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