Elijah Creem and Joshua Bergman

Elijah Creem and Joshua Bergman are the two main antagonists of the Alex Cross novel ''Alex Cross, Run. The duo are t''wo sexual sadists responsible for the murders of girls and boys. Creem in particular also enjoyed making child porn and targeted girls out of treating them as surrogates for his wife and daughters. When Creem's drug trafficking and statutory rape porn are found out, MPD arrests him, cause his marriage's divorce and the loss of his daughters. Alex Cross ends up juggling the murders by Creem and Bergman as well as those of Ron Guidice, a stalker of Cross with an intend on crushing his reputation. With Creem out on bail, the deaths of children continue to rise from the duo. Cross finds out the truth, as well as realizes Creem later robbed his own house and killed the neighbors as a vendetta against the rest of the family. But Creem is released from custody without clinching evidence. Creem taunts Cross with his mistress coming into his house, and Bergman, once Creem relents to the two kissing, kills her. Bergman ends up committing suicide when about to be arrested. With Cross realizing the girls symbolize Creem's family, when Cross stops Creem from murdering his family, Creem jumps out a window and snaps his spine.