Anita Pessoa

"No, you don't have a clue, lady. What it's like to always look over your shoulder."

Anita Pessoa is a sheriff deputy assisting in the apprehension if serial rapist Peter Denford. She is later revealed to be a rape victim herself of convicted, incarcerated serial rapist Harold Mitchell, and she appeared in Every Five Minutes in Profiler.

Background
Anita Pessoa works as a Floridian sheriff deputy. Some time during her service, serial rapist Harold Mitchell was active across the state, and Pessoa was his 48th rape victim, her later remarking "maybe he just wanted the challenge of raping a cop". After Mitchell was apprehended, convicted, and imprisoned, she has since dedicated her work in the force to sex crimes, making a wall of unsolved rape cases in her office she makes her personal obligation to solve.

Every Five Minutes
Pessoa assists the Violent Crimes Task Force when they investigate the rapes committed by serial rapist Peter Denford. When his latest victim, Marissa Cuellar, is interviewed, Pessoa watches over, and she later discusses with Samantha Waters how women are chastised and ridiculed for being victims and "supposedly" crying false reports due to expectations of society. When another woman, Carol Winter, reports a rape but the details hint that she's lying, Pessoa gets infuriated, accusing Waters of not caring or understanding, and storms off. She's later seen in the department, and when Waters returns from interviewing Mitchell, Pessoa reveals her rape, saying Waters has no idea what it's like to always be afraid of other possibly wanting to come after you. Waters tells her to never say that again once she relays her war with Jack of All Trades. Pessoa then shows her wall of unsolved rapes to Waters, emphasizing her dedication to sex crimes. When Winter is later conclusively revealed to have filed a false report, Pessoa remarks how women like her embarrass actual victims. Once Denford is later identified as the rapist they're after, Pessoa and Waters follow him to his trailer as he's taking another woman inside to rape her. While Waters tries o calmly talk Denford down, Pessoa furiously shouts death threats at him to scare him into letting the woman he abducted go. Eventually, he releases the woman and drops the knife he held against her, followed by Pessoa slapping cuffs on him and dragging him away. In the end, Pessoa and Waters meet for the last time, Pessoa thanking her and removing Cuellar's photo from her wall.