Joining the Big Coffin Hunters at the age of twenty-five, Roy Depape was the youngest of the bunch. Although he was extremely loyal to Eldred Jonas, Depape was not very smart and exceedingly reckless, as well as a drunk. Shortly after joining the gang, they were hired to kill the chairman of the Ritzy Coalworker’s Guild. Depape’s skill and speed paid off and Jonas decided to keep Roy around after the job.

After the Big Coffin Hunters were assigned to Hambry by Farson, Depape developed an attraction to a young whore that worked at the tavern in town named Deborah. She refused to stop working and this caused Roy constant unrest. One night after fighting with Deborah over this, Depape became extremely agitated and began relieving his frustration upon the tavern boy, Sheemie Ruiz. The young Gunslingers, passing by, saw this and approached to put a stop to Depape’s abuse. This caused a standoff at the Traveler’s Rest tavern between the Big Coffin Hunters and the young Gunslingers. As punishment for initializing this conflict, Jonas sent Roy Depape back to the town of Ritzy. However, it was while in Ritzy that Depape learn the true identities of the three young Gunslingers; which he promptly relayed back to Jonas.

When it came time to kill Mayor Thorin, Depape slit the Mayor’s throat, mutilated his body and then planted evidence against the young Gunslingers in an attempt to frame the boys. Alas, the plan did not work and Roy Depape was later killed by one of the Gunslingers, Cuthbert Allgood, at Eyebolt Canyon, while he and Jonas attempted to secure a load of crude oil for John Farson.