-Dwight Powell: Ellen thinks he is the murderer. He is also blond and has blue eyes. He had loved Dorothy and feels guilty about her suicide. He wants to prove that he could not be the father of the baby. And shows Ellen that he was in New York when she was murdered. Dwight is also killed by Bud.
-Bud's mother: wants that Bud gets married with a rich girl a wants him to be sucessfull. She does everything for him.
- Leo Kingship: a rich man, boss of Kingship Copper Inc. He is not very sensitive, doesn't love his daughters very much. He wants revenge and gets it. In the end Bud dies, the perfect crime, but planned by Leo and not by Bud.
Short summary
Part one: Dorothy
Bud Corliss was born in Menasset, on the outskirts of Fall River. He was one of the best pupils of the school. He was also a beautiful boy. He was almost in everything the best, but then he was drafted. First he was in Basic training camp, then he goes to the real war. When he shot Jap, he finds out that he likes to kill people. After he received on honorble discharge in January 1947. He went to New York. He stayed there for 5,5 months, had 6 different jobs but didn't like one of them. Then he had an affaire with a rich women for 6 months and then he returned home by his mother. Finally he chose Stoddard Uneversity in Blue River, Iowa. There he met Dorothy Kinship, a rich girl, he wanted to marry her and he wanted to live of the money of her dad. But then there gappened something he didn't like; she was pregnant. Her father didn't want to give the money to her when she would be pregnant before she was married. He didn't loved, he only loved her money. So he tried to get pills to kill her baby, but the pills failed. So he decided to kill her. He tells her that he had other pills to kill her baby but she didn't want to take them, but he told her if the pills didn't work, he would marry her the next day without the money of her father. Bud put some poison in the pills to kill her. The next day she wasn't dead and she came to school and told him the pills had not worked, but he knew she lied because otherwise she would be dead by then. So he said "OK we get married right away", so she goes home to put some clothes on to marry in. Then they went to the 14 story Blue River Municipal Building. Before they got married hey went to the roof. There he pushed her of the roof and she fall dead on the ground. It looked like she commited suicide.