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 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. But he could not speak of these things to his mother.

Castle Rock police officer and serial killer remembered by residents; supernatural possession is not established here.

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.

The opening recalls Castle Rock crossing guard Frank Dodd’s murders of women twelve years earlier. The existing canonical identity is retained.

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.

He came up with a mild case of frostbite and the murderer’s name—Sheriff’s Deputy Franklin Dodd, who had been on the Castle County Sheriff’s payroll five years, as long as Bannerman himself. Earlier this year Mr. Smith stirred controversy in his native state when he had a psychic flash that his physical therapist’s house had caught fire.

Additional source-supported alias for the retained identity.

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.