List of deaths in True Detective

This is a list of all individuals known to have died in True Detective.

Deaths

Season 1
Date	Person(s)	Image(s)	Method	Killer(s)	Last words	Episode
October 11, 1987	Stacy Gerhardt		Unknown method	Unknown killer, possibly Errol Childress & Unknown Others		The Long Bright Dark
Between 1987 and 1989	Sofia Cohle		Car accident	Unknown driver		Seeing Things
1989 ca.	Crankhead's daughter		Meth overdose	Crankhead
	Crankhead		Shot	Rustin Cohle
1990 ca.	Marie Fontenot		Unknown method	Errol Childress & Unknown Others		Hinted in Seeing Things, confirmed in After You've Gone
1990 ca.	Sonny Guidry (debatable)			Errol Childress & Unknown Others		Hinted in Haunted Houses
1992	Rianne Olivier		Multiple stab wounds	Errol Childress & Unknown Others		Seeing Things
February 1993	3 Cartel men		Shot	Rustin Cohle
January 3, 1995	Dora Kelly Lange		Multiple stab wounds	Errol Childress, Reggie Ledoux, Dewall Ledoux & Unknown Others		The Long Bright Dark
Prior to/during 1995	At least 14 Female & 4 Male Victims		Burnt (1 Female)	Unknown killer/s		Shown in pictures in The Locked Room
			OD'd (1 Male, 1 Female)
			Skull cracked (1 Male, 1 Female)
			Unknown (2 Males, 11 Females)
February 1995	Lamar		Shot	Biker #1	"You sorry-ass motherfucker! I told your cracker ass, bitch ass-"	Who Goes There
	Tiger Thomas			Rustin Cohle	"It's in there."
	Biker #1		Throat crushed		"I fucking knew it!"
	Thug #1		Shot	Biker #2
	Biker #2			Thug #2
Prior to/during March 17, 1995	Billy		Unknown method, likely starvation	Reggie Ledoux		The Secret Fate of All Life
March 17, 1995	Reginald "Reggie" Ledoux		Shot	Martin Hart	"Black stars. They're coming from the sky."
	Dewall Ledoux		Explosion
Prior to 2002	Jessica Budroux		Choked in her sleep (staged as SIDS)	Charmaine Budroux		Haunted Houses
	Judy Budroux
Prior to/during 2002	Austin Farrar		Suicide by unknown method (hinted to be a staged homicide, possibly on orders by Billy Lee Tuttle and/or Unknown Others)
2002	2 Victims in a Pharmacy		Shot	Guy Francis		The Secret Fate of All Life
	Guy Francis		Suicide by slit wrists (possibly staged and/or ordered by others)
	Charmaine's Third Child		Choked in his sleep (staged as SIDS)	Charmaine Budroux		Haunted Houses
2006	Baby		Microwaved	Tweaker		After You've Gone
2010	William "Billy" Lee Tuttle		Suicide by overdose (probably staged by unknown others)			Haunted Houses
Before 2012 (implied to be in 1992 ca.)	Travis Cohle		Leukemia			Who Goes There
2012	Stephanie L. Kordish		Multiple stab wounds	Errol Childress & Unknown Others		The Long Bright Dark
Prior to/during 2012	William "Billy" Lee Childress		Unknown method	Unknown, presumably Errol Childress & Unknown Others		Form and Void
	Ted Childress		Unknown
	At least 12 victims (implied by Rust's map to actually amount to 75)		Unknown/multiple methods	Errol Childress & Unknown Others		Form and Void for the 12 confirmed victims, After You've Gone for the implied ones
2012	Errol William Childress		Shot	Rustin Cohle	"Now, take off your mask."	Form and Void
Season 2
Date	Person(s)	Image(s)	Method	Killer(s)	Last words	Episode
1970s	Frank Semyon's mother		Unknown disease			Omega Station
Possibly 1978	Ani and Athena Bezzerides' mother		Suicide by drowning			The Western Book of the Dead
April 30, 1992	Margaret Osterman		Shot	Teague Dixon and/or Kevin Burris, on orders from Ben Caspere		Church in Ruins
	Mr. Osterman
	Unborn child
Late 1990s - Early 2000s	Helen Chessani		Suicide by hanging (likely staged by Irving Pitlor)			Down Will Come
2004	Methhead		Shot	Ray Velcoro		Implied in The Western Book of the Dead, confirmed in Omega Station
Before 2015	2 Panticapaeum Institute Children		Suicide			Night Finds You
October 26, 2015	Benjamin "Ben" Caspere		Trauma-induced heart attack	Leonard Osterman AKA Crow		The Western Book of the Dead
October 28, 2015	Stan		Eyes burnt with acid	Blake Churchman		Maybe Tomorrow
	Danny Santos (debatable)		Implied to have bled out after his teeth have been pulled out	Frank Semyon	"No!"
November 2015	Teague Dixon		Shot	Drug dealer	"What the fuck-"	Down Will Come
	At least 6 cops			4 drug dealers (5 cops) 1 cop shoot cop
	At least 4 drug dealers			Ani Bezzerides, Ray Velcoro, Paul Woodrugh & 6 other cops
	At least 9 civilians			4 drug dealers (6 victims), Ledo Amarilla (3 victims)
	Ledo Amarilla			Ray Velcoro and Paul Woodrugh	"La madre de la muerte me encuentra!" (The mother of death finds me!)
January 2016	Irina Rulfo		Throat slit	Unknown Gonzales Mexican cartel enforcer		Church in Ruins
	Bodyguard		Multiple stab wounds	Ani Bezzerides	"The fuck did you do?"
	Katherine Davis		Shot	Unknown killer, likely on Kevin Burris' orders		Black Maps and Motel Rooms
	Blake Churchman			Frank Semyon	"I can-"
	Osip's goon				"Osip wants to know where is gas leak."
	3 Ares security guards			Paul Woodrugh
	Miguel Gilb			Paul Woodrugh	"They just want to talk."
	Paul L. Woodrugh			Kevin Burris	"Fuck you."
	Austin Chessani		Poisoned (staged as a suicide)	Unknown (likely on orders from Tony Chessani)		Omega Station
	Leonard Osterman AKA Crow		Shot	William Holloway and 2 Cops
	William Holloway		Stabbed and shot	Leonard Osterman and 2 Cops	"That was Ben's illegitimate daughter."
Before January 19, 2016	Irving Pitlor		Wrists slit (staged as a suicide)	Unknown (likely on orders from Tony Chessani)
January 19, 2016	9 Security Guards		Shot	Frank Semyon (6 guards), Ray Velcoro (3 guards)
	Jacob McCandless			Frank Semyon	"Mr. Semyon, have you ever heard of moderation?"
	Osip Agronov				"You're like my son."
January 20, 2016	2 Cops			Ray Velcoro
	Raymond "Ray" Velcoro			Kevin Burris and 1 Cop	"God damn it."
	Frank Semyon		Stabbed	Unknown Gonzales Cartel enforcer	"No rest. Never stop moving."
Season 3
Date	Person(s)	Image(s)	Method	Killer(s)	Last words	Episode
1940s	Lucy Purcell's biological mother		Unspecified			Hunters in the Dark
27 November - 13 December 1950	About 5000 American soldiers		Various ways in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir (Edward Hoyt's estimation)			Now Am Found
Probably late 1950s	Ellen Hoyt		Unspecified disease
1968 to 1972	Wayne Hays' Vietnam buddy		Shot			The Hour and the Day
	At least 5 American soldiers		Unknown (possibly shot)	Unknown
	At least 8 Vietcongs			Unknown (possibly Wayne Hays)
1977	Isabel Hoyt's husband		Car crash			The Final Country
	Mary (Isabel Hoyt's daughter)
Before November 7, 1980	Boar		Presumably shot	Wayne Hays		The Great War and Modern Memory
	Oklahoma bar fight guy		Unknown method	Roland West's Vietnam buddy
	Wayne Hays' mother (debatable)		Unknown			The Hour and the Day
November 7, 1980	Steve McQueen		Heart failure			The Great War and Modern Memory
	Will Purcell		Blunt force trauma and cervical fracture	Isabel Hoyt (accidental)	"Julie!"
November 10, 1980	Eddie and 7 other vigilantes		Exploded (1), Shot (7)	Brett Woodard (7), John Bowen (1)	"We comin' in if you ain't comin' out!" (Eddie) "Uhn!" (Unknown vigilante)	If You Have Ghosts
	John Bowen		Shot	Brett Woodard	"Aah!"
	Burt Diller			Brett Woodard
	Brett Woodard			Wayne Hays	"I'm countin', Sarge."
August 12, 1988	Lucy Purcell (née O'Brien)		Overdose	Possibly staged by Harris James on orders from Edward Hoyt		The Big Never
Between 1987 and 1990	Isabel Hoyt		Lithium overdose (suicide)			Now Am Found
Before 1990	Deer		Shot	Presumably Harris James and/or Edward Hoyt		Hunters in the Dark
May 1990	Dan O'Brien		Unknown method	Unknown, presumably Tom Purcell or Harris James		The Hour and the Day
	Tom Purcell		Shot	Staged as a suicide, presumably by Harris James or someone else on Edward Hoyt's orders		The Final Country
	Harrison "Harris" James		Shot	Roland West	"I can't breathe."
December 10, 1995	Julie Purcell (aka Mary July, debatable)		Complications from AIDS syndrome (possibly staged by the nuns)			Now Am Found
Late 2000s - Early 2010s	Edward Hoyt		Unknown			If You Have Ghosts
Before 2012	Soldier		Killed in battle			The Final Country
2013	Amelia Hays (née Reardon)		Died in her sleep			The Great War and Modern Memory