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This page lists the notable UnSubs faced by the BAU during the course of Criminal Minds, listed per episode broadcast order. Seasons 11 through 15.

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Season 11 UnSubs

Mitchell Crossford and Charlie Senarak

Played by: Stephen Kilcullen & Tim Kang

Crossford: "I've been watching you all along, from the very beginning when you pulled into the Desert Bloom Inn. You set the wheels in motion the second you murdered Theo."

Senarak: "NO! NO! You do NOT get to tell me what to do anymore! And I'm NOT gonna be your patsy!"

A psychopathic homegrown terrorist, cult member and mass poisoner, Mitchell Crossford initiated a plan to kill a huge number of people in Los Angeles through a sarin attack. When his half-brother and partner in crime is murdered by his lover's husband, Crossford blackmails Senarak into helping with his next attack, under threat of being framed for them.

Character Tics: Senarak looks down and rubs his wedding ring on his finger when the BAU interrogates him the first time, clearly thinking of the affair his wife had but trying to deflect it. The team notices it right away.
A Deadly Affair: Senarak eventually discovered that his wife Tracy was having an affair with a manager named Theo Koutranis. Confronting him at a hotel, Koutranis laughed him off and mocked his lack of control over the marriage, resulting in Senarak snapping and accidentally killing him with his own gun in a fit of rage. This came back to bite him hard when Koutranis' half-brother, a psychopathic terrorist, started using the knowledge of the crime to blackmail him.
Dirty Coward: When Senarak starts threatening Crossford with handing over his contact phone to the FBI and just ending it all, the cultist changes tone and starts negotiating with him to not do it before once again playing the Jolene card with a mannequin in his car that looks like her.
Freudian Excuse: Downplayed; Crossford was born to a cult leader's mistress, one of many, and it's strongly implied he grew up having to watch his father sexually abuse his fifty-or-so "lovers" before he and his mom were finally able to leave. As a result, he grew up cold and manipulative until he eventually rejoined his father as an adult and adopted his extremist views.
Gambit Roulette: Crossford's final intended strike is a sarin gas release using a decoy vehicle aimed at a government building's garage with a mannequin dressed in Jolene Senarak's clothes. This would trick Charlie into running towards the car to save her while also poisoning the government officials in the vicinity, the BAU included. Unfortunately for Crossford, the BAU caught on quickly and waited for him to try so he could see his plan fail before getting arrested with no more lives taken.
The Scapegoat: Senarak's role in Crossford's plan; having witnessed the former kill his half-brother, the terrorist plans to use Senarak as a patsy for his killing spree, blackmailing him with knowledge of Koutranis' death and the affair, as well as claiming to have his daughter Jolene as a target should Senarak not obey his instructions. After being led the entire episode into almost getting caught multiple times, Senarak is finally arrested at the end for the single murder, while Crossford faces the full brunt of the charges against him.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Witness".
Western Terrorists: Crossford is the son of a cult leader with radical anti-government views, whose plans for killing as many people as possible involved the use of sarin gas in public transports.

Dana Seavers

Played by: Ashley Fink, Ava Browne (young)

"Ryan's mine, you slut!"

A flower shop employee who devolved into a delusional serial killer and abductor targeting brides-to-be who she sees as threats to her imaginary relationship with the man she likes, becoming even more unhinged when said young man starts falling for her sister.

And Now You Must Marry Me: Her end goal is to kill her own sister and have Ryan marry her instead, by force if necessary. She's only successfully arrested when Ryan plays along briefly enough for the BAU to arrest her.
Batman Gambit: The BAU takes Ryan with them to talk Dana out of killing her sister, and he pretends to go along with the marriage until she's finally restrained, at which point he tightly hugs Nicole and kisses her, much to Dana's rage.
Cain and Abel: To say she's upset when her sister Nicole is proposed to by Ryan in front of her eyes is a massive understatement. Her hallucination of Ryan point-blank tells her she needs to kill Nicole and she successfully kidnaps her with the intent of making her watch Dana marry him until both Ryan himself and the BAU intervene.
Calling Card: Targeting brides-to-be who she saw visiting her sister's flower shop or interacting with Ryan Becker in any way, blitz-attacking them at night after they had fun with their bridesmaids then, after the first victim was directly killed with the blow to the head, kidnap them into her basement so she could strangle them with their own wedding sashes. With her second victim, she bit off her nails, and the third victim had the word "slut" written on her forehead post-mortem with lipstick.
Entitled to Have You: She's psychotically attracted to a fellow employee of her sister's flower shop and believes that she's destined to be with him, killing other brides out a delusional belief they plan to take Ryan away from her. She'll even try to kill her own sister for him.
Green-Eyed Monster: Her killings are motivated by a hallucination of her intended lover Ryan Becker, and sees any woman who as much as talks to him as a "slut" who deserves to die for taking "her man" away. And unfortunately, she doesn't stop even when the perceived threat is her own sister.
Through the Eyes of Madness: She has a hallucination of her lover tell her to target the brides-to-be, and the episode shows this repeatedly, even showing the sharp reality shock when the real Ryan intervenes with her attempt to murder her own sister over him.
Villain of the Week: Of "Til Death Do Us Part".

The Outlaw Bikers

Played by: Jesse Luken (William Duke Mason), Blake Heron (Benjamin Wade) & Stephen Monroe Taylor (Lester Turner)

Turner: "Blaze of glory, man! BLAZE OF GLORY!"

A violent group of murderous, methamphetamine-using bikers travelling through Texas and New Mexico on a robbery and killing spree. Led by ephebophilic serial killer and rapist William Duke Mason, his arrest with former teammate Benjamin Wade eventually led to an early release with replacement Lester Turner, starting a new spree while suddenly finding himself in conflict with a life he left behind.

All Bikers are Hells Angels: Either with Wade or Turner, Mason led a crime spree throughout New Mexico that resulted in himself and his partners being known as violent, rapist brutes on motorcycles, although the trope does get slightly challenged when Mason begins having feelings for his former crush Tammy again.
Batman Gambit: When interrogating Benjamin Wade in the Texas State Prison, Morgan and Tara make it clear to him that if he refuses to cooperate, he'll be sent to a new jail cell in New Mexico and left to die there too. He caves in immediately.
Blast Out: The BAU manages to corner both Turner and Mason as they're arguing over Tammy and Cole being hostages, starting a shootout with the two.
Calling Card: Holding the staff of the places they robbed hostage, the duos would then restrain them (all of them teenagers), blindfold and gag them, sort them out by gender and then have Mason rape the female victims before executing them all with single gunshots to the head. Afterwards, they would set fire to both the building and the bodies as a forensic countermeasure. With Turner specifically, the victims were not blindfolded or gagged, and the males were even Forced to Watch Mason rape Renee Acosta, as a residual of Turner's personal M.O.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In his own teenage years, Mason fell in love with a girl named Tammy Mae Vasquez and unknowingly impregnated her with a son she would later name Cole, but she distanced himself from him due to his extreme lifestyle (although without knowing of his murders). In the present, learning about this makes Mason second-guess himself at points and his new objective becomes an attempt to force Tammy and Cole back into his life, even ditching Turner after a fight.
Even Evil Has Standards: Learning that he has a son with his former teen date leads to Mason developing the beginnings of a conscience, going out of his way to avoid killing a father and his young son at the gas station robbery with Turner, even stopping him from doing it. He also had no reason to leave Tammy Mae's mother Ruth alive, but left her merely tied up at her home after taking Tammy and Cole away.
Expy: The events that lead to Mason and Turner's fallout is nearly the same as what happened with the Soul Mates in Season 4, with the child of one of them ending up hostage and family being prioritized over continuing the killing spree with the distraught partner.
Sole Survivor: If the entire group is counted, Benjamin Wade is the only biker left standing only by virtue of already serving life in prison.
Suicide by Cop: From Turner, who refuses to go back to jail and opens fire on the police and the BAU, ending up sniped by chief Raoul Montoya. Seeing Tammy and Cole being escorted to safety, Mason finally realizes he'll never seen them again and be part of Cole's life, following Turner into the grave by continuing to shoot and getting riddled with bullets himself.
Villain of the Week: Of "Outlaw".
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: A non-lethal example, but Mason ended up leaving Wade to rot in prison after meeting Lester Turner and, with both getting released way earlier, Wade was all but forgotten.

William Cochran

Played by: Johnny Sneed

"It's been a long time, Ellen. It's been a long time."

An art teacher who snapped and became a delusional serial killer and abductor, using his kills in morbid graffiti art around Detroit to frame a famous street artist named "Morpheus", whom he has a personal relationship with.

The Bad Guy Wins: Unfortunately, he achieves everything he wanted by the end; Morpheus' reputation is muddled, if not completely ruined, and he and his wife are now Together in Death by his design.
Calling Card: Killing people in elaborate devices resembling traps or molds, then creating a graffiti piece near the bodies in public locations with the signature of "Morpheus" on each. He only averted this with Ellen's former partner Corey Marlin, whom he privately tortured for information on Ellen before shooting him with a gun.
Composite Character: He's a former academic in a respectable position who snapped and became a serial killer wanting attention like Hollis Walker, Jr. in Season 6, while also having the fascination with art and using their kills for the purpose of it like Bryan Hughes from Season 8, with a slight addition of Tess Mynock by virtue of his killing spree being motivated by the loss of his child. Like Hughes and Mynock, he also ends up killing himself.
Driven to Suicide: When the BAU corners him, he throws himself and his ex-wife into his final work of art from a rooftop.
Frame-Up: His objective is to destroy Morpheus' public image by making it seem they've become a serial killer using the deaths to draw attention to their art pieces.
Start of Darkness: He had an underlying mental condition long before the fact, but his marriage with Ellen broke down after the death of their son Charles when he was under her watch. The two split the halves of a blanket their son favored between themselves in his memory, but Ellen moved on to become a street artist for social causes and used her half on a piece mourning the loss of a homeless woman and her own son. Learning about this made Cochran snap and travel to Detroit to ruin Ellen's reputation.
Together in Death: His final plan is one last art piece where someone, either Ellen or a woman named Corine Wallace, must die to finish it. As Hotch holds him at gunpoint at the roof of the building where the piece is, he jumps with Ellen on his arms, successfully killing them both for the mural, representing the death of "Morpheus".
Villain of the Week: Of "The Night Watch".

Matthew "Matt" Franks

Played by: Noah Crawford

"Why am I doing this? Hmm... Same question the other girls asked. Um... There's no cure for me. All right? And there's no cure for those guys over in Glenport Village either."

A young IT technician and ephebophilic serial killer and stalker with a fetish for cheerleaders. The BAU must find him in a small experimental community in Florida where the inhabitants are all convicted sex offenders.

All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Bastardized by Franks, whose fetish for cheerleaders resulted in several charges against in him Georgia that were later dropped due to lack of evidence, including his first kill. Living next door to a sheriff's daughter, who is herself trying out for the local cheer squad, is what gets him to pick up where he left off.
Batman Gambit: Tara makes a promise to hear Franks out and asks him about his parents, which makes him lower the knife he's threatening Riley Desario with. The moment he does, Tara shoots him through the neck, killing him.
Hostage Situation: Kidnaps Sheriff Desario's daughter Riley, herself an aspiring cheerleader, and forces her to live out his fantasies at knifepoint in his home. It only ends when he's shot down by Tara Lewis.
Lost in a Crowd: The premise of the episode; Franks is a sex offender living in a small community where all of the residents are convicted offenders themselves, with the BAU needing to quickly find out which of them has descended into serial killing. Franks even uses this to his advantage when he kills Paige Lincoln, dressing her up in a cheerleader outfit to frame her husband, who held similar fascinations.
Psycho Knife Nut: Favors stabbing once he's had enough of his victims, or when they can't satisfy his urges.
Villain of the Week: Of "Pariahville".

Paul and Tom Larson

Played by: Robert L. Hughes & Leif Steinert

Paul: "You made this mess, and we're gonna clean it up."

Tom Larson is a deranged kidnapper who took a young woman named Bahni Desai captive into his home, where his own abusive father Paul lives and torments him at. Rossi's daughter Joy summons the BAU when both Desai and another girl go missing around the same time.

Abusive Parents: Paul beat his wife and son regularly, even getting Tom hospitalized from all the beatings on multiple occasions after he started accumulating misdemeanor peeping offenses. With their wife and mother Cheryl dead and Tom being stuck with his father at his home, things didn't improve at all and he lives under constant threat of another beating from the old man.
Entitled to Have You: Tom kidnapped Bahni Desai out of a desire to have her for himself and make her submit to his every desire, even installing a camera in the attic of his house to make sure she doesn't try to escape.
The Family That Slays Together: Averted. When Paul finds out about Desai, he once again berates his son, especially after discovering the attic camera (which can be used as evidence against them) and tells him they need to get rid of her. But Tom kidnapped her to have her as an item and doesn't agree with the idea, resulting in a fight that gets Paul killed.
Self-Made Orphan: When Paul moves in to try and kill Desai, Tom starts fighting back and ends their struggle when he chokes Paul with a baseball bat before dropping him on the ground, snapping his neck.
Stalker with a Crush: Tom went in and out of juvie in his youth for multiple counts of peeping and harassment, which also got him beat up by his father at home. This is also how he targeted Bahni Desai, having met her through his job as a food deliveryman for a Chinese restaurant she orders from.
Villain of the Week: Of "Target Rich".
"Well Done, Son" Guy: By necessity, since Tom is deathly afraid of upsetting his father because of all the abuse he withstood as a child, so he's constantly trying to please him. When Paul tries to kill his captive, that's when he finally fights back.

William Taylor and the "Skull Tattoo Man"

Played by: Todd Lowe & Troy Jones

Taylor: "Damn it, why aren't you listening to me?! That man has my daughter!"

A father whose daughter died to who he claims was a man with a skull tattoo on the front of his hand. Snapping after his claim was dismissed as him imagining the man while in microsleep, Taylor became a delusional budding serial killer and abductor who tortures his victims to make them stay awake, believing they're the same man and that they're holding his daughter hostage.

Calling Card: Taylor posed as a hitchhiker at nighttime on the side of the roads near the Day Point Creek Rest Area, where his daughter was abducted, then kidnapped low-risk men in their cars who stopped for him. He'd then take them to his scrapyard and get rid of their GPS before torturing the men into staying awake through a variety of methods. Steven Jackson died from cardiac arrest while Taylor killed Lance Coleman himself by shooting him.
Cassandra Truth: Because of the circumstances regarding his daughter's kidnapping and eventual death, Taylor's claim about the Skull Tattoo Man was dismissed as a vivid dream he had while going through microsleep at the rest stop he was at.
Greater-Scope Villain: The unnamed man with the skull tattoo on his hand that killed Taylor's daughter Tatiana. With the dismissal of Taylor's testimony, even the BAU is left unsure if the man is real or not. He very much is, and is still at large.
I Reject Your Reality: After his claim was dismissed by the police, William snapped and started telling himself that his daughter wasn't actually dead and had instead been kidnapped by the Skull Tattoo Man, who he's now trying to hunt. As the BAU surmises later, the problem with his state of mind is that his victims are meant to be stand-ins for the man he saw, except they will never give him that satisfaction and this means he likely won't stop killing unless someone makes him. Sure enough, he has to be shot dead by Tara and JJ.
Karma Houdini: Because the BAU isn't entire sure about Taylor's claims themselves, they don't look into the Skull Tattoo Man even though JJ raises the possibility he might actually be real. As the ending shows, he is very much real and is once again approaching a car at a rest stop to tell the lady driver and her daughter that their tail light is out, much like he did with Taylor in the past. As of the series finale, he's still at large.
Tragic Villain: At the end of the day, all Taylor wanted was to have his daughter back. Unfortunately, his psychosis made him unable to see reason.
Sleep Deprivation Punishment: Taylor's M.O. was to kidnap low-risk men and torture them with all manner of methods to keep them wide awake and in pain, such as overfeeding them with caffeine, shocking them, stapling their eyelids open, and playing loud music near them. This was all to reflect how he failed to stay awake and alert to protect his daughter, and to supposedly torture the Skull Tattoo Man once he finally found him, which sadly he never would.
Villain of the Week: Of "Awake".

Robert "Bob" Boles

Played by: Matt Burns, Tate Birchmore (young)

"No one can stand in the way of the future!"

A kidnapper, poisoner and serial-turned-spree killer in Florida obsessed with the future and the idea of immortality, wanting to extend the average human lifespan through dangerous experiments that end up killing his "test subjects".

Anti-Villain: His goal is well-intentioned in that he wants to help people live longer. Unfortunately, his methods are textbook examples of delusion and his experiments to perfect his "formula" all result in his test subjects dying. The trope is also downplayed in that he does have a very unstable mind and fits of violent rage when things don't go his way.
Fountain of Youth: His main objective is to find a way to make humans live forever by creating his own version of the fountain of youth of folklore. He even had a temporary job as a gift shop employee at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park when he was a teenager, but was fired after being caught breaking into the park at night, presumably because he thought the fountain actually existed.
Freudian Excuse: While it's hinted that he's had mental issues long before the fact, Boles one day went to visit his sickly uncle at the hospital when he was a child but ended up entering the room of an old wheelchair-bound man who bitterly told him that Boles would "end up looking like [him] one day". The encounter traumatized him and made him snap to the point he never stopped thinking about a way to avoid becoming old and sickly like that.
Leave No Witnesses: Kills Dr. Laura Braga when she catches him breaking into his superior's office at the hospital, bludgeoning her on the back of the head with a hammer when she tries calling 911.
Mad Doctor: He's a hospital orderly with baseline medical research and practice knowledge, which he uses to create a "formula" he believes will eventually be like the "fountain of youth" of myth and stop the aging process... Except he's so delusional that he doesn't realize his concoction will only end up killing people faster. Even when he's arrested, he laments that he'll have to continue his "research" in prison.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: What he does to Ben Kebler and his terminally-ill wife Eileen, promising that she'll recover from her degenerative disease if she starts taking Boles' experimental formula. She gets a few hours of feeling well and even has one last dance with her husband, but by the time the BAU finds and arrests Boles, she's fallen into shock and dies on her husband's arms, six months earlier than her estimated time left to live.
Villain of the Week: Of "Future Perfect".

James O'Neill (The Beantown Beheader)

Played by: Eric Nenninger, Maverick Thompson (young)

"Of all the cars you could have got into, you got into mine. Some might say that luck or fate brought us together. I like to think that it was divine intervention. It's time we get started."

A former ride share driver in Boston who is also a serial killer, vigilante and abductor, overhearing his passengers' phone conversations and executing them when he hears they did something he considers "sinful".

Asshole Victim: Averted. His moral crusade makes him target people he considers "immoral", but at worst their crimes are Felony Misdemeanor (the worst was Denise Wagner, whose crime was embezzling money) and he's killing people whose crimes might be jail-worthy but VERY MUCH undeserving of death.
Became Their Own Antithesis: He kills people over things he considers "immoral" after being abused by the principal of the private school he used to frequent, except he uses more extreme variations of his teacher's methods and even sets up his own personal "Wall of Shame" with the victims' heads.
Calling Card: Tasing his victims and taking them to his garage, where he'd torture them by assaulting their hands with a hammer as a nod to Brendan Burke's "disciplinary tactics" in his youth. When they confessed or if they refused to, he'd decapitate them, dump the bodies on public locations and keep the heads of his victims in a freezer.
Cold-Blooded Torture: Smashes his victims' hands with an iron bar to make them confess before decapitating them.
Collector of the Strange: He keeps the decapitated heads of his victims in a freezer with name tags for each, showing first names and "crimes" they committed.
Composite Character: He's a Knight Templar serial killer who beheads his victims like Tory Chapman (season 8), but who punishes them out of a religiously-inspired sense of morality over them, dubbing them "sinners" like Leland Duncan (season 9).
Dead Guy on Display: Leaves the decapitated bodies of his victims in public, as a nod to historical public executions of wrongdoers and criminals.
Decapitation Presentation: Keeps the severed heads of his first three victims stored in a fridge, which he then shows to Anthony Simmons when he's under captivity.
Freudian Excuse: The abusive headmaster of the private school he was at, Brendan Burke, committed suicide when it was revealed he was a child molester, leading James to develop a deep rage over the man escaping justice for his sins and wanting to punish others who thought they'd done the same.
Off with His Head!: Has a guillotine at home that he puts his victims in. It's also mentioned that he sawed his first victim's head off to get practice before building said guillotine at home.
Red Baron: Gets nicknamed "The Beantown Beheader" by the press due to his main area of activity.
Vengeance Denied: His trigger; Brendan Burke, the abusive principal who assaulted O'Neill repeatedly in his youth, was arrested for molestation and killed himself in prison, which James saw as him taking the easy way off and feeling pissed at being denied the opportunity to kill Burke himself.
Villain of the Week: Of "Drive".
Would Hit a Girl: His first three victims were women, though he targeted prospective male victims as well, indicating he doesn't have a gender preference for his victims.

Randy Martin/Randy Jacobs and Flora Martin

Played by: Wilson Bethel (Jacobs), Benjamin Dean Plessala (Jacobs, young), Veronica Cartwright (Martin) & Lindsey Marie Wilson (Martin, young)

Martin: "Sweetie, it's perfect!"

Jacobs: "I'm beginning to think Mother was right about you."

Randy Jacobs (née Martin) is a delusional serial killer being instructed by his biological mother Flora Martin, herself a former serial killer, to kill the people she holds responsible for placing Randy in the foster system after her arrest.

Abusive Parents: Flora Martin, while she does love her son Randy, still thinks it's fine to manipulate him into killing people to continue her spree through him, including his fiancée, making her the emotionally manipulative variation of this trope.
Bastard Boyfriend: Randy is easily convinced by his mother to turn on his fiancée Chloe Andrews, led to believe she's being possessive of him and preventing him from seeing his mother. Eventually he's even told to kill her, which he almost manages had the BAU not arrived.
Calling Card: Flora targeted truckers she projected her rapist onto and killed them. Although the method is never specified, it's highly likely she stabbed them repeatedly, as that's the method she passed down to Randy; he immobilized his victims by strangling them, taking them to his car into secluded locations, then stabbing them repeatedly before cutting their left ear off. He'd then pose the bodies in truck stop restrooms, which is where his mother was raped, then take pictures to show to his mother later.
Child by Rape: Randy's father was a trucker who raped his mother. He helped his mother kill his father when he was young, although he suppressed the memory despite keeping the demented love for his mother and wish to obey her.
Ear Ache: Jacobs cuts off the left ear from his victims' bodies, as a nod to his mother's mutilation at her rapist's hands. When he's arrested with Martin, it's revealed he cut his own ear off to look more like dear old mother.
History Repeats: Despite having been institutionalized before, Flora Martin's broken mind pushed her to convince her son to continue her spree from years before by killing a group of people she randomly holds responsible for placing Randy in the foster system after her arrest. When confronted with this, she breaks down to Morgan and Lewis and admits that she never forgot her rapist even after her stay at an insane asylum.
Like Father, Like Son: Strictly he's like his mother in that he copies her M.O., but where she was killing truck drivers on her way to killing her rapist, Randy is just doing it because she tells him to.
Momma's Boy: Randy's one big desire is to obey his mother's wishes and please her no matter what, even if it involves killing the people she tells him to.
My God, What Have I Done?: Morgan and Tara corner Randy when he's about to kill Chloe at the barn where his father was murdered. The two tell him what his mother made him do and that he shouldn't be defined by his family's dark history, which causes him to immediately surrender and cry out to Chloe for forgiveness.
Psychological Projection: Flora Martin never stopped seeing her rapist in every other trucker she saw, which is what led her to start killing some before getting her young son to kill the rapist himself. Even years later, the spree and the memories make her want to relieve it by having her son kill more people afterwards.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Bond".

Michael Clarke "Tom" Thompson

Played by: Daniel Roebuck

"If anybody ever found us, remember what I told you. Daddy's the only one that loves you."

A pedophilic serial rapist and abductor responsible for the disappearances of three young girls, one of which he's long since turned into his wife/"daughter" after having her bear children and convincing her to stand by him. The escape of one of his victims is what gets the BAU to find him.

Accidental Murder: Thompson's escape with Hawthorne after Bryant managed to evade him meant they had to leave Sheila Woods behind. She was found and taken to the hospital, but died of a septic infection.
Bittersweet Ending: Thompson is arrested and Amelia's conditioning is broken, meaning she's gladly reunited with her children and parents to live a much happier and healthier life, as well as Gina Bryant getting to be with her own family again. However, Sheila Woods dies in the hospital and her mother, in retaliation, shoots Thompson dead when he's being taken away in cuffs, getting arrested herself.
Child by Rape: Amelia had two daughters with Thompson, Lily and Jasmine, which he's taken captive to a location he calls the "Disappearing Place" that she's not privy to.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His one moment of carelessness let Gina Bryant escape and alert the authorities to his presence as well as to Sheila Woods' kidnapping. His insistence on trying to keep Amelia obedient even in front of an audience is also what finally cracks her Stockholm Syndrome and makes her turn on him. Thompson also backing out on a deal after Hawthorne assaulted him meant he was also condemned to a federal prison for a life sentence until he was killed by Sheila Woods' mother.
Pædo Hunt: Kidnaps teenage girls and rapes them, keeping them under captivity with different names until they become completely subservient to him, which is what he did to Amelia Hawthorne after she had kids from his rape. The episode is about having Hawthorne implicate him and break her out of her conditioning so he will face prison.
Stockholm Syndrome: What he induced on Amelia Hawthorne to make her subservient to him, changing her name and proclaiming that he loved her in-between the bouts of assault and rape. It finally cracks when he suddenly says they can't see Amelia's children ever again because of the BAU's interference, right when Amelia's own parents enter the hospital room and cause her to remember who she was.
Vigilante Execution: At the very end of the episode, Sheila Woods' mother Eileen shoots Thompson dead while he's being dragged off in cuffs.
Villain of the Week: Of "Hostage".

Andrew Meeks

Played by: Carmine Giovinazzo

"Morning, ma'am. FBI."

A spree killer and ex-con from Los Angeles who poses as an FBI agent to enter women's homes to kill them as a form of revenge for an incident from his childhood. The BAU gives the case a careful investigation when they realize the UnSub's credentials are somewhat genuine.

Abusive Parents: His father repeatedly punished Meeks for his uncontrollable bladder by forcing him to wear the soaked underwear on his head in public, which contributed to Meeks' later need to show authority.
Batman Gambit: Attempted by the BAU when they set up a supposed "home invasion" in the neighborhood he's patrolling so he'd be compelled to go "investigate", but he buckles under pressure when an undercover agent tries striking up a conversation with him and shoots at them, killing no one but managing to flee the scene.
Do Not Go Gentle: When cornered with a hostage, JJ and Reid manage to make him drop her but he opens fire at them in his fit of rage, Reid putting him down with two shots on the chest.
Freudian Excuse: He had a repeating bladder problem in his childhood which his abusive father punished him for by making him wear the soiled underwear on his head in public. Growing with antisocial issues because of the abuse, he suffered a terrible bullying prank in high school where he was wrapped in a gym mattress and left there for hours, developing a dangerous form of claustrophilia in the process and causing him to snap, trying to kill the boy who did it before he was caught and sent to prison.
Hostage Situation: He holds a woman hostage at a DUI checkpoint where he's cornered by the BAU and the police, with Reid and JJ pointing out how the woman is terrified the same way Meeks was in high school. Enraged, he drops her but opens fire, getting shot and killed in retaliation.
Impersonating an Officer: He uses an actual FBI badge and credentials that he took from agent Ed Sulzbach, the FBI supervisor that volunteered to watch Meeks when he was still in the prison program. Meeks killed him when Sulzbach tried to have him committed, taking his gun and badge and using them to infiltrate women's homes to kill them.
Psychological Projection: He projects the mean girls from his high school that pulled the prank that humiliated him onto his victims, killing them in violent ways that reflects his overall rage towards them.
Villain of the Week: Of "A Badge And A Gun".

Patrick Sorenson

Played by: Reston Williams

"Eleven."

A delusional serial killer and abductor in Wichita, Kansas who is obsessed with matters of time-keeping, targeting single-child households in order to torture the mothers with their children's absence.

Calling Card: Invaded only-child homes in the dead of night, killing the fathers with a slash to the throat and then gluing the wound and the mother's eyes shut before sprinkling sand from the Seneca River bank on the glued spots. Sorenson then kidnapped their child and let them cry out for their parents, mirroring his own abduction, before leaving the sand and a single hourglass on the homes, along with bone fragments and teeth from his mother Betty's body.
Clocks of Control: He was abused while being made to look at a dropping hourglass, which later resulted in Sorenson gaining an obsession with time and hourglasses, becoming an hourglass maker in his adult years. His hideout is filled with them, some of which he made using the ground-up bones of his mother's corpse, and leaves them behind at the invaded homes to signal his presence, all to recreate the scenario that traumatized him.
Do Not Go Gentle: He wastes zero time charging at Rossi with a hammer when he sees the BAU has successfully taken Josie to safety, getting shot dead in the process.
Freudian Excuse: His mother had substance abuse problems and he was kidnapped by a pedophile when he was younger, crying out for her but she never heard him due to passing out, resulting in Sorenson getting repeatedly molested while facing an hourglass on a table until he was left off at a park. Worse, while he did go to the police afterwards, his mother abandoned him to the foster system, unable to face her guilt. Learning years later that she died, Patrick snapped and took bones from her body at the morgue to create sand for his new hourglasses.
Irony: When Rossi shoots him, Sorenson crashes into the hourglasses he made, breaking all the carefully-built clocks in a matter of seconds. The sand also falls all over his body the same way he would do to his victims.
Psychological Projection: His mother dead and unable to give Sorenson an explanation for her lack of activity, he took to kidnapping other children so he could force the mothers to apologize to him, in a clear projection of his own mother Betty.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Sandman".
Would Hurt a Child: He did end up killing Ronnie Brewer after his mother Lyla accidentally died from hitting her head in a bad fall while blinded, since he had no reason to keep the boy alive anymore. He also fully intended to kill Josie Zumwalt if her mother didn't apologize to him the way he wanted to, but the BAU thankfully got to him before he could do it.

Michael Lee Peterson

Played by: Ryan Caldwell

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"See all those people out there?! Huh?! They're all gonna know me!"

An international criminal wanted by Interpol for a multitude of felonies and gruesome murders. He was the target of an operation led by Emily Prentiss which consisted of an officer going undercover as a prostitute in London, but the operation failed and it haunted Emily ever since. In Season 11, he emerges in the United States to continue his spree.

Arch-Enemy: Sees himself as one to Prentiss, and for a good reason. However, he is nothing compared to Ian Doyle
Boom Head Shot: How he dies.
Cop Killer: Kills Detective Inspector Louise Hulland.
Cunning Linguist: The team profile him as likely being one, due to his ability to operate effectively in multiple different countries.
Disposable Sex Worker: Played straight and inverted:
- His Jack the Ripper victims were prostitutes, and an undercover cop pretending to be one, whom he eviscerated and slashed their throats.
- Inverted with one of his Son of Sam killings, where he left that prostitute alive, knowing she would not testify out of shame.
Eat the Rich: Comes from blue-collar roots (he works as a crab fisherman when not serial killing), and during his devolution his subconscious resentment of the affluent causes him to deviate from his usual meticulous copying of famous serial crimes to inflict excessive violence upon wealthy victims.
Expy: Of Eric Olson. Both are serial killers who copy the M.O. of other serial killers and served as a That One Case to an agent by killing a victim acquainted to them, causing the agent to feel responsible for the murder.
Faux Affably Evil: Is very polite to a boy he met on a bus and a female student, before taking her hostage hours later and even killing one of her friends.
It Amused Me: Has a habit of loitering around crime scenes just so he could be spotted by an officer and then escaping them, something which he deeply enjoys.
It's Personal: Prentiss absolutely despises him for killing a detective inspector named Louise Hulland, who had been instructed by Prentiss to go undercover as a prostitute in London to draw him out.
Jack the Ripoff: Of multiple serial killers.
Lack of Empathy: All he cares about is making himself known as a big-time threat.
Narcissist: Correctly profiled as this. When he's finally cornered, his first thought is that he'll be famous for his crimes.
That One Case: For Prentiss, because he murdered an officer she sent undercover.
The Corrupter: Arguably this to the boy he met on a bus.
The Sociopath: A terrifying example.
Villain of the Week: Of "Tribute".
Would Hurt a Child: His first victim was a Russian child who he raped and mutilated in the style of Andrei Chikatilo.
You Will Be Spared: While speaking with a boy on a bus, he seems to empathize when the boy mentions coming from a broken home, and gives him a bullet, telling him it's a lucky bullet because "your name isn't on it".

Season 12

Daniel Cullen (The Crimson King) and Brian Phillips

Played by: Kraig Dane & Erik Stocklin

Cullen: "I don't kill because I don't have to."

Phillips: "Try not to flinch."

Daniel Cullen is a former "injustice collector" serial killer who was one of the thirteen convicts who escaped prison during the attack led by Eric Rawdon's anarcho-terrorist group. Peter Lewis, another of these escaped prisoners, kidnapped both Cullen and Brian Phillips, a man suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder, so he could brainwash the latter into becoming a copycat of the former, as a form of attack and taunting towards the BAU. Luke Alvez, who had once led an operation to arrest Cullen, is brought in to help the BAU.

Calling Card: The Crimson King's signature was the carving of messages on his victims' torsos (if male) or foreheads (if female). Through Phillips, Lewis enforces that he does the same, except the messages are taunts towards the BAU, with one victim having Hotch's name in particular carved on her forehead.
The Dragon: Phillips is turned into this for Mr. Scratch, acting out from his brainwashing and being forced to become the Crimson King while the real deal is mentally destroyed by Peter Lewis. At the end of the episode, his conditioning is thankfully broken.
Fate Worse than Death: Phillips himself only kills one victim in the episode, but fellow DID patient Chelsea Carter is left completely traumatized and in a state of shock because of both Phillips' torture of her and Mr. Scratch's mental reconditioning. The same goes for Cullen himself, who's left completely amnesiac about his past, although Alvez points out the drugging effects on him could be temporary.
It's Personal: Luke Alvez was the agent who led the manhunt to capture Daniel Cullen in the past which, while successful, still ended with his colleague Phil Brooks disemboweled and tortured, to the point he became wheelchair ridden and severely traumatized. Seeing the serial killer he apprehended reduced to an amnesiac infuriates him, and makes it so Luke also engages in this trope with Mr. Scratch from that point on.
Jack the Ripoff: Mr. Scratch transforms Brian into a copycat of a now-inactive serial killer he has under captivity just to further mess with the BAU.
Multi-Gendered Split Personalities: Phillips' alters are his two foster sisters, Eliza and Angelica, who act as his moral support. Lewis' conditioning, however, suppressed them violently to the point they only come back when his conditioning is broken.
My God, What Have I Done?: When the BAU gets through to Phillips using his foster sisters' phrases that he internalized as a coping mechanism, he finally breaks free of Lewis' conditioning and sees the damage he's caused. Tara promises he'll never be hurt again and leads him out to be institutionalized properly.
Save the Villain: When the BAU determines that Phillips is copying Cullen's signature and modus operandi, the mission becomes, in part, a rescue operation to get to Cullen himself. They do manage to find him alive, but Lewis has utterly destroyed him mentally, as he no longer remembers who he is and what he's done.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Crimson King".

John David Bates, Jr.

Played by: Eric Murdoch

"Wait till you see this."

A serial killer, arsonist and abductor who sadistically kills brother-and-sister pairs in Los Angeles. The case is told in flashback by JJ to her husband Will, after the conclusion of the case all but traumatized her further.

Calling Card: Kidnapped underaged brother and sister pairs as surrogates for himself and his sister Trisha (although he mostly killed girls), then trapped them in abandoned warehouses before lighting both the victims and the entire place on fire. He'd watch the victims burn until the fire became too much for him, and he also ensured the pair were Forced to Watch each other die as well.
Disproportionate Retribution: He snapped and started killing after his sister violently rejected his attempt at reconciliation, not understanding why she'd reject him even after trying to kill her MULTIPLE TIMES when they were younger.
Freudian Excuse: Averted. Bates was born a psychopathic pyromaniac.
Kill It with Fire: His M.O. is setting fire to buildings with siblings trapped within, forcing the pair to watch each other die.
That One Case: The case adds another huge trauma to the ever-growing list in JJ's life, as she was forced to leave one of Bates' victims behind at the final warehouse location before it exploded, killing Francesca Morales despite Bates being arrested and his other victims saved. The episode has her talk about the trauma to her husband Will, who assures her there was nothing she could have done in that situation.
Villain of the Week: Of "Sick Day".
Whole Episode Flashback: The episode's premise, as JJ recounts the case to Will at their home after going through one hell of an ordeal with the UnSub.
Would Hurt a Child: Targeted minors as a result of projection, punishing both himself and his sister in his twisted mind.

Stuart Barker

Played by: Lachlan Buchanan

"I wanted to have sex with my own mother. Don't you see how wrong that was? ... You knew what she was like! You should've protected me! A mother protects her child!"

A delusional serial killer targeting single mothers and killing them by burying them alive in wet concrete, reliving a trauma involving his own mother.

Brother–Sister Incest: Though he decided he could come to terms with having sex with his supposed adoptive sister, he could not handle the revelation that she was in fact his biological mother, which she revealed to him when he propositioned her.
Calling Card: Kidnapping single mothers and pouring chlorine down their nostrils in order to lobotomize them and neutralize their "hypersexuality". If the mothers didn't die immediately, he'd leave them in metal drums and fill them with wet concrete, crushing and asphyxiating them.
Family Relationship Switcheroo: Grew up believing that his grandmother was his mother, and that his mother was his sister. He does not handle it well when he learns the truth.
False Cause: Because of his trauma, Barker came to believe that every single mother is hypersexual, and thus morally depraved enough to "violate" their own children, therefore he needs to "neutralize" those urges.
Freudian Excuse: His biological mother, Lynelle, had a mental disorder that turned her hypersexual, having Stuart when she was just a teenager. She left in in the care of her own mother Gloria, who lied to Stuart years later that Lynelle was his adoptive sister and she was his mother to justify the very short age gap, except he grew infatuated towards Lynette and tried to propose sex with her at a lovers' lane, only for her to reject him quickly and reveal the truth. Barker didn't take it well, killing her on the spot.
Self-Made Orphan: Learning that his supposed sister was actually his biological mother, he killed her in shock and disgust at almost having sex with her. He then tries to repeat it with his grandmother during the episode, only to be stopped by the BAU in the nick of time.
Villain of the Week: Of "Taboo".

Cormac and Todd Burton

Played by: Dusty Sorg & Courtney Gains, Luke Judy & Parker C. Hix (young)

Cormac: "It won't be much longer. It's almost time for the slaughter."

Todd: "I saved him. I saved him..."

Cormac Burton is a serial killer and abductor who kidnaps and kills people along the Appalachian trail. Unbeknownst to him, however, the bodies end up dismembered and the pieces scattered, the work of his delusional older brother who's been following him.

Abusive Parents: Curtis Burton was a psychopathic monster who forced the two young brothers to watch him slaughter pigs at his cousin's slaughterhouse and repeatedly tell them they'd be next, all while making them sit in the mud and wear muzzles. Their mother, herself a victim of his abuse, drank herself to death.
Animal Motifs: Their father made the two sit in the mud like pigs, which he slaughtered in front of them, and both brothers are often seen dirty and sweaty. Furthermore, an incident with a dog in their childhood traumatized Cormac, and Todd's declining mental state makes him see Cormac as his own pet dog he's taking care of in secret.
Bait-and-Switch: Cornered at the slaughterhouse by JJ and Luke as he's about to kill Howard Walker, Cormac says "You know what they say about a cornered animal" as if he's about to go out swinging... but then drops the machete and says "it gives up", surrendering willingly.
Big Bad Ensemble: The two brothers are evading law enforcement and committing heinous acts, but Cormac doesn't know about the dismemberments himself, nor that Todd has been following him.
Big Brother Instinct: Todd, despite being homeless and without anything to support himself, has been following Cormac all the time since their father died and dismembering his victims to help protect him from the authorities. Granted, due to his mental health, the brotherly love is mixed in with affection for a misbehaving pet, but the trope still applies.
Cain and Abel: The episode title invokes this trope, but in the end it's subverted; Cormac is not aware of Todd following him, and even when he's arrested there's no animosity present. Todd is even glad that he was able to "save him".
Calling Card: Played with; it seems like the UnSub kills his victims with a machete then dismembers the bodies to dump the parts along the Appalachian trail, but Cormac only does the slashing and gagging with dog muzzles. His brother Todd is the one dismembering the bodies post-mortem to help hide his brother's actions.
Freudian Excuse: Their father was an abusive psycho who repeatedly tortured them. At one point, Cormac took in a dog as a pet until his father forced Todd to help him abandon it. Years later, Curtis Burton died and Curtis snapped, while Todd was already homeless and delusional.
Hobos: Todd Burton is a homeless man by the time of the episode, and sadly so far gone mentally that he sees his own brother as a pet dog he wants to take care of and help.
Insane Equals Violent: Downplayed; Todd attacks Tara when the BAU follows the trail of body parts he left behind, but after Luke subdues him he responds well to interrogation, if still heavily disassociating.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Cormac is held at gunpoint by JJ and Alvez and told to surrender, and it briefly looks like he won't, until he drops the machete and gives up. It's implied he didn't like what he was doing and wanted to give up for a long time.
Machete Mayhem: Cormac killed his victims by hacking and slashing at them with a machete.
Villain of the Week: Of "Keeper".

Kyle Ecklund

Played by: Joey Bragg

"You don't care! Nobody cares!"

A vengeful "family annihilator"-type serial killer who, after suffering bullying most of his life, decides to punish his and his friends' bullies by killing their entire families and leaving them alive to live with the guilt.

Adults Are Useless: He clearly believed the teachers and faculty at his school were this, given they did nothing to put a stop to the bullying he and his friends were facing.
Became Their Own Antithesis: By killing the families of his aggressors and leaving them traumatized, he's essentially become worse than his bullies ever were, but his anger doesn't let him realize it.
Berserk Button: Bullying, naturally, with even a leg trip warranting the offender beaten to a bloody pulp.
Bully Hunter: The rationale behind his killing spree, further motivated by the student club he's a part of (the titular "Anti-Terror Squad"), which was created precisely to deal with the growing bullying problem at his school.
Cruel Mercy: He targets his high school bullies, killing their entire families but leaving them alive to live with the psychological torment of being the Sole Survivor.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Kyle's less than pleased when he finds out his friends are suspecting him for the murders and are contemplating telling the cops.
Foil: His hatred of bullying makes him similar to Ronald Underwood from Season 8, but the way they get their revenge is different; Underwood targeted the bullies directly and only killed the family of a bully's ex-girlfriend when he couldn't get his hands on the main target or even said target's own family, while Ecklund targets their families deliberately in order to induce Survivor's Guilt on the culprits.
Freudian Excuse: His mother left him when he was a toddler, his dad's an abusive drunk and he was subjected to relentless bullying in high school, including an incident when he was taped to a basketball hoop and left there all night.
No Kill like Overkill: His final victim, his chief bully Austin, was shot six times then bludgeoned to death with one of his sporting trophies.
Suicide by Cop: What he tries when finally cornered, proclaiming he prefers death over jail. Emily manages to talk him out of it.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Anti-Terrorism Squad".
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Deconstructed. He certainly thinks he's doing a good thing by traumatizing his bullies, but the episode doesn't ever show his actions as correct or noble in any way. If anything, he's framed in the perfect way to show that he's become far worse than the people who hurt him.

Ezekiel Reginald "Zeke" Daniels and his Gang

Played by: Jon-Michael Ecker (Zeke), Stevie Lynn Jones (Bethany Elizabeth "Bea" Adams), Sam Puefua (Michael "Germ" Sale), Marnee Carpenter (Kay) & Sadie Schwolsky (Viv)

Zeke: "Look, we hit enough of these houses, you ain't gotta live like animals no more. But if you give up now, you are exactly what they say you are: nothing. Nobody. And they win. You really want them to win? But you stay the course, I'll give you a future."

A gang of teenaged and college-aged robbers formed in Texas who target high-class households in order to invade and ransack so they can earn money from the stolen property, except they've gradually escalated to full-blown serial killing after reaching San Diego, with three of the gang members left in the dark about it.

Ax-Crazy: BEA ADAMS. The other members of the gang are all downtrodden young people whose lives were lived in tragedy, sticking to each other just to get by, and Zeke's devolution into murder could be chalked up to his own Dark and Troubled Past making him impressionable, but Bea stands out as the sole member of the gang who's just, plain and simply, bat-shit INSANE.
- When she does finally get home, she openly tortures and threatens her parents, kills Zeke and then threatens to kill Kay and Viv, shooting them both when they try to escape (both survive), and is only stopped when the BAU rushes in and arrests her. Even then, Bea makes a lunge for her parents even in CUFFS and, when she's finally detained in a police car, she STILL screams and laughs insanely as she's taken away.
Big Bad Wannabe: Zeke might be the leader, but his girlfriend always seems to be the one guiding his hand in everything they do, including their murders. Indeed, when Zeke realizes that Bea's been using him so she could get to torture her own parents, he unsuccessfully tries to regain control of the situation before she disarms him with a make-out session and then promptly shoots him dead, telling him a girl "has to know when to cut bait".
Criminal Found Family: What the group started as, only robbing rich houses and partying because they were disenfranchised youngsters whose lives were rough from very early on. But then their leader steadily fell into serial-killing all at the behest of his girlfriend, who's just using him to get back to her parents' home so she can execute them.
Defector from Decadence: Germ, Kay and Viv all try to leave when they discover Zeke's been murdering the homeowners, but he manages to convince the latter two to stay. Germ, however, lashes out at him for falling so low and ends up shot for it after a struggle.
The Dragon: Bea is this to Zeke as his girlfriend, but Germ is also this to Zeke due to being the first other member to join him in his "cause", until Bea's presence demoted him to being The Brute.
Freudian Excuse: Arguably all of them have this in play, having come from broken homes and lost families (Zeke's mother was an oppiate addict and had relatives who abused him, Germ's parents died when he was 16 and he was left to fend for himself), with even Kay and Viv (the two members given next to no information about) being at least sympathetic enough to understand they're crossing a dangerous line and should just go back to robbing. Bea is the only one who averts the trope by virtue of being a bad seed from day one and just using both Zeke and his gang for her own sick revenge fantasies against her family who, while neglectful, also felt threatened by her unstable, volatile urges and distanced themselves from her because she was repeatedly proving how dangerous she was.
Revenge by Proxy: Zeke and Bea target and kill rich couples who own the homes they invade because Bea is projecting her own parents onto them and essentially practicing for when she gets home.
The Starscream: Bea is only using Zeke with promises of sex and romance to make him kill at her behest, practicing for when she gets to her parents' house. The second Zeke wises up, she kills him and threatens the remaining girls.
Villain of the Week: Of "Seek and Destroy".

Jonathan Rhodes

Played by: Joey Jennings

"Just enjoy the ride."

A radio station worker from Florida who's also a dangerous spree killer who hacks into vehicles to cause fatal collisions.

Calling Card: After stalking his victims, he'd hack their cars and display dominance by activating the windshield wipers, rolling the windows up and down and changing the car's radio to play 98.2 WUKO, his workplace. He'd then drive the car into crashing.
The Cracker: Hacks into the systems of vehicles fabricated after 2009, all of which have internet access and therefore easier to hack. He uses this to drive the cars into dangerous, horrifying crashes with no concern for who dies as collateral damage.
Entitled to Have You/Not Good with Rejection: He was repeatedly rejected by women in dating apps, which made him start killing them in retaliation.
Expy: A far more pathetic version of Hayman Vasher from Season 10, killing people because he was rejected by his dates.
It's Personal: Given this is a hacker, naturally Penelope gets involved directly with the case. Rhodes is even caught after Alvez gets Garcia close to the final victim's car where he's inside as well, letting her disable his signal and stop the car so he can be arrested.
Make It Look Like an Accident: Rhodes is symphorophilic, meaning he stages accidents and watches them happen as a form of sexual fascination, using his anger at being rejected to kill women and get off on their deaths.
Meaningful Name: A killer who uses cars is named "Rhodes".
Taking You with Me: His endgame is a murder-suicide with Alyssa Miles, driving her car to a loading dock with himself on the passenger's seat. Garcia and Luke are thankfully able to stop him.
Villain of the Week: Of "Collision Course".

John Malone

Played by: Niko Nicotera

"She was the one. She was special."

A delusional, prolific serial killer with a rare skin condition that makes any source of light harmful to his skin. Believing himself a vampire, he drags his victims to the sewers in order to drain them of their blood.

Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Due to his condition, he's forced to live in dark places devoid of sunlight, so he's set up shop at a Tunnel Network within the New York sewer system, with an entrance point at the parking lot he owns.
Accidental Murder: He's a prolific serial killer, but not because of his own actions; his victims, drained of blood and disoriented, would stumble around in the dark sewers and end up cracking their skulls open on the hard concrete floor all by themselves.
Affably Evil: Is genuinely friendly to his captives — in fact, all his "kills" were only accidents during attempted escapes.
Anti-Villain: Doesn't even want to hurt anyone; just wants some of their blood to hopefully cure his disease, delusional as the idea is.
Blood Lust: A "vampirist" serial killer who drains and drinks his victims' blood because he believes it will cure him of his condition. Unlike other killers of this type in the show, he doesn't plan to drain them completely dry, and only wants a "victim" so he can help himself and not be alone.
Calling Card: His female victims, all drained and killed by accident, were posed in angelic positions across random places in New York City where he'd dump them at night.
Friendly Enemy: He makes friendly chatter with Stephen Walker when he goes after him in the dark sewer lair and Walker does try to understand him, but still ends up shooting Malone in the chest. As he dies, Walker stays with him and they talk about Malone not being "100,000 flies" when he passes before he does succumb to his wounds.
Our Vampires Are Different: Naturally he's not actually a vampire, but his "weakness" to sunlight and being forced to live in dark places by himself, as well as only targeting women for his blood needs, invokes the imagery of classical vampire lore.
Villain of the Week: Of "Hell's Kitchen".
Weakened by the Light: Suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare blood disorder that makes his skin burn when exposed to sunlight. He lives in the sewers to avoid it, but he's delusional to the point he believes drinking other people's blood will somehow help him.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Desperately abducts girls to drain their blood and hopefully cure his disease, never seeking to kill them.

Season 13

Peakstone

Played by: Wallace Langham ("Mr. X"), Emily Rose (Tori Hoffstadt), Tyler Francavilla (Jake Logan), Zac Titus ("Wilhelm")

Jake: "Do you know what they called it?! They called it cutting the grass. You gotta cut the grass before it gets too tall. They'd tell us to pull the weeds before they took over the garden."

A private military company in service of the U.S. Government who enlisted young men with experience in First-Person Shooter games in order to pilot weaponized drones in international anti-terrorist missions. Jake Logan, one of these applicants, participated in a fluke mission that resulted in 372 deaths at an elementary school in Afghanistan, which the company chose to cover up, causing Logan to snap and become a spree killer that gets the BAU summoned when he starts using his drone to get revenge.

Asshole Victim: Aside from the security guard he was forced to kill so his drone wouldn't be disabled, Jake's murder spree during the episode targeted only the Peakstone personnel involved in his assignment and the cover-up that followed.
Attack Drone: Jake uses his personal weaponized drone that Peakstone once provided him with to kill his targets, all of which were part of his deployment through the company.
Big Bad Ensemble: Jake is the episode's initial UnSub, but his motivation is to get revenge against Peakstone for the massacre he participated in. Unfortunately for him, Peakstone is also looking to continue their cover-up by any means necessary.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: The unnamed CEO of Peakstone, who chose to hide the records of the massacre at Afghanistan to protect the company's reputation. It's also clear from Prentiss' interview with him that he doesn't seem to care about other people's lives being at stake when the supposed UnSub is clearly targeting his company, and he will, in fact, send out mercenaries to kill his own employees if there's the slightest chance they'll reveal something they shouldn't.
He Knows Too Much: Peakstone wants to continue their cover story at all costs, targeting any of their personel who run the risk of giving out information about the massacre at Afghanistan. They kill Jake by hacking his drone and shooting him to keep him quiet, then send in a mercenary to kill Tori Hoffstadt at the hospital she's in so she won't tell the BAU anything. The team picked up on this, though, managing to arrive before the deed was done and arrest the fake policeman.
Hoist by His Own Petard: After Tori escapes Jake by shooting him once with his own gun, Peakstone hacks the drone he was using to kill him.
It's All About Me: Tori, who keeps her mouth shut when the BAU interviews her since they're onto Peakstone's cover-up, then cries hysterically when they arrest her for it. Back at Quantico, Prentiss learns from Luke that Tori took a plea bargain to implicate her boss the moment it was available so she'd save her own skin.
More Dakka: The drone has a mounted, folded assault rifle rigged to fire through a remote control console, designed to kill as effectively and quickly as possible.
My Country, Right or Wrong: Tori Hoffstadt tries to enforce this view on Jake when she's held hostage so he'll be convinced to spare her, but all it does is make him angrier.
My God, What Have I Done?: Jake Logan finds out that instead of an insurgent camp, it was a school that had been bombed; this is the impetus to his actions in the episode.
No Name Given: The CEO of Peakstone is never given a name despite arguably being the main antagonist of the episode, and is only ever identified in the credits as "Mr. X". The mercenary he sends to kill Tori is also never properly identified besides the name "Wilhelm".
Villain of the Week: Of "Killer App".

The Doomsday Preppers

Played by: Darrell Hammond (Lawrence Coleman), Meagen Fay (Irene Jacobs)

Irene: "Lawrence, you're not having doubts that it's going to happen, are you?"

Lawrence: "I believe it more than ever now."

A duo of kidnappers in Virginia who believe the world is coming to an end, taking young pregnant women and experienced female doctors from the surface in order to raise the newborn children in their underground bunker, hoping to create a new society after the "apocalypse".

Bond Villain Stupidity: Apparently Lawrence couldn't think of a better trap other than an air-tight seal that acts far too slowly when suffocating its prisoners, while also having no soundproofing in his bunker, which allows JJ and Reid to rile up the kidnapped girls against him with minimal setbacks.
Church of Happyology: How Lawrence leads his captives in the bunker, using propaganda, mental conditioning and psychological torture to form a pseudo-cult with himself and Irene as the figureheads, even having them all wear matching suits.
The Dog Bites Back: Twice against Lawrence. The kidnapped women who've been in the bunker for a longer time turn on him and knock him out when JJ and Reid convince them the outside world isn't gone as he suggested, and Irene gives the two the bunker's security code so they'll escape their trap and get everyone out safely after Lawrence openly left her to her luck.
Doomsday Clock: The two are paranoid believers of the original Doomsday Clock concept proposed by the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", and kidnap pregnant women from the surface in order to brainwash them into following the same principles of their "creed".
The End Is Nigh: They kidnap pregnant women from the surface in order to "repopulate the species" after an inferred nuclear apocalypse.
Ironic Echo: When Lawrence sees Irene taken hostage, he tells Allie and Dr. Burrell to "do what [they] want with her" since he refuses to let them out even if they do kill her. When JJ and Reid try to get the captives out and they turn on Lawrence, Irene shouts at them to "do what [they] want with him", the distraction allowing them to knock him unconscious.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Lawrence met Irene online in a specialized forum devoted to the Doomsday Clock theory, with both agreeing to execute the plan out of a belief they were helping humanity during the apocalypse. But given that he uses brainwashing and psychological torture to keep the kidnapped women and children complacent, then immediately abandons Irene to her luck when she's taken hostage by Allie Leighton and Dr. Burrell when they demand a way out, it's likely he was just using the entire "Doomsday" pretense to sadistically abuse and brainwash young women.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: The two only kidnap and brainwash their victims, never actively seeking to kill them. Even when one of their hostages is more rebellious than the rest, the most they do is reinforce their propaganda and place them in solitary to torture them psychologically. The only person who ends up dying to their scheme is Dr. Roberta Childs, who kills herself after being left alone long enough.
- All this being said, Lawrence will absolutely attempt to dispose of "outsiders" interfering with his plan, which is why he tries to suffocate JJ and Reid in an air-tight door seal when they enter the bunker.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Bunker".

Desi Gutierrez

Played by: Doris Morgado

"You said you wished I was never born! That I was an ugly little girl, inside and out! Well, here I am, Mom. You were right. I'm a monster!"

A vicious abductor operating in Austin, Texas, Desi uses snake venom to incapacitate her victims, then disfigures them to mark them as monsters like she sees herself to be.

Attack Animal: She uses an eastern brown snake to incapacitate her victims (Spencer theorises that, due to the comparatively small amount of venom the snake's bite contains, the venom would incapacitate Desi's victims for long enough to get them to her lair, whereupon she could give them the antivenom to stop them dying before she can mutilate them).
Animal Motifs: Snakes. Desi is obsessed with them (her mother used to lock her in a snake-infested shed as a child, but they never attacked her, and Desi grew to love snakes as the only creatures that showed her any affection). She wear snake-eye contact lenses, has numerous serpent-themed body modifications (including a split tongue and scarification on her arms resembling snake scales) and keeps several snakes as pets, using a venomous one to incapacitate her victims.
Broken Tears: When confronted by JJ and Alvez, who state they know about the abuse she suffered as a child, Desi is reduced to these.
Cruel Mercy: Alvez invokes this to try to convince Desi to surrender, arguing that if she comes quietly, Desi can tell her side of the story and Lara will live the rest of her life defamed as an abusive mother. It doesn't work.
Freudian Excuse: Her mother neglected and emotionally abused her from birth, and her younger sister got all the love and affection from their mother that she never received.
I Am a Monster: She outright tells her mother this, adding that it's all thanks to a childhood of abuse at Lara's hands.
Rage Against the Reflection: It's heavily implied her body modifications were to reduce Desi's physical resemblance to her mother.
Rejected Apology: Her mother tries to apologise for her abusive treatment of Desi as a child, but Desi angrily shrugs it off.
Sibling Rivalry: Desi despises her younger sister Tina, because their mother gave her all the love and affection Desi never got in her childhood. She takes Tina hostage to force a confrontation with her mother, knowing Lara would always come for her younger daughter. She also tries to kill Tina with a venomous snake.
Suicide by Cop: When confronted by Simmons, Desi tries to attack him with a scalpel and gets shot down.
Tattooed Crook: In addition to her body modifications, Desi has extensive tattoos.
Teenage Pregnancy: She was born as the result of one.
Unperson: What triggered Desi's rampage was seeing a local newspaper publishing an article about her mother and her family without a single mention of Desi. The fact her mother had erased her elder daughter from her life and the good publicity Lara got from the article drove Desi over the edge.
Villain of the Week: Of "Dust and Bones".

Jeffrey "Jeff" Whitfield (The Neon Terror)

Played by: Liam Cronin

"People will forget. They always do. They always forget me."

A serial-turned-spree killer, copycat and stalker in Miami targeting young women in their cars, except he also sends footage of his own murders to a local news channel so they can give him media coverage.

Attention Whore: His entire crime spree is motivated by a vicious desire to relive the same media attention he received after Gina Meadows' death in his childhood, even copying the carjacker's method and, after the media gives him the "Neon Terror" moniker, using it to make a name for himself. The latter also happens when he changes his own signature when he realizes the media is more focused on the victims than their killer. Even the BAU only gets him to give up on killing Sandra Madsen by promising him that he'll be given media coverage for his murders and immortalized on television.
Berserk Button: Channel 3 finally refusing to air news on his killing of Nancy Jones or his snuff film drives him into murderous rage, making him storm his way into their HQ, shoot two workers dead and hold Sandra Madsen at gunpoint, planning on killing her live so he'll be immortalized in the eyes of the public.
Calling Card: Discussed and deconstructed. Jeffrey started by targeting young women in the dead of night and killing them in their cars with a gun, placing a hair clip with a colored lock of hair in it (the accessory Gina Meadows wore when she died) then recording the crime scene and sending the footage to a contact in Channel 3 so they'd cover it. The hair clip was even chosen by Jeffrey precisely to connect the string of murders to the Meadows incident and clue the media in on its relevance. However, as the attention on the case grew, so did Jeffrey's confidence and ego... and then the news gave him the "Neon Terror" nickname; from that point on, Jeffrey started using the moniker as inspiration by leaving a neon light on the crime scenes, making the footage more "recent" until he straight-up upgraded to shooting Snuff Films, and attacking women in broad daylight. The moment he got the nickname, it stopped being about his relation to Gina Meadows and was now all - and ONLY - about him.
Even Evil Has Standards: Sandra's claim that the Nancy Jones tape wasn't aired because it was "ambiguous" whether or not young Alex Grayson (who was in the backseat, the same way Jeffrey was with Gina) also died personally offends Whitfield. He's quick to point out he wouldn't hurt a child.
Freudian Excuse: A carjacker killed 6-year-old Jeffrey's babysitter named Gina Meadows right in front of him in their car, splattering his face in her blood, and the traumatized kid was later rushed out of the police precinct by his parents as reporters surrounded them with pictures and questions, including Channel 3 newswoman Sandra Madsen, who later went to the Whitfields' home to interview Jeffrey. The kid, who went almost a year without talking, opened up again after seeing himself on TV. He started killing again as an adult when it was clear the story was already forgotten and people were moving on.
It's All About Me: The traumatized 6-year-old who saw his nanny die before his eyes only started talking again after seeing himself on TV in playback. As an adult, he craves attention and wants the world to know who he is through his killings, starting with references to where he came from before he devolved to making sure the media knew the focus was the killer, not the victims, by leaving a neon light on the crime scene. He deliberately unpersonalizes the victims so he'll stand out, and only relents to arrest after being promised there will be a news coverage of his murders.
Red Baron: Discussed and deconstructed, like his signature above. Sandra Madsen nicknames the UnSub the "Neon Terror" because victim Natalie Corbis' car was parked right underneath a neon sign. The BAU had already established in previous episodes that allowing the media to nickname a serial killer gives them the attention they crave and reinforces their confidence to kill again, which is exactly what ends up happening; not only does Jeffrey's murder spree start happening with a much smaller time gap, he starts killing in broad daylight and straight-up records the deed as he does it, even leaving behind a neon light to show that he's taken a liking to the nickname.
Snuff Film: Due to his growing confidence, he straight-up records the entire process of killing Nancy Jones. This was also his endgame plan for Sandra, holding her hostage and hosting a livestream during it so he'd kill her for all the world to see. Garcia thankfully shuts that plan down.
Villain of the Week: Of "Neon Terror".

Melissa Miller

Played by: Zelda Williams

"Sandy Hook was staged THE WORST! All those actors they threw in front of cameras to be "grieving parents", I was SCREAMING at my television saying "YOU'RE! LYING!" And if they would lie about that, then they would absolutely lie about a metal detector. So let me make one thing clear going forward. When I say 'they', I mean YOU!"

A conspiracy theorist and a psychopathic killer who caused the deaths of two members of her own group. During their investigation, the BAU allows her group to be included in the proceedings due to their high distrust of law enforcement and Melissa, in her own bias, records her own interrogation for her podcast.

Conspiracy Theorist: She's part of a community of "truthers" who believe in pretty much every conspiracy in the book (the staged moon landing, the "JFK magic bullet", among others) and even hosts her own podcast on the matter, having met her two love interests through it. She maintains this posture even after killing both of them, using both her ties to the community and her distaste for the FBI to goad them all throughout the episode.
Crazy-Prepared: She's paranoid and a psychopath, so naturally she does anything in her power to cover her tracks, even when having her affair. Besides hiding the bullet and shell casing that killed Carl Lee, she set up her lover Doug to kill himself in a big display and, during interrogation, she exacerbates her distrust on law enforcement to research the BAU in detail and record her questioning with them while demanding they let her in on every detail of the investigation for her podcast in order to get them to fully cooperate and reveal the "truth", knowing that they wouldn't find the evidence she gave away... Until they did.
Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: She set up Doug Downey, her lover, to kill himself by stashing the gun she used to kill Carl Lee on his pants before the truthers received the BAU's profile, implicating him for the murder when he makes a big show of it. It fails when they piece together that his last words ("I know a false flag when I see one!") were being said right at her, which implicates her further.
Didn't Think This Through: She accounted for pretty much everything that could implicate her directly, and even put up a convincing façade during questioning due to being so confident that her group wouldn't give them the evidence she handed over for safekeeping. But when they learn that she's responsible, "truther" member Gary Hiles hands the bullet and casing over. They may distrust the government, but they won't tolerate a traitor.
Engineered Public Confession: An interesting variation. As Tara notices, Melissa deleted one of her recordings during interrogation because, as it turns out, she had unwittingly given out information about the one thing that would implicate her in the murders. Unluckily for her, Tara remembered that it was the fact she knew the other "truthers" wouldn't question her loyalty up front.
Holier Than Thou: As a conspiracy theorist, she is dead-set on her beliefs and will openly dismiss any actual evidence to the contrary as "fake" or "staging" from the government, acting this way towards the BAU even when they start looking at her as the UnSub, since she's fully convinced that she won't get caught. And then Tara slaps the killing bullet on the table in front of her.
Insistent Terminology: Melissa and her group are not "conspiracy theorists", they're "truthers", and the former is considered highly offensive to them.
It's Personal: Melissa believes in the theory claiming that mass shootings such as the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre are staged so that the federal government will come down hard on US citizens' rights to bear arms. Tara Lewis, herself a responder at Sandy Hook, takes huge offense at the insinuation and makes the case personal just to try and bring Melissa down from her pedestal. She gets a huge smile on her face when she's dragged off in cuffs.
Lack of Empathy: She's a psychopath, so she's very good at faking her emotions, except her actual anger at what she thinks is a governmental cover-up or her "boyfriend" threatening to reveal her affair. Even when she's finally arrested, she seems more annoyed and bummed than distraught.
Psychological Projection: Tara realizes that her vehemence about government conspiracies trading evidence between them is because that's what she would do.
Red Herring: The death of Brian Behar, which is what got the BAU into the case to begin with, since the timing of his death matched perfectly with Carl Lee's to the point it was pretty obvious he was also killed to cover something up. While he did know of the affair, his drowning in his own aquarium was caused by him mixing chemicals that shouldn't be used in cleaning together.
- Arguably the entire episode works off the pretense that the conspiracy theories may have something to do with the motives behind the deaths. Instead, Melissa acted on personal impulse.
Revealing Cover-Up: Tara wouldn't have picked up on her Psychological Projection highlighted earlier if she hadn't deleted her recording for no apparent reason.
Villain of the Week: Of "False Flag".

Mitchell "Mitch" McCord (The Central Park Ripper)

Played by: Ronnie Marmo

"You need to keep warm."

A dental technician working in New York, Mitchell's life fell apart after his teenage son was killed in a robbery gone wrong. With his wife blaming him for failing to protect their family and spiraling out of guilt and self-loathing, Mitchell's efforts to become more powerful and confident caused him to develop clinical lycanthropy, resulting in him prowling Central Park after dark, becoming a deranged vigilante and serial-turned-spree killer attacking any who cross his path.

Animal Motifs: Wolves. In addition to attacking like a wolf (running down his victims, biting out their throats), Reid and Alvez note he displays some of the more nurturing aspects of wolves, such as their devotion to their cubs and pack, in his interactions with others.
Broken Tears: Mitchell is reduced to this when his ex-wife, having being told by the B.A.U. that her blaming him for their son's death triggered his rampage, apologies and convinces him to surrender, telling Mitchell his son's death was not their fault and that he was a good father.
Calling Card: Killed male criminals or male victims he perceived as criminals at Central Park during full moon nights by biting and eviscerating them with a prosthetic set of dentures he created.
Functional Addict: He started taking drugs to cope with depression following his son's death, but a cocktail of MDMA and amphetamines ended up causing a psychotic break that triggered his clinical lycanthropy. He uses it deliberately to power his rage and urge to kill.
It's All My Fault: The death of his son and the collapse of his marriage as a result because he was frozen in terror during a mugging really hit him hard.
Jekyll & Hyde: In his normal state, he's a quiet, mild man who rarely even raises his voice. But in his psychosis, he becomes capable of overpowering and killing people twice his size with incredible strength and ferocity.
Man Bites Man: His signature is to bite out his victims' throats, using a specially fashioned mouthpiece designed to resemble a wolf's fangs. The prosthesis is so convincing, the B.A.U. initially believe they're dealing with either an escaped animal from the Central Park Zoo or a Serial Killer using an animal to kill their victims until the coroner confirms no trace of animal saliva in the victims' wounds.
My Greatest Failure: Failing to intervene before his son was killed in a robbery gone wrong.
Outliving One's Offspring: His 15 year old son Bryce was killed in a robbery gone wrong a year earlier.
Pay Evil unto Evil: One of his victims was a mugger who attacked an African-American couple walking through the park one night. The reminder of his son's killer presumably enraged Mitchell.
Pet the Dog: Mitchell is quite protective towards a homeless boy sleeping rough in Central Park who's about the same age as his dead son. Reid speculates it's due to a mixture of his guilt and his lycanthropic delusion related to the nature of wolves as devoted parents.
Running on All Fours: He's briefly seen sprinting on all fours when attacking his victims.
Tragic Villain: Mitchell was happily married and a devoted family man, but one night while walking through Central Park, they were set upon by a mugger. When their son fought back after the mugger tried to steal his mother's wedding ring, he was killed in a Gun Struggle while Mitchell was too petrified by fear to intervene. Their son died in his mother's arms at the scene, and a combination of her blaming him for their son's death and filing for divorce, leaving Mitchell to feel he'd failed as a father and protector, along with their son's killer never being caught, tipped him over the edge.
Villain of the Week: Of "Bad Moon on The Rise".
Wolf Man: His psychotic break has caused him to develop clinical lycanthropy, a medical condition causing him to believe he can transform into a wolf. He also attacks victims on a full moon (both tying into the werewolf delusion and because his son was killed on a full moon).
Would Hit a Girl: Initially averted, but after his wife rebuffs his attempts at a reconciliation and insists he sign their divorce papers, Mitchell snaps and attacks a young woman out celebrating her engagement as a surrogate for his rage at his ex-wife, even biting off her ringer finger and taking the ring as a trophy.

Sal Capilano

Played by: Jonathan Brooks

"You took Tony away from me! The Capilano Brothers!"

Tony and Sal Capilano were a duo of brothers working as rodeo clowns who also took up robbery on the side when money ran dry. Duo to a history of parental abuse, however, Sal later snapped became a serial killer targeting the Oklahoma houseowners he robbed without Tony's knowledge.

Abusive Parents: Sal and Tony's father was a circus daredevil who drank heavily and beat them regularly, even scarring Sal on the corner of his mouth. Eventually he killed their mother and left both brothers and the circus behind, with the two needing to learn at a very early age to entertain in order to stay afloat.
Cain and Abel: Tony was never aware that his brother was killing people during their robberies, and is left with a huge weight on his conscience when Sal does confess. By the end of the episode, Sal telling Tony off for still being married (and taunting him about his wife leaving him because of the money and saying he should "rent her") gets him angry enough to fight with him for the gun and almost put a bullet through Sal's head, which he readily welcomes before JJ and Simmons arrive and get him to back off willingly.
Calling Card: As robbers, all Tony and Sal did was invade wealthier homes and pilfer what they could when the owners were away, with Tony being the getaway driver. As Sal devolved into killing, he started carving a smiley face on the house doors with stars for eyes, beat the owners to death if they were Caucasian father figures (projecting his father onto them) and also killed their wives, then later started carving scars on the corners of their mouths post-mortem, to match his own. Sal also took to using his clown costume when doing the home invasions.
Even Evil Has Standards: Psychopathic and volatile as he's become, Sal refuses to hurt or kill children; he only killed the parents during the home invasions he and his brother did, and he stopped his attempt to choke Tony's wife Dina when her son Mikey woke up in the van and saw him do it, forcing him to run away.
Foil: Tony was protected from the worst of his and Sal's father's abuse and, as a result, grew up with a better head on his shoulders, resorting to robbery as a desperate solution to his money woes while still keeping a loving wife and son to support him (even if they weren't aware of his robberies). Sal, on the other hand, didn't receive any help for the trauma he suffered and grew up more and more unstable to the point he snapped and started killing people, with his brother as his single moral anchor until that too started falling to the wayside thanks to Tony's family wanting to move away to bigger things with him.
- In comparison to other UnSubs, the idea of a Monster Clown criminal brings to mind Joe from Season 3, except naturally Sal doesn't have the same mental condition of acting like a 6-year-old child, is vastly more intelligent and intentionally kills several parents in his spree instead of just one couple by accident.
Freudian Excuse: Sal took the brunt of their father's abuse to protect Tony. As they grew up in the circus as clowns, they were fired when Sal, one day, attacked one of the bullfighters and threatened to cut his face, getting the two blacklisted from every other circus in the US and forcing them to work as rodeo clowns for hire. Tony still having a loving family supporting him and a wife looking to help them in the long run made Sal snap and start killing the homeowners they robbed from.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a cut scar on the left corner of his mouth given to him by his father. He does the same kind of damage to his victims.
Laughing Mad: When JJ and Matthew convince Tony to give up and let them arrest Sal instead of killing him, they haul the latter off while he breaks into hysterical, crazed laughter.
Monster Clown: He used his rodeo clown costume when doing the robberies and home invasions in order to stay incognito under the heavy make-up, but eventually it became part of his killing signature. The victims' children all were left traumatized from the killer clown that murdered their parents in cold blood.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Capilanos".

The Horsemen

Played by: Harry Groener (Leonard Hagland), Nick Fink (Josh Martin), Kylen Deporter (Jasper Talbot) & Skyler Maxon (Dalton McCann)

Martin: "Ladies and gentlemen, listen up! I realize you're confused, you're scared. You're wondering "What the hell is going on here?" Right? Well, a lot is going on here. Because today is a special day. Today is the day that all of you get to become a part of history!"

A group of violent white supremacists who run an arms trafficking ring from Mexico into the United States. Founded by Leonard Hagland, the group is now led by his illegitimate son Josh Martin, who wants to get his father released from death row by taking a group of people hostage at a law firm. Making matters worse, said firm is where Matthew Simmons' wife Kristy is now working at, and she becomes one of the hostages the BAU needs to save as fast as possible.

Bastard Bastard: Josh Martin is the illegitimate son of the Horsemen's founder, Leonard Hagland, and a vindictive psychopath who wants his father out of death row by any means necessary, even taunting the BAU and the police at several occasions.
Batman Gambit: The BAU calls Kristy through her secret phone just as Martin moves in to kill her and has her reveal to the three criminals that their acting leader is himself half-Latino instead of "purely" Caucasian, just as Simmons moves in on his own. The argument escalates until Talbot ends up shot for calling Martin a "half-breed" and leaves the two remaining Horsemen as easy pickings for Matt, who kills McCann then nearly strangles Martin to death.
Choke Holds: After a tense struggle with Martin, Simmons is so enraged at him nearly killing his wife that he slams the white supremacist against a table and starts choking him out with his bare hands. Kristy has to rush in and beg him not to.
Composite Character: The fact they're a group of highly-organized criminals and their taking of a BAU agent's loved one hostage mirrors what the Face Cards did to JJ's husband Will at the end of Season 7. Josh Martin's attempt at Kristy's life also mirrors George Foyet killing Haley to get to Hotch, as well as leading to their respective enemy agents taking their lives single-handedly, except Kristy is thankfully saved in time and she begs Matthew to not strangle Martin in his rage.
Deal with the Devil: Averted; Hagland offers to help take Martin into custody if he's removed from death row and kept in a federal prison with a life sentence, but Rossi tells him to go to hell and walks out, instead using his son's past and over-reliance on Hagland's approval to break their team apart. By the end of the episode, Hagland and Martin are both sent to be executed.
The Ghost: The Horsemen have agents that are still in Mexico leading the arms dealing operations, but we never hear from the BAU if they were caught afterwards.
Hostage Situation: Josh Martin's plan to get his father released from prison is to break into a law firm called ALDC and take the workers hostage, including Matthew Simmons' wife who was just recently relocated to the place. Martin killed two workers and was clearly aiming to finish the job with C-4 charges before Kristy and the BAU put a stop to his plans.
Hypocrite: Martin leads a group of white supremacists in his father's absence, except he himself is not fully Caucasian, but half-Mexican. The BAU uses this through Kristy and her phone to make the three Horsemen at the firm turn on each other, which ends up killing Talbot when Martin shoots him for calling him a "damn half-breed".
It's Personal: Among the hostages they take at ALDC is Kristy Simmons, Matt's wife who was just recently relocated to the firm. Through her and a cellphone she kept hidden, the team manages to upset the Horsemen's group dynamic enough to leave them disoriented, although it ends up earning Martin's ire when he realizes Kristy is the wife of an FBI agent, the very same one who's just stormed the building all on his own to save her, shooting down McCann and nearly killing Martin with his bare hands until Kristy tells him to stop.
Politically Incorrect Villain: The Horsemen are white supremacists who work with arms dealing in and out of Mexico. That being said, apparently their founder is not so racist that he wouldn't have an affair with a Mexican woman and have Martin from it.
Villain of the Week: Of "Ex Parte".
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Martin's whole motivation is to get his father, the Horsemen's founder, released from death row by taking the hostages at the law firm, as he always depended on his approval.

Season 14

Emmanuel Rask (Gone Postal) and Galina Kadlec

Played by: Shane Coffey & Izabella Miko

Rask: "I've finally made something of myself."

Emmanuel Rask is a narcissistic spree killer, stalker and abductor sending livestreams of his kills to a dark web site owned by a friend, Galina Kadlec, who broadcasts them for the sexual attraction of certain people, getting the BAU involved when he starts using the mail to send the body parts to others.

Bait-and-Switch: Rask pulls this on the BAU by staging a scene to look like a certain location where he's about to kill his former psychiatrist in a livestream, knowing that they would be sent there too little too late, leaving a message for them just to rub salt in the wound.
Calling Card: Rask would kidnap men who "wronged" him in some way and use motorized bladed tools to dismember and bisect them in anatomically-precise ways, sending the body parts through the mail to women he thought of fondly. As he grew bolder, he started livestreaming his kills to Kadlec's website and leaving taunting messages at the crime scenes directed at law enforcement, calling everyone else "bitches".
Chainsaw Good: Rask uses motorized bladed tools to bisect his victims with, including chainsaws.
Fetish: Kadlec's dark web site is all about showcasing videos of people doing risky, dangerous things as a fetish, including murder and snuff.
It's All About Me: Rask is a dangerous narcissist who kills men who "wronged" him in some way during his lifetime, so confident on his own skills that he leaves taunting messages to law enforcement in his crime scenes. He also only gives himself up for arrest when Rossi tells him he'd be talked about afterwards.
Loony Fan: As it turns out, both Kadlec and Rask are fans of Rossi's books, and his involvement in the case makes them both excited at the prospect that he'd write about them next. Rossi even uses this to make Rask surrender before he can kill Kadlec's ex-husband.
Smug Snake: Both fit the bill, as Kadlec knows Rask leaves no evidence that could tie her into the murders and even rubs it on the BAU's faces, claiming she doesn't even need a lawyer. Then when Rossi, whom she admires, rubs her ex-husband leaving her and taking everything she owned with him, she bitterly asks for that lawyer.
Snuff Film: Rask's confidence escalated to the point he started to directly livestream his kills to Kadlec's website.
Villain of the Week: Of "Rule 34".

Jacob Wallace

Played by: Landon Gimenez

"She was an adulterer! At church they told us adultery was punishable by death! It says so on the Bible!"

A delusional teenage family annihilator serial killer motivated by his insane attachment to religion, going on a spree after finding out his own birth was the result of his mother having an affair.

Bastard Bastard: The unlawful child of an affair his mother had on the side. The fact Jacob deeply resents this fact is what pushed him to start killing his own family without mercy.
Cain and Abel: His final intended victim was his little half-sister Lizzie, which is thankfully stopped when Luke tackles him down after JJ distracts him.
Calling Card: Leaving stone cairns near the bodies of his mother and aunt.
Foil: To Jeffrey Charles from Season 2, as an underage UnSub with only the bare minimum of a victim count making him a fully-fledged serial killer, a family-related stressor and using some form of blunt-force trauma to kill. Unlike Charles, who was a born psychopath killing children with a blunt weapon, Wallace is a religiously-motivated murderer targeting his own family using a firearm.
Freudian Excuse: Averted, Jacob was already mentally ill before he started his spree. His fanaticism was basically an escape valve to justify himself with, as he tries doing so with the BAU when cornered.
The Fundamentalist: Grew up going to church with his mother, but his own mental problems pushed his devotion into full fanaticism. Finding out he was the product of an affair drove Wallace off the deep end and he started killing the women of his family because of their "sinfulness".
Never My Fault: In his deluded mind, his killings were entirely justified because his family was full of "sin", and he's so out of touch with reality that he even tries to justify his horrible actions to JJ when the BAU finally corners him.
Self-Made Orphan: Wallace grew up a religious fanatic pushed further by his implied inherent mental issues. Finding out his mother had him out of an affair made him start his spree with her before also murdering his aunt.
Teens Are Monsters: Killed his own mother and aunt without an ounce of mercy or regret because of his own fundamentalism. He also killed an innocent social worker who was watching over his half-sister just because she got in his way.
Villain of the Week: Of "Innocence".

Ethan Howard ("The Tall Man")

Played by: Dan Gauthier

"You meant it, right? About Roz? She loved me?"

A high school guidance counselor and teacher who used to be close to JJ and her late older sister Roslyn before she killed herself... which was his fault, as Howard is a serial ephebophilic statutory rapist who had an affair with her and continued his torture of teenage girls well into the present, becoming a local urban legend in the process.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Plays the part of nice, supportive teacher to get closer to emotionally-vulnerable girls so he can have his way with them and keep the affair a secret from parents, such as what he did to JJ's sister Roslyn and later Bethany Wilson, manipulating the former into keeping the secret and the latter into being his accomplice against Chelsea Davis. When JJ bluffs her way into making him confess, his true psychopathic colors appear and he talks about her sister with creepy fondness.
Broken Pedestal: Severely for JJ, who becomes rightfully pissed off that her former teacher is the one responsible for her sister killing herself in the past, and is continuing his brand of manipulation even by the time of the episode. At several points she makes it clear that the rest of the BAU are the only things keeping her from flat-out executing the bastard in the interrogation room, as she never stops hiding her sheer contempt for him after she finds out.
It's Personal: The case ties back to the suicide of Jennifer's older sister when she herself was just a child, and eventually it's discovered that the UnSub was responsible for that too, being the same man JJ grew up thinking she could trust.
Laser-Guided Karma: Both he and Bethany arrested, the police bring her closer to him supposedly for recognition, only for Bethany to slap him across the face for using her, giving them all the proof they need.
Pædo Hunt: Doesn't take long for the BAU to realize, through Chelsea's recognition of JJ's heart necklace, that the rapist they're looking for is an adult abusing underage girls. Namely, the same man who gave JJ's sister the necklace that was later passed onto her: her former guidance counselor.
Sadist Teacher: A high school guidance counselor who takes this trope to its extreme by kidnapping, raping, physically and mentally abusing his underage victims.
Urban Legends: The "Tall Man" story was created around JJ's hometown by the time Howard started his spree. The BAU comments on the briefing how there are tons of internet rumors around the kidnappings that the character was responsible. Howard himself doesn't actively play into the legend to avoid detection, it just happens around him.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Tall Man".

Jeremy Grant

Played by: Johnny Messner

"Open your eyes, Luke. If I hadn't started and killed Ramos, you'd already be dead, so you're welcome for that."

A former DEA agent who was once partnered with Luke Alvez and his friend Phil Brooks on a mission to apprehend the leader of a drug cartel. After said leader left prison and had his family murdered, Grant snapped and became a serial-then-spree killer, copycat and vigilante targeting the people responsible.

Asshole Victim: Most of his victims were members of the Martinez Cartel, including their leader Eduardo Ramos, which Grant was charged with taking down along with Luke, Phil Brooks and Manny Silva, only to have his family murdered by them after Ramos left prison.
Cop Killer: Tortures and murders Luke's longtime friend Phil Brooks to make an example out of him, wanting to make Luke feel what it's like to live without someone they love.
Cowboy Cop: Unlike Luke and Phil, who knew they weren't above the law and couldn't just execute a target however they pleased, Grant had no compulsions about killing them and fully believed that they were far more dangerous alive, even when incarcerated. He had to be restrained from shooting Eduardo Ramos back during the assignment and cut contacts with Luke afterwards over it.
Cruel Mercy: Pulls this on Luke by making it clear he's not going to kill him directly, instead wanting to make him feel what it's like to lose people he cares about, leading to him torturing and killing Phil Brooks. Luke later pulls this on him after cornering him in Baltimore, even with all the temptation to take revenge himself.
The Extremist Was Right: While Luke and Phil maintained protocol and arrested Eduardo Ramos back in 2007 as intended, Grant was the one who warned them he would still be a threat as long as he was alive, upset at Luke for being denied the chance to kill him when he had it. Sure enough, Ramos left prison after only three years' incarceration and then moved to kill Grant's family in revenge. As Grant himself points out to Luke via phone, he was about to make the same move on Luke's loved ones had he not killed Ramos before he carried it out.
It's Personal: He was directly involved with Luke Alvez in a sting operation back in 2007 that resulted in the arrest of a cartel leader, despite Grant's objections that he would still be a threat. He also makes this trope fall in effect for Luke by making it clear he's not only after the cartel's other members, but also everyone responsible for "ratting out Ramos", blaming even his former squad mates for it and going after "people they significantly love", leading to Phil getting shot and killed himself. This is what finally sets Luke out on the warpath to the point of defying orders and going for personal justice against Grant.
Jack the Ripoff: Uses the same method of torture and murder Eduardo Ramos did, forcing his restrained victims to drink bleach and then shooting them with a revolver.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His primary motivation is to kill the members of the cartel whose leader killed his own family years before. Problem is, he's also extended the revenge towards all the parties associated with the leader's trial and arrest, holding them equally responsible for letting the man out of prison, thus giving him the chance to kill Grant's family.
Villain of the Week: Of "Luke".
You Killed My Father: Started his spree of vengeful murders after Eduardo Ramos left jail after only three years' incarceration and killed his wife and daughters as revenge for the arrest.

Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes

Played by: Penelope Ann Miller

A psychologist who took in young David Smith as her patient. Her daughter's death having been ruled as an "accident", she manipulates David into copying his father Joe Smith's M.O. to kill the people she thinks are truly responsible.

Asshole Victim: Subverted. Her daughter, Robin, died sometime before the episode and her death was ruled as an accidental one, but Rhodes was convinced it wasn't and had David target and kill the men she deemed the real killers, the episode very strongly implying they never did anything of the sort.
Big Bad Duumvirate: With David for their episode, manipulating him into killing like his father did. It quickly goes south when she becomes his final target.
In the Blood: It's uncertain whether she truly believes this or not, but this was the argument she used on David to convince him to start killing, pointing out that he's "destined" to be a killer like his father, but sending him after "criminals" so he'd think he was doing the world a favor.
Psycho Psychologist: She has no evidence that the men she targeted were responsible for her daughter's death, yet she still sent a traumatized young man off to kill them in her stead. It's also possible she firmly believes Lamarck Was Right and the son of a serial killer will inevitably become like his father.
Save the Villain: Ends up needing to be rescued after Prentiss gets through to David that the men he killed were innocent. Naturally, David doesn't take this well and kidnaps Rhodes herself so he'd kill her in retaliation. The BAU manages to talk him out of it and Rhodes is arrested afterwards.
Villain of the Week: Of "Flesh and Blood".

Wayne Hollis

Played by: Sean Donnellan

"Everyone in this town talks except me. Gossip. Rumor. Innuendo. You think I hurt your children! But I didn't. It was all a lie."

An "injustice collector"-type killer and abductor who uses hypnotic suggestion to lure children out into the night and into his van, seeking revenge against the town of Wesser, Iowa for destroying his and his son's lives.

Driven to Suicide: His son Garrett, who was bullied relentlessly after Wayne was accused, leading to him hanging himself in his room. In the episode, this is also Hollis' end goal; taunt the city of Wesser with their missing children before shooting himself, taking the knowledge of their location with him. Thankfully, it doesn't stick and the BAU finds them.
Fairytale Motifs: The trigger phrase in his hypnotic file is "Hamelin" played backwards, making him a modern version of the Pied Piper taking the children of the city away with him. The BAU immediately makes the connection, and it's safe to say Hollis did it on purpose.
Mistaken for Pedophile: Played for drama. He was a high school teacher who got fired because of a rumor that he acted inappropriately toward the students of the summer program he taught for. Though the rumor was false, he didn't get his job back, and his teenage son suffered the consequences.
Revenge by Proxy: He kidnaps the children of Wesser so he can get back at the parents for spreading the false rumors about Hollis being a pedophile and indirectly causing his own son's suicide.
Subliminal Seduction: He kidnapped the targeted children by sending them emails on their computers with a video file containing a subliminal hypnotic command phrase that made them walk towards his van, even if it meant getting out through their windows on the second floor. Naturally, the phrase was "Hamelin" played in reverse.
- Timmy Tremaine was the sole exception, as he was one of the original children to be kidnapped, but he was given time out and never checked his computer. This made Hollis invade his home and kidnap Timmy directly, killing his mother in the process (although in a way that made her a walking corpse well into morning until she finally stopped functioning).
Taking You with Me: A variation; his endgame is to keep the location of the captured children a secret, make a general threat towards Wesser about it, then kill himself so law enforcement will never find them. Thankfully this is averted by the BAU using the mud on Hollis' shoes to trace the location, finding the children at a meat tenderizing plant, all alive.
Then Let Me Be Evil: He was mistakenly accused of being a pedophile and, as a result, his life was destroyed and his son hanged himself. Enraged, Hollis became a kidnapper seeking to kill children in retaliation, just to make the city pay.
Villain of the Week: Of "Hamelin".
Would Hurt a Child: Kidnaps the children of the people he considers responsible for his son's suicide.

Season 15

Dr. Sebastian Hurst

Played by: Tom Amandes

A medical examiner with a fetish for skin. A longtime acquaintance of Everett Lynch, he was given a home and taught how to kill by him, becoming a serial killer looking to remedy a disfigurement he suffered years before.

Bury Your Gays: Is himself a gay man, but uses a dating app to kill prospective dates so he can extract their skin for himself.
Calling Card: Drugs and asphyxiates his victims before skinning them post-mortem, using parts to make himself an apron to cover his chest with. He'd then dump the bodies in random locations in different poses so he could revisit them later.
Crazy-Prepared: To throw suspicion off himself, Hurst inserted himself into the investigation as a guest coroner to "help" the BAU. It worked for all of two days, as Rossi was quick to make him out as the UnSub and overpowered him.
Evil Mentor: Had one in Everett Lynch, who taught him a way to kill his victims the way Hurst found more appropriate to his tastes and objective.
Genuine Human Hide: Hurst has a fetish for the skin of human males, and uses the skin of his victims to make himself an apron for his own chest in order to cover up a supposed deformity.
Psycho Knife Nut: When Rossi comes to his house, Hurst tries to kill him with a scalpel. Rossi manages to overpower him and make him confess his relation to the Chameleon.
Villain of the Week: Of "Under The Skin"

Hayes Cullinan

Played by: Stephen Gilliken

"I love him."

A stalker who's been harassing a friend of Garcia's for a while. She's asked by said friend to look into it, foiling Garcia's weekend plans.

Breather Episode: "Saturday" is about the BAU enjoying the weekend off and giving the audience a break before the events leading to the finale, so the closest thing to an UnSub the episode offers is a petty, pathetic stalker they easily deal with, without even needing the full team for it.
It's Personal: Very mild example, but Cullinan is only investigated after one of Garcia's friends, Elizabeth Wise, discovers her apartment's been rigged with cameras and asks her for help in finding out why.
Mistaken for Gay: Inverted. For most of the episode, he is assumed to be a straight man with an unhealthy interest in Elizabeth, but it turns out he's a gay man who's interested in her ex Billy Haines.
Pulled from Your Day Off: Sadly for Garcia, who is compelled to take the case since it's her friend's privacy being violated. At least JJ, Tara and Luke all come together to help her out.
Red Herring: Suspicion first falls on Elizabeth's ex Billy Haines as the stalker, except JJ and Tara profile the stalker as an "incel" type and Haines might be annoying, but he does have an active sex life.
Stalker with a Crush: Fell in love with Billy Haines and installed cameras on Elizabeth's apartment to watch them so he could fantasize about him. His only defense when being arrested is the quote above.
Villain of the Week: Of "Saturday".

Louis Chaycon and the Rolling Devils

Played by: Vincent Ventresca (Chaycon), Scott Peat (Fleabag), Matthew Grant Godbey (Carson)

Louis Chaycon is a "wound collector" serial killer and former hitman who was once arrested by Matthew Simmons during his time in the International Response Team. In 2012, Chaycon escaped during his extradition process and was recaptured by Luke Alvez along with his brother Robert, who later died in prison from a gang beatdown. Seeking revenge, Chaycon escaped his extradition once again and recruited a biker gang to help him capture the two FBI agents by luring them to Illinois with the M.O. of a killer the BAU once dealt with.

Bullying a Dragon: Despite the ambush and overwhelming odds, Chaycon is up against two physically-fit FBI agents with years of experience with hostage situations, both of which manage to avoid showing fear to his tactics, play to his paranoia perfectly and hold their own even while tied up, resulting in both Chaycon and his men dying. He should've asked Jeremy Grant or the Horsemen (see above) how well threatening their loved ones would end up for him.
Hostage Situation: He ordered his men to kidnap Matt and Luke and tie them together in a warehouse where he'd torture them in revenge for his brother's death, which he thinks they caused.
It's Personal: Chaycon holds a grudge against Matthew Simmons and Luke Alvez for believing they were responsible for his brother's death while in prison, so he had the two ambushed and tortured for a while before promising to go after their loved ones afterwards to make it even with them.
Jack the Ripoff: In order to bring Luke and Matthew to them, the Devils were instructed to imitate the modus operandi of Phillip Dowd, the budding long-distance serial killer from Season 1 whose apartment Chaycon uses as a makeshift base. Unlike with Dowd, the Devils don't particularly care if their sniping kills someone just as long as their objective is achieved.
The Paranoiac: What led Chaycon to seek revenge on Matt and Luke was the belief that one of them tipped off his brother Robert as an informant to the gang member that beat him to death in prison. Even as he leads the bikers, he's so distrusting and insane that he's easily led to believe that Fleabag, his then-right hand man, has knowledge of Robert's death by Matt and Luke themselves, leading Chaycon to shoot him dead when he denies it.
Rule of Three: Chaycon evaded extradition twice before, both times going back to incarceration because of a future BAU agent. The third time he tries to kill again, this time the agents that arrested him, he ends up killed himself.
Sole Survivor: Of the Rolling Devils, only two members end up incarcerated instead of shot dead, with even Chaycon gunned down in the end.
Villain of the Week: Of "Ghost".
You Killed My Father: Chaycon blames Matt and Luke for his brother Robert's death in prison, thinking the two tipped off the gang member that killed him that Robert was an informant. This in spite of the fact that Matt and Luke both had forgotten about him in the intervening time.

Juliette Weaver

Played by: Jamie Sara Slovon

An abductor and ex-con who commits crimes on behalf of a still-imprisoned Cat Adams, sent to lure out Reid as part of Cat's revenge scheme.

Depraved Bisexual: After her boyfriend let her down, she has sworn off men, but still dates women.
The Dragon: To Cat Adams after her arrest. It doesn't last long.
Does Not Like Men: Openly hates men after what her boyfriend did to her, not helped by Cat feeding her hatred to make her work as an accomplice.
Fall Guy: Once took the fall for her criminal boyfriend, who subsequently abandoned her.
Revenge by Proxy: Her ex-boyfriend is in prison and out of her reach, but she can still take revenge on her girlfriend's perceived ex, Reid.
Villain of the Week: Of "Date Night".

George Kyle Peters

Played by: Graham Sibley

A delusional former physics teacher lamenting the death of his 9-year-old son Ethan, who he thinks he can bring back to life by becoming a serial killer hearing the advice of a creature in his mind.

Accomplice by Inaction: Brenda Hacker, a corrupt social worker who protected Peters' record on the system in exchange for bribery money he gave her, which later lead to the car crash that killed his son. The BAU interrogates her in order to get to George.
Calling Card: Decapitating father figures and carving symbols related to Schrödinger's equation on the bodies, taking the heads to a gold mine he now resides in.
False Memories: Peters has convinced himself that the existence of false memories proves that there are other timelines that we can move between, and the Rusty creature has his son alive and well in one of them that he's not letting Peters go to until he kills enough people.
Gollum Made Me Do It: The imaginary demonic figure named "Rusty" is the one who convinced Peters that killing and decapitating fathers would bring his son back to him somehow, having appeared to him not long after Ethan's death and Peters' delusion about parallel realities emerged.
Hostage Situation: He kidnapped Colin and Emma Choi after killing their father James, becoming increasingly unstable and wanting to decapitate the two next for Rusty to give him back Ethan. The BAU manages to interfere and save them before he can go through with it.
Human Sacrifice: Peters believes that the way to get to another timeline is by sacrificing people to a demonic figure named Rusty, who looks like someone wearing a goat costume.
Psychological Projection: Peters kills fathers because he's exaggerating his own failures as one, and the guilt is making him justify his envy of happier families as a supposed way of getting his own son back.
Rule of Symbolism: "Rusty" is clearly a person wearing a goat costume even in-universe, as a representation of how fragile George's mind became after his son's death, and how the guilt consumed him thoroughly. When Prentiss makes him confront the truth, Rusty removes the costume head and reveals himself as being Peters, as a symbol of him constantly destroying himself with his delusions and denial of reality.
Villain of the Week: Of "Rusty".

Beaumont UnSub

Played by: T.J. Power

"Give me credit for trying to do the right thing... But you need to find me. You need to stop me. Please."

An unnamed schizophrenic serial killer who targets prostitutes and successful men, projecting his own parents onto them.

Being Evil Sucks: His killings are compulsive, so he wants to be stopped but feels necessary to continue and evade law enforcement. He sends a tape recording of himself to law enforcement expressing these feelings and making it clear he doesn't seem to enjoy it, but he only manages to stop when Rossi shoots him dead.
Boom, Headshot!: Tries to escape the BAU while shooting at them. Rossi, forced to return fire, nails him on the back of the head.
Calling Card: Removing his victims' ears, tongues and left hands, then hanging them off the branches of a tree he associates with his past. What the significance of this ritual is and how it ties back to his origin is never revealed.
Disappeared Dad: His father left both him and his mother not long after the UnSub was born.
Does Not Like Men: Primarily targets wealthy men who remind him of his father, their deaths being more brutal and forceful in comparison to him sedating and strangling promiscuous women.
Dream Tells You to Wake Up: The final kidnapping victim discovers that the UnSub that he's been shot in the head... from inside a dying hallucination.
Freudian Excuse: His mother was a prostitute who brought clients home. She told him his absent father was a wealthy man, so now he kills prostitutes and wealthy men with varying degrees of brutality as he projects his own parents onto them.
Imagine Spot: The UnSub tries to use creative visualization to get what he wants. When it doesn't work is when he gets murderous.
The Killer in Me: Invoked, but never realized. This UnSub worries that he will become evil so gradually that he doesn't even notice. He thinks about this a lot while he's mutilating his freshly killed victims.
Not Good with Rejection: He really can't handle it when women don't want to be saved from their own lives.
Teen Pregnancy: He's the child of one, born to an underage prostitute and her equally-underage wealthy lover.
Villain of the Week: Of "Family Tree".

Characters / Criminal Minds: UnSubs (Seasons Eleven to Fifteen)

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