Patrick Bergmann is a character in the Dexter Novels.
He was so obsessed with movie star, Jackie Forrest, that he murdered several women who looked like her. Each of his victims had a slender build and golden blonde hair, as did Jackie.
Description[]
Patrick had pale blue eyes, dirty-blonde hair in a shaggy cut, and a wiry, athletic build. He owned a red Kawasaki Ninja 650 motorcycle.
Personality[]
He was ruthless when rejected by a love interest.
On his Facebook page, Patrick posted a photo of himself, smirking, next to an eviscerated deer. His was holding a Bowie knife and his arms were covered in blood up to his shoulders. A coil of intestines lay at his feet.
While staying in Miami, Patrick camped under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, where sexual offenders are known to live.
After he murdered a woman, he stayed nearby to watch the crime scene investigators.
Summary[]
Patrick, furious that his love for Jackie isn’t returned, sends her several threatening letters but Kathy, her assistant, just files them away. Determined to get close to Jackie, Patrick stalks Jackie in places where she is working on films. While in Miami, Jackie, realizes that she is in danger and hires Dexter as a personal bodyguard. Dexter enjoys her lifestyle so much that, even after he kills Patrick, he continues to stay with Jackie in her hotel suite. This leads to an affair, with Dexter deciding to leave Rita and the kids for Jackie. However, Jackie is first murdered by her co-star, Robert Chase.
Murder Victims[]
- Sept. 2012, New York - Unnamed nude woman found with both her eyes ripped out (one missing). Her body was covered with bite marks. A handful of her hair had been yanked out.
- June 2013, Las Vegas - Unnamed nude woman found with a slash mark and traces of semen on her face. One of her eyes was missing, and a section of her hair had been ripped out.
- Oct. 2013, Miami - Unnamed, mutilated nude woman found in an alley dumpster. Her lips were hacked off, her nose was smashed, and her stomach was slit open. There were more than a dozen wounds on her body, including a nipple and part of an ear that were chewed off. A chunk of her hair was ripped out and one of her eyes was missing. Semen was found in the empty eye socket.
- Oct. 2013, Miami - Amila (hotel maid), who styled her hair like Jackie’s, was found in an dumpster near Jackie’s hotel. She had been hacked and stabbed with frenzied abandon, leaving cuts and gashes from fingernails, teeth, and a knife blade. A hank of her hair had been yanked out. Amila apparently was still alive during most of the torture. At the crime scene, Vince Masuoka showed Dexter a bar of soap from Jackie’s hotel and said, “You don’t want to know where I found it.”
Copycat Kill[]
- Kathy Bodrowski - Jackie’s assistant, she was later murdered by Robert Chase in a similar manner, causing Dexter to briefly wonder if he killed the wrong man.