Robert Harroway

Robert Harroway a.k.a. The Pillowcase Bandit is a serial killer, stalker, and a pedophile and ephebephile who appeared in Die Beautiful in Profiler.

Modus Operandi
Harroway targeted Caucasian pubescent girls and young adults with long, brunette hair. He started with such girls and women living in homes Lenny Panagakos, another pedophile, worked in, setting him up to take the fall for the murders. Each woman or girl who was murdered woke up when Harroway was secretly filming them, making their knowledge of him liabilities. After casing the house and stalking the girls and women for a certain amount of time, Harroway would break into the rooms of the girls and women at night and incapacitate them with blunt-force trauma to the head so he could suffocate them with a pillowcase. He then painted lipstick on the pillowcase, strip them naked, and posed them, first in their beds on their bedroom floors, then sitting in front of their vanities staring into the mirrors, their frozen expressions veiled by the pillowcase over their heads. With Jane LeScoulie, he killed and posed her in her place of work.

Profile
Low self-esteem, likely rejected by someone baring a strong resemblance to the women and girls he targets. He's drawn to their beauty shown from those images, but he wants to destroy and ruin that beauty, or likely more so alter to his own desired image. Likely videotapes and photographs the women and girls he stalks. Going for women and girls who don't sleep naked shows more abrasion and comfort in killing, changing the scene to fit his psychopathology: naked and horribly exposed, with a ghastly pose for shock value. Likely at the scene when Lenny was arrested, but got scared and ran, but when not also caught, he started searching for women and girls on his own when his own compulsions fully showed.

Known Victims

 * Five unnamed girls and women
 * Lenny Panagakos (framed for his crimes, but exonerated while on death row)
 * Melissa Merrit
 * Jane LeScoulie
 * Gina Brasiano (attempted to kill; was rescued)

Trivia

 * Melissa Merrit's background and murder investigation appears to be based off the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey, as well as the suspicions toward her parents.