During the first murder investigation after Act 1, Scene 2 Homicide, We see Manny Pardo Discussing the case with Johnson, Johnson informs Detective Pardo that there will most likely be no press due to lack of gory details.

During the outro of Act 2 Scene 1 First trial, Manny and Evan Wright (The Writer) are discussing Evans visit to the Golden Truck Stop Nightclub and how he was attacked, then Manny tells Evan that he should give up writing about the "Masked Vigilanties" and write about the Mutilator, Clearly Manny is motioning Evan the give the Mutilator more attention.

During the outro of Act 3, Scene 11 Manny investigates the second Miami Mutilator case where he meets with Johnson, they discuss that the murder was very gory and that the person doing this is completely insane.

Manny then insists that the Mutilator is angry that the papers aren't giving the him enough glory.

During the outro of Act 6 Scene 22, Blood Money, Manny enters the Third Murder scene to find Johnson and a completely Mutilated body. Jonson informs Manny that they have found a shell casing and a few fingerprints from during the murder and that it'll take time to identify the fingerprints to the body because of the state it is in.

Act 6 Scene 23, Caught, Manny is found searching his apartment late at night for something while extremely nervous, he then says that "Can't Find It!" He then leaves his apartment and heads to the Third Murder scene where he enters and finds a ceramic doll sitting at the table with his gun next to it, the puppet then starts speaking saying "Murderers always return to the scene of the crime, and that there must be some truth to it. The Puppet then procedes to attack Manny but Manny shatters the Puppet's head, suddenly the apartment became a film set. When Manny exits the apartment a man in a Caddy picks up Manny saying that "He's late for the next scene." Then the man drops Manny off at the Commisioner's office where the Commisioner procedes o call Manny a disgrace. And tells Manny he never would've expected him to be "The Miami Mutilator."Then Manny attempts to escape to Police Station but when he reaches the entrance he is faced by several armed officers, Manny then attempts to use the I am a Detective excuse but it fails and Manny is killed.Manny then awakens to find it was all a dream and finds his phone ringing when he answers he is requested to get to the station but Manny replies with I'm not feeling good and hangs up.

The Miami Mutilator is actually Manny Pardo, He makes multipul refrences to try and get the Miami Mutilator more fame so he gets attention. He kills just so he gets attention but he also goes on rampages, killing the Mob, and gang members just to satisfy his Blood-lust but sometimes his blood-lust kicks into his alternate persona (The Mutilator) and hes murders without knowing it, the way he discovers this is when h has the nightmare and he meets the Mutilator Persona of him (The Doll) but is also informed of this by the Police Commisioner. In conclusion he kills because he wants attention very badly.

On The intro of Dead ahead if you go to the trunk of detective Pardo's car you will find the second victim tied up and squirming.