Mayor Howard Johnson was a suspect in the murder investigations of four people in . Prior to that, Howard appeared in every finale of the . He made cameo appearances as well in Anatomy of a Murder (Case #24 of Grimsborough) and One Wedding and a Funeral (Case #47 of Grimsborough). In There Will Be Blood (Case #56 of Grimsborough), Howard was incarcerated after he was revealed to be a member of the notoriously secret society known as The Crimson Order.