Frank Dodd

He saw it only for a second, long enough to tell it wasn't the man in the shiny black raincoat, Frank Dodd, the man who had killed the ladies. Not him. Something else. Something with red eyes like bloody sunsets.

The nightmare-like account distinguishes another threat from the remembered murderer Dodd.

He was not werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or from the snowy wastes; he was only a cop named Frank Dodd with mental and sexual problems. A good man named John Smith uncovered his name by a kind of magic, but before he could be captured - perhaps it was just as well - Frank Dodd killed himself.

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The Big Fire in ’91, boogeyman Frank Dodd murdering those folks, Sheriff Bannerman and those other men getting killed by that rabid Saint Bernard, hell, even the Suicide Stairs.

Castle Rock’s history again pairs Dodd’s murders with Bannerman and the rabid dog.

No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven’t forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down …

The town history names Dodd and the killings twelve years earlier.

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He glanced over at Johnny curiously. “Johnny Smith, Frank Dodd. Sleeping beauty over there is Roscoe Fisher.” Johnny nodded hello. “Roscoe says the A.G. wants the whole case,” Dodd told Bannerman.

Bannerman introduces Dodd to Johnny and Dodd reports on the investigation.

Or Frank Dodd, the murderer Johnny himself uncovered in the town of Castle Rock. However misguided this Committee may find Johnny’s act to have been, it was the act of a man who was sane.

The existing canonical character is explicitly identified as the Castle Rock murderer in The Dead Zone.

One of them—it might have been Billy Dodd, crazy Frank’s father—said McCutcheon had looked like “a pumpkin that got squot by a tractor wheel.” That haunted my thoughts for months . . . but my father, of course, had no idea of that.

The notorious Castle Rock Frank, referenced through the narrator’s identification of wrecker operator Billy Dodd as crazy Frank’s father. This familial surname, town and reputation agree with the established Castle Rock killer in The Dead Zone and Cujo.