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* [[TinyTyrannicalGirl Lucy]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E24SupplyAndDemand Supply and Demand]]", is the head of a HumanTrafficking ring. She has her gang kidnap young men and women and pimp them out to various sexual deviants, staging live shows in which the victims are tortured, and even killed, by her men and/or clients. The victims are beaten, drugged, and otherwise mistreated to ensure compliance, and are kept caged in between visits from Lucy's clients. A psychological sadist, who derives gratification from being in control, Lucy frequently has her men lock in her in the cages, so that she can enjoy the victims' terror and win their trust while pretending to be a fellow victim; she takes unholy glee in revealing that she is, in fact, the leader. She's also the one who scouts the victims out in the first place, visiting college campuses, [[DecoyDamsel while posing as a student]], and then [[WoundedGazelleGambit staging her own abduction]] alongside any students she has befriended. When Lucy discovers that Renee Matlin, one of her victims, is an undercover cop, she proceeds to play a game of RussianRoulette with her, then has the other woman savagely beaten, gloating the whole time. Interrupted by the police, [[BadBoss Lucy]] manipulates Max, one of her associates, into being killed by them, planning to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame him for her crimes]]. Found out by David Rossi, Lucy's last act is to pull her revolver and try to blow him away.

* [[ImAHumanitarian Floyd Feylinn Ferrell]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E8Lucky Lucky]]", is a Satanist who believes in Satan solely because it allows him to indulge his murderous impulses. Murdering numerous women, Floyd wracks up a sizable body count of over a dozen, with the added sadistic twist of [[IAteWhat force-feeding pieces of them to his next victims]] and eating the rest himself. When he kidnaps a woman named Tracey Lambert, Floyd butchers her and feeds her to her own search party, something he maliciously reveals to a priest. [[spoiler:Faking his mental issues]], Floyd returns ten seasons later in season 13's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS13E6LuckyStrikes Lucky Strikes]]", where is held at a mental health facility for ten years, where he is finally granted supervised release and proceeds to [[spoiler:manipulate a troubled young man into cannibalistic murders to eventually force his suicide and make him take responsibility for all of Floyd's past murders to free himself]], even partaking of the flesh of said man's murders himself.

* [[TinyTyrannicalGirl Lucy]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E24SupplyAndDemand Supply and Demand]]", is the head of a human trafficking ring. She has her gang kidnap young men and women and pimp them out to various sexual deviants, staging live shows in which the victims are tortured, and even killed, by her men and/or clients. The victims are beaten, drugged, and otherwise mistreated to ensure compliance, and are kept caged in between visits from Lucy's clients. A psychological sadist, who derives gratification from being in control, Lucy frequently has her men lock in her in the cages, so that she can enjoy the victims' terror and win their trust while pretending to be a fellow victim; she takes unholy glee in revealing that she is, in fact, TheLeader. She's also the one who scouts the victims out in the first place, visiting college campuses, [[DecoyDamsel while posing as a student]], and then [[WoundedGazelleGambit staging her own abduction]] alongside any students she has befriended. When Lucy discovers that Renee Matlin, one of her victims, is an undercover cop, she proceeds to play a game of RussianRoulette with her, then has the other woman savagely beaten, gloating the whole time. Interrupted by the police, [[BadBoss Lucy]] manipulates Max, one of her associates, into being killed by them, planning to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame him for her crimes]]. Found out by David Rossi, Lucy's last act is to pull her revolver and try to blow him away.

* [[KillerCop Deputy Ronald Boyd]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E19ARiteOfPassage A Rite of Passage]]", kills illegal immigrants because it allows him to assert a sense of power that he otherwise lacks. He lies in wait at border crossings, picks out a straggler, and then chases them through the desert on his ATV until they can no longer fight back, finishing them off with his {{machete|Mayhem}}. When the Hispanic sheriff, whom Boyd loathes for being new to town, starts looking into the missing illegals, Boyd sends her progressively more aggressive "messages"--severed heads in [[FingerInTheMail boxes]] outside the sheriff's office; a [[DecapitationPresentation severed head on a pole]] in her front yard--until he finally kills her for sticking her nose into his business, while ranting that the illegals aren't really missing because "they ain't supposed to be here in the first place". Dismembering her corpse in order to pin the blame on drug kingpin Omar Morales, Boyd proceeds to murder Morales and most of his gang to cover his tracks; [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain also because they're Hispanic]]. When his partner objects, Boyd shoots him and [[FrameUp places the gun in the hands of the dead Morales]]. Taking offense to the idea that he sees himself as weak, and viewing himself as a total badass, Boyd, profiled as a "human predator" and with over 40 victims to his name, makes an average DirtyCop look like an angel.

* "[[DarkMessiah The Messiah]]", Benjamin David Merva, born David James Merva, from the season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS13E22Believer Believer]]" and the season 14 premiere "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS14E1ThreeHundred 300]]", is possibly the most prolific serial killer ever faced by the BAU. Merva, aka "the Strangler", a survivor of the [[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E3MinimalLoss Liberty Ranch hostage crisis]], eventually founded [[{{Cult}} the Believers]]. The Believers kidnap people from all over the country--protector types according to the BAU--and Merva kills them, giving the hyoid bones to the Believers. Just as 300 angels protected the Garden of Eden, Merva aims to collect 300 hyoid bones. He has killed 299 people so far, and plans to make Spencer Reid the 300th victim.----

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* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Hayman Vasher]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E3AThousandSuns A Thousand Suns]]" is an aerospace engineer who is a big admirer of UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, especially how he progressed from socially-awkward to world-renowned. For Vasher, who after being humiliated on a date dropped out of society, this involved building a device which can hack into airplanes and control them. As a "test", analogous to the Manhattan Project's Trinity test, Vasher makes a plane crash in a sparsely-populated area, resulting in over 150 deaths, including the woman who he had dated. As his Hiroshima, Vasher takes control of a plane with over 300 people and plans to crash it into a populated area. He agrees to let the plane land if the BAU calls off fighter jets which have scrambled to shoot the plane down if necessary, but once this happens, [[ILied Vasher tries to crash the plane anyway]], before he and his device are both shot. Vasher was also looking at other flights, meaning that there might have been still other crashes had he not been stopped. [[ItsAllAboutMe Driven only by his need]] for [[FameThroughInfamy attention]] and [[AGodAmI enjoying "playing God or some other deity"]], Hayman Vasher, "a mass annihilator…who wants to eradicate life on a large scale", is one of only a few unsubs to successfully have a triple-digit body count.

* [[EvilGenius Mason Turner]], from the two-part season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E25ToHell To Hell...]]" "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E26AndBack ...And Back]]", proves to be among the nastiest unsubs the BAU has faced. Unable to hunt and kill his victims himself due to being [[EvilCripple paralyzed from the neck down]], the sadistic and arrogant Mason manipulated his [[DumbMuscle mentally handicapped]] and freakishly strong brother [[PsychopathicManchild Lucas]] into becoming a killing machine. Mason has Lucas drive to Detroit to kidnap transients and haul them back to their pig farm in Canada, where Lucas brutally slaughters them by crushing their neck with a sledgehammer. Mason then guides Lucas through performing pointless, cruel experiments on their remains before discarding them by [[FedToPigs feeding them to the pigs]]. And all through the process, Lucas watches through a complex series of mirrors in order to satisfy his sadistic tendencies. Through this process Mason has claimed eighty-nine lives, and is only stopped from killing a ninetieth victim when the BAU raids his farm. In order to throw suspicions off himself, Mason tries to pin his crimes on Lucas, who he encourages the BAU to shoot on sight. Once he's exposed for the monster that he is, Mason is smug and completely unapologetic about his crimes, coldly stating that his victims were worthless trash that should be honored to be a part of something bigger than themselves. With a body count reached by only a few other unsubs, Mason Turner is proof that sometimes a FreudianExcuse isn't enough to justify, or even explain, cruelty.

* [[KillerCop Deputy Ronald Boyd]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E19ARiteOfPassage A Rite of Passage]]", kills illegal immigrants because it allows him to assert a sense of power that he otherwise lacks. He lies in wait at border crossings, picks out a straggler, and then chases them through the desert on his ATV until they can no longer fight back, finishing them off with his {{machete|Mayhem}}. When the Hispanic sheriff, whom Boyd loathes for being new to town, starts looking into the missing illegals, Boyd sends her progressively more aggressive "messages"--severed heads in [[FingerInTheMail boxes]] outside the sheriff's office; a [[DecapitationPresentation severed head on a pole]] in her front yard--until he finally kills her for sticking her nose into his business, while ranting that the illegals aren't really missing because "they ain't supposed to be here in the first place". Dismembering her corpse in order to pin the blame on drug kingpin Omar Morales, Boyd proceeds to murder Morales and most of his gang to cover his tracks; [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain also because they're Hispanic]]. When his partner objects, Boyd shoots him and [[FrameUp places the gun in the hands of the dead Morales]]. Taking offense to the idea that he sees himself as weak, and viewing himself as a total badass, Boyd, profiled as a "human predator", makes an average DirtyCop look like an angel.

* [[ManipulativeBastard Alex Zorgen]] runs a human trafficking ring that sells women, regardless of age, to serial killers and other criminals online. In 1993, prior to creating this ring, he abducted a woman named Donna Goldhard, and kept her as a SexSlave, repeatedly raping and torturing her for the next 22 years. From one of those rapes [[ChildByRape came a son]], named Kyle. In the season premiere "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E1X X]]," Alex, along with his family, kidnaps a woman and uses his website to auction her off to a serial killer. As the season progresses, Alex has Kyle stalk the BAU's newest member, Kate Callahan, by posing as an attractive high school senior online to gain their trust of her niece Meg, and her friend, who are both 14 years old. He sends his wife and son to kidnap them in the season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E23TheHunt The Hunt]]," but Kyle only catches Meg. [[YouHaveFailedMe Due to this]], Alex [[spoiler:murders Kyle, his own son]], without showing any remorse and simply moves on with his plan to sell Meg online to a serial killer. He was later arrested by the BAU, but Meg had already been sold. When they ask him where Meg’s captor is keeping her, he refuses to cooperate and just taunts Kate about the things her captor is going to do to her. Having no regard for anyone, not even his own family, and only caring about selling women to his online human trafficking ring and [[{{Greed}} making money out of it]], Alex Zorgen is a sociopath in its worst form and among the worst the BAU had to face.

* [[ItsAllAboutMe George Foyet]], aka the Boston Reaper, having disappeared after a long, unsolved killing spree, comes out of retirement in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E18Omnivore Omnivore]]" following the death of Tom Shaunessy, the lead investigator from the original case. Killing two couples, the Reaper baits the BAU into entering the case, then calls up Aaron Hotchner, for whom his original spree was ThatOneCase, offering to stop the killings if Hotch admits defeat and calls off the investigation--the same deal that The Reaper had cut with Shaunessy years ago. When Hotch turns him down, the Reaper massacres an entire bus full of passengers. He later kidnaps a journalist who had written a book about him and demands the man correct the errors in it, most notably suggesting that The Reaper might have died rather than retired; when Hotch captures him, The Reaper reveals that he's done it all in order to be "more famous than they'll ever realize." Breaking out of jail, the Reaper bides his time before ambushing Hotch at home in season 5 premier "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E1NamelessFaceless Nameless, Faceless]]," where he tortures him [[note]]To the point where he is driven into a coma in season 9's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS9E5RouteSixtySix Route 66]]"[[/note]], then drops him off at the hospital, along with clues that indicate he is going after Hotch's ex-wife, Hayley, and young son, Jack. He does just that in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E9OneHundred 100]]". Mutilating and mortally wounding the officer assigned to protect them, he tracks Hayley and Jack to their home, [[spoiler:murders Hayley while forcing her to talk to Hotch over the phone]], and then gloats to the BAU agent's face that after he's done with Hotch, Jack will be next. Totally self-centered and driven by an obsessive desire for [[FameThroughInfamy fame]] and [[ControlFreak control]], George Foyet is Aaron Hotchner's [[ArchEnemy personal nightmare]].

* [[ControlFreak Karl Arnold]], aka [[CunningLikeAFox The Fox]], is the first "family annihilator" to appear in the show. Debuting in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E7TheFox The Fox]]", Arnold uses his position as a [[PsychoPsychologist family psychiatrist]] to seek out families that he feels are dysfunctional--that is, where the father is not the dominant personality--stalks them, and then kidnaps them while the neighbors believe them to be on vacation, using his control over the children to keep the parents hostage. He keeps them separated from one another for days, then brings them together for one last supper, after which The Fox marches the entire family into the basement and kills them, [[WouldHurtAChild starting with the children]] and ending with the father. Upon his capture, The Fox explains that he does this because his own family fell apart due to his [[SuperOCD obsessive-compulsive, controlling]] nature, and he wants to show how much worse things can get when the head of the household isn't "[[AbusiveParents strong]]". Any sympathy one might have for him is obviated in his second appearance, in season 5's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E8Outfoxed Outfoxed]]." [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller Interviewed by the FBI]] for help with another family annihilator, Arnold comes off as calm and in control, repeatedly asking to see pictures of the crime scenes, coming onto Prentiss, taunting Hotch for his marital problems, and gloating about the fact that before he killed the families he took hostage, he would beat the male children, and rape the female ones. This revelation, coupled with The Fox's [[SmugSnake smug]], superior demeanor, and the fact that he's become pen pals with the Boston Reaper--laughing as he tells Hotch that The Reaper is coming for he and his family--wipes out any sympathy the viewer might once have held, and cements his status as a true monster.

* [[ImAHumanitarian Floyd Feylinn Ferrell]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E8Lucky Lucky]]", is a Satanist who believes in Satan solely because it allows him to indulge his murderous impulses. Murdering numerous women, Floyd wracks up a sizable body count of over a dozen, with the added sadistic twist of force-feeding pieces of them to his next victims and eating the rest himself. When he kidnaps a woman named Tracey Lambert, Floyd butchers her and feeds her to her own search party, something he maliciously reveals to a priest. [[spoiler:Faking his mental issues]], Floyd returns ten seasons later in season 13's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS13E6LuckyStrikes Lucky Strikes]]", where is held at a mental health facility for ten years, where he is finally granted supervised release and proceeds to [[spoiler:manipulate a troubled young man into cannibalistic murders to eventually force his suicide and make him take responsibility for all of Floyd's past murders to free himself]], even partaking of the flesh of said man's murders himself.

* [[ItsAllAboutMe George Foyet]], aka the Boston Reaper, having disappeared after a long, unsolved killing spree, comes out of retirement in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E18Omnivore Omnivore]]" following the death of Tom Shaunessy, the lead investigator from the original case. Killing two couples, the Reaper baits the BAU into entering the case, then calls up Aaron Hotchner, for whom his original spree was ThatOneCase, offering to stop the killings if Hotch admits defeat and calls off the investigation--the same deal that The Reaper had cut with Shaunessy years ago. When Hotch turns him down, the Reaper massacres an entire bus full of passengers. He later kidnaps a journalist who had written a book about him and demands the man correct the errors in it, most notably suggesting that The Reaper might have died rather than retired; when Hotch captures him, The Reaper reveals that he's done it all in order to be "more famous than they'll ever realize." Breaking out of jail, the Reaper bides his time before ambushing Hotch at home in season 5 premier "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E1NamelessFaceless Nameless, Faceless]]," where he tortures him [[note]]To the point where he is driven into a coma in season 9's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS9E5RouteSixtySix Route 66]]"[[/note]], then drops him off at the hospital, along with clues that indicate he is going after Hotch's ex-wife, Hayley, and young son, Jack. He does just that in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E9OneHundred 100]]". Mutilating and mortally wounding the officer assigned to protect them, he tracks Hayley and Jack to their home, [[spoiler:murders Hayley while forcing her to talk to Hotch over the phone]], and then gloats to the BAU agent's face that after he's done with Hotch, Jack will be next. Totally self-centered and driven by an obsessive desire for [[AttentionWhore fame]] and [[ControlFreak control]], George Foyet is Aaron Hotchner's [[ArchEnemy personal nightmare]].

* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Hayman Vasher]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E3AThousandSuns A Thousand Suns]]" is an aerospace engineer who is a big admirer of UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, especially how he progressed from socially-awkward to world-renowned. For Vasher, who after being humiliated on a date dropped out of society, this involved building a device which can hack into airplanes and control them. As a "test", analogous to the Manhattan Project's Trinity test, Vasher makes a plane crash in a sparsely-populated area, resulting in over 150 deaths, including the woman who he had dated. As his Hiroshima, Vasher takes control of a plane with over 300 people and plans to crash it into a populated area. He agrees to let the plane land if the BAU calls off fighter jets which have scrambled to shoot the plane down if necessary, but once this happens, [[ILied Vasher tries to crash the plane anyway]], before he and his device are both shot. Vasher was also looking at other flights, meaning that there might have been still other crashes had he not been stopped. [[ItsAllAboutMe Driven only by his need]] for {{attention|Whore}} and [[AGodAmI enjoying "playing God or some other deity"]], Hayman Vasher, "a mass annihilator…who wants to eradicate life on a large scale", is one of only a few unsubs to successfully have a triple-digit body count.

* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Jackson "The Grandfater" Cally]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E16TheTribe The Tribe]]", is a chilling combination of extreme sociopathy, charisma, and bigotry. A cult leader native to Terra Mesa, a mostly-white New Mexico town known for tensions with a mostly-Apache town nearby, Cally preys on troubled teenagers interested in Native Americans, indoctrinating them into being willing to kill for him under the pretense of "helping" the Apache reclaim all their ancestral land; while keeping his true goal, attempting to foment a race war that would wipe the Apache out, a secret. He first sends his cult to a college dormitory built on former Apache land, having them massacre the residents in gruesome ways such as [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and {{impale|dWithExtremePrejudice}}ment, [[FalseFlagOperation mimicking Native American war rituals]], in hopes [[FrameUp the Apache would be blamed]] and the whites would retaliate. When the FBI rule out the Apache as suspects, Cally has his men decapitate the leader of a local racist group, his wife, and [[WouldHurtAChild his two young children]] and [[DecapitationPresentation impale their heads on pikes]] for the FBI to find. His final and most wicked gambit, however, is to dress up his men as members of the racist group and send them on a wholesale massacre of the Apache town's school. When foiled and caught by the FBI, Cally's only justification for his actions is that he hoped to show the world what "savage animals" the Apache people "really" are.

While [[Series/CriminalMinds the BAU]] has faced [[Characters/CriminalMindsUnsubs all manner of bad guys]], both recurring and [[MonsterOfTheWeek ones from only a single episode]], the following have [[CompleteMonster stood out]].

* [[EvilRedhead Karl Arnold]], aka [[CunningLikeAFox The Fox]], is the first "family annihilator" to appear in the show. Debuting in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E7TheFox The Fox]]," Arnold uses his position as a [[PsychoPsychologist family psychiatrist]] to seek out families that he feels are dysfunctional--that is, [[StayInTheKitchen where the father is not the dominant personality]]--stalks them, and then kidnaps them while the neighbors believe them to be on vacation, using his control over the children to keep the parents hostage. He keeps them separated from one another for days, then brings them together for one last supper, after which The Fox marches the entire family into the basement and kills them, [[WouldHurtAChild starting with the children]] and ending with the father. Upon his capture, The Fox explains that he does this because his own family fell apart due to his [[SuperOCD obsessive-compulsive]], [[ControlFreak controlling]] nature, and he wants to show how much worse things can get when the head of the household isn't "[[AbusiveDad strong]]". Any sympathy one might have for him is obviated in his second appearance, in season 5's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E8Outfoxed Outfoxed]]." [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller Interviewed by the FBI]] for help with another family annihilator, Arnold comes off as calm and in control, repeatedly asking to see pictures of the crime scenes, coming onto Prentiss, taunting Hotch for his marital problems, and gloating about the fact that before he killed the families he took hostage, he would beat the male children, and [[SerialRapist rape the female ones]]. This revelation, coupled with The Fox's [[SmugSnake smug]], superior demeanor, and the fact that he's become pen pals with The Boston Reaper--laughing as he tells Hotch that The Reaper is coming for he and his family--wipes out any sympathy the viewer might once have held, and cements his status as a true monster.
* Jackson Cally from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E16TheTribe The Tribe]]" is a chilling example of what you get when you combine extreme [[LackOfEmpathy sociopathy]], [[TheCharmer charisma]], and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigotry]] into one man. A {{cult}} leader native to Terra Mesa, a mostly-white New Mexico town known for tensions with a mostly-Apache town nearby, Cally preys on troubled teenagers interested in Native Americans, indoctrinating them into being willing to kill for him under the pretense of "helping" the Apache reclaim all their ancestral land, while keeping his true goal, attempting to foment a race war that would wipe the Apache out, a secret from them. He first sends his cult to massacre the residents of a college dormitory built on former Apache land in gruesome ways, such as [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and {{impale|dWithExtremePrejudice}}ment, mimicking Native American war rituals, in hopes the Apache would be blamed and the whites would retaliate. When the FBI rule out the Apache as suspects, Cally has his men decapitate the leader of a local racist group, his wife, and [[WouldHurtAChild his two young children]] and [[DecapitationPresentation impale their heads on pikes]] for the FBI to find. His final and most wicked gambit, however, is to dress up his men as members of the racist group and send them on a wholesale massacre of the Apache town's school. When foiled and caught by the FBI, Cally's only justification for his actions is that he hoped to show the world what "savage animals" the Apache people "really" are.

* [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Charles Holcombe]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS2E22Legacy Legacy]]", is a [[{{Jerkass}} callous]] SerialKiller with over sixty victims to his name who is dedicated to [[KillThePoor wiping out the homeless, junkies, prostitutes, and vagrants]] due to viewing them as subhuman filth that is worthless to society. Using a meat-packing plant that he inherited from his late father, Holcombe re-outfitted it into a brutal maze-like DeathCourse where he forces his victims to play a sadistic game: escape before sundown or die horribly. What follows is his victims being put through [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible physical agony]] where they're forced to crawl through rooms filled with broken glass, endure being sprayed with gas, and run from hungry attack dogs. All the while during his game, he torments his victims with footage of him dissecting his previous victims alive to let them know what to expect if they fail. When his latest victim, a prostitute named Maggie [[HopeSpot successfully completes the course]], Holcombe reveals [[ILied that he had no intention of ever letting her escape]] and knocks her out with a spray of gas before hauling her off to slaughter. Ruthlessly obsessed with his mission to the end, Holcombe's final moments before being gunned down are him attempting to finish off Maggie while screaming "[[KnightTemplar Just let me do my job!]]"

* The sadistic, arrogant [[EvilGenius Mason Turner]], from the two-part season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E25ToHell To Hell...]]" "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E26AndBack ...And Back]]", proves to be among the nastiest unsubs the BAU has faced. Unable to hunt and kill his victims himself due to being [[EvilCripple paralyzed from the neck down]], Mason manipulated his [[DumbMuscle mentally handicapped]] and freakishly strong brother [[PsychopathicManChild Lucas]] into becoming a killing machine. Mason has Lucas drive to Detroit to kidnap transients and haul them back to their pig farm in Canada, where [[TheBrute Lucas]] brutally slaughters them by [[DropTheHammer crushing their neck with a sledgehammer]]. Mason then guides Lucas through performing pointless, cruel experiments on their remains before discarding them by [[FedToPigs feeding them to the pigs]]. And all through the process, Lucas watches through a complex series of mirrors in order to satisfy his {{sadist}}ic tendencies. Through this process Mason has claimed eighty-nine lives, and is only stopped from killing a ninetieth victim when the BAU raids his farm. In order to throw suspicions off himself, Mason tries to pin his crimes on Lucas who he encourages the BAU to shoot on sight. Once he's exposed for the monster that he is, Mason is smug and completely unapologetic about his crimes, coldly stating that his victims were worthless trash that should be honored to be a part of something bigger than themselves. With a body count reached by only a few other unsubs, Mason Turner is proof that sometimes a FreudianExcuse isn’t enough to justify, or even explain, cruelty.
* As one of the show's few recurring villains, George Foyet, aka The Boston Reaper, had ample time to establish his monster credentials. Disappearing after a long, unsolved killing spree, The Reaper comes out of [[RetiredMonster retirement]] in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E18Omnivore Omnivore]]" following the death of Tom Shaunessy, the lead investigator from the original case. Killing two couples, The Reaper [[CriminalMindGames baits]] the BAU into entering the case, then calls up [[TheLeader Aaron Hotchner]], for whom his original spree was ThatOneCase, offering to stop the killings if Hotch admits defeat and calls off the investigation--the same deal that The Reaper had cut with Shaunessy years ago. When Hotch turns him down, The Reaper massacres an entire bus full of passengers. He later kidnaps a journalist who had written a book about him and demands the man correct the errors in it, most notably suggesting that The Reaper might have died rather than retired; when Hotch captures him, The Reaper reveals that he's done it all in order to be "more famous than they'll ever realize." Breaking out of jail, The Reaper bides his time before ambushing Hotch at home in season 5 premier "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E1NamelessFaceless Nameless, Faceless]]," where he [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]] [[note]]To the point where he is driven into a coma in season 9's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS9E5RouteSixtySix Route 66]]"[[/note]], then drops him off at the hospital, along with clues that indicate he is going after Hotch's ex-wife, Hayley, and son, Jack. He does just that in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E9OneHundred 100]]", mutilating and mortally wounding the officer assigned to protect them, he [[IHaveYourWife tracks Hayley and Jack]] to their home, [[spoiler:murders Hayley while forcing her to talk to Hotch over the phone]], and then gloats to the BAU Agent's face that after he's done with Hotch, [[WouldHurtAChild Jack]] will be next. Totally [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], driven by an obsessive desire for [[AttentionWhore fame]] and [[ControlFreak control]], and needing a [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] in order to function properly, The Reaper is Aaron Hotchner's [[ItsPersonal personal nightmare]].

* [[EvilOldFolks Anita Roycewood]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E16MosleyLane Mosley Lane]]" is a serial kidnapper and [[WouldHurtAChild child murderer]], who [[LadyMacbeth forces]] her [[HenpeckedHusband submissive husband]], Roger, and first kidnap victim, [[StockholmSyndrome Charlie Hillridge]], to help her abduct and imprison children. Keeping the children locked up in a hidden hallway, [[EvilMatriarch Anita]] renames them, dyes their hair, and is implied to sexually abuse them, using fear, beatings, and threats to the other children to keep them in line. When the children grow too old for her liking, or become uncontrollable, Anita knocks them out, in the case of Stephen Shepherd beating him savagely beforehand, places them in a cardboard box, and [[MurderByCremation burns them alive in a crematorium]], [[DissonantSerenity whistling jauntily]] the entire time. When the police catch onto her, Anita abandons Roger, and takes the three remaining children, Aimee Lynch, Mae Hall, and Charlie to the crematorium, where she tries to force Charlie to help her burn the other two; she then intends to kill him. Guilty of some of the most callous crimes yet shown on the show, and viewing her victims as replaceable, Anita's reasons for doing what she does are never explored, leaving only an utterly hateful [[FlatCharacter cipher]] for the cast and the audience to deal with.
* [[KillerCop Deputy]] Ronald [[CorruptHick Boyd]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E19ARiteOfPassage A Rite of Passage]]," profiled as a "human predator", kills illegal immigrants because it allows him to assert a sense of power that he otherwise lacks. He lies in wait at border crossings, picks out a straggler, and then chases them through the desert on his ATV until they can no longer fight back, finishing them off with his {{machete|Mayhem}}. When the Hispanic sheriff whom Boyd loathes for being new to town, starts looking into the missing illegals, Boyd sends her progressively more aggressive "messages"--[[DecapitationPresentation severed heads]] in [[FingerInTheMail boxes]] outside the sheriff's office, a severed head on a pole in her front yard--until he finally kills her for sticking her nose into his business, while ranting that the illegals aren't really missing because "they ain't supposed to be here in the first place." Dismembering her corpse in order to pin the blame on [[TheCartel drug kingpin]] Omar Morales, Boyd proceeds to murder Morales and most of his gang to cover his tracks; [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain also because they're Hispanic]]. When his partner objects, Boyd shoots him and [[FrameUp places the gun in the hands of the dead Morales]]. Taking offense to the idea that he sees himself as weak, and viewing himself as a total badass, Boyd makes an average DirtyCop look like an angel.

* [[EvilCripple Shane Wyland]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E9IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]" is a prolific SerialKiller and SerialRapist [[WouldHurtAChild of children]]. Put on parole after the sexual assault of a ten-year-old boy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Shane [[TheHermit abandoned civilization]] in favor of the woods along the Appalachian Trail to make it easier for him to hunt children. After selecting a child, Shane would stalk them before abducting them and imprisoning them in an AbandonedMine, where he would repeatedly molest them throughout the winter before finally killing them. Shane kidnaps a young boy named Robert, as well as his sister Ana, who Shane intends to kill. While holding them captive within a storage cell, Shane molests Robert. After Ana flees captivity, Shane takes Robert to the hotel of a fellow pedophile, Brandon Stiles, where he offers to allow Stiles an hour alone with Robert in exchange for painkillers to treat his leg injury.
* [[PsychoForHire Lucy]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS6E24SupplyAndDemand Supply and Demand]]" is a [[ManipulativeBastard rather different]] kind of [[EvilGenius monster]] from [[SerialKiller most of those on this list]]. The head of a human trafficking ring, Lucy has her gang kidnap young men and women and [[SexSlave pimp them out]] to SnuffFilm aficionados and other sexual deviants, staging live shows in which the victims are [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], and even killed, by her men and/or clients. The victims are beaten, drugged, and otherwise mistreated to ensure compliance, and are kept caged in between visits from Lucy's clients. A psychological {{sadist}}, who derives gratification from being in control, Lucy frequently has her men lock in her in the cages, so that she can [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence enjoy the victims' terror]] and win their trust while [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be a fellow victim]]; she takes unholy glee in revealing that she is, in fact, [[TinyTyrannicalGirl the one in charge]]. She's also the one who scouts the victims out in the first place, visiting college campuses, [[DecoyDamsel while posing as a student]], and then [[WoundedGazelleGambit staging her own abduction]] alongside any students she has befriended. When Lucy discovers that Renee Matlin, one of her victims, is [[UndercoverCopReveal an undercover cop]], she proceeds to play a game of RussianRoulette with her, then has the other woman [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown savagely beaten]], [[EvilGloating gloating the whole time]]. Interrupted by the police, [[BadBoss Lucy]] manipulates Max, her [[TheDragon right-hand man]], into being killed by them, planning to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame him for her crimes]]. Found out by David Rossi, Lucy's last act is to pull her [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] and try to blow him away.

* [[PsychopathicManchild Benjamin "Cy" Bradstone]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS7E2Proof Proof]]" has a mental disability, which makes him unique, but not even slightly sympathetic. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be far more handicapped than he is]], Cy lures women out of the public eye, forces them into his shed, [[SerialRapist rapes them]], and then stabs them to death. He first [[EyeScream stabbed their eyes out]], but later evolved to [[FacialHorror using sulfuric acid to burn away their senses]]. If they don't like the way he looks, he takes their eyes. If they spit when he kisses them, he [[TongueTrauma takes their sense of taste]]. If they don't like his smell, he burns out their nostrils. His video journal--which strongly implies [[SerialKiller many more victims]]--reveals that he has been like this since he was a [[EnfanteTerrible young boy]], and he gloats that he brutalizes women for the same reason that he used to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals beat his dog]]: [[ForTheEvulz because it's fun]]. We eventually discover that he is targeting women who remind him of his sister-in-law, whom he attempted to molest when they were both teenagers. When his niece puts on a cheerleader costume that reminds him of her mother she becomes [[EvilUncle Cy’s]] final victim. After his arrest, his brother Matt, who has always been supportive of Cy, going so far as to offer to let him move in with him, demands to know why Cy did this; Cy laughs in his face, and tells him that he has [[CainAndAbel always hated Matt]] and was planning to deafen and then kill him one day. A ragingly [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] psychopath who just happens to be handicapped, Cy is fully aware of how awful his actions are, as evidenced by this message he leaves for Matt:

* Clark Preston from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS7E15AThinLine A Thin Line]]" is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive crooked real estate developer]] who hires crooks to commit crimes in neighborhoods so people will leave them and he can buy up their property dirt-cheap, not caring in the slightest about who gets hurt. One of these families, the Mills, had the father and daughter killed and the mother left in a coma. He then [[ManipulativeBastard recruits the survivor Trevor]] into his mayoral campaign, to add fuel to his blatantly racist platform. He has him murder entire families--[[WouldHurtAChild including a baby in one case]]--then kill drugged black and Hispanic people with the family’s gun and [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit pin it on them]].
* [[SerialRapist J.B. Allen]], from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS7E18Foundation Foundation]]", is the {{sadist}}ic, [[WouldHurtAChild pedophilic]] owner of a construction company who targets little boys who he draws in by letting them play with his construction tools. Once he has a boy in his grasp, Allen continuously rapes and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] him over the years before [[SerialKiller killing him]]. One of his victims who was lucky enough to escape, a boy named Angel Suarez, was covered in bite marks and was mentally destroyed by Allen's torture. When he finds another victim to replace Angel, a boy by the name of Billy Henderson, he subjects him to the same torture and attempts to bury him alive. His daughter repressed memories of Allen doing the same to another unnamed boy, and all the trophies he'd pawn off on her in the guise of gifts show that he had dozens of other victims.

* [[EvilGenius John Curtis]] serves as the ArcVillain of the season, as well as the ArchEnemy of the BAU. [[FallenHero Originally a brilliant FBI Special Agent]], Curtis, after an incident caused him to be demoted and transferred to Kansas, vowed vengeance on [[DisproportionateRetribution the people responsible]]. He would become the SerialKiller known as "[[JackTheRipoff The Replicator]]" where he would [[ThemeSerialKiller copy some of the season's most gruesome murders]]. These murders include [[MouthStitchedShut sewing a man's mouth shut before leaving him to die of asphyxiation]]; [[AnArmAndALeg sawing off the legs of two people]], [[SkipTheAnesthetic without the use of anesthesia]]; dislocating a woman's limbs making her a DeadGuyPuppet, and [[DropTheHammer using a hammer to smash a women's head to death]]. He also manipulated a man whose life was ruined by the BAU into becoming a SerialKiller--with 3 victims--only to abandon him once he had outlived his usefulness, [[DrivenToSuicide driving the man to commit suicide]]. He later appears in person in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS8E24TheReplicator The Replicator]]", where he forces Erin Strauss, the woman who caused said incident, to [[ForceFeeding drink poisonous wine]], [[HeroKiller causing her to die slowly and painfully]]. His final plan would then come into motion where he would trap the BAU in one house where he'd set explosions to kill them all, [[TakingYouWithMe completely uncaring if he is still in the same house]]. A narcissistic [[TheSociopath sociopath]] whose manages to [[KnightOfCerebus darken an already grim show]], John Curtis, who made up in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cruelty]] what he lacked in body count, would do anything to see those he believed had wronged him [[{{Sadist}} suffer to the fullest]].

* Alex Zorgen, while not a SerialKiller himself, runs a human trafficking ring that sells women, regardless of age, to serial killers and other criminals online. In 1993, prior to creating this ring, he abducted a woman named Donna Goldhard, and kept her as a SexSlave, repeatedly raping and torturing her for the next 22 years. From one of those rapes [[ChildByRape came a son]], named Kyle. In the season premiere "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E1X X]]," Alex, along with his family, kidnaps a woman and uses his website to auction her off to a serial killer. As the season progresses, Alex has Kyle stalk the BAU's newest member, Kate Callahan, by posing as an attractive high school senior online to gain their trust of her niece Meg, and her friend, who are both 14 years old. He sends his wife and son to kidnap them in the season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E23TheHunt The Hunt]]," but Kyle only catches Meg. [[YouHaveFailedMe Due to this]], Alex [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring murders Kyle, his own son]]]], without showing any remorse and simply moves on with his plan to sell Meg online to a serial killer. He was later arrested by the BAU, but Meg had already been sold. When they ask him where Meg’s captor is keeping her, he refuses to cooperate and just taunts Kate about the things her captor is going to do to her. Having no regard for anyone, not even his own family, and only caring about selling women to his online human trafficking ring and [[{{Greed}} making money out of it]], Alex Zorgen is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] in its worst form and among the worst the BAU had to face.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Hayman Vasher]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E3AThousandSuns A Thousand Suns]]" is an aerospace engineer who is a big admirer of UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, especially how he progressed from socially-awkward to world-renowned. For Vasher, who after being humiliated on a date dropped out of society, this involved building a device which can hack into airplanes and control them. As a "test", analogous to the Manhattan Project's Trinity test, Vasher makes a plane crash in a sparsely-populated area, resulting in over 150 deaths, including the woman who he had dated. As his Hiroshima, Vasher takes control of a plane with over 300 people and plans to crash it into a populated area. He agrees to let the plane land if the BAU calls off fighter jets which have scrambled to shoot the plane down if necessary, but once this happens, [[ILied Vasher tries to crash the plane anyway]], before he and his device are both shot. Vasher was also looking at other flights, meaning that there might have been still other crashes had he not been stopped. [[ItsAllAboutMe Driven only by his need]] for {{attention|Whore}} and [[AGodAmI enjoying "playing God or some other deity]]", Hayman Vasher, "a mass annihilator…who wants to eradicate life on a large scale", is one of only a few unsubs to successfully have a triple-digit body count.

* [[WesternTerrorists Mitchell Crossford]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS11E2TheWitness The Witness]]" is the son of an anti-government {{cult}} leader and later adopted this extreme ideology. When his half-brother Theo, with whom he was planning to launch terrorist attacks, started having an affair with a married woman, Crossford, enraged, plotted revenge. He acquired [[DeadlyGas sarin gas]] from a disgraced chemist--[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness who Mitchell then killed]]--and placed sarin on a bus the woman usually rode; she wasn't on the bus that day, but 10 other people were killed. While stalking his brother, Crossford saw Charlie, the woman's husband, murder Theo, and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated him into becoming his patsy]], threatening to report the murder, while also threatening Charlie's 12-year-old daughter. While he may have planned even more attacks, his main goal was using Charlie to launch a larger sarin attack on the FBI building in Los Angeles. Over a thousand people were at risk, before the FBI successfully evacuated the building and sealed the garage where the sarin was placed.

-->--"[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E18Omnivore Omnivore]]"

-->--"Omnivore"

* As one of the show's few recurring villains, George Foyet, aka The Boston Reaper, had ample time to establish his monster credentials. Disappearing after a long, unsolved killing spree, The Reaper comes out of [[RetiredMonster retirement]] in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E18Omnivore Omnivore]]" following the death of Tom Shaunessy, the lead investigator from the original case. Killing two couples, The Reaper [[CriminalMindGames baits]] the BAU into entering the case, then calls up [[TheLeader Aaron Hotchner]], for whom his original spree was ThatOneCase, offering to stop the killings if Hotch admits defeat and calls off the investigation--the same deal that The Reaper had cut with Shaunessy years ago. When Hotch turns him down, The Reaper massacres an entire bus full of passengers. He later kidnaps a journalist who had written a book about him and demands the man correct the errors in it, most notably suggesting that The Reaper might have died rather than retired; when Hotch captures him, The Reaper reveals that he's done it all in order to be "more famous than they'll ever realize." Breaking out of jail, The Reaper bides his time before ambushing Hotch at home in season 5 premier "Nameless, Faceless," where he [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]] [[note]]To the point where he is driven into a coma in season 9's "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS9E5RouteSixtySix Route 66]]"[[/note]], then drops him off at the hospital, along with clues that indicate he is going after Hotch's ex-wife, Hayley, and son, Jack. He does just that in "100", mutilating and mortally wounding the officer assigned to protect them, he [[IHaveYourWife tracks Hayley and Jack]] to their home, [[spoiler:murders Hayley while forcing her to talk to Hotch over the phone]], and then gloats to the BAU Agent's face that after he's done with Hotch, [[WouldHurtAChild Jack]] will be next. Totally [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], driven by an obsessive desire for [[AttentionWhore fame]] and [[ControlFreak control]], and needing a [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] in order to function properly, The Reaper is Aaron Hotchner's [[ItsPersonal personal nightmare]].

* Alex Zorgen, while not a SerialKiller himself, runs a human trafficking ring that sells women, regardless of age, to serial killers and other criminals online. In 1993, prior to creating this ring, he abducted a woman named Donna Goldhard, and kept her as a SexSlave, repeatedly raping and torturing her for the next 22 years. From one of those rapes [[ChildByRape came a son]], named Kyle. In the season premiere "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E1X X]]," Alex, along with his family, kidnaps a woman and uses his website to auction her off to a serial killer. As the season progresses, Alex has Kyle stalk the BAU's newest member, Kate Callahan, by posing as an attractive high school senior online to gain their trust of her niece Meg, and her friend, who are both 14 years old. He sends his wife and son to kidnap them in the season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E23TheHunt Hunt]]," but Kyle only catches Meg. [[YouHaveFailedMe Due to this]], Alex [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring murders Kyle, his own son]]]], without showing any remorse and simply moves on with his plan to sell Meg online to a serial killer. He was later arrested by the BAU, but Meg had already been sold. When they ask him where Meg’s captor is keeping her, he refuses to cooperate and just taunts Kate about the things her captor is going to do to her. Having no regard for anyone, not even his own family, and only caring about selling women to his online human trafficking ring and [[{{Greed}} making money out of it]], Alex Zorgen is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] in its worst form and among the worst the BAU had to face.

* [[EvilRedhead Karl Arnold]], aka [[CunningLikeAFox The Fox]], is the first "family annihilator" to appear in the show. Debuting in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E7TheFox The Fox]]," Arnold uses his position as a [[PsychoPsychologist family psychiatrist]] to seek out families that he feels are dysfunctional--that is, [[StayInTheKitchen where the father is not the dominant personality]]--stalks them, and then kidnaps them while the neighbors believe them to be on vacation, using his control over the children to keep the parents hostage. He keeps them separated from one another for days, then brings them together for one last supper, after which The Fox marches the entire family into the basement and kills them, [[WouldHurtAChild starting with the children]] and ending with the father. Upon his capture, The Fox explains that he does this because his own family fell apart due to his [[SuperOCD obsessive-compulsive]], [[ControlFreak controlling]] nature, and he wants to show how much worse things can get when the head of the household isn't "[[AbusiveDad strong]]". Any sympathy one might have for him is obviated in his second appearance, in season 5's "Outfoxed." [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller Interviewed by the FBI]] for help with another family annihilator, Arnold comes off as calm and in control, repeatedly asking to see pictures of the crime scenes, coming onto Prentiss, taunting Hotch for his marital problems, and gloating about the fact that before he killed the families he took hostage, he would beat the male children, and [[SerialRapist rape the female ones]]. This revelation, coupled with The Fox's [[SmugSnake smug]], superior demeanor, and the fact that he's become pen pals with The Boston Reaper--laughing as he tells Hotch that The Reaper is coming for he and his family--wipes out any sympathy the viewer might once have held, and cements his status as a true monster.

* As one of the show's few recurring villains, George Foyet, aka The Boston Reaper, had ample time to establish his monster credentials. Disappearing after a long, unsolved killing spree, The Reaper comes out of [[RetiredMonster retirement]] in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E18Omnivore Omnivore]]" following the death of Tom Shaunessy, the lead investigator from the original case. Killing two couples, The Reaper [[CriminalMindGames baits]] the BAU into entering the case, then calls up [[TheLeader Aaron Hotchner]], for whom his original spree was ThatOneCase, offering to stop the killings if Hotch admits defeat and calls off the investigation--the same deal that The Reaper had cut with Shaunessy years ago. When Hotch turns him down, The Reaper massacres an entire bus full of passengers. He later kidnaps a journalist who had written a book about him and demands the man correct the errors in it, most notably suggesting that The Reaper might have died rather than retired; when Hotch captures him, The Reaper reveals that he's done it all in order to be "more famous than they'll ever realize." Breaking out of jail, The Reaper bides his time before ambushing Hotch at home in season 5 premier "Nameless, Faceless," where he [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]] [[note]]To the point where he is driven into a coma in season 9's "Route 66"[[/note]], then drops him off at the hospital, along with clues that indicate he is going after Hotch's ex-wife, Hayley, and son, Jack. He does just that in "100", mutilating and mortally wounding the officer assigned to protect them, he [[IHaveYourWife tracks Hayley and Jack]] to their home, [[spoiler:murders Hayley while forcing her to talk to Hotch over the phone]], and then gloats to the BAU Agent's face that after he's done with Hotch, [[WouldHurtAChild Jack]] will be next. Totally [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], driven by an obsessive desire for [[AttentionWhore fame]] and [[ControlFreak control]], and needing a [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] in order to function properly, The Reaper is Aaron Hotchner's [[ItsPersonal personal nightmare]].

* [[EvilGenius John Curtis]] serves as the ArcVillain of the season, as well as the ArchEnemy of the BAU. [[FallenHero Originally a brilliant FBI Special Agent]], Curtis, after an incident caused him to be demoted and transferred to Kansas, vowed vengeance on [[DisproportionateRetribution the people responsible]]. He would become the SerialKiller known as "[[JackTheRipoff The Replicator]]" where he would [[ThemeSerialKiller copy some of the season's most gruesome murders]]. These murders include [[MouthStitchedShut sewing a man's mouth shut before leaving him to die of asphyxiation]]; [[AnArmAndALeg sawing off the legs of two people]], [[SkipTheAnesthetic without the use of anesthesia]]; dislocating a woman's limbs making her a DeadGuyPuppet, and [[DropTheHammer using a hammer to smash a women's head to death]]. He also manipulated a man whose life was ruined by the BAU into becoming a SerialKiller--with 3 victims--only to abandon him once he had outlived his usefulness, [[DrivenToSuicide driving the man to commit suicide]]. He later appears in person in "The Replicator", where he forces Erin Strauss, the woman who caused said incident, to [[ForceFeeding drink poisonous wine]], [[HeroKiller causing her to die slowly and painfully]]. His final plan would then come into motion where he would trap the BAU in one house where he'd set explosions to kill them all, [[TakingYouWithMe completely uncaring if he is still in the same house]]. A narcissistic [[TheSociopath sociopath]] whose manages to [[KnightOfCerebus darken an already grim show]], John Curtis, who made up in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cruelty]] what he lacked in body count, would do anything to see those he believed had wronged him [[{{Sadist}} suffer to the fullest]].

* Alex Zorgen, while not a SerialKiller himself, runs a human trafficking ring that sells women, regardless of age, to serial killers and other criminals online. In 1993, prior to creating this ring, he abducted a woman named Donna Goldhard, and kept her as a SexSlave, repeatedly raping and torturing her for the next 22 years. From one of those rapes [[ChildByRape came a son]], named Kyle. In the season premiere "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS10E1X X]]," Alex, along with his family, kidnaps a woman and uses his website to auction her off to a serial killer. As the season progresses, Alex has Kyle stalk the BAU's newest member, Kate Callahan, by posing as an attractive high school senior online to gain their trust of her niece Meg, and her friend, who are both 14 years old. He sends his wife and son to kidnap them in the season finale "Hunt," but Kyle only catches Meg. [[YouHaveFailedMe Due to this]], Alex [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring murders Kyle, his own son]]]], without showing any remorse and simply moves on with his plan to sell Meg online to a serial killer. He was later arrested by the BAU, but Meg had already been sold. When they ask him where Meg’s captor is keeping her, he refuses to cooperate and just taunts Kate about the things her captor is going to do to her. Having no regard for anyone, not even his own family, and only caring about selling women to his online human trafficking ring and [[{{Greed}} making money out of it]], Alex Zorgen is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] in its worst form and among the worst the BAU had to face.

* The sadistic, arrogant [[EvilGenius Mason Turner]], from the two-part season finale "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E25ToHell To Hell...]]" "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E26AndBack ...And Back]]", proves to be among the nastiest unsubs the BAU has faced. Unable to hunt and kill his victims himself due to being [[EvilCripple paralyzed from the neck down]], Mason manipulated his [[DumbMuscle mentally handicapped]] and freakishly strong brother [[PsychopathicManChild Lucas]] into becoming a killing machine. Mason has Lucas drive to Detroit to kidnap transients and haul them back to their pig farm in Canada, where [[TheBrute Lucas]] brutally slaughters them by [[DropTheHammer crushing their neck with a sledgehammer]]. Mason then guides Lucas through performing pointless, cruel experiments on their remains before discarding them by feeding them to the pigs. And all through the process, Lucas watches through a complex series of mirrors in order to satisfy his {{sadist}}ic tendencies. Through this process Mason has claimed eighty-nine lives, and is only stopped from killing a ninetieth victim when the BAU raids his farm. In order to throw suspicions off himself, Mason tries to pin his crimes on Lucas who he encourages the BAU to shoot on sight. Once he's exposed for the monster that he is, Mason is smug and completely unapologetic about his crimes, coldly stating that his victims were worthless trash that should be honored to be a part of something bigger than themselves. With a body count reached by only a few other unsubs, Mason Turner is proof that sometimes a FreudianExcuse isn’t enough to justify, or even explain, cruelty.

* [[PsychopathicManchild Benjamin "Cy" Bradstone]] from "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS7E2Proof Proof]]" has a mental disability, which makes him unique, but not even slightly sympathetic. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be far more handicapped than he is]], Cy lures women out of the public eye, forces them into his shed, [[SerialRapist rapes them]], and then stabs them to death. He first [[EyeScream stabbed their eyes out]], but later evolved to [[FacialHorror using sulfuric acid to burn away their senses]]. If they don't like the way he looks, he takes their eyes. If they spit when he kisses them, he [[TongueTrauma takes their sense of taste]]. If they don't like his smell, he burns out their nostrils. His video journal reveals that he has been like this since he was a [[EnfanteTerrible young boy]], and he gloats that he brutalizes women for the same reason that he used to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals beat his dog]]: [[ForTheEvulz because it's fun]]. We eventually discover that he is targeting women who remind him of his sister-in-law, whom he attempted to molest when they were both teenagers. When his niece puts on a cheerleader costume that reminds him of her mother she becomes [[EvilUncle Cy’s]] final victim. After his arrest, his brother Matt, who has always been supportive of Cy, going so far as to offer to let him move in with him, demands to know why Cy did this; Cy laughs in his face, and tells him that he has [[CainAndAbel always hated Matt]] and was planning to deafen and then kill him one day. A ragingly [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] psychopath who just happens to be handicapped, Cy is fully aware of how awful his actions are, as evidenced by this message he leaves for Matt:

* [[EvilRedhead Karl Arnold]], aka [[CunningLikeAFox The Fox]], is the first "family annihilator" to appear in the show. Debuting in "The Fox," Arnold uses his position as a [[PsychoPsychologist family psychiatrist]] to seek out families that he feels are dysfunctional--that is, [[StayInTheKitchen where the father is not the dominant personality]]--stalks them, and then kidnaps them while the neighbors believe them to be on vacation, using his control over the children to keep the parents hostage. He keeps them separated from one another for days, then brings them together for one last supper, after which The Fox marches the entire family into the basement and kills them, [[WouldHurtAChild starting with the children]] and ending with the father. Upon his capture, The Fox explains that he does this because his own family fell apart due to his [[SuperOCD obsessive-compulsive]], [[ControlFreak controlling]] nature, and he wants to show how much worse things can get when the head of the household isn't "[[AbusiveDad strong]]". Any sympathy one might have for him is obviated in his second appearance, in season 5's "Outfoxed." [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller Interviewed by the FBI]] for help with another family annihilator, Arnold comes off as calm and in control, repeatedly asking to see pictures of the crime scenes, coming onto Prentiss, taunting Hotch for his marital problems, and gloating about the fact that before he killed the families he took hostage, he would beat the male children, and [[SerialRapist rape the female ones]]. This revelation, coupled with The Fox's [[SmugSnake smug]], superior demeanor, and the fact that he's become pen pals with The Boston Reaper--laughing as he tells Hotch that The Reaper is coming for he and his family--wipes out any sympathy the viewer might once have held, and cements his status as a true monster.
* Jackson Cally from "The Tribe" is a chilling example of what you get when you combine extreme [[LackOfEmpathy sociopathy]], [[TheCharmer charisma]], and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigotry]] into one man. A {{cult}} leader native to Terra Mesa, a mostly-white New Mexico town known for tensions with a mostly-Apache town nearby, Cally preys on troubled teenagers interested in Native Americans, indoctrinating them into being willing to kill for him under the pretense of "helping" the Apache reclaim all their ancestral land, while keeping his true goal, attempting to foment a race war that would wipe the Apache out, a secret from them. He first sends his cult to massacre the residents of a college dormitory built on former Apache land in gruesome ways, such as [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and {{impale|dWithExtremePrejudice}}ment, mimicking Native American war rituals, in hopes the Apache would be blamed and the whites would retaliate. When the FBI rule out the Apache as suspects, Cally has his men decapitate the leader of a local racist group, his wife, and [[WouldHurtAChild his two young children]] and [[DecapitationPresentation impale their heads on pikes]] for the FBI to find. His final and most wicked gambit, however, is to dress up his men as members of the racist group and send them on a wholesale massacre of the Apache town's school. When foiled and caught by the FBI, Cally's only justification for his actions is that he hoped to show the world what "savage animals" the Apache people "really" are.

* [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Charles Holcombe]], from "Legacy", is a [[{{Jerkass}} callous]] SerialKiller with over sixty victims to his name who is dedicated to [[KillThePoor wiping out the homeless, junkies, prostitutes, and vagrants]] due to viewing them as subhuman filth that is worthless to society. Using a meat-packing plant that he inherited from his late father, Holcombe re-outfitted it into a brutal maze-like DeathCourse where he forces his victims to play a sadistic game: escape before sundown or die horribly. What follows is his victims being put through [[ColdBloodedTorture horrible physical agony]] where they're forced to crawl through rooms filled with broken glass, endure being sprayed with gas, and run from hungry attack dogs. All the while during his game, he torments his victims with footage of him dissecting his previous victims alive to let them know what to expect if they fail. When his latest victim, a prostitute named Maggie [[HopeSpot successfully completes the course]], Holcombe reveals [[ILied that he had no intention of ever letting her escape]] and knocks her out with a spray of gas before hauling her off to slaughter. Ruthlessly obsessed with his mission to the end, Holcombe's final moments before being gunned down are him attempting to finish off Maggie while screaming "[[KnightTemplar Just let me do my job!]]"

* The sadistic, arrogant [[EvilGenius Mason Turner]], from the two-part season finale "To Hell..." "...And Back", proves to be among the nastiest unsubs the BAU has faced. Unable to hunt and kill his victims himself due to being [[EvilCripple paralyzed from the neck down]], Mason manipulated his [[DumbMuscle mentally handicapped]] and freakishly strong brother [[PsychopathicManChild Lucas]] into becoming a killing machine. Mason has Lucas drive to Detroit to kidnap transients and haul them back to their pig farm in Canada, where [[TheBrute Lucas]] brutally slaughters them by [[DropTheHammer crushing their neck with a sledgehammer]]. Mason then guides Lucas through performing pointless, cruel experiments on their remains before discarding them by feeding them to the pigs. And all through the process, Lucas watches through a complex series of mirrors in order to satisfy his {{sadist}}ic tendencies. Through this process Mason has claimed eighty-nine lives, and is only stopped from killing a ninetieth victim when the BAU raids his farm. In order to throw suspicions off himself, Mason tries to pin his crimes on Lucas who he encourages the BAU to shoot on sight. Once he's exposed for the monster that he is, Mason is smug and completely unapologetic about his crimes, coldly stating that his victims were worthless trash that should be honored to be a part of something bigger than themselves. With a body count reached by only a few other unsubs, Mason Turner is proof that sometimes a FreudianExcuse isn’t enough to justify, or even explain, cruelty.
* As one of the show's few recurring villains, George Foyet, aka The Boston Reaper, had ample time to establish his monster credentials. Disappearing after a long, unsolved killing spree, The Reaper comes out of [[RetiredMonster retirement]] in "Omnivore" following the death of Tom Shaunessy, the lead investigator from the original case. Killing two couples, The Reaper [[CriminalMindGames baits]] the BAU into entering the case, then calls up [[TheLeader Aaron Hotchner]], for whom his original spree was ThatOneCase, offering to stop the killings if Hotch admits defeat and calls off the investigation--the same deal that The Reaper had cut with Shaunessy years ago. When Hotch turns him down, The Reaper massacres an entire bus full of passengers. He later kidnaps a journalist who had written a book about him and demands the man correct the errors in it, most notably suggesting that The Reaper might have died rather than retired; when Hotch captures him, The Reaper reveals that he's done it all in order to be "more famous than they'll ever realize." Breaking out of jail, The Reaper bides his time before ambushing Hotch at home in season 5 premier "Nameless, Faceless," where he [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures him]] [[note]]To the point where he is driven into a coma in season 9's "Route 66"[[/note]], then drops him off at the hospital, along with clues that indicate he is going after Hotch's ex-wife, Hayley, and son, Jack. He does just that in "100", mutilating and mortally wounding the officer assigned to protect them, he [[IHaveYourWife tracks Hayley and Jack]] to their home, [[spoiler:murders Hayley while forcing her to talk to Hotch over the phone]], and then gloats to the BAU Agent's face that after he's done with Hotch, [[WouldHurtAChild Jack]] will be next. Totally [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]], driven by an obsessive desire for [[AttentionWhore fame]] and [[ControlFreak control]], and needing a [[ArchEnemy nemesis]] in order to function properly, The Reaper is Aaron Hotchner's [[ItsPersonal personal nightmare]].

* [[EvilOldFolks Anita Roycewood]] from "Mosley Lane" is a serial kidnapper and [[WouldHurtAChild child murderer]], who [[LadyMacbeth forces]] her [[HenpeckedHusband submissive husband]], Roger, and first kidnap victim, [[StockholmSyndrome Charlie Hillridge]], to help her abduct and imprison children. Keeping the children locked up in a hidden hallway, [[EvilMatriarch Anita]] renames them, dyes their hair, and is implied to sexually abuse them, using fear, beatings, and threats to the other children to keep them in line. When the children grow too old for her liking, or become uncontrollable, Anita knocks them out, in the case of Stephen Shepherd beating him savagely beforehand, places them in a cardboard box, and [[MurderByCremation burns them alive in a crematorium]], [[DissonantSerenity whistling jauntily]] the entire time. When the police catch onto her, Anita abandons Roger, and takes the three remaining children, Aimee Lynch, Mae Hall, and Charlie to the crematorium, where she tries to force Charlie to help her burn the other two; she then intends to kill him. Guilty of some of the most callous crimes yet shown on the show, and viewing her victims as replaceable, Anita's reasons for doing what she does are never explored, leaving only an utterly hateful [[FlatCharacter cipher]] for the cast and the audience to deal with.
* [[KillerCop Deputy]] Ronald [[CorruptHick Boyd]] from "A Rite of Passage," profiled as a "human predator", kills illegal immigrants because it allows him to assert a sense of power that he otherwise lacks. He lies in wait at border crossings, picks out a straggler, and then chases them through the desert on his ATV until they can no longer fight back, finishing them off with his {{machete|Mayhem}}. When the Hispanic sheriff whom Boyd loathes for being new to town, starts looking into the missing illegals, Boyd sends her progressively more aggressive "messages"--[[DecapitationPresentation severed heads]] in [[FingerInTheMail boxes]] outside the sheriff's office, a severed head on a pole in her front yard--until he finally kills her for sticking her nose into his business, while ranting that the illegals aren't really missing because "they ain't supposed to be here in the first place." Dismembering her corpse in order to pin the blame on [[TheCartel drug kingpin]] Omar Morales, Boyd proceeds to murder Morales and most of his gang to cover his tracks; [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain also because they're Hispanic]]. When his partner objects, Boyd shoots him and [[FrameUp places the gun in the hands of the dead Morales]]. Taking offense to the idea that he sees himself as weak, and viewing himself as a total badass, Boyd makes an average DirtyCop look like an angel.

* [[EvilCripple Shane Wyland]] from "Into the Woods" is a prolific SerialKiller and SerialRapist [[WouldHurtAChild of children]]. Put on parole after the sexual assault of a ten-year-old boy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Shane [[TheHermit abandoned civilization]] in favor of the woods along the Appalachian Trail to make it easier for him to hunt children. After selecting a child, Shane would stalk them before abducting them and imprisoning them in an AbandonedMine, where he would repeatedly molest them throughout the winter before finally killing them. Shane kidnaps a young boy named Robert, as well as his sister Ana, who Shane intends to kill. While holding them captive within a storage cell, Shane molests Robert. After Ana flees captivity, Shane takes Robert to the hotel of a fellow pedophile, Brandon Stiles, where he offers to allow Stiles an hour alone with Robert in exchange for painkillers to treat his leg injury.
* [[PsychoForHire Lucy]] from "Supply and Demand" is a [[ManipulativeBastard rather different]] kind of [[EvilGenius monster]] from [[SerialKiller most of those on this list]]. The head of a human trafficking ring, Lucy has her gang kidnap young men and women and [[SexSlave pimp them out]] to SnuffFilm aficionados and other sexual deviants, staging live shows in which the victims are [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]], and even killed, by her men and/or clients. The victims are beaten, drugged, and otherwise mistreated to ensure compliance, and are kept caged in between visits from Lucy's clients. A psychological {{sadist}}, who derives gratification from being in control, Lucy frequently has her men lock in her in the cages, so that she can [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence enjoy the victims' terror]] and win their trust while [[BitchInSheepsClothing pretending to be a fellow victim]]; she takes unholy glee in revealing that she is, in fact, [[TinyTyrannicalGirl the one in charge]]. She's also the one who scouts the victims out in the first place, visiting college campuses, [[DecoyDamsel while posing as a student]], and then [[WoundedGazelleGambit staging her own abduction]] alongside any students she has befriended. When Lucy discovers that Renee Matlin, one of her victims, is [[UndercoverCopReveal an undercover cop]], she proceeds to play a game of RussianRoulette with her, then has the other woman [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown savagely beaten]], [[EvilGloating gloating the whole time]]. Interrupted by the police, [[BadBoss Lucy]] manipulates Max, her [[TheDragon right-hand man]], into being killed by them, planning to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty frame him for her crimes]]. Found out by David Rossi, Lucy's last act is to pull her [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] and try to blow him away.

* [[PsychopathicManchild Benjamin "Cy" Bradstone]] from "Proof" has a mental disability, which makes him unique, but not even slightly sympathetic. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be far more handicapped than he is]], Cy lures women out of the public eye, forces them into his shed, [[SerialRapist rapes them]], and then stabs them to death. He first [[EyeScream stabbed their eyes out]], but later evolved to [[FacialHorror using sulfuric acid to burn away their senses]]. If they don't like the way he looks, he takes their eyes. If they spit when he kisses them, he [[TongueTrauma takes their sense of taste]]. If they don't like his smell, he burns out their nostrils. His video journal reveals that he has been like this since he was a [[EnfanteTerrible young boy]], and he gloats that he brutalizes women for the same reason that he used to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals beat his dog]]: [[ForTheEvulz because it's fun]]. We eventually discover that he is targeting women who remind him of his sister-in-law, whom he attempted to molest when they were both teenagers. When his niece puts on a cheerleader costume that reminds him of her mother she becomes [[EvilUncle Cy’s]] final victim. After his arrest, his brother Matt, who has always been supportive of Cy, going so far as to offer to let him move in with him, demands to know why Cy did this; Cy laughs in his face, and tells him that he has [[CainAndAbel always hated Matt]] and was planning to deafen and then kill him one day. A ragingly [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] psychopath who just happens to be handicapped, Cy is fully aware of how awful his actions are, as evidenced by this message he leaves for Matt:

* Clark Preston from "A Thin Line" is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive crooked real estate developer]] who hires crooks to commit crimes in neighborhoods so people will leave them and he can buy up their property dirt-cheap, not caring in the slightest about who gets hurt. One of these families, the Mills, had the father and daughter killed and the mother left in a coma. He then [[ManipulativeBastard recruits the survivor Trevor]] into his mayoral campaign, to add fuel to his blatantly racist platform. He has him murder entire families--[[WouldHurtAChild including a baby in one case]]--then kill drugged black and Hispanic people with the family’s gun and [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit pin it on them]].
* [[SerialRapist J.B. Allen]], from "Foundation", is the {{sadist}}ic, [[WouldHurtAChild pedophilic]] owner of a construction company who targets little boys who he draws in by letting them play with his construction tools. Once he has a boy in his grasp, Allen continuously rapes and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] him over the years before [[SerialKiller killing him]]. One of his victims who was lucky enough to escape, a boy named Angel Suarez, was covered in bite marks and was mentally destroyed by Allen's torture. When he finds another victim to replace Angel, a boy by the name of Billy Henderson, he subjects him to the same torture and attempts to bury him alive. His daughter repressed memories of Allen doing the same to another unnamed boy, and all the trophies he'd pawn off on her in the guise of gifts show that he had dozens of other victims.

* Alex Zorgen, while not a SerialKiller himself, runs a human trafficking ring that sells women, regardless of age, to serial killers and other criminals online. In 1993, prior to creating this ring, he abducted a woman named Donna Goldhard, and kept her as a SexSlave, repeatedly raping and torturing her for the next 22 years. From one of those rapes [[ChildByRape came a son]], named Kyle. In the season premiere "X," Alex, along with his family, kidnaps a woman and uses his website to auction her off to a serial killer. As the season progresses, Alex has Kyle stalk the BAU's newest member, Kate Callahan, by posing as an attractive high school senior online to gain their trust of her niece Meg, and her friend, who are both 14 years old. He sends his wife and son to kidnap them in the season finale "Hunt," but Kyle only catches Meg. [[YouHaveFailedMe Due to this]], Alex [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring murders Kyle, his own son]]]], without showing any remorse and simply moves on with his plan to sell Meg online to a serial killer. He was later arrested by the BAU, but Meg had already been sold. When they ask him where Meg’s captor is keeping her, he refuses to cooperate and just taunts Kate about the things her captor is going to do to her. Having no regard for anyone, not even his own family, and only caring about selling women to his online human trafficking ring and [[{{Greed}} making money out of it]], Alex Zorgen is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] in its worst form and among the worst the BAU had to face.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Hayman Vasher]] from "A Thousand Suns" is an aerospace engineer who is a big admirer of UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer, especially how he progressed from socially-awkward to world-renowned. For Vasher, who after being humiliated on a date dropped out of society, this involved building a device which can hack into airplanes and control them. As a "test", analogous to the Manhattan Project's Trinity test, Vasher makes a plane crash in a sparsely-populated area, resulting in over 150 deaths, including the woman who he had dated. As his Hiroshima, Vasher takes control of a plane with over 300 people and plans to crash it into a populated area. He agrees to let the plane land if the BAU calls off fighter jets which have scrambled to shoot the plane down if necessary, but once this happens, [[ILied Vasher tries to crash the plane anyway]], before he and his device are both shot. Vasher was also looking at other flights, meaning that there might have been still other crashes had he not been stopped. [[ItsAllAboutMe Driven only by his need]] for {{attention|Whore}} and [[AGodAmI enjoying "playing God or some other deity]]", Hayman Vasher, "a mass annihilator…who wants to eradicate life on a large scale", is one of only a few unsubs to successfully have a triple-digit body count.

* [[WesternTerrorists Mitchell Crossford]] from "The Witness" is the son of an anti-government {{cult}} leader and later adopted this extreme ideology. When his half-brother Theo, with whom he was planning to launch terrorist attacks, started having an affair with a married woman, Crossford, enraged, plotted revenge. He acquired [[DeadlyGas sarin gas]] from a disgraced chemist--[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness who Mitchell then killed]]--and placed sarin on a bus the woman usually rode; she wasn't on the bus that day, but 10 other people were killed. While stalking his brother, Crossford saw Charlie, the woman's husband, murder Theo, and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated him into becoming his patsy]], threatening to report the murder, while also threatening Charlie's 12-year-old daughter. While he may have planned even more attacks, his main goal was using Charlie to launch a larger sarin attack on the FBI building in Los Angeles. Over a thousand people were at risk, before the FBI successfully evacuated the building and sealed the garage where the sarin was placed.

* [[PsychopathicManchild Benjamin "Cy" Bradstone]] from "Proof" has a mental disability, which makes him unique, but not even slightly sympathetic. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pretending to be far more handicapped than he is]], Cy lures women out of the public eye, forces them into his shed, [[SerialRapist rapes them]], and then stabs them to death. He first [[EyeScream stabbed their eyes out]], but later evolved to [[FacialHorror using sulfuric acid to burn away their senses]]. If they don't like the way he looks, he takes their eyes. If they spit when he kisses them, he [[TongueTrauma takes their sense of taste]]. If they don't like his smell, he burns out their nostrils. His video journal reveals that he has been like this since he was a [[EnfanteTerrible young boy]], and he gloats that he brutalizes women for the same reason that he used to [[KickTheDog beat his dog]]: [[ForTheEvulz because it's fun]]. We eventually discover that he is targeting women who remind him of his sister-in-law, whom he attempted to molest when they were both teenagers. When his niece puts on a cheerleader costume that reminds him of her mother she becomes [[EvilUncle Cy’s]] final victim. After his arrest, his brother Matt, who has always been supportive of Cy, going so far as to offer to let him move in with him, demands to know why Cy did this; Cy laughs in his face, and tells him that he has [[CainAndAbel always hated Matt]] and was planning to deafen and then kill him one day. A ragingly [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] psychopath who just happens to be handicapped, Cy is fully aware of how awful his actions are, as evidenced by this message he leaves for Matt:

->'''Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner''': You're greedy and narcissistic. You want the recognition...from the book...the fame...like (Ted) Bundy.
->'''George "The Boston Reaper" Foyet''': I wanna be bigger than Bundy.
->...
->'''Hotch''':...You're the serial killer.

* J.B. Allen from "Foundation" is a construction foreman who [[WouldHurtAChild targets little boys]] who watched his employees at work. He abducts Angel Suarez, rapes and tortures him for years on end, and when he escapes he is found with dozens of bite marks; the fact that Allen had to get his teeth recapped is further proof of his brutality. He then finds another victim, Billy Henderson, who he tries to murder by [[BuriedAlive burying alive]]. He had also done these things to a previous victim, and the trophies he gives his daughter implies that he had dozens more.

* [[KillerCop Deputy]] Ronald [[CorruptHick Boyd]] from "A Rite of Passage," profiled as a "human predator", kills illegal immigrants because it allows him to assert a sense of power that he otherwise lacks. He lies in wait at border crossings, picks out a straggler, and then chases them through the desert on his ATV until they can no longer fight back, finishing them off with his {{machete|Mayhem}}. When the Hispanic sheriff whom Boyd loathes for being new to town, starts looking into the missing illegals, Boyd sends her progressively more aggressive "messages"--[[DecapitationPresentation severed heads]] in [[FingerInTheMail boxes]] outside the sheriff's office, a severed head on a pole in her front yard--until he finally kills her for sticking her nose into his business, while ranting that the illegals aren't really missing because "they ain't supposed to be here in the first place." Dismembering her corpse in order to pin the blame on [[TheCartel drug kingpin]] Omar Morales, Boyd proceeds to murder Morales and most of his gang to cover his tracks; [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain also because they're Hispanic]]. When his partner objects, Boyd shoots him and [[FrameUp places the gun in the hands of the dead Morales]]. Taking offense to the idea that he sees himself as weak, and viewing himself as a total {{badass}}, Boyd makes an average DirtyCop look like an angel.

* [[SerialKiller Charles Holcombe]] from "Legacy" views [[KnightTemplar homeless people as subhumans]] who [[KillThePoor should be exterminated]], so he kidnaps them and brings them to his [[DeathCourse torture chamber]], where he puts them through agonizing [[ColdBloodedTorture physical]] and [[MindRape mental]] torment before dissecting them alive. He has been killing for a long time, with over 60 victims. Holcombe even gives them the opportunity to escape by telling them they can leave if they make it out in a certain amount of time, but if they manage to do it, he knocks them out with gas to avoid their escape. His last words are "Just let me do my job!"