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Max Ricker

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Ricker, Max Edward

Appeared in Judgment in Death (April 2059), mentioned in Divided in Death (September 21-24, 2059)[1], appeared in Promises in Death (Spring 2060), and mentioned in New York to Dallas (late summer, 2060)

Personal Information[]

  • Description: He had a powerful look; a strongly carved face with prominent planes that looked glass sharp.[2]
  • DOB: February 3, 2000
  • Age: 60 (as of Spring 2060)
  • Complexion: White, white
  • Hair: Wavy mane of dark hair tipped with silver wings
  • Eyes: Silver
  • Height: 6 feet, 1 inch (185.42 cm)
  • Weight: 202 pounds (91.63 kg)
  • Address: Penal Station Omega (formerly Hartford, Connecticut)
  • Relationships: Ellen Mary Morandi (wife/deceased); Alex Ricker (son); Cleo Grady (daughter)
  • Occupation: Ex-Entrepreneur/Businessman (Drug Dealer)

Description[]

  • He had white, white skin (Caucasian) and his mouth was hard, with the silver brush of a mustache doing nothing to soften it. His eyes were silver – opaque and unreadable.[3]
  • His nails were painted silver and the tips were filed to vicious little points.[4]
  • He hadn’t weathered prison well. His hair was going, his body had begun to sag, his skin was sallow, but his eyes were as vital and vicious as ever.[5]

Personality[]

  • Roarke described him as smooth, educated, charming, vain, brutal, and enjoyed the company of women (he was generous when pleased with them, violent and/or cruel when displeased). Max’s weaknesses included vanity, arrogance, greed, a temper, and deteriorating mental health.[6]
    • Ricker liked using women; he liked using them, hurting them, disposing of them.[7] He liked younger women.[8]
    • Women had been commodities; something to be used and easily discarded – paid off, discarded, disposed of, or eliminated.[9]
  • A violent, unstable man; a man of power and no conscience.[10] According to Eve Dallas, he, like Richard Troy and Patrick Roarke, “got off on the cruelty, and the power it gave them over someone smaller or weaker.”[11]

History[]

  • Max attended the University of Pennsylvania and earned a degree in business.[12]
  • He had a relationship with Lissa Grady when she worked at a private art gallery in Chicago; she became pregnant and gave birth to Cleo Grady.[13]
  • Cleo Grady was the only recipient of the college scholarship provided by one of Max Ricker’s fronts.[14]

Family History[]

  • He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Leon and Michelle Ricker (deceased). He had one brother (deceased); a son, Alex; and a wife, Ellen Mary Morandi (deceased).[12]
  • Eight months ago, Alex traveled to Omega, for his first and only visit with his father after Max’s incarceration.[15]

Criminal History[]

  • He had been charged with petty larceny in 2016, gun running, illegals distribution, fraud, bribery, and two conspiracies to commit murder.[12]
  • He was arrested six months before Judgment for “The manufacture, possession, and distribution of illegal substances including hallucinogens and known addictives, the international and interplanetary transportation of illegal substances, possession of banned weapons, the operation of chemical plants without a license...” He was acquitted.[16]
  • His primary income was from the manufacture and distribution of illegals, he dabbled in weapons, assassinations, and sex. Ricker had several high placed officials in his pocket.[17]
    • He loved the weapons trade.[18]
  • Max had criminal connections with Patrick Roarke and Richard Troy; he also had a lot of cops in his pocket.[19]
  • He ordered five hits on Roarke in the past.[20]
  • In New York to Dallas, we learned that Lieutenant Ricchio’s father, Deputy Chief Ricchio, tried to take down Patrick Roarke and Ricker in Dallas.[21]

Criminal Activity[]

  • According to prison records, there had been virtually no communication listed to or from Max since he was sent to Omega.[22] However, two encrypted, unregistered ‘links, both matching the suspect transmission signals, were used to and from Omega and the planet.[23]
  • Max told Eve that one day they would add another life sentence on him for Eve’s murder.[24]

Homicide Information[]

  • Ellen Morandi
    • Records show she “ingested an unhealthy number of tranqs and supposedly fell or leaped from her bedroom window, twenty-two stories above the streets of Rome.” According to the police file, Max Ricker was in Amsterdam when she jumped or fell.[25]
    • Max once told Alex, though he later recanted, that he should have done to him what he’d done to the bitch who bore him. He should have gotten rid of Alex the way he had her; watched him fall, watched his brains splatter on the street.[26]
  • Three men in Atlanta
    • After the robbery of Alex’s antiques store, the badly beaten bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River – chained together. Alex was alibied[27] though he said Max ordered the murder of the three men.[28]
  • Amaryllis Coltraine
  • When Eve set up communications to Max, regarding Cleo (after her arrest), he said that Cleo was nothing, never was, never would be – less than nothing. Max said Alex didn’t have the balls to murder but at least Cleo knew how to go after what she wanted; but she didn’t have Alex's brains. He acknowledged that Cleo wanted to go after Coltraine two years ago but he advised against it and told Eve to lock Cleo away.[30]
    • Cleo admitted that Max targeted Coltraine because of Alex; her murder was payback for words Alex and Max exchanged. Max wanted Coltraine to die thinking Alex ordered the hit.[31]
  • Cleo further admitted to murdering over a dozen people for Max.[32]

Interesting Facts[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Divided in Death, Chapter 7
  2. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 68
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), pp. 68-69
  4. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 72
  5. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 335
  6. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), pp. 45-46
  7. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 284-285
  8. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 286
  9. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 298-299
  10. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 123
  11. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 148
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 69
  13. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 299-300
  14. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 306
  15. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 175
  16. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 73
  17. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 45
  18. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 102
  19. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 78-79
  20. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 181
  21. ↑ New York to Dallas, Chapter 8
  22. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 175-176
  23. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 271
  24. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 336
  25. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 86
  26. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 183
  27. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 79-80
  28. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 184
  29. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 287, 328-330, 336
  30. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 335-337
  31. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 339
  32. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 340
  33. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 40
  34. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), pp. 91-93
  35. ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 74
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