George Bannerman

Sheriff George Bannerman is one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside Johnny Smith) of the Castle Rock Saga of the Stephen King mythos. 
Serving as the tritagonist of Stephen King’s 1979 novel The Dead Zone and its 1983 film adaptation, a minor character of the novel Cujo, a supporting character of the novella The Body, the posthumous overarching protagonist of the novel Needful Things, and a posthumous character in the novels The Dark Half, Gwendy's Button Box, and Elevation.
He was the police sheriff of Castle Rock, Maine hunting down a serial killer in the town known as “The Castle Rock Strangler”. He later realizes the truth about the killer and meets his own fate in 1980.
He was portrayed by Tom Skerritt in The Dead Zone film adaptation and by Sandy Ward in the Cujo film adaptation.
==Biography==
George Bannerman was the sheriff of Castle Rock, Maine, started from November 1972, after his predecessor Carl M. Kelso was voted out by the town, due to failure of catching a serial killer. He has a wife named Vicky and a daughter named Katrina and a Irish Setter dogs named Rusty.
In the 1970s, he spend years trying to catch a local serial killer called “The Castle Rock Strangler”, who has murdered over six women with the latest victim was a nice-year old girl at the same place the killer murdered the first victim. Bannerman, along with his deputy Frank Dodd would then approach Johnny Smith, a former English teacher from Cleaves Mills, has psychic powers and asks for help to catch the killer. While Johnny initially hesitates due to his denial of his psychic powers, but after hearing about the nine-year-old girl, who was the killer’s latest victim, he finally decides to help them. Bannerman, along with Smith and Dodd head towards to the crime scene, where the killer’s latest victim was murdered at the same place he murdered his first. Bannerman tells Johnny to investigate it, afterwards the deputies had left the station, having Johnny and Bannerman alone. Johnny then reluctantly identifies the Castle Rock Strangler as Frank Dodd, Bannerman’s deputy. A confused Bannerman initially refuses to believe Johnny, (due to his surrogate relationship with Dodd), he decides to confront Dodd. Bannerman and Smith then went to Dodd’s home, where they attempt to arrest him, only to find Dodd had committed suicide in his bathroom, and wrote  “I CONFESS” in lipstick on his neck. Bannerman is horrified that Frank Dodd was in the killer, whom he viewed as a surrogate son.
===Cujo (novel)===
In 1980, Bannerman helps organize the search for Donna Trenton and her son Tad, who are currently missing, and unbeknownst to anyone, trapped at the Camber house by the titular rabid Saint Bernard. Suspicious when there are no leads to their location and inspired by his previous investigation with Smith and the Frank-Dodd case, Bannerman checks at the Camber house and discovers Donna and Tad. Before he can phone in this discovery, Cujo appears and viciously mauls and disembowels Bannerman, killing him instantly.
=== The body (novella) ===
Set in 1960 of Castle Rock, Maine shows a Constable Bannerman, which shows how George Bannerman became apart of the police force, before becoming the sheriff of Castle Rock, twelve years later.
=== The Dark Half (novel) ===
After Bannerman’s death by Cujo, he was then succeeded by Alan Pangborn as the new sheriff in Castle Rock, as he is investigating some murderslead by George Stark.
=== Needful Things (novel) ===
While Bannerman was still dead, he is remembered by the people of Castle Rock, for his involvement into finally finding The Castle Rock Strangler, also known as Frank Dodd, who was Bannerman’s deputy. The Joe Camber’s abandoned home is seen with Cujo’s spirt appearing and reflecting upon Bannerman’s death. 
=== Elevation (novella) ===
Set around in Castle Rock, during the Turkey Trot 12k, the runners cross Bannerman Road, named after Sheriff George Bannerman. This could shows how the town of Castle Rock had honored him as a good man for saving lives including catching the Castle Rock Strangler, along with Johnny Smith. Bannerman Road was a portion of Route 119 that ran through Castle Rock.
== Trivia ==
* Bannerman is one the few characters in Castle Rock to have played an important role in the stories, as he, along with Johnny Smith managed to catch Frank Dodd, aka the Castle Rock Strangler. 
* A Constable Bannerman is mentioned in the story, although it does not appear that the constable is same Sheriff George Bannerman who appears in The Dead Zone or Cujo.
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