Andrew Capra

Andrew Capra aka The Surgeon is the main posthumous killer in the first Rizzoli and Isles novel The Surgeon. Capra had been a medical student at a university there as well as a sexual sadist and the rapist and murderer of four women during Capra’s time there. Catherine Cordell is the only living victim of the serial killer, who grabbed her gun and shot Capra critically while she was being raped. Capra’s accomplice and present witness, Warren Hoyt, was horrified, and against Hoyt’s wishes, Capra begged Hoyt to kill him out of mercy, which Hoyt complied with by shooting Capra’s eye out. Hoyt fled and was never identified, Capra seeming the only guilty party and Cordell the only shooter. But Hoyt swore revenge on Cordell and killed five women in the same MO, minus rape, in an escalating spree to stalk and eventually reach Cordell. Although Hoyt kidnapped her and started torturing her, also doing the same to Jane Rizzoli when she tried to save Cordell. Cordell, however, strictly emulated her shooting of Capra on Hoyt with Rizzoli’s service piece, saving the both of them in time and defeating Hoyt’s revenge plan.