Name: William Mayfield
First Appearance: Wonder Woman TV series SE03 EP19
Portrayed by: Raymond St Jaques
Abilities: Professional crime boss. Expert appraiser and collector. Commands a small army of professional thieves. Obsessed with probability and luck. Possesses Bonnie Murphy ‘the living jinx’.
Backstory: Stunningly successful criminal who started out as a small time thief who went on to forge an empire of professionals in gnabbing priceless treasures and works of art.
Convinced that they key to all of his success over the years was pure luck, William Mayfield put on his payroll a personal statician and a a luck scientist, whose jobs were soley to determine the viability of any hiests he wished to attempt. Cancelling months planned operations if even a hint of bad luck cropped up.
With numerous getaway drivers, safe crackers, and the like at his beck and call, William possessed a sophisticated criminal empire.
However the most impressive element under his control was ‘the living jinx’ for one of his henchmen Mark Reuben was dating a woman who had the uncanny ability to cause bad luck to occur to anyone around her whenever she felt heightened emotions such as stress or excitement.
Thus with Mark stringing her along, the living jinx’s powers would be weaponized to cause bad luck to Williams targets, making it all the easier to rob them.
