Bill Starkweather

Bill Starkweather is the highly corrupt commissioner of the VCPD, and appears as an unseen character in film Sudden Violence and is mentioned in Red Dead Redemption. He never makes an appearance in person, but his voice can be heard during a phone conversation between him and James Stalker at the beginning of Press Coverage.

Biography
Starkweather became chief of the VCPD at an unknown time prior to the events of film/game. While in that position, he started to take bribes from Stalker and in return gave him unlimited access to large sections of Virginia City for his horror projects. 3 years prior to the events of Manhunt, he was put on trial for corruption charges but was deemed not guilty due to all the witnesses disappearing from the case. It is likely that he had them killed.

Events in the film
After Cash escapes from Stalker's trap in the Dixmor Asylum and kills Jax and his hit squad of Wardogs, Starkweather is contacted by Stalker as a last resort and is ordered by him to capture Cash and a Daniel Lamb who had recently been investigating the Boss's activities. Starkweather dispatches multiple officers and S.W.A.T teams to Central Trainstation to apprehend Cash and has Danny's apartment raided in an attempt to sieze evidence of Stalker's crimes. Cash escorts Lamb to the apartment, killing many officers along the way. After securing the evidence, he sends him off and fights his way through the Swats guarding Virginia City subway and finally shakes the police off at a railyards.

Trivia

 * He himselfs says he is from UK, but Stalker says he is American, Bill also dosen't have an British accent, so it is possible he is lying.
 * He was also again charged in 2014, for being witnessed killing an suspect, however he hired Tom Hagen as his lawyer, and was able to resist arest. He curently still works as an commissioner.

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