Edgler Vess
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Edgler Foreman Vess (1960?-1994?) is a fictional serial killer of 22+ and police officer in Dean Koontz's novel Intensity. He carefully selects his victims, kills their families, kidnaps them and tortures them to the brink of insanity before he kills them.
He tortured and killed animals as a child and committed his first murder at the age of 9 when he burned his parents to death after they caught him torturing a turtle. Their death was considered an accident caused by smoking in bed. Two years later he stabbed his grandmother to death because she didn't clean the house to his satisfaction. The authorities decided he killed the grandmother because of the trauma of losing his parents so he was only given therapy and adopted. He killed his adoptive parents when he was 20 for the insurance money.
He started his killing spree six years before the novel begins. He had kidnapped and killed six women and has been holding a teenage girl for a year after killing her parents and brother. In the novel he kills eight people, making his body count at least 22.
Chyna Shepard, who chases after him after he kills her best friend and her family, is eventually captured by Edgler but escapes with the teenage girl and kills Edgler in the end.
