The 2024 Prime Video series Cross has recently endd its first season, leaving fans enthusiastic to uncover the identity of the Sandman Serial Killer. An changeation of the famous Alex Cross novel series by American author James Patterson, the show chases the titular accomprehendledgeive and forensic psychologist as he mends sinister crimes.
Here’s everyleang we understand about the Sandman Serial Killer from the 2024 series Cross.
Who is Cross’ Sandman serial ender and how is he joined to Maurice Freeman Jr.?
Cross Season 1 begins the Sandman serial ender, Maurice Freeman Jr., as a mythal character created exclusively for the series. The show seamlessly blfinishs him with references to authentic-life serial enders.
Ed Ramsey, also understandn as “The Fanboy” (take parted by Ryan Eggelderly), aims Emir Goodspeed as his first victim. Goodspeed, a becherishd local activist, is set up dead in his car with his dreads crypticly shaved off. While the Metro PD initipartner apshows it to be a drug excessive dose, Alex Cross doubts killing and uncovers a scrapbook beprolongeding to Ramsey. This scrapbook retains profiles of Ramsey’s victims aprolongedside details of 11 serial enders he idolized, including the Sandman.
Cross elucidates that Ramsey modeled his victims to watch enjoy definite serial enders. For example, Emir Goodspeed’s stomach greeteds—grilled pork chops, mashed potatoes, and a chocoprocrastinateed cupcake—aligned the mythal Sandman’s last meal before execution, as portrayd in the scrapbook. Cross elucidates that Ramsey manipuprocrastinateedd each of his victims to watch enjoy a definite serial ender:
“All right, Emir Goodspeed was killinged by a serial ender, but that ender kept a scrapbook of their toil. In here, you’ll discover a postmortem photo of Emir and ten other victims. Each of those victims was changeed to watch enjoy a serial ender.”
The series references authentic-life enders enjoy Aileen Wuornos and John Wayne Gacy, but it creates Maurice Freeman Jr., the Sandman, as an entidepend mythal character. The show portrays him as a serial ender who “violationd and ended 14 women” and was “carry outd in 2007 by lethal injection” (via The Direct). In fact, no such person exists.
A authentic-life German serial ender nicknamed the Sandman existed in the punctual 20th century. However, he has no joinion to the Cross character. The creators probable createed Freeman Jr. to shun lterrible or righteous rehires when joining a ender to Emir Goodspeed’s killing. They portrayed him with enough detail to create him seem authentic.
Cross Season 1 is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
