Dexter collects a blood slide
Trophies are mementos kept by some serial killers to allow them to relive the experience of their murders. It is often a significant part of a killer's modus operandi.
Trophies[]
Books[]
Those are the known trophies in the Dexter book and comics series by Jeff Lindsay.
- Dexter Morgan - blood slides kept in a rosewood box. (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)
- Randy Macgregor and Steve Reiker - photographs securely stored on the boat. (Dearly Devoted Dexter)
- Alexander Macauley (Zander) - shoes. (Dexter in the Dark)
- Mustached Victim - shoes. ("Dexter: Issue 1")
TV Series[]
These are the known trophies in the Showtime series DEXTER.
- Dexter Morgan - blood slides held in two boxes over the years. ("Dexter") Initially, first attempt at a trophy were earrings from his first human victim. ("And in the Beginning...")
- Nurse Mary - newspaper clippings of victim obituaries held in a scrapbook. ("Popping Cherry"/"And in the Beginning...")
- Dr. Emmett Meridian - digital video recordings of therapy sessions kept in a laptop. ("Shrink Wrap")
- Little Chino - tattoos of blood drops on his right triceps, one added for each victim. ("It's Alive!")
- Miguel Prado - rings, securely kept in the humidor (budding serial killer: attempted to secure a trophy once, succeeded second for a second time) ("The Damage a Man Can Do")
- Arthur Mitchell - Four Walls One Heart plaque awards, one for each cycle of four murders. ("If I Had a Hammer")
- Timothy Brand - photographs. ("Slack Tide")
- Boyd Fowler - locks of hair. ("Hello, Bandit")
- Cole Harmon - DVD-R discs of digital video recordings of torture, as filmed by Jordan Chase (murderer by proxy; rapist). ("Take It!")
- Jordan Chase - vial of blood from first rape victim of the Barrel Girl Gang (killed her many years later; serial rapist and murderer by proxy). ("Teenage Wasteland")
- Alex Tilden - jewelry (murderer by proxy; rapist). ("In the Beginning")
- Walter Kenney - teeth (lateral incisors specifically) kept in a tin box in a rented storage container. ("Smokey and the Bandit")
- Ray Speltzer - earrings torn off barehanded with portions of ear flesh. ("Buck the System")
- Wayne Randall and Hannah McKay - possessions of victims, including hotel matchboxes, a t-shirt, a toy giraffe, a sunglasses, a playing card (Eight of Spades), a cocktail straw, a cigarette lighter, a Halloween costume eye patch and a piece of jewelry. ("Buck the System"/"Swim Deep")
- A.J. Yates - women’s shoes (right side only). ("Scar Tissue")
- Oliver Saxon - digital video recordings and files of every murder, portion of a brain (anterior insular cortex specifically; possibly since it was never shown that removed parts were kept). ("A Beautiful Day"/"Goodbye Miami")
- Zach Hamilton - photographs (budding serial killer; two victims and an attempt). ("A Little Reflection")
- Kurt Caldwell - embalmed/preserved bodies of young women. (Dexter: New Blood: "Too Many Tuna Sandwiches", "The Family Business" and "Sins of the Father")
- Wiggles the Clown - polaroid photographs of child victims dressed as clowns ("The Family Business")
- Ronald Schmidt - driver's licenses of his victims with their photos crossed out with the victims' blood, kept in a zip-up binder marked "Collector's Book" for a trading card game ("A Beating Heart...", "Backseat Driver")
- Lowell - sections of flesh with tattoos (referred to by Lowell as his "skins") ("Call Me Red")
- Al Jolly - ponytails taken from his victims ("Call Me Red")
- Leon Prater - the baseball bat used to kill Keith ("Call Me Red")
- Gareth and Gareth's Twin - polaroid pictures of his victim's bodies ("Call Me Red", "Cats and Mouse")
- Mia Lapierre - small belongings of her victims, kept in a small music box. ("Call Me Red")