Chenier | Elvis Cole's girlfriend, attorney, moved from Louisiana to LA |
| | Elvis | Cole | Private detective, "professional Angelino," aka "World's Greatest Detective" |
| | Ben | Chenier | Lucy's 9-year-old son |
| | Joe | Pike | Elvis' partner in the detective agency |
| | Frank | Garcia | Disabled owner of line of tortilla manufacturing com-pany, friend of Joe, former gang member |
| | Karen | Garcia | Joe's missing 32-year-old daughter |
| 2 | Mrs. Marisol | Acuna | Neighbor in Karen's apartment building |
| | Ronnie | | Employee at the Jungle Juice shop |
| | Edward | Deege | Homeless man, former carpenter |
| 3 | | Holstein | LAPD detective |
| | Daniel | | Child at daycare center where Karen worked |
| | Joshua | | Co-teacher with Karen at the daycare |
| 4 | Lt. Lou | Poitras | Lead detective at Hollywood Homicide, friend of Elvis |
| | Abbot | Montoya | Frank's lawyer, Karen's godfather |
| | Kurt | Asana | Coroner investigator |
| | Harvey | Krantz | Detective in Robbery-Homicide |
| | Stan | Watts | Detective in Robbery-Homicide |
| | Jerome | Williams | Detective in Robbery-Homicide |
| 5 | Henry | Maldenado | City Councilman |
| | Capt. Greg | Bishop | Head of Robbery-Homicide division |
| | Walter | Mills | Asst. Chief of Robbery-Homicide |
| 7 | John | Chen | Junior criminalist in SID, photographer |
| 8 | Samantha | Dolan | Detective in R/H assigned to liaise with Elvis |
| | | Bruno | Detective |
| | | Salerno | Detective |
| | "Buzz Cut" | | FBI agent |
| | Eugene | Dersh | Hiker who found Karen's body, self-employed graphic designer |
| | Riley | Ward | Dersh's fellow hiker, owner of ad agency |
| | Curtis | Wood | Civilian employee of the LAPD |
| | Mike | McConnell | Det. Three, IAG, sr. admin. officer, involved in investigation of Pike, retired |
| | Louise | Barshop | Detective Two |
| 9 | Mr. | Pike | Joe Pike's father |
| | Mrs. | Pike | Joe's mother |
| 11 | Rusty | Swettaggen | Restaurant owner in Venice, CA, friend of Elvis |
| | Emma | Swettaggen | Rusty's wife |
| | Jerry | Swettaggen | Rusty's cousin, works at the LA coroner's office |
| | Evangeline | Lewis | ME who performed the autopsy on Karen |
| 12 | Julio | Munoz | Murder victim with same MO as Karen |
| | Walter | Semple | Murder victim with same MO as Karen |
| | Vivian | Trainer | Murder victim with same MO as Karen |
| | Davis | Keech | Murder victim with same MO as Karen |
| 14 | Leon | Aimes | Gunnery sergeant, Advance & Infantry instructor at Camp Pendleton, CA |
| | Frank | Horse | Gunnery sergeant, Advance & Infantry instructor at Camp Pendleton, CA |
| 15 | Witt | Deedle | Rampart Division detective |
| | Paulette | Wozniak | Abel Wozniak's wife, later remarried as Paulette Renfro |
| 20 | Daryl | Haines | 18-year-old high school dropout who beat up 14-year-old Joe Pike, worked at the Shell station |
| | Todd | Haines | Daryl's older brother, stationed in Viet Nam |
| | Candy | Crowley | Friend of Daryl |
| 21 | Trudy | | Runaway Joe met while on a late-night run |
| | Mark | | Driver of black van who picked up Trudy |
| | Amanda | Kimmel | 78-year-old neighbor of Dersh |
| 22 | Charlie | Bauman | Pike's lawyer |
| 23 | Robbie | Branford | ADA handling Pike's case |
| 24 | Jesus | Lorenzo | Transvestite, killer's next victim |
| 27 | Sid | Rogin | Civilian clerk at the LAPD storage facility |
| 29 | Evelyn | Wozniak | Abel & Paulette's daughter |
| | "Ringmaster" | | Jailer at the Parker Center jail |
| | | Rollins | Prisoner at the Parker Center jail |
| | | Montana & Carmody | Deputies escorting the prisoners to the Men's Central Jail |
| 32 | Laurence | Sobek | Teenaged hustler arrested by Wozniak |
| 33 | | Krakauer | Rampart Division Sex Crimes D-2, lead detective in DeVille's case |
| | | Murray | Rampart Div. detective |
| | Drusilla | Sobek | Laurence Sobek's mother |
| 40 | | Gilstrap | Prosecutor in Elvis's case |
