John
Even less is known about John. He is a top agent with the Assassin organization, and has even a less of a conscious than Boris. He was the one who ordered that Joe Hardy be killed in front of his brother, and was the one who poisoned the bullets himself. Like every Agent in his organization, he killed himself rather than be kept in prison.
Tracy Shields
Tracy stands at 5ft 8in, with dark eyes, and short jet-black hair. When she arrived in Bayport, she had the appearance of a quiet girl. She was immediately taken back in awe when she first met Joe Hardy on her first day at Bayport High School. Everyone liked her, thinking she was a nice girl. She even helped Joe out at the hospital where she volunteers. Little did anyone know the real person hiding inside.
Tracy was diagnosed as having schizophrenia. A disease which transforms Tracy into a very scary person. She took on the stalker mode, thinking every guy that remotely resembled her old boyfriend was her boyfriend. She became violent, and no one ever thought that she'd be capable of arson, kidnapping, or attempted murder.
Tracy is still a bright girl despite her problems. Being incorrectly diagnosed has having schizophrenia, she was not given the proper treatment and her symptoms grew out of control, with nearly deadly consequences for the Hardys and their friends. Now that the true cause of her symptoms has been found, she is getting the proper help. She no longer hears voices, or prone to violent fits. Now she has hope that she can have a normal life.
Jinkson
Jinkson is a man who's really identity is obscure. He had used so many aliases, that no one really knows what his true identity was. He was a man off the deep end. A person who loved to kill and the thrill of making his victim's and the victim's family suffer. He loved to torture his victim's; starvation, burns, beatings, he enjoyed it all. He was an expert anesthesiologist, and poised to be the best in his field. No one knows why he became killer, and most likely no one ever will. He used drugs to keep his victims alive and conscious just enough so they felt and knew every thing that was being done to them before he killed them. While he did that, he tormented the victim's families, often sending gruesome pictures and obituaries, and false clues.
He used the points on a clock as the locations where he buried his victims, choosing a place in that spot that the victim had been in. He was in a state of madness when he died, and more of his victims are still being unearthed. As the body count continues to climb, Fenton Hardy and Sam Peterson wonder just how many are out there that will never be found.
Gerold Simmons
Standing at almost 6ft, he had dark, slightly graying hair, and eyes that were dark and cold. A middle level man in the underworld, he owed a lot of money to a very powerful person. He was looking for anything to get him out of the financial bind he was in, and discovered the powerful "Cyberhacker" program invented by three brilliant computer professors. He tried everything to get his hands on the program, threats, extortion, assaults, but nothing could force the professors to sign over their program. Finally Gerold had resorted to the professors having their home burglarized and 2 parts of the program stolen. The final piece was given to a friend of theirs, Professor Willow, a doctor, and he promised to get the program to Fenton Hardy.
It was during the flight to give the chip to Fenton, that Professor Willow hid the chip with the final piece in Joe Hardy's body during an emergency surgery. Gerold forced Professor Willow to reveal where he had hidden the piece. Gerold had the brothers kidnapped, along with Professor Willow. He had Joe tortured on an unbelievable scale as he forced Professor Willow to remove the chip he had hidden. When the doctor was unable to retrieve the chip, Gerold left Joe to die along with his brother. It was during the rescue of the brothers that Gerold made his final attempt to get the chip and was killed in the process. While grateful that Gerold is gone, Frank Hardy still shudders when he thinks about all his brother had gone through, and all the nightmares he still continues to have.
Rod Dillings
Rod was a good kid, but raised with a hockey father. Rod did have skills to be a good player, but Jerry Gilroy, a good friend of the Hardy Brothers, proved to be a better player. When Jerry competed with Rod and Jerry won a spot in a hockey camp, Rod's father became so hateful that he transferred his hate of Jerry to Rod. Rod grew up hating Jerry. He often tried to start fights to get him kicked off the team or suspended from school.
Later when Jerry was injured from a fight he started, Rod left the high school to finish at a private school. His anger grew when his father told him of all the playing offers and the scholarships that Jerry had received. Still all Rod ever wanted to do was play hockey. When he found out that his father had been creating a lot of accidents including one that nearly killed Jerry and Joe, he was shocked. When Rod interrupted his father trying to kill Jerry, and the Hardy Brothers with a gun, Rod ended up shot in a struggle with the gun. Now in the hospital still trying to recover from the wound, the doctors are unsure if he will be able to play again. Rod himself is unsure whether he can ever go back on the ice.
Jenny Thompson
Jenny was a bright girl and excelled at chemistry and biology. She landed her dream job of becoming the head of the Bayport zoo, and being in charge of all the animals that she loved. Still her habit of abusing street drugs became greater and greater, and she starting having to steal from the zoo's pharmacy in order to continue her habit. In fact she created a designer drug of her own in order to suppress the cravings.
When Jenny's brother Donald, died of an overdose, she blamed everyone for not helping her brother out, but failed to see that she was responsible for her brother becoming hooked. She targeted everyone whom she blamed for Donald's death including the Hardy brothers, and nearly killed them and their friends and teacher in the process by using the designer drug she created. In the end she died in the same way that she lived, trying to satisfy her dangerous and costly habit of addiction.
Kent Stephens
Kent was a serial killer that Sam Peterson had captured and sent to prison. Before he had been captured, Kent had already killed half a dozen people, and may have killed more. Just before the Hardy brothers went on their winter survival course, Kent created an accident for the assistant instructor of the course, and took his place. Kent intended on killing everyone in the group.
A killer with no conscious. He enjoys stalking his intended victims like wild game, and kills them. He doesn't matter how many people his has to kill in the process, and takes great joy in terrifying his victims. The Hardy brothers, their friends, and their new friend Lt. Elliot nearly lost their lives, but managed to out smart Kent, and bring him down. Kent now resides in a maximum security prison while it's decided whether he'll get the death penalty or life in prison.
Callie Shaw
In the beginning Callie was Frank Hardy's girlfriend. Her sweet and gentle personality as well as bright eyes worked their magic on Frank, and he fell hard for her. Later as Frank's time started to be taken over by the constant worry and need to care for his younger brother Joe, Callie grew jealous. As Frank started to cancel out on more dates just to spend more time with Joe, Callie's jealousy grew. It grew to the point that she developed an intense hatred of the younger Hardy, and wanted nothing more than for him to be out of Frank's life.
When she spun a tale to temporary get Joe out of Frank's life, her lie ended nearly getting Joe paralyzed in a car accident. Frank has severed his relationship with Callie completely, and now refuses to even speak to her. Being the very spoiled child that she is, Callie refuses to give up when she wants something, and right now she wants Frank Hardy. The brothers haven't seen her since Frank told her off, and they hope they never see her again. But Callie is not one to give up, and is already planning her next attempt to get Frank back.
Callie shaw tried once again in Dangerous Edge to get Joe out of Frank's life. She nearly killed Joe in a jealous rage, but Frank and his brother teamed up together to create an elaborate trap to bring her down. They only hope that it would be the last time they would have to see her.
In Falling Out, a story that takes place before Bullet Burn, Callie begins to show her real true colors as Frank recalls his worst nightmare when Callie orchestrated Frank and Joe's worst fight ever and the consequences that led up to the beginning of Bullet Burn.
In Final Encounter, Callie creates her last and most dangerous plan to finally kill Joe. Biding her time so no one pays attention, she uses her parents money to stay out of jail and continue attending Bayport High school. Despite his family and friend's attempts to keep him safe, Callie creates an elaborate plan to trap Joe in her rented house. Torturing him slowly, Callie planned that she would get away with everything and convince Frank to take her back. Almost succeeding in killing Joe, Fenton and Frank stop her. She flees the house only to be run over by a passing truck. Paralyzed and scarred to the point that she looks like a halloween freak, Callie now resides permanently in a prison outside of Bayport. Her parents have cut her off to keep themselves out of prison and save what's left of their own reputations. Frank told her off one last time and then purged everything that Callie ever gave him and the family, including burning every picture with her in it.
Chief McVain
Standing at 6ft4in, Chief McVain was intimidating to everyone he met. He was the cop that any precinct would dread. He used his badge to bully, intimidate, beat, harass, and in one case rape his fellow officers. He tried to use the blue wall of silence to his advantage and reap the rewards of a force becoming scared of him. He tarnished his badge and tried to damage the badges of other officers as well. His quest to become Chief led him to rig his own gun in a testing range, and injuring himself, Con Riley, and nearly killed Sam Radley in the process. Lt. Tellman, the man who was supposed to have the job as chief, was cheated out of the job by lies McVain had told.
His actions also affected the personal lives of two of the Hardy brothers' best friends, Staci Rivera and Cliff Troup. McVain was responsible for Staci's father being forced to work double-duty many times during the week, and the death of Cliff's father who was also a cop. Chief McVain even tried to use his power and influence to get the Hardy brothers off the case by attacking their father who had gone under cover. Still the Hardy brothers didn't back down, and in the end McVain ended up taking his own life in fear, the same thing he used to get what he wanted.
President DeCold
How she became the president of Kane University, the students there don't know. They only knew that she was greedy and evil. Everytime they wanted to better the school, she would come in with threats and probations if they didn't back off. She used her position to foster pet projects for the campus that it didn't need, while pocketing money that should have been going to the students.
Kyle Anderson, finally fed up with what she was doing, called in his friends, the Hardy Brothers to help. At first they thought it was going to be a simple case, just find a few files, prove she was greedy and corrupt and that was it. Little did the brothers know that they would be stepping into a massive greed conspiracy. DeCold set up the brothers so that they would become scared and back off. The more she tried to get them to back off, the more determined they became. In the end, it was her own greed that finally brought her down.
Harold Drexel
The Hardy brothers had thought they had seen greed in the world. The level was changed when they took on the case involving Harold Drexel. Harold, president of the Drexel Textile Company, inheirited the family business after the death of his father. Since he was a teen, greed had corrputed him. Growing up with the family's ever increasing wealth, he took a bad taste for it and wanted more and more. That combined with his terrible temper made for a nasty combination.
Investigating a simple wrongful death lawsuit, the Hardys plunge into the a world of a man willing to do anything to retain an ironfist control over everything he had, as well as that of his family. The Hardys are stunned to learn of the amount of violence, threats, bribery, and other things that Harold uses to keep most of the company's money for himself. What made things worse was that the case was during the time of a hurricane Jasmine's strike. Tracking Drexel to Longport, he managed to trick the brothers into following him, knowing they'd become caught in the hurricane's path. Taking shelter in tiny basement, the brothers battled to survive the hurricane. Making a mistake of trying to separate them, Drexel finally was captured by them. He's now in maximum security prison cell awaiting trial.
Trevor Ryles
Greed taken yet to a new low is found when the brothers had to deal with Trevor Ryles. He came on to the extreme sports scene when Tony Hawk began to make a name for himself in the circuit. Not wanting to start out small, Trevor wanted to start off with having Tony as his client. After being turned down several times by Tony, Trevor become obsessed with becoming Tony's agent and all the money and perks that came with it.
Investigating Trevor's actions, the brothers are stunned to find out the lengths that Trevor would go through to convince Tony to sign up with him. Murder, distruction, assualt, and kidnapping were only just the tip of the iceberg of what he tried to use. Tracking him all over Bayport, the brothers were finally able to get him out of the shadows and have him arrested for his crimes. He accepted a plea deal and is now serving time.
Paul Bonicate
A bright child who was born with all the hopes of his parents on his shoulders. As he grew up and he excelled in his academics, his father made plans for his future. All of that changed when Paul became a teenager and began experiencing violent fits of anger and acting out. Both he and his mother were frightened by his actions and saught help. Diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, he was finally able to get the treatment he desparetly sought. His father however, refused to believe that his son was ill and denied him treatment, refusing to let him take the mediation.
Without treatment Paul grew from an angry teen into a raging adult. His episodes came and went, leaving him with no memory. Each episode became more violent, leaving each campus scared of him. Michael Bonicate, Paul's father, had used his money to keep his son out of the hospital and out of trouble. Paul's episodes grew more and more violent until he started attacking the Robson triplets, Paul, Matt, and Jeff. It took all the patience and skills of the Hardy Brothers to get Paul out of state and into the treatment he needed. Now Paul is getting the help he needs because of a judge's order.
