Richard Grady is the father of Travis and the husband of Helen. Richard separated Helen from her son when she tried to kill him by sending her to a sanatorium. Upon seeing that Helen would violently beg to be reunited with Travis, Richard claimed to Travis that Helen had died to spare him from seeing Helen's descent of madness, but he continued to write her letters. Unable to see his family fractured anymore, Richard committed suicide fifteen years before the events of "Silent Hill: Origins", his body being taken only three days later due to the young Travis being unsure if his father had really died.