Sergeant Leland Coyle is a corrupt and delusional police officer with a distorted notion of the law, who enjoys electrocuting and sexually assaulting people with his shock baton. Leland Coyle was born in Blackwell, Oklahoma, a small but well-known sundown town. There’s anecdotal evidence of animal abuse and sexual assault as a child, which led him to enroll in a military academy. Coyle had criminal tendencies, but those ended quickly when he joined the local Ku Klux Klan chapter as a teen. At the age of nineteen, he married for the first time. She died six months later, officially by ‘falling down the stairs’. To avoid an investigation, he joined the marines. He served honorably for two years in the Pacific theater. He had three confirmed enemy kills, and two suspicious American deaths in his company. Upon returning to Oklahoma, he resumed Klan activity, which led to a job in law enforcement. He’s been a policeman since 1947. Coyle was extremely successful and good at his job. He received multiple commendations for his work. Some of his work included earning enormous profit from the exploitation of prison labor, extortion, and civil forfeiture. He was in high standing in the Elks Club and the VFW. He was married a second time and promptly extorted her family. Her family died in an electric fire, and she fled to Chicago. She was officially stated to have died of ‘natural causes’, her body was found on the South Side, on Kostner Ave. Some time later, Coyle was promoted to Sergeant and remarried. This time, his wife only lasted six months. Despite her dying from multiple gunshots to the head, this was ruled as a suicide. Her family also died within a year, all apparent suicides via increasingly violent and convoluted methodologies. In February of 1956, Coyle met with Murkoff’s Clyde Perry at a bar on Route 177. While they chatted, Coyle drank heavily and ate nuts off the table. Perry’s cover story was bribery. Coyle realised Perry was lying within minutes. The conversation turned violent, leaving Perry with two broken fingers, lots of bruising, and pissing blood. Perry was convinced Coyle was just playing with him like a cat plays with his food, and if Coyle had meant to kill him Perry would have died. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Perry highly recommended him for PROJECT LATHE. Leland Coyle acts much like an exceptionally cruel police officer. He is very brutal in his chase and will not hesitate to throw insults and sexual comments at his victims. A former member of the Ku Klux Klan, Coyle is also extremely bigoted and patriotic in his beliefs. He is often found ranting about ideologies differing from his traditionalist roots, such as Communism, ruining his ideal vision of America, and frequently spouting racist comments. Befitting his weapon of choice, an electrified cattle prod/baton, Coyle has a fascination for electricity. While under Murkoff surveillance, he was observed standing in a field in the middle of a lightning storm five times. He is also shown to be sexually aroused by electricity, pressing his own weapon to his groin or bare hand out of pleasure, and many of the mannequins and corpses seem to have been sexually assaulted with his weapon or electric wires. Prior to Project LATHE, he kept excessively complete notes. Coyle considered himself vital to history and of great interest to posterity, suggesting the possibility of him struggling with narcissistic personality disorder. This disposition can, however, slip into sheer paranoia, especially when he contemplates what would happen to him if he were caught slipping. He very much projects his own cruelty onto those he spites. He was an extremely popular and well-liked person on the job as well as privately. He very much enjoyed being social as both a member of the Elk Club and VFW, having a high standing in both. Coyle being an evidently power obsessed person, and considering the speed at which he rose the ranks to Sergeant, it can be speculated that he actively made efforts to curry favors with those around him to further his own social standing and influence. Money also played a big role for him in that regard, as he actively extorted his in laws and took bribes, furthering his social standing and lifestyle even more to cement his position of power in society. He like put his stick in victim's ass.