Copycat

Copycat is a 1995 crime-thriller film written by Ann Biderman and David Madsen, directed by Jon Amiel; starring Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, and Dermot Mulroney.

Criminal psychologist, Dr. Helen Hudson develops agoraphobia after being attacked by a psychopath. Thirteen months later, a serial killer begins a series of murders and police inspectors Mary Jane Monahan and Ruben Goetz decide to consult the retired Helen, bringing her into the killer's sights.

Victims

• Officer Roy - Throat slit and shot twice in the chest by Darryl Lee Cullum.
• Lydia Diaz - Strangled by Peter Foley with his hands off-screen, pictures shown.
• Unnamed Woman - Strangled by Peter Foley with his hands off-screen, pictures shown.
• Susan Hart - Strangled by Peter Foley with a nylon stocking copying The Boston Strangler off-screen, body shown.
• Two Unnamed Women - Tied to trees and burned alive by Darryl Lee Cullum off-screen, mentioned.
• Unnamed Woman - Killed by an unknown lover off-screen, pictures shown.
• Unnamed Woman - Sodomized, injected with window cleaner, and asphyxiated by Peter Foley copying The Hillside Stranglers off-screen, body shown.
• Unnamed Woman - Shot in the left side of her neck by Peter Foley with a Bulldog .44 copying The Son of Sam off-screen, body shown.
• Detective Ruben Goetz - Shot through the back and chest by an unnamed criminal.
• Andy - Strangled and suffocated by Peter Foley with a plastic bag, then decapitated with a hacksaw copying Jeffrey Dahmer off-screen, body shown.
• Peter Foley's Wife - Shot through the left cheek by Peter Foley off-screen, body shown.
• Wife's Pet Chihuahua - Either killed by Peter Foley off-screen was killed when he set the house on fire.
• Officer Mike Johnson - Throat slit by Peter Foley with a buck knife.
• Officer Fred - Killed by Peter Foley with a buck knife off-screen, body shown.
• Peter Foley/Peter Kurten/The Copycat Killer - Shot to death by Mary Jane Monahan.
• Darryl Lee Cullum - Executed by the state of California via an unknown method off-screen sometime after the events of the film.

Deaths

• Total - 17
  • 16 Humans
    • 9 Women
    • 7 Men
  • 1 Animal
    • All Dogs

Kill Counts

1. Peter Foley/The Copycat Killer - 10 (Deceased)
2. Daryll Lee Cullum - 3 (Deceased)
3. Inspector Mary Jane "MJ" Monahan - 1 (Alive)

Notes

• The name of the police officer that Cullum kills can be seen in a newspaper article, though it's too blurry to make out the surname.
• Susan and Lydia's names can be seen on folders when Helen is looking through the pictures of Foley's first three victims.