Parker Riley is a supporting protagonist in Urban Legend. He is played by Michael Rosenbaum.
Biography[]
Parker was a student at Pendleton University, and the boyfriend of Sasha Thomas. At the campus coffee shop, Parker regales friends Natalie Simon and Brenda Bates by describing a massacre in the abandoned Stanley Hall dormitory, which journalism student Paul Gardner discredits as an urban legend. News of the murder of fellow student Michelle Mancini spreads the following day, but Dean Adams and campus police officer Reese Wilson seem determined to bury the story. Damon Brooks, a jokester fraternity member, attempts to console the notably-disturbed Natalie, who rejects his sexual advances while in his parked car at a bluff. When Damon goes outside to urinate, an assailant in a hooded parka attacks him and hangs him from a tree. Natalie flees for help, but Damon's body and car have disappeared when she returns with Reese. Parker and Sasha assure Natalie that Damon has obviously pranked her.
Later, while Natalie sleeps, the killer strangles her goth roommate Tosh Guaneri to death. She finds Tosh's body in the morning, along with a bloody message scrawled on the wall. Distraught, she tells Brenda that she and Michelle, her high school friend, had received probation for causing a fatal car accident after driving with their headlights turned off and pursuing the first driver who flashed them. Paul meanwhile investigates local urban legends, and discovers that the Stanley Hall massacre actually occurred, with William Wexler, a professor of American folklore, its sole survivor. Later, Dean Adams is murdered in the campus parking garage, and Reese finds Wexler's office disorganized and covered in blood.
Death[]
Parker's death.
Natalie, Brenda, and Sasha attend a fraternity party coinciding with the massacre's 25th anniversary, during which Parker receives a phone call from the killer. He doesn't take them seriously at first (even as Parker sees the caller ID on phone is Damon Brooks), but after the killer namedrops the "wet dog" urban legend over the phone, Parker freaks out, and discovers the remains of his dog in the microwave. As he flees to the bathroom to puke, the killer attacks him and whilst Parker has his tied up, murders him by forcing pop rocks and bathroom chemicals down his throat using a funnel.