Andrea Brown

Officer Andrea Brown is a misandric serial killer and a "Wound Collector" and "Injustice Collector" who appeared in Do the Right Thing in Profiler.

Background
Andrea was the daughter and only child of Frank Brown, the most decorated police officer in the Atlanta Police Department. She was taught everything her father knew and expected to follow in his footsteps on the force. She was skilled and devoted to her sense of duty and carrying on a legacy, but her father pushed her to hard and guilted her when he was devastated she didn't meet all his standards, not even being the best at the academy despite her inheritance and commendable capabilities and achievements. The worst wound she faced is her father couldn't stand one ultimate thing about her: she was a girl, when he wanted a son. With the shame she faced over being a woman, she resented other men, especially men she found failing to live up to their own expectations as their genders and as people. She became a patrol officer in the same department, keeping herself maintained in presentation and trying to excel in her position, rarely getting along with others when they even stepped out of line by an inch, leaving her working alone by the time of the episode. What appalled and hurt her most was when civilians didn't cooperate with the police and refused to be witnesses for serious crimes, seeing male witnesses as more of the problem. What finally pushed over the edge was her father's death and eventual funeral, after which she built a shrine of him in his honor. This stressor finally made her snap, and in a combination of the high expectations of herself and the resentment and disgust of men she felt were failures, her father no exception, she began targeting make witnesses to crimes they refused to testify against. She started with Philip Dumont, a witness not cooperating at the scene of an attempted rape. She then killed Roy Munson, another witness refusing a subpoena for a hit and run, leading the VCTF to be called in.

Do the Right Thing
Brown is present at the scene of Munson's murder, in full on-duty mode when responding to the scene, and calling off the officers not assigned to the crime scene once John Grant has her do so. She's later pulling Ryan Andrews, Munson's grandson, out of the house when he wants to see his father's body. She then goes to the shop and home of Bill Meisberger, another witness refusing to testify against suspects of a liquor store robbery that turned violent and likely deadly. She places her signature pocket knife in her uniform and, as per her protocol, says she needs to ask him some more questions. Despite his insistence of not giving his statement again, Brown presses him saying it's crucial and it'll only take a few minutes. He relents and lets her inside, only for her to kill and castrate him as well. She's at the same scene as one of the responders telling Grant Meisberger's wife is ready to talk. She's later seen at the cops' gym, while she rides the elliptical, she hears two male officers grumbling about another witness, Henry Cole, refusing to answer to a robbery where a woman was beaten within an inch of her life. After Brown picks up the speed on the elliptical to release her frustration, she goes to Cole's house with her ruse. He refuses answering her questions, even when she describes the severity of the crime. He continuously sexually harasses her throughout the interrogation, and when she says to continue questioning in the house, he assumes "propositioning" and closes the garage door "for privacy", before getting a beer "against regulations" and retorting with "rules are meant to be broken, honey". She then pulls her signature strap out of her uniform and attempts to strangle him as well, but she's interrupted and leaves when Cole's wife arrives back at the house. She slams the door of her car and steadies her breaths. She then gets home, throws off her uniform down to her undershirt, and slows her breaths again while looking into the mirror. She then goes to her father's shrine and lights a candle, only to burn a candle and place her hand over the flame as she stares at his official photo. She later bandages her hand once she's done. Once the FBI goes to her precinct, she sees they've caught up on the investigation and know it's only a matter of time before they suspect her, causing her to leave early. Grant than visits her at the end of the day, wanting to catch up with her after hours. Once he sees she's Frank's daughter he's in awe in seeing photos of him and he and laments he couldn't attend his funeral because he was in Portland on an FBI case. When he sees Andrea placed cutouts of herself in photos with her father, she cocks her gun and aims it at his heads. To Grant's confused shock, she orders him into her bedroom to assume the position before she handcuffs him. She doesn't listen to Grant about how the FBI was on their way to her door, so he tries a different tactic: he appeals to her sense of duty, then tells her her biggest duty was to her family and legacy. He appealed to her sense of failure over never having every achievement as well as her hatred over her father's and others' sexism. She calls herself a disgrace to herself and her family, but Grant tries to talk her down and express his sympathy, giving him his commendations for who she became. She has none of it and instead trains the gun she has on Grant at her own head. As the FBI and responders are at her door to arrest her, she kills herself instantly with one shot, later being gurneyed ot in a body bag.

Modus Operandi
Brown targeted men not stepping up to their civic responsibility when crime was in their community. She would approach their homes or businesses under the guise of doing a routine in her job, even silently letting them getting ahead of themselves on what they wanted from her, and then she would choke them to death with a strap, rendering them helpless with her combat training in the force, before she castrated them with a large, folding pocket knife. She failed to do this with Henry Cole when his wife returned to their home, and she abandoned the plan altogether. When she tried to kill John Grant, she attempted to shoot him with her service pistol after placing him in handcuffs, but she ultimately shot herself after Grant's failed attempt to talk her down. Gay films were found at the first two scenes, as well as a story being leaked that the victims were attacked by gay bashers, thus she could've been responsible for those to shame them more and throw investigators off track. She may have also set up too many officers coming to the scene of Roy Munson's murder to further deliberately sabotage the investigation.

Profile
The killer is cold and precise, with military precision and a finite sense of both responsibility/duty and personal resentment, most likely Caucasian. The victims are castrated because they "don't deserve their manhood". An obligatory habit complex is shown in how the killer tidies up the scene after the murders. The men are posed on their backs as if they were at a funeral, as well as for shock value to humiliate them. The killer doesn't necessarily have overwhelming strength and build, but could easily have the physical expertise of maneuvering around men with larger, heavier figures. The killer's later revealed as a cop due to the compulsive sense of duty and routine, as well as how the victims easily let the killer into their homes. Immaculate in presentation, early in assignments for success, prestige, and gratification from achieved responsibilities, and with poor relationships with colleagues, often having to rotate between them because the killer couldn't handle their slight steps out of real or perceived lines, even likely filing regular reports when they don't stay in their jobs. The killer is later accurately surmised as a woman, shown by her pension for subconscious precision. A death of a partner or male family figure was most likely the stressor for the killings. She finds her victims failures in performing their duty, not living up to their masculine roles, thus she finds them hypocrites, shown once it's found out they're reluctant witnesses to crimes. Castrating them is emulating removing what she hears men do "more" effectively based on gender, giving her more confidence in her own because multiple men, including her father, never "lived up to manly duties". Her use of a strap to murder is also a symbol of both punishment an humility, not to the victims, but to herself, which she hopes to turn on other men so she feels leveled out and justified, a well as giving them an understanding of both what she was trained to do and how grueling it was for her to experience it.

Known Victims

 * Philip Dumont (witnessed an attempted rape)
 * Roy Munson (didn't appear for a subpoena in a hit and run case)
 * Bill Meisberger (didn't identify robbers at a liquor store)
 * Henry Cole (witnessed a robbery and critical beating; attempted, but changed her mind once his wife arrived)
 * John Grant (attempted; handcuffed and held at gunpoint; shot herself instead)