List of Veronica Mars characters

[2] Balancing murder mystery, high-school, and college drama, the series features social commentary with sarcasm and off-beat humor in a style often compared to film noir.

He needed to put "other guys in her life" to keep the series fresh and attributed Dunn's removal to fan interest in the Logan-Veronica relationship,[9] saying "It became clear that one suitor won out".

Chris Lowell played Stosh "Piz" Piznarski, Wallace's roommate at Hearst College and a music lover with his campus radio show.

Piz shows up at the reunion to surprise her, only to join the fight that ensued after Madison Sinclair played a copy of his and Veronica's college sex tape.

Michael Muhney portrayed Don Lamb, the Balboa County Sheriff who won the office from Keith in the recall election spearheaded by Jake Kane.

Veronica initially suspects her to be responsible for Carrie Bishop's death (who became a self-destructive pop star under the name Bonnie DeVille before the film's events).

Cassidy, who had started a real estate company called Phoenix Land Trust, needed Kendall to be his CEO for business purposes because of his underage status.

When Keith discovered that Kendall is the beneficiary of the life insurance policies on her stepsons, who could have been killed in the bus crash that claimed the lives of several people, he began investigating.

When Veronica discovers that he has committed real estate fraud and tells the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Richard flees the country before he can be arrested.

To keep this fact a secret from the tabloids, Aaron arranged for his accountant to deposit $10,000 a month from the Echolls estate into a fake charity set up to funnel the money to his son.

To get enough money to send his little sister with Down syndrome to a private school, Leo steals and sells the Aaron Echolls and Lilly Kane sex tapes to Logan.

Greenfield reprises his role in the fourth season, where it is revealed that he has since joined the FBI and returns to Neptune to aid in the Spring Break bombing case.

Veronica locates Abel's daughter to help prove that he is innocent, but Clarence Wiedman, head of Kane security, bribes her with three million dollars in exchange for her silence.

Mindy is preparing to leave Landry in the Neptune Grand hotel room they shared when Cyrus enters and confronts them both about the affair, brandishing a loaded pistol.

Duncan reprises his role in the fourth season episode "Entering a World of Pain" as Logan's replacement security detail for Congressman Daniel Maloof.

Patton Oswalt recurs as Penn Epner, a delivery guy for Cho's Pizza and true crime enthusiast who also teams with Mars Investigations to solve the Spring Break bombing case.

Vincent vowed revenge, and that following fall, the jock who had humiliated him and those who did nothing to save him, found themselves having failed mandatory drug tests, essentially barring them from playing sports in their final year of high school.

Veronica believed Butters to be behind the crime; however, she discovered the real culprits were a conclave of parents who rigged the drug tests so that their children could gain the spots opened up in the wake of the mass suspension of athletes.

Later that same episode, Meg died of a blood clot to the heart, but not before giving birth to her daughter Faith, whom Duncan later renaming Lilly after fleeing the country with her.

James Molina plays Eduardo "Thumper" Orozco, a PCH biker who betrays Weevil and starts dealing drugs for the Irish gang, the Fitzpatricks.

After making a small fortune from real estate investment in Big Dick Casablancas' firm, he plans to retire to a life of sailing during the second season.

During the episode "Spit & Eggs," Veronica points out to Chip that the beer coasters provided by the Pi Sig's were not sufficient since they were supposed to be used for drug testing, but he does not care.

In "Papa's Cabin," Tim and Veronica team up in an attempt to clear Dr. Landry of the murder of Hearst College's Dean of Students, Cyrus O'Dell.

At the end of the episode, however, it is revealed that Tim himself murdered Cyrus O'Dell to take revenge on Landry for ruining his chances at a job at (a fictional version of) Pepperdine University, by giving an unfavorable reference to the prospective employer.

Parker suspects him of being the rapist due to him wearing the same cologne she smelled the night she was raped, and Veronica investigates and finds he owns an electric razor.

Veronica is supposed to find proof of a two-way mirror in which Theta Betas would make the rushes undress in front of for the Pi Sigs enjoyment.

Spencer Ward plays Blake Long, a Pi Sig member in the fourth season, involved in a mysterious cover-up that may be connected to the Neptune Spring Break bombings.

The following is a supplementary list of recurring or one-time guest stars, which includes characters that appear briefly in multiple episodes but have little to no real-world content to justify an entire section covering their in-universe histories.

Joss Whedon plays Douglas, a clueless car-rental salesman who inadvertently helps Veronica track down Abel Koontz' daughter Amelia Delongpre in the episode "Rat Saw God."

Logan Miller and Ashton Moio play Simon and Craig, two college students and Spring Breakers whose friendship with a bombing victim is a source of clues for Mars Investigations.