History Characters / CriminalMindsUnsubsSeasonsSixToSeven

* DropTheHammer: How she tortures her victims in her home, using a hammer to break their legs and arms so they'll need her even to ''move''.

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* LockedRoomMystery: A variation on the concept itself; a young girl goes missing and there are two suspects who were the only ones last seen with her who could have killed/gotten rid of her in some way, with one suspect looking increasingly more likely to be the [=UnSub=] than the other.

* NotGoodWithRejection: Kate Joyce vanished because one of the two men was very likely rejected by her when trying to invite her to sex. [[spoiler:Turns out Barrett is this, drugging (possibly [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]]) and disposing of Kate after she rejected him over Syd.]]

* CatchPhrase: "Let's do this", which he says in a flashback before committing his murder, and which later becomes his campaign slogan.

* CatchPhrase: Randy had "I AM GOD!" and "Look me in the eye!". The latter was adopted by Robert Adams ten years after Randy Slade's massacre

* ArchenemyDad: Downplayed version, but his daughter spent most of her life trying to repress a memory she had of seeing him torture one of his victims. During the episode, she goes back and forth between doing nothing out of disbelief for the charges and thinking of helping the BAU until finally she helps put him away.

[[folder:James Heathridge]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KyleGallner
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->''"An innocent will die before the wise, but a Devil's Wife will surely rise."''

A delusional serial killer believing himself to be a part of Shakespeare's play "''The Merry Wives of Windsor''", fighting the "Devil's Wives". He has an incestuous fondness for his sister Lara, who helps him trap and kill his victims in their old family home.

* BrotherSisterIncest: He has a kind of romantic attraction to his sister. He arranges a "Prom" for her after not allowing her to go to the prom that her school is holding. He also kisses her quite passionately when [[spoiler: the BAU team are heading towards his residence.]]
* BurnTheWitch: Believes he's on a mission to kill the Brides of Satan.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Ends up falling down a well while fighting Hotchner. Also doubles as a KarmicDeath, since he'd used that same well to torture his victims.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Gets into a fistfight with Hotch right before his death.
* IdleRich: He and his sister are the heirs of a large textile empire, which gives him the expensive clothes and honed smooth manners he uses to lure his victims to his house.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His mother had the same delusions [[spoiler: and his sister eventually believes she's one of the devil's wives.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Dies by falling headfirst into the same well he used to torture his victims.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He keeps his sister almost completely isolated from society, believing that she will immediately be judged for her birth defect, and that allowing her to go off on her own will make her vulnerable to Satan's temptations.
* MommasBoy: Was indoctrinated by his mother.
%%* SympatheticMurderer
* VillainOfTheWeek: Of "Heathridge Manor".
* WellIntentionedExtremist: How he sees himself, though he only ''thinks'' he's doing God's work.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Thinks he's TheChosenOne on a mission to save the world from the devil's wives rather than a SerialKiller in a PoliceProcedural.

[[folder:Malcolm Ford]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ChadLColeman

->''"What we have is a bond that you know nothing about. But I'll tell you about it. If you ask permission."''

A vicious stalker, abductor and rapist responsible for the kidnapping of Derek Morgan's missing cousin Cindi Burns, who is now forcibly married to him. The BAU takes on the case after Morgan's sister spots Cindi with him, after a long time of thinking she had died a captive.

* AntagonistTitle: The "Company" is the organization he's a part of.
* CrazyPrepared: His connections and the fear he's instilled onto Cindi all contribute to why he thinks he's essentially untouchable, since the Company can give him passage out of the country should the need arise, the "Cabin" has Cindi's child (and possibly many others) as a hostage and he's all but convinced her that her situation is hopeless.
* DeathByIrony: Arrest by Irony, rather. He's an arrogant bastard who thinks the BAU can't arrest him for his murder of John Hitchens because of a lack of evidence and testimony against him, as well as his connections and Cindi's fear-induced subservience... Except the lawyer Cindi herself called to get him out of jail was a friend of Malcolm's, and he's ''far'' less resilient to interrogation, since he tells them where the "Cabin" is.
* FrameUp: John Hitchens, Cindi's supposed kidnapper and someone who went to the same Church she did, was framed by Malcolm shortly before he killed him, with his death later ruled as a suicide.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The so-called "Company" Ford is a part of, a ring of sadomasochists who kidnap women and force them into contracts that classify them as "slaves" while also giving them full collective custody of the children born from their rapes. With Ford's arrest, it's very likely that the members were tracked down and arrested afterwards as well.
* ItsPersonal: The kidnapper of Derek's cousin Cindi Burns, who left the rest of his family worried sick about her ever since 2004.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Given all the gravitas and attention of a two-parter [=UnSub=] despite only truly appearing in one episode.
* SmugSnake: Utterly '''punchable''' in how arrogant he is, believing himself to be fully above the law because of his connections and Cindi's servitude. None of the BAU's interrogation methods work on him and he gleefully gets Morgan to attack him in rage during it just for kicks while Cindi calls in an attorney to get him out.
* StalkerWithACrush: Stalked and harassed countless other women before focusing on Cindi, having a child with her out of rape and forcing her into a relationship with him.
* UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: Enforced by Malcolm, but it's zig-zagged. Cindi is only submissive and defensive of him because he's managed to near-completely convince her that her situation is hopeless and no one will save her or her child. But when the moment comes where he's finally surrounded and without a plan, she comes ''very'' close to killing him herself with Morgan's gun in a fit of rage. He has to calm her down and convince her to let them handle it before she relents.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Of "The Company".

[[folder:Rodney Garrett and Dylan Kohler]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Eddie Kehler and Mackenzie Astin

->'''Garrett:''' ''"She shoots shafts that at furthest range.."''

->'''Kohler:''' ''"Not yet, Helen. There's something I want to show you."''

Rodney Baines Garrett was a dangerous serial killer responsible for a string of murders in Oklahoma until he was finally apprehended and sentenced to death by firing squad. However, minutes after he dies, another murder happens exactly the same way Garrett would do it, with the BAU summoned in order to find and catch the copycat.

* TheBadGuyWins: Kohler is arrested but, [[DownplayedTrope in a way]], he kills exactly the number of people necessary to achieve his goal and actually succeeds in it: [[spoiler:by the end of the episode, Helen Garrett has fallen for him and visits him in prison to read Garrett's fan letters]].
* CallingCard: Garrett went after high-risk victims like prostitutes, drug users and hitchhikers, all of them short-haired blonde women, tied them to their beds and then killed them with a single stab to the heart using an icepick. Kohler, meanwhile, didn't care if the women had short hair or not, as long as they were blonde, and cut their hair off with scissors before killing them and leaving the icepick on their bodies. He also targeted residences that formed the shape of a heart around the central point of a map, where Helen Garrett's own home was.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The BAU deduces that the copycat is someone working on a tight schedule that is forcing them to space out their killings in the single day he's operating on. The schedule matches that of a prison shuttle driver, which is Kohler's occupation.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Garrett genuinely loved his wife Helen and lived an average life with her while moonlighting as a serial killer. [[spoiler:It's implied that she ended up falling for him regardless of his status and was the "fan" sending him letters in prison.]]
* {{Expy}}: Their dynamic is similar to Francis Goehring and Henry Frost from Season 3, with a prolific serial killer dying at the start of the episode before a copycat emerges to continue their "work", except Garrett was actually caught and executed and Kohler holds no delusions of actually becoming Garrett himself, just taking what he left behind. The two also never met each other directly.
* HumanResources: Kohler uses the hair of his victims to make a wig he wants to present Helen Garrett with.
* JackTheRipoff: Kohler's entire motif is copying Rod Garrett's signature with the distinction that he was killing people while working towards a goal: romance Helen Garrett and present her with a wig made from the hair of his victims.
* PosthumousCharacter: The episode opens with Garrett's death in prison, immediately followed by showing that someone is picking up from where he left off with a blond woman dying while tied up.
* StalkerWithACrush: Kohler is in love with Helen Garrett, Rodney's widow, and has been infatuated with her ever since meeting her during her bus rides to Gunter State Prison. He's been stalking her long enough to know that she lost her hair to treat a brain tumor, and is killing to make her a new wig as a gift to make her like him too.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Of "Divining Rod".

* OedipusComplex: Rhett's relationship with his mother, despite the fact she neglected and blamed him for her career coming to an end. It does remain a love-hate relationship, however, since he's also constantly badmouthing his mother, and gives her loving looks while challenging her to her face. [[spoiler:Or he would be, if that really were his mother. Instead, he's been talking to her corpse.]]