Nah I don't think so. The father got a tip this scumbag was going to be at a place at a certain time. The father went to site, kidnapped the scumbag, put him in the trunk of a car, smashed his face with a cinderblock (repeatedly), and stabbed him to death. Then he left the body in the trunk in the middle of nowhere, where it wasn't found for a year.

All this happened after the father saved his daughter. This is text-book pre-meditated murder, the father had a plan and he executed it. I really wish the father to have a happy ending, but I'm a realist (not a negative asshole), and I know he probably won't get one.

Like Col. Stuart Scheller, his wife left him, and he lost everything for doing what he believed was right. The real world doesn't offer happy endings. It just offers endings mostly equivalent to your actions. But both this Father and Colonel are heroes though. Funny thing, most heroes end up broken people in the end.