People like him often aren't. What they're doing is highly illegal, so they have to hide, often fleeing to different universes and biding their time before they truly begin. Once they do? Then there are far, far more people involved, all of them innocents.

Ferran didn't do that to Proctor. I did, and all I did was merely preserve his body at the time of death so he could get a proper burial and not rot in that place. If I could, I would have dealt with his body myself, but I only barely managed to break my way in.