In a surprise twist on the Friday, December 13th episode, just as it seems PCPD officer Dex Heller (Evan Hofer) was going to pull through his hospitalization after being stabbed, things took a deadly turn.
The charming Army vet, who at one time worked as the wingman for Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard), went into cardiac arrest and could not be revived. Sound familiar? It looks to be the same way that Kelly Monaco’s Sam McCall was also killed off the show.
Evan Hofer joined General Hospital back in May of 2022 in a role that he says was meant to last just a few months. However, almost three years later, Dex’s passing opens up the storyline to now a murder spree in Port Charles as he is the second victim.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly on his exit, Hofer revealed how he was notified that his time on GH had come to an end. Evan shared, “I found out probably a few weeks before we filmed the scene. Honestly, I was just excited to find out what the story was going to be, and wanted to hear how that was going to go.
So my last few weeks were really just trying to soak in how much I loved playing Dex, and how much I loved all the people over at GH.”
In soapy fashion, Dex’s girlfriend Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) was there when the character died, making it all the more heartbreaking. “I think his relationship with Josslyn was really what impacted Dex most in trying to get his life together, getting out of the mob, becoming the police officer, and realizing he never thought that he deserved anything good out of his life. He had a death wish for a really long time, and then she gave him a reason to live,” shared Hofer.
What the impact and the aftermath on Josslyn will be after Dex’s shocking remains to be seen. Might she be pregnant with his child? The two hit the sheets shortly before he was stabbed.
If you caught today’s GH, you also know that at the end of it, head nurse Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) looks at a dead Dex and says, “This isn’t right. You’re the second person to die like this. It just doesn’t make any sense. Something very wrong is going on here.”
All roads right now lead to Cyrus Renault (Jeff Kober) being Dex’s killer, who earlier in the week flashed back to the night he snuck into Sam McCall’s hospital room and injected her IV with Digitalis, and who had a confrontation with Dex.
At that time, Dex told Cyrus he knows he was at GH on Halloween to see Lulu (Alexa Havins) and tells him to stay away from her especially since he has a restraining order against him. Dex signed his death warrant right there, because Cyrus would want to silence him so he could not be placed at the scene of the crime of killing Sam.
