Nigel Crane

Nigel Crane is a spree killer and an psychotic, and also the main antagonist of episode Stalker of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He was portrayed by Doug Hutchison.

History
Very little is known about Crane's past life besides working for a cable company called Luna Cable for eleven years. He then began to chase people into their homes to install their televisions, invading their homes and guarding their attics. He also chased a woman named Jane Galloway for many months, and living inside her attic and recording all her movements, tapping phones and putting her microphones all over the house. He later killed Jane by choking her with a plastic bag. He idolized Nick because he installed his cable and he said they had a connection.

Stalker
After killing Jane by suffocating her with a plastic bag, he paints her hair red because she knew that Nick liked redheads. After following a track Nick and Warrick Brown go to Crane's residence while Warrick is waiting for it and calling someone to arrive, Crane then pushes out of a window and escapes. Grisson and Willow look for Crane's house and they eventually find out that he lives in the loft and has surveillance equipment and videos of the his victims, they then find out that Crane had been chasing Nick for some time and they run to warn him.

All along, Crane was in a loft at Nick's house. A man who helped in the case named Morris Pearson comes to help him and warm Nick that he is in danger, soon after Crane kills Morris by choking him and then Crane drags his body to the loft, so however, Crane and Pearson fall on the ground, and he keeps Nick as hostage on the aim of a weapon, he causes Nick, but when he distracts himself, Nick rips out his gun and then he gets arrested.