Loomis Slade

Loomis Slade was a sergeant in the New York City Police Department. He was formerly a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Slade was short, stocky, and saturnine, and particularly fond of licorice toffee. He was clever and resourceful, and a tireless investigator.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Slade's law enforcement career began in the FBI, graduating second in his class from the Academy. His first field assignment was at the New York Museum of Natural History, where he ended up taking control of the FBI's forward command post from an overmatched Spencer Coffey. Unfortunately, the damage of the evening had already been done: the operation became known as "one of the biggest screwups in the Bureau's history," and all of the agents involved—save for Coffey, whose family ties likely saved his job—were let go.

New York Police Department
Slade managed to catch on with the NYPD as a beat cop, though the stigma of being fired by a federal agency dogged him throughout his career. After over a decade on the job, he had risen only to the rank of sergeant. He eventually became the assistant and aide-de-camp to Lieutenant Pete Angler.

Angry at the system for lumping him in with Coffey and ruining his promising FBI career, Slade eventually became a dirty cop, taking a $50K annual salary from John Barbeaux to provide various services to Barbeaux's Red Mountain Industries. When Barbeaux hatched a complex plan to kill Aloysius Pendergast using the same poison Pendergast's great-great-grandfather Hezekiah had sold to an unsuspecting public under the guise of a restorative potion, Slade used his position within the police department to cover Barbeaux's tracks and influence the investigation of Alban Pendergast's death.

Most importantly, he planted a listening device near Vincent D'Agosta's office to keep tabs on Pendergast's associates as they scrambled to concoct an antidote. Slade himself returned to the museum to intercept Margo Green, who had arrived to retrieve a extremely rare plant specimen from the museum's herbarium vault as part of the antidote formula.

After murdering the museum's chairman of osteology and anthropology, Slade pursued Margo through the museum's basement, intending to kill her and steal the specimen for Barbeaux. He was killed when Margo fled to the dinosaur lab and dropped the head of a tyrannosaurus rex fossil on him; the immense skull crashed through a triceratops skeleton, showering Slade with a mass of old bones and knocking him to the ground before the skull itself landed on him, impaling him with its teeth.