Ron Guidice

Ron Guidice is the central antagonist of the Alex Cross novel Alex Cross, Run. Guidice is Alex Cross' personal stalker and harasser, hellbent on ruining his reputation out of projected revenge for the death of his fiancé at the hands of a metro cop. Guidice disses the MPD, particularly Cross, doggedly on his radical website, TheRealDeal. While Cross investigates the sexual sadism case of Elijah Creem and Joshua Bergman, as well as one of Guidice's own murders, Guidice successfully drugs Cross in an altercation, frames him for giving drugs to adpoted daughter Ava using illegal spy equipment, gets Social Services to take her away, and posts it on his website, temporarily demoting Cross to desk duty and paper pushing. A startling revelation cliches Guidice for worse than stalking and assault: Guidice is revealed to be a family killer and child abductor, "collecting" babies he sires illicitly to raise as his children after he leaves them at the homes of the women's parents before killing them too and stealing the children for himself. Elizabeth Reilly, the woman murdered early in the book, is the latest dead woman, her baby Guidice's daughter. When coming home to his mother and first illicit daughter, Emma Lee, Guidice lies and the baby and says "some slut" "left" the baby in his car after hooking up years ago. Guidice also ends up killing Ava, by burning her in a flop house, which Cross targets Guidice over to get revenge. Guidice scuffles with Cross and starts a gunfight, but ends up being shot dead by Bree Stone.