Chasing the Scream Characters

Sergio Barraza is the young Zeta Cartel member who murdered his girlfriend Rubi Fraire, but got away with the crime because of the cartel’s power over the local government. He was killed in a police shootout a few years after the murder of Rubi’s mother, the activist Maria Escobedo.

Lucille Hardin is the distant relative who raised both Deborah and Chino Hardin in New York.

John Hickenlooper was the governor of Colorado when the state legalized marijuana in 2012. Initially, Hickenlooper opposed the policy—even though he made his own personal fortune brewing and selling beer. Later, he changed his mind and enthusiastically helped implement marijuana legalization.

Judith Lovi was Gabor Maté’s mother. During the Holocaust, she was forced into the Budapest ghetto, and many of her family members were murdered. However, she managed to escape with Gabor and reunite with her husband before emigrating to Vancouver.

Juan Manuel Olguín is a young man from Ciudad Juárez who, along with several friends from his church, dresses as an angel and publicly protests the city’s extreme drug-related violence.

Patricia Osborn was Bud Osborn’s mother, who fell into alcoholism, poverty, and mental illness after her husband returned from World War II traumatized and committed suicide.

Ronald K. Siegel was a prominent American psychologist who studied drug use in humans and nonhuman animals. Hari’s eleventh chapter focuses on Siegel’s research on animals, which suggests that virtually all living creatures have evolved to naturally use psychoactive substances.

Tiffany Smith was a six-year-old girl who was killed during a drug-related gang shootout while playing on the street in Baltimore. Her death shows how the war on drugs inflicts senseless violence on innocent people.

Lisa Taylor was Leigh Maddox’s childhood best friend, who was raped and murdered by a drug gang in her first year of college. Maddox joined the police force in order to help avenge Lisa’s death.