Changes: Sam Vega

Revision as of 13:34, 27 February 2012

Minor Character: Las Vegas

Name	Sam Vega
Gender	Male
Family	Unnamed son
City	Las Vegas
Occupation	Homicide detective Serial killer
Status	Deceased
Portrayed By	Geoffrey Rivas
First Appearance	Too Tough to Die

"The system had its chance, Jim! It didn't do jack!"

Sam Vega was a homicide detective and serial killer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Vega sometimes briefed the CSIs at their crime scenes.

Early Life

Sam is a former member of the LVPD's gang unit. He has a son who owns comic book collectibles. He works with the CSI's on occasion to solve crimes. He was described by his colleagues as overzealous. At one point in his time on the gang unit he killed one of his informants and Detective Richardson covered for him. He later would aide Richardson in his vendetta against four murderers who escaped the justice system. Richardson gathered several of the murder weapons and gave them to Vega for him to use in the new killings.

Crime After Crime

He began his killing spree by bashing in Kevin Feltzer's skull with a wooden arcade ball. He then found Ramon Castillo from his time at LVPD's gang unit and killed him by placing rubber tires around him, covering him in gasoline and setting him on fire. He was brought in by Catherine Willows to help investigate his murder and directed her and Nick to a rival gang leader but failed to frame him for the crime. After this he killed Darlene Crocker by force feeding her PCP. He was later found out by the CSIs while attempting to kill his final victim Rex Cambell by drowning him in a lake. Captain Brass attempted to talk him into surrendering but Vega instead raised his gun to him where the other officers shot and killed him, effectively committing suicide by cop.

Modus Operandi

Vega's originally stabbed a man to death for holding out some information back on a case. Later he and Richardson would get their selection of victims based on stories that their fellow detectives would often share with Richardson. Vega would later take these people and kill them the same way that they killed their victims. Kevin killed an eight-year old boy named Mikey Moran with a wooden arcade ball when he was 15 and the body was discovered with his pants down. Ramon killed his girlfriend Marta Arterro by firenecklacing. Finally Darlene killed her twelve-year old daughter Chelsea by feeding her a lethal amount of PCP and set her son Ken to take the fall. He then attempted to drown Rex Campford in the same lake where he tossed his wife's body after he shot her to death.

Known Victims

Unnamed informant (stabbed)
Kevin Fetzer (bludgeoned with a wooden arcade ball)
Ramon Castillo (fire-necklaced)
Darlene Crocker (poisoned with a lethal amount of PCP)
Rex Camford (attempted to drown; was rescued)

Known Accomplices

Stanley Richardson (provided the names of targets and the murder weapons for some of the victims; deceased)

Appearances

Season One
- Too Tough to Die
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
- Fur and Loathing
Season Five
Season Six
- Spellbound
- Poppin' Tags
Season Eight
- Lying Down with Dogs
Season Nine
Season Twelve
- Crime After Crime (last episode)

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+''"The system had its chance, [[Jim Brass|Jim]]! It didn't do jack!"''
 '''Sam Vega''' was a homicide detective and serial killer on [[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]. Vega sometimes briefed the [[Crime Scene Investigator|CSIs]] at their crime scenes.
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 ==Known Victims==
 *Unnamed informant {{C|stabbed}}
 *Kevin Fetzer {{C|bludgeoned with a wooden arcade ball}}
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 ==Known Accomplices==
 *Stanley Richardson {{C|provided the names of targets and the murder weapons for some of the victims; deceased}}
 ==Appearances==
 *Season One
 **[[Too Tough to Die]]