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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 6 through 7.

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Season 6

Sydney Xavier "Syd" Pearson and James Barrett

Played by: Michael Welch & Christopher Marquette

Barrett: "You still think she has a chance, huh?"

A pair of young men from Atlantic Beach who were the last ones seen with a young woman named Kate Joyce, who has gone missing. The BAU takes them both in for questioning to try and find her before it's too late. JJ leads the efforts while considering a job opening in a different sector.

Batman Gambit: The BAU uses this and Exact Words to solve the mystery; they make both suspects go through interrogation and even conduct a Lie Detector test with Barrett by asking him if he killed Joyce and knew where her body was. Syd reacts in horror to the idea she might have been raped, so he's excluded. Barrett, on the other hand, passed the test with flying colors, which is exactly what the BAU hoped for: of course he was calm and honest about his answers, because he didn't kill Kate directly and, with her being adrift at sea, he wouldn't know where she would be at that point.
Locked Room Mystery: A variation on the concept itself; a teenage 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.
Lost at Sea: If Kate Joyce was killed or ditched by one of them, she is likely to have been disposed of at the sea, since Atlantic Beach is a seaside city. Turns out Barrett drugged and dumped her off at around the time sharks are known to be more active, hoping she would be eaten, except she's found clinging to life at a buoy.
Not Good with Rejection: Kate Joyce vanished because one of the two men was very likely rejected by her when trying to invite her to sex. Turns out Barrett is this, drugging (possibly raping) and disposing of Kate after she rejected him in favor of Syd.
Red Herring: Syd's role in the episode. He's a smug asshole who's just soaking up the attention he's getting from the case while Barrett, the real villain, plays the role of unassuming partner.
Smug Snake: Pearson. He smirks and grins his way through interrogation even when under fire from the BAU's more aggressive questioners like Morgan, not only because he thinks they're bluffing but because he's soaking up the attention being given to him, all of which make him out to be the most likely suspect. This turned out to be what his friend Barrett was hoping for, but when Syd shows actual horror to the likelihood that Kate Joyce was raped, Barrett becomes the prime suspect and reveals this to be his true personality. The sociopathic bastard even tries to just leave the room when he thinks they're done with him, but he's soon arrested.
The Sociopath: Pearson's seeming lack of concern for Kate Joyce's fate builds him up as this, but he's ultimately let off the hook as just an imbecile wanting attention. Barrett, on the other hand, is actually sociopathic and tried to kill Kate because she wouldn't have sex with him.
Villain of the Week: Of "J.J.".

Lee Mullens and Colby Bachner

Played by: Daniel J. Travanti and Josh Braaten

Colby: "Dad, it's okay if you don't remember..."

A father-and-son team of serial killers. Known as "The Butcher", Mullens killed several different women but was released without enough evidence to incriminate him. He married a woman and had Colby with her, but then killed her as well in front of his son. Growing up, Colby was informed his father was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and starts a new murder spree to help him keep his memories.

Abusive Parents: Lee is abusive to his son, hitting and yelling at Colby frequently.
The Butcher: Lee was referred to this by media and law enforcement.
Electric Torture: Lee used a Lexwell on his victims for his pleasure. He also used his job as an electrician for this.
Evil Old Folks: Lee still kills people, despite being an elderly man with Alzheimer's.
The Family That Slays Together: Colby helps his father kills to help him with his memory.
Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Colby only helps his father to improve his memory.
Torture Technician: Lee using knives and electric shocks. He liked to mentally torture the parents of his victims too, by having his victims call them.

Villain of the Week: Of "Remembrance of Things Past".
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Colby seeks approval from his father so he assists him in abducting the victims.

James Thomas

Played by: Craig Sheffer

"No, now it's my turn..."

A violent serial-turned-spree killer targeting swinger couples and "alpha male" types in Ohio, trying to compensate for his metaphorical - and literal - impotence.

Batman Gambit: The BAU tracks Thomas down to a bar where he's planning to start a shootout, then have Prentiss approach him under the pretense of being a former swing partner from way back when to try and placate him before they move in. Unfortunately, she accidentally gets his pattern wrong (she talks about "boyfriends" having turns with Mary-Ann, when he only allowed husbands to do it) and this tips him off, making him reach for his pistol. Prentiss is then forced to shoot him first, doing it through a gun hidden in her purse.
Calling Card: Picking the locks of the homes he targets, forcing the target couples to have sex and even creating a "romantic" setting for it, then shooting the husband before stabbing the wife.
Control Freak: His biggest kink was to step in and have sex with his wife Mary-Ann after letting another swinger have a go with her, giving him a sense of control. After needing to remove his prostate for health reasons, then learning his wife got pregnant from another man, Thomas snapped after feeling he lost control of his relationship and started killing to feel it again.
- His attack on the Wilson couple shows this best; Thomas just flat-out shoots the husband dead after he puts up too much of a struggle, then forces the woman to say she wants him before shooting her too, enraged after losing control of the fantasy.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Surprisingly for someone with Control Freak tendencies like his, Thomas genuinely loves his wife, and started killing only after thinking he lost control of their relationship to the point he "allowed" another man to impregnate her when he couldn't. His dying words to Prentiss, even though he doesn't finish them, is a desperate plea to tell Mary-Ann that he loves her.
Forced to Watch: Shoots the men of the target couples in a way that makes them die slower so they'll watch him stab their wives.
Master of Unlocking: Works as a locksmith. This lets him make molds of house keys so he can break into a target couple's home and wait for them.
Really Gets Around: He and his wife were swingers who frequented events where different types of sexual roleplay happened, where James would "step in" after letting another husband have sex with his wife so he could reassert himself as the "alpha". This trope then factors into his M.O. since, if he can't have control over other men through sexual performance, he now does it through violence.
Spree Killer: Devolves into one the moment he enters a swingers' party and, after seeing another couple having roleplay, shoots at all the men in the place out in the open. The BAU, along with a SWAT team, catches up to him when he's about to do it again at a local pub he and his wife used to frequent.
Villain of the Week: Of "Compromising Positions".

Jeremy Sayer

Played by: Sterling Beaumon

"Do you ever wonder what's under your skin?"

A teenage family anhihilator and spree killer with an uncontrollable urge to murder and harm people around him. His mother deliberately abandoned him after one crime too many, hoping to get him out of her life so he wouldn't hurt her baby daughter, but he intends to get his revenge against her over it.

Ax-Crazy: He has no control over his homicidal urges at all, literally stabbing and dissecting a guy who picked him up while they were still driving.
Cain and Abel: His relationship with his sister is far from healthy. He broke her arm for unknown reasons and he takes her hostage upon returning home with intention of killing her. Due to his strained relationship with his mother, it’s implied to be out of envy that he despises Carrie for being loved by their mother.
Enfant Terrible: At age 13, he's the youngest rampage killer in the show's history. Not only that, he's also the teenage psychopath with the biggest body count. His mother believes that even as a fetus, he was evil since he absorbed his twin brother.
Freudian Excuse: His mother hated him since the day he was born for absorbing his twin while he was in the fetal stage.
The Sociopath: Of the volatile, easily-angered variety, following every textbook sign of sociopathy, including killing animals and hurting family members.
Smug Snake: Even when he's being arrested, Jeremy boasts that since he's a minor, he'll merely be institutionalised and released when he's 18, remarking that he'll see his mother and sister again in five years. Morgan shuts him up by promising he'll attend every parole hearing Jeremy has and personally see to it he is never released from prison.
Teens Are Monsters: Mostly because this one feels a compulsive urge to kill.
Villain of the Week: Of "Safe Haven".
You Wouldn't Shoot Me: He confidently brags this when the B.A.U. confront him while holding his sister hostage, certain they won't hurt a minor. Morgan retorts that he has no problem with shooting a killer, and Jeremy, realising Morgan isn't bluffing, chooses to surrender.
Derek Morgan: [Jeremy is holding his sister at knifepoint] Do you wanna die?
Jeremy Sayer: You won't shoot me when Mommy's little angel can get hurt.
Derek Morgan: Yes or no?
Jeremy Sayer: I'll cut her neck open. I know how to do it. I've practiced.
Derek Morgan: I'm not gonna ask you again, Jeremy.
Jeremy Sayer: You can't shoot a kid.
Derek Morgan: I can shoot a killer. And I will, believe that. If that knife even twitches, I'm gonna put a bullet right through your brain.

Kaman Scott

Played by: Leonard Roberts

"You gonna burn."

A common robber from Detroit who suffered a near-fatal car accident that severely burned half of his face and upper torso. His life in ruins, he snapped and became a brutal serial killer and arsonist who kills people on Devil's Night, the tumultuous build-up towards Halloween.

Asshole Victim: He targets people he feels have wronged him in some manner, like the landlord who evicted him while he was comatose. The others, however, aren't really evil people themselves, but did things that contributed to Kaman's ever-growing list of grievances.
Calling Card: Kidnaps his victims away from their loved ones, immobilizes them at abandoned warehouses and sets them on fire.
Despair Event Horizon: The reason he started killing, feeling like he lost everything good in his life after the accident, with even the one person he tried to be good towards leaving him for another.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: What finally makes him surrender. Tracy raised the son she had with him and named him after his dad, proving she didn't just forget him. Not wanting to traumatize his own son, he lets himself be taken into custody.
Facial Horror: He could pass for a reverse Two-Face with how the right side of his face is so utterly disfigured while the left side is mostly intact. Despite how serious and obvious his scars are, he still managed to avoid being arrested for so long because people thought it was Halloween make-up.
Playing with Fire: As a call-back to the car accident that disfigured him, Kaman kills his victims through immolation and staged fires.
Talking the Monster to Death: Courtesy of Hotch and a tied-up Tracy Anderson, Kaman hesitates on killing her, her aunt and her uncle when he sees she has a child. His entire reasoning for killing was that he had nothing left to live for, since even Tracy seemingly left him and moved on, but the boy is not only Kaman's biological son with her, she named him after his father. He turns off the blowtorch he was gonna use to set the house on fire and gives himself up for arrest.
Trauma Conga Line: The moment he quit being a robber to try and do right by his new love Tracy Anderson, his one-time partner in crime causes a car accident and explosion that causes third-degree burns on Kaman's body and nearly kills him, then Tracy leaves him after thinking he'd die in the ensuing coma. Finally, when he wakes up, he learns he was evicted from his apartment.
Villain of the Week: Of "Devil's Night".

The Johnson County Brotherhood

Played by: Steve Talley (Michael Kosina), Michael Grant Terry (Chris Salters), Jake Thomas (Scott Kagan)

Kosina: "There's only one way out of the Brotherhood."

A killing pack of college-aged young men from Indiana, led by serial killer and rapist Michael Kosina. The group abducts exotic dancers in order to rape and kill them, although the current two members are slightly unaware of the latter fact.

Abusive Parents: Chris' father, sheriff Jeff Salters, repeatedly dominated and controlled his son's life, dishing out abuse day after day especially after his wife, Chris' mother, left them after being done with it all. Unlike usual examples of abusive parents, however, the sheriff's approach was one of Tough Love and he legitimately cared for his son in his own wrong way, except it still acted as Chris' Start of Darkness by making him join Kosina's brotherhood out of sheer hatred for his father.
Cop/Criminal Family: While Jeff Salters is a respected sheriff to the community, his son Chris was a victim of his abusive approach to parenting and ended up resentful of his dad as a result, growing up with tons of criminal charges against him, which his father redacted from his record to protect him. At the final stand-off, the sheriff is the one who kills Kosina and then stops his son from killing himself.
The Corrupter: Kosina tricks impressionable young men around his age to join the "brotherhood" by playing to their low self-esteem and bad histories, getting them to kidnap and rape dancers as a twisted way of making them "real men". By the end of the episode, Chris is so far gone into Kosina's talk that he tries to kill himself after realizing Michael never cared about him.
Driven to Suicide: Learning that Michael never really cared about them and seeing him get shot by his father, Chris tries to kill himself with his gun so his father can't save him and be the hero that day. In response, Jeff shoots his son non-fatally in the arm to stop him.
Fratbro: All three members tried to join a local college fraternity named Kappa Iota Phi, but were either kicked out (Michael) or rejected outright (Salters and Kagan). Kosina used this to manipulate the other two into joining him as a brotherhood, and their group mentality is similar to that of a frat, except naturally exaggerated by their aggressiveness and psychopathic tendencies; they treat women like objects and threaten them repeatedly if they don't follow their orders, along with gang-raping them afterwards all while hanging out like "bros".
Freudian Excuse: Averted with Kosina, who has no explanation for being a rapist asshole, and Kagan downplays it by virtue of his only excuse given being "unpopular at college". Chris is the only member who plays it straight by having a father who, while still loving, saw abuse as the best way to raise him.
Heel–Face Door-Slam: Kagan's attempt to save their latest victim after realizing what Michael was doing to them ends with him being caught and Chris being forced to kill him to prove his loyalty.
He-Man Woman Hater: The brotherhood's mentality, but Kosina's especially. He was already getting in trouble with law enforcement way before the episode's events by harassing and raping women with another team he used to lead, and was kicked out of college due to sexual misconduct with another female student. If his victims didn't please him (and even if they did), he'd rape them again in a cornfield and then kill them violently through strangulation.
Redemption Equals Death: Scott Kagan wises up not long into the brotherhood that Kosina is far more dangerous than he realized and tries to save Stephanie Wilson from them along with trying to escape with her. Unfortunately, Michael catches up to both and makes Chris beat Kagan to death with a bat to test his "loyalty".
Villain of the Week: Of "Middle Man".

Rhett Walden (The Hill Ripper)

Played by: Robert Knepper

"Look at her. Look at her, mom! Is that the work of a weak man? In a matter of hours, she'll be more famous than you ever were."

A disturbed budding serial killer from Washington D.C. who wants to give his victims the fame that was denied to his mother, an abusive ex-actress. He targets Caucasian blond women in order to make them fit with his vision.

Calling Card: Sending a photo of his victims to Georgetown's newspaper one day after their abduction, then stuffing a page of his mother's movie's script down Kelly Landis' throat before writing part of the script on a wall near the body's dumping site.
Dead All Along: His mother, in true Psycho fashion.
Disappeared Dad: Rhett Sr. was his mother's costar in her single movie, but he was never around to help raise her son and promptly left her shortly after.
Freudian Excuse: His mother blaming him for the halt in her career, leads to him killing women who resemble her in her prime to try and please her.
Parental Incest: 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. Or he would be, if that really were his mother. Instead, he's been talking to her corpse.
Shout-Out: The whole episode makes references to classic cinema, but the movie Rhett's life alludes to the most is Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, as it's about a disturbed man with a complicated, incestuous relationship with his mother, desperately trying to please her when she's actually been dead for a long time and the man is a dangerous serial killer.
Through the Eyes of Madness: Several scenes between Rhett and his mother are shot in black-and-white, stylized like a 1950s movie to better fit with his delusion. His mother being alive is also part of this trope, since she's actually a rotting corpse.
Villain of the Week: Of "Reflection of Desire".
Wham Shot: Rhett leaving his hideout to what his mind believes is a waiting crowd of fans and reporters, when in reality it's the FBI and local police waiting to arrest him. He's carrying his mother on his arms so she'll get her big break on camera, and the BAU finally sees he's been talking to her corpse the whole time, and it's the reason he was killing women who resembled her. Even worse, they finally discover where the first victim's lips ended up and why.

Shane Wyland

Played by: Gill Gayle

"No matter how bad things get, they can get worse."

A pedophilic child killer and abductor who lives near the woods of the Appalachian Trail, where he takes his victims home in order to torture and kill them.

Abandoned Mine: His hideout, which gives him a secluded place to imprison his victims as well as shelter during the winter.
Beard of Evil: Though he shaves it off after he successfully escapes.
Disc-One Final Boss: Given that the BAU is focusing on getting Robert Brooks, when Shane hands him off to Brandon Stiles, he stops becoming the center of the investigation.
Evil Cripple: Has a degenerative joint disease, which gives him a bad limp.
Fat Bastard: Downplayed as he's a bit hefty, but aside from his limp, he's still fit enough to easily navigate the wooded terrain.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: He's as abrasive and shouty as he is irredeemably evil.
The Hermit: Abandoned civilization for the woods along the Appalachian Trail to make it easier for him to hunt children (the Trail is a popular family camping destination) and harder for law enforcement to find him (since he knows the terrain better than they do, and nobody expects a child abductor to be operating out in the wilderness).
Karma Houdini: One of the only UnSubs to elude the BAU and, along with the Mountain Man, one of only two UnSubs to get away completely scot-free. However, he has a degenerative disease that is slowly and painfully crippling him, and is no longer able to get the pain medication he needs, so he will likely die a very unpleasant death in the mountains.
Serial Killer: Targets young boys in the woods.
The Unfettered: Lives out in the woods to avoid the constraints of society.
Villain of the Week: "Into the Woods".
Would Hurt a Child: He's a predatory pedophile who feels no shame about what he does.

Drew Jacobs

Played by: Kenneth Mitchell

"I'm gonna ask you one more time. How do you know... what the families will think?"

A serial killer in New Mexico killing married women in the gated community he lives in, a case that hits far too close to home for the newest BAU member, Agent Ashley Seaver.

Badass in Distress: He gets Agent Seaver into his home by luring her into talking about how the serial killer's family would react to knowing about his secret life, then holds her at knifepoint to make her explain how she knows so much.
Calling Card: Corners married women at their homes in the middle of the night, then ambushes them from behind and garrotes them. As he grew more confident with each kill, he started killing them with increasing proximity to other people in the same house (ie killing them with a person the next room over).
It's Personal: Agent Seaver's own father was a serial killer with a very similar M.O. to Jacobs', so the possibility that the UnSub might be a family man hiding his killing urges from loved ones resonates with her, already on her first case with the BAU itself. Unfortunately, it also gets her to visit the top suspect's home all by herself and it nearly gets her killed as a result.
Suicide by Cop: After hearing about Ashley's own father, he quietly whispers an apology to his daughter (who's already been taken outside the house) before rushing at Hotch with the knife in his hand, getting shot dead immediately.
Til Murder Do Us Part: Murdered his own wife, Aubrey, in order to throw the police off his trail.
Villain of the Week: Of "What Happens at Home".

James Stanworth

Played by: Philip Casnoff

"Let's do this."

A candidate running for Congress and businessman from Washington D.C. who is secretly a budding psychopath responsible for the death of a woman and a man's family, having used his connections to get the man erroneously accused and sent to jail in his place.

Character Catchphrase: "Let's do this", which he says in a flashback before committing his murder, and which later becomes his campaign slogan.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Runs his companies this way, firing people just to ruin their lives.
Evil Is Petty: Ruined Don Sanderson's life out of simple jealousy.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Morgan takes advantage of this being The Tell, and true to form James starts getting angry shouting he "doesn't panic".
For the Evulz: Is profiled as often having sadistic urges. He once fired thousands of workers in one of his companies, despite it doing well, just to see their resulting misery.
No Party Given: When he runs for office, his party isn't stated, and the brief speech he makes at his fundraiser is so vague and packed with Meaningless Meaningful Words that it's impossible to tell what he stands for.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: His extensive connections makes it difficult to nail him.
Smug Snake: One of the smuggest in the show's history.
The Sociopath: A petty sadist who doesn't care who he harms, even loving it.
Villainous Breakdown: Morgan induces him into one to trick him into incriminating himself. Has a second one when Prentiss reveals they found the tape proving that he was the murderer.
Would Hurt a Child: Murdered Abbey Sanderson and would have murdered Joshua if Mary Rutka hadn't talked him out of it.
Villain of the Week: The real one, of "25 to Life".

Hollis Walker, Jr.

Played by: Chris Butler

"Everyone will wanna learn about the religion that drove the boy crazy— Will you shut up?!"

A college professor specialized in studying African-based religions in Miami, and secretly a serial killer utilizing his knowledge to frame his string of murders on the local Palo community in order to gain notoriety.

Artistic License – Religion: Invoked in-universe. The perception of religions like Palo and Santería utilizing human sacrifices is urban legend at best, since they believe in deities who are uninvolved in human affairs, therefore not requiring it^note. The episode actually points this out through key-witness Julio Ruiz, and Walker neglecting to inform Rossi and Reid of this detail is what clues them in later that he's the UnSub.
Attention Whore: He killed a bunch of people and nearly demonized an entire religious community because he wants to be a best-selling writer and be recognized as such by the media.
Batman Gambit: Reid, under Walker's gun, "fakes" a migraine crisis (since he's been having serious headaches through the episode) while telling him why his plan is pretty much doomed to fail. This, coupled with Julio's persistent groaning under his mouth gag, lets Reid knock Walker down with a rusty pipe, just in time for the rest of the BAU to barge in.
Body Horror: His crimes are done in a way that vaguely resemble the practices of Palo Mayombe and Santería with human "sacrifices" thrown in, so his crime scenes are littered with human blood, cut tongues in dishes and decapitated heads.
Bond Villain Stupidity: He could have easily just killed Julio when he came looking for Elian at their old home, but figured he could use him for extra tragedy to his cover story. Apparently he also uses the same rationale as to why he didn't just shoot Reid when he found his hideout, except naturally this results in Reid completely turning the tables on him.
Didn't Think This Through: Kidnapping Elian Morales was easily his worst idea, as Walker apparently didn't count that his mentor Julio would come looking for him, giving him a noisy hostage to worry about.
- As Reid points out when Walker holds him at gunpoint, he's essentially created a scenario where he would require being caught in order to get the fame he wants so badly, and he wouldn't really get it if he framed someone else for his murders.
Faux Affably Evil: An academic and friendly conversationalist in his work period, a vicious-yet-pathetic serial killer outside of it.
Framing the Guilty Party: His endgame was to blame the murders on Elian Morales due to his previous gang and drug trafficking affiliations, having the police find only a young man dead of heroine overdose by the time Walker would be done with him.
Freudian Excuse: His father, Walker Sr., is an expert in African-Cuban religions in the Miami area who just so happens to have repeatedly beaten Hollis Jr. in his childhood, then later posting a negative review of his first book on the newspapers deliberately to belittle him even as an adult.
Villain of the Week: Of "Corazón".
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Everything he did was all so he could earn the respect of his abusive father.

Raymond Donovan and Sydney Manning

Played by: Jonathan Tucker & Adrianne Palicki

Sydney: Till death do us part.

A duo of thrill killer lovers completely addicted to alcohol, each other and the adrenaline of killing. Both of them come from broken homes and parents who abused them as much as they drank, which resulted in a psychopath and a sociopath who both kill to satisfy their demented fantasies, although their Bonnie and Clyde-esque relationship is just as broken as the original duo's.

Abusive Parents: Both had sexually abusive fathers.
The Alcoholic: Both of them have drinking problems, having been to AA. Ray does try to attend an AA meeting, but Syd does not care and spends the time drinking and cheating on him.
Ax-Crazy: The two are thrill killers, meaning they gun down bystanders for fun.
Boom, Headshot!: How Ray and Syd dispose of each other's pedophile fathers.
Dark Action Girl: Syd is a vicious murderer. When she and Ray shoot up the AlAnon meeting, the expression on her face is particularly telling.
Death Glare: Syd gives her father a pretty epic one when she realizes he has another young daughter, about the same age Syd was when he was abusing her.
Destructive Romance: What their relationship really is as shown whenever they get into an argument or any issues between them come up.
The Dog Bites Back: Their ultimate motive is doing this to their fathers.
Freudian Excuse: Both of them were sexually abused as children.
Guns Akimbo: How they dispatch their victims.
ImAManICantHelpIt: Ray's own justification for his lecherous behavior towards other women and Syd herself.
Kick the Dog:
- Syd's is murdering Raymond's ex and cheating on Ray.
- Ray's is his threatening Syd's little sister.
Lady Macbeth: Sydney.
Mr. Fanservice: Ray has a Shirtless Scene after the opening titles. Also, while filming their activities, Syd takes a shot of his rear.
Ms. Fanservice: An intriguing amount of shots seem to be dedicated to Syd's rack and rump.
Murder the Hypotenuse: The team profile Syd as having done this to Ray's ex, given that she died of a heroin overdose, which she didn't use but Syd did.
My God, What Have I Done?: Ray, after strangling Syd over the aforementioned hypotenuse-murder.
Nailed to the Wagon: Both Ray and Syd attended AA, but while Ray joined willing, Syd was forced to join for a DUI.
Outlaw Couple: They work together, though Syd seems to be the main power behind things. The team even name-drops Bonnie and Clyde as a possible inspiration for their pairing.
Pet the Dog: Syd's Pet the Dog is a direct reversal of Ray's Kick the Dog: she genuinely loves her sister and reassures her that everything will be okay, even as Ray is threatening to shoot her in the head.
Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Happens to Ray when he gets caught punching a defenseless gas station worker in the face.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: They were both raped by their fathers as children.
Russian Roulette: Ray does this to his dad.
The Sociopath: Ray, probably the most sympathetically-portrayed one yet. Syd, as a side note, is a psychopath.
Suicide by Cop: How Ray goes out, insanely drive-by-shooting at the police and the FBI agents outside the gas station with the intent of joining Syd.
Sympathetic Murderers: Both motivated by massive abuse as children
There's No Kill like Overkill: Up to and including shooting already-dead bodies for the heck of it. It's hinted they actually get off on this.
Together in Death: Ray chokes Syd on impulse after learning from the BAU that she killed his ex. In a frenzied rage, he drives out shooting at the police precisely so they'll gun him down and let him join her.
Tropaholics Anonymous: Met via an AlAnon meeting. Ray is later seen attending a meeting which he and Syd promptly shoot up after the organizer irritates Ray.

Villain of the Week: Of "The Thirteenth Step".
Yandere:
- Ray was still obsessed with his ex girlfriend after the breakup.
- Syd murdered the aftermentioned ex to have Ray for herself.

Steve

Played by: Brad William Henke

"You refuse to notice the disgusting state of the world in which you live. You close yourself off rather than facing the reality that you're all just animals pretending to be something more."

A cab driver from Los Angeles who is also a serial killer and poisoner who abducts women in order to capture their scents in twisted experiments. His motivations are never revealed in detail.

Ambiguous Situation: One of the episode-centric UnSubs with the least amount of information given in regards to his past, his motivations or his end goal, with even his last name never being revealed to the audience or even the BAU.
Apocalyptic Log: Records his misanthropic thoughts on a tape recorder in-between taxi gigs and experiments.
Calling Card: His victims end up with a squared cut on the bottom of their feet from where Steve takes a skin piece to use as a "sample" for his experiments.
Collector of the Strange: He takes samples from his victims' skin in order to make perfumes off their body scent.
Foil: His profile and occupation make him resemble an older, more sophisticated version of the Hollow Man from Season 2, only acting out of personal fixations instead of a compulsive desire for attention.
Knockout Gas: Traps his victims in the back of his taxi when he has them alone, knocking them unconscious by releasing a gassified form of chloroform.
Misanthrope Supreme: His quote above is one of his personal recordings, in which he expresses resentment and contempt for humanity at large, seeing it as a bunch of animals refusing to see the damage they cause. How does this tie to his fixation on women's smells is never elaborated upon, but he does also make a point to record how he thinks the natural essence of a woman must be preserved above all else.
Signature Scent: Has a fixation on acquiring the "natural scent" of Caucasian women who enter his taxi and turning it into a fragrance he can smell through some twisted, torturing experiments that end up killing them.
Surprise Car Crash: Dies by crashing his car onto an unhooked truck trailer he misses while swerving during his escape from the BAU.
Unwitting Test Subject: His victims, women he drowns in methanol and later uses the bodies of to make a perfume.
Villain of the Week: Of "Sense Memory".

Jane Gould

Played by: Rebecca Field

"You have to understand! All I wanted to do was help her."

A budding serial killer and stalker who gives "self-help" advice to downtrodden young women like herself, then keeps her victims trapped in her home to ensure they stay dependent on her.

Attention Whore: A psychopathic version. She's so desperate for social and general attention that, even as a child, she would commit acts of vandalism and property damage and eventually started cutting herself just to get others to notice her. When none of that worked, she started making herself a presence in other people's lives in order to make them dependent on her.
Battleaxe Nurse: She's a nurse in Syracuse General, which is also where she scouts for new victims to latch onto.
Bludgeoned to Death: More accurately, to the pain. She tortures her victims in her home, using a hammer to break their legs and arms so they'll need her even to move.
Captain Ersatz: She's essentially Annie Wilkes from Stephen King's novel Misery in all but name and motivation, sharing Wilkes' occupation and method of torture exactly as described in the novel and shown in the movie adaptation. But as previously said, while Wilkes was a Loony Fan with a single target, Jane is a social parasite who targets any young woman with self-esteem issues.
Kick the Dog: Her "self-help" eventually devolves into trapping these poor ladies with self-esteem issues in her house so she'll have full control over them.
Stalker without a Crush: She stalks her targets from the hospital she works at and learns everything she can about them before stepping into their lives in order to give them life advice as convincingly as possible. Jane never does this out of a sense of entitlement towards the person, but rather because she wants these young women to depend on her completely.
Villain of the Week: Of "Today I Do".

Bill Thomas

Played by: Lew Temple

"I got two more days to prove that I'm fit."

The kidnapper of young Sammy Sparks' parents, desperately seeking a way out of his terrible situation. The BAU has to find the parents quickly, with the autistic boy being their only lead in the case.

Anti-Villain: He's not a psychopath or a serial killer, he's a man grasping at straws trying to make ends meet who just lost his marriage and his children, and is desperate to get them back. Unfortunately, his desperation is big enough to the point of kidnapping the parents of a young autistic boy to try and get money off their accounts, even seriously hurting the father in the process.
Despair Event Horizon: He's a fisherman whose job ran aground after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the loss of his main source of income resulted in his wife filing for a divorce and sole custody of their children. Thomas then abducted the Sparks couple, knowing them from his part-time delivery job, so he could make them give him enough money to fix things.
Didn't Think This Through: He forgot how slow banks can be when a person needs a huge amount of money withdrawn, resulting in him trying to make Alison take $40,000 out when she can only take $10,000 before needing other processes done first, with even her attempt at a check leaving him five thousand short. Worse, the gunshot he gave Charlie when abducting the pair ends up killing him when he bleeds out in Bill's boat, a death he didn't mean to cause.
Heroic Sacrifice: Cornered by the police in his boat, he goads Alison into shooting him dead so his own sons can collect money off his life insurance policy, which is about the only action with a noble cause he manages to achieve successfully.
Murder by Mistake: He shot Charlie Sparks when taking the couple hostage and didn't give him the proper medical attention to stop the bleeding, resulting in the father dying in his boat from exsanguination.
Villain of the Week: Of "Coda".

Ben Foster

Played by: Bug Hall, Cody Sullivan (child, age 10), Nathan Shepherd (child, age 5), Matt McTighe (Matt), Chad Lindberg (Tony), Samantha Shelton (Yolanda)

"They're right there!"

A schizophrenic arsonist-turned-spree killer and robber targeting random people in Portland, Oregon, acting out of a desperate desire to make the voices in his head stop talking to him.

Calling Card: Killing his victims by stabbing at them a LOT, even after death, so he could tire himself out and fall asleep near their bodies, which is the only time when his hallucinations leave him alone. Whenever he pictured one of the trio helping him, in reality he'd alternate between his left and right hands while stabbing.
Freudian Excuse: Suffered from schizophrenia since childhood and claimed to have imaginary friends, but his religious mother saw it as a demonic possession and had him go through an exorcism session at a local church. He befriended the personnel who carried it out, but ended up starting a fire at the church that killed the three people he met, and said people started appearing to him since then to push him into murder. Or at least something that looked like those people.
Gollum Made Me Do It: Ben's three imaginary "friends" are Matt, Tony and Yolanda, the same people who carried out the exorcism his mother made him go through in his youth, and who also died to the church fire he caused. The three now harass him constantly and make him target random people out on the streets so he can kill them at their homes. The ending indicates that the trio might be a different type of hallucination using the faces of his former friends as a "mask".
Hostage Situation: When the BAU corners him, he holds two kids hostage at their home and promises to hurt them if they don't retreat, but the group manages to convince him to let them go and at least offer to talk things out.
No Kill like Overkill: Deliberate, since he tires himself out through the repeated stabbings until he falls asleep on the spot, which gives him some respite from the hallucinations. The police was even confused after a while of looking for the "killers", since the amount of stab wounds per victim made them believe they were dealing with a gang of UnSubs.
Psycho Knife Nut: He uses a knife and stabs his victims to death and even after that, and suffers from such a dangerous case of schizophrenia that his hallucinations push him to kill random people on the street.
Talking the Monster to Death: Reid tries to get Ben to surrender peacefully and promises to help him, which seems to work... But the imaginary trio once again interferes by making Ben see and hear Reid asking to be stabbed himself, which forces Hotch to shoot him non-fatally.
Through the Eyes of Madness: Whenever the episode shifts focus to Ben, he's surrounded by Matt, Tony and Yolanda pushing him to commit more crimes and refusing to leave him alone until he does. Every interaction Ben has with the trio, from trying to kill them to seeing them warp his perception of reality, is shown to the audience in horrific detail.
Villain of the Week: Of "With Friends Like These..."

Shelley Chamberlain

Played by: Kelli Williams

"They don't remember. NO ONE remembers!"

A woman who lost her son in a car accident caused by an escaped robber. Suffering from her subsequent divorce, the ensuing PTSD and the fact the death of her child was barely a blip on the news, she's devolved into a mass-murdering spree killer targeting rescue workers and, above all else, her ex-husband.

Antagonist Title: The episode's name refers to the bank robber whose escape from the police caused the car crash that killed Shelley's son as well as a police officer on the scene.
Ballistic Discount: Shelley's first freak-out is at a gun shop where she gets the pistol she intends to use to kill her ex-husband with, but the clerk telling her the purchase will take three days without a license makes her load the gun using ammo Don left behind, then shooting the place up in a fit of panicked rage, killing the owner, the clerk and two unrelated customers.
Berserk Button: Hero figures, as in social workers usually responsible for security and protection (cops, paramedics, etc), especially if they talk down to her as if they're wiser or more important. This comes from her son Damien's death being completely forgotten in the news in favor of a random cop who died in the same crash.
Hero Killer: Hero as in "social workers" like cops, since she resents them for taking attention away from her son's death in the news. While she only actually kills one (a mall security guard), she does severely injure two policemen at a roadblock and attempts to shoot two paramedics in a drive-by.
Hostage Situation: She holds her ex-husband at gunpoint in order to force him into buying a kids' meal at her son Damien's favorite restaurant from when he was alive so she can torture him with guilt, which then escalates into her forcing another family at the same location to continue on with their kid's birthday party.
Parting-Words Regret: The last thing she said to her son was scold him during a car ride. It contributes to her immense sense of guilt and unstable temper.
Sanity Slippage: Her son's death (on his birthday, no less) already gave her severe PTSD, but it gradually devolved to the point she aggressively blamed her husband Don for it, forcing him to divorce AND file a restraining order on her.
Shut Up, Kirk!: Both times her ex-husband tries appealing to her better nature at Sir Burger, like urging her to move on and trying to empathize, Shelley tells him to be quiet with the gun pointed at him. Hotch even has to tell her that the police will remember how they "failed" her and her son to make her give up her weapon.
Trauma Conga Line: The poor woman's been through hell by the time the episode begins. She lost her son Damien in a car crash during his birthday and with her last words towards him being a harsh reprimand, his death was completely overshadowed by a random cop who just so happened to die in the same accident, and her mental state deteriorated to the point her husband Don filed a restraining order on top of the divorce papers.
Villain of the Week: Of "Hanley Waters".
Villainous Breakdown: The hostage taking at Sir Burger, where her ex-husband tries desperately to talk her out of killing him or anyone else at the scene since she's on the verge of a full meltdown by that point. She's so far gone into her trauma that she even forces a family who remained inside to finish their kid's own birthday party, and almost slips back into shooting someone when Hotch intervenes.

Greg Phinney (The Co-Ed Killer)

Played by: Chad Todhunter

"Do you feel that? Not the pain. Do you feel your heart starting to beat a little faster? It's not your mind panicking. It's your body. It's fighting to adapt."

A serial-turned-spree killer, stalker and rapist targeting college students in San Diego through social media, having a sick obsession with his own nanny-turned-stepmother that he projects onto them.

Calling Card: Targeting female college students majoring in childcare and/or education that also resembled Kate Jones (Caucasian, early twenties), Phinney would stalk them online using their information given to him as a data entry clerk at the San Diego Registry. He'd then infiltrate their homes at night and stab them repeatedly, increasing the number of stabs with each victim. As he got bolder, he also grew a habit of neatly organizing food packages in the homes he invaded, as a holdover of his days in a mental institution.
Entitled to Have You: Supposedly, his trigger was his babysitter's marriage to his father after Phinney developed a warped sense of affection towards her. But as Seaver surmises later, he was a sociopath; Kate was the excuse he needed to start killing.
For the Evulz: While part of his motivation is a feeling of entitlement towards the affection of his ex-nanny-turned-stepmother, Seaver makes it a point to tell Kate after Phinney is killed that his killings were motivated by the fact he was an unrepentant sociopath.
Freudian Excuse: Averted; while the presence of Kate Jones distorted his ideas of affection, they were distorted to begin with, as Phinney was born a sociopath and only got worse despite the presence of decently-supportive parental figures (until he was institutionalized).
Psychological Projection: He projects his former babysitter Kate Jones on the women he targets, taking revenge on them before going after Jones herself for supposedly rejecting his love for her.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He outright sodomized Lily Droubay with his knife when he moved to kill her, having a strong projection episode of his stepmother in her place.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Stranger".
We Need a Distraction: Hotch talks him into asking Kate why she didn't "love" him when Phinney holds her hostage, which is just a distraction for Rossi to come from the back and shoot him when Phinney tries going for a Quick Draw. It ends badly for him.

Robert Bremmer

Played by: Jeffrey Meek

"It's okay, Rosie. Things are gonna get better."

A delusional ephebophilic serial rapist, killer and abductor in North Carolina looking to once again rape his deceased teenage daughter Rose by projecting her onto other girls he kidnaps.

Abusive Parents: He was the abuser towards his own stepdaughter Rose, physically and sexually assaulting her while still claiming he "loved" her deeply. Unable to take the depression and wanting to spare her daughter, his wife Denise drove herself and Rose into a nearby lake, and now he wants to restart the cycle of abuse with a new stand-in for his daughter.
Crazy-Prepared: He tricked a local voyeur teacher named Marcus Talbot into incriminating himself by sending him photos of his own victims, just in case the police started to catch up to his killings.
Guns Firing Underwater: Even with Morgan diving in after his sinking car to save Marcy, Bremmer still tries to hold her leg to stop her, only for Hotch to also show up and shoot him through the windshield, UNDERWATER to finally kill Bremmer for good.
Mask of Sanity: Went unsuspected for the longest time because of his reputation as a friendly café owner to the neighborhood he lived in, hiding the sick and disgusting things he did to his stepdaughter at home.
Psychological Projection: Kidnaps late-teenaged women because he's projecting his stepdaughter Rose on them, wanting to rape her again like he did before she died. With Marcy Owens, he tried to kill himself with her the same way his wife did with Rose so he could "finally" take her with him instead.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Abused his teenage daughter to the point her mother killed both herself and her to get away from him. He now tries to rape other women he projects his daughter onto, and his relative lack of touch with reality in no way hides how monstrous he is.
Taking You with Me: Cornered by the police and on the run in his car, he chooses to drive into the lake where his wife killed herself and Rose so he can take Marcy Owens with him the same way. Cue Morgan diving in to pull her out, and Hotch stopping Bremmer from holding her by shooting him through the windshield underwater.
Villain of the Week: Of "Out of the Light".

Blake Wells

Played by: Karl Makinen

"How do you know I don't have more bodies out there? It's a big sea."

A serial killer and abductor who hides his victims' bodies on the seafloor off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. While the BAU investigates the case, Morgan's aunt pleads with him to make sure her missing daughter, his cousin, isn't one of the bodies.

Abusive Parents: Chuck Wells was an abusive alcoholic who regularly beat and neglected his son, abandoning him and his mother Crystal when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. When she died while Blake was 16, Chuck took custody of him and forced him to work at a fish cannery under constant abuse, even breaking his son's arm before a shift just because he showed up late once. Unsurprisingly, when Blake finally snapped, his father was his first victim.
Ax-Crazy: Years of repeated abuse turned Wells into a brute who only gets satisfaction from torturing and killing people. Not happy with how one of his victims fought back, he starts giving the man's son a taste of what Chuck put him through, which only worsens as the boy is not afraid of him even after being hit.
Batman Gambit: After apprehending Wells, Morgan barges into the interrogation room and starts showing him pictures of his previous victims so he can "identify" them, until he places a picture of Cindi down. Wells, catching on that Morgan is related to her, starts taunting him over her and claims he did kill her like the others... causing Morgan to get up and leave him talking, much to his rage, cementing that he never met Cindi; he didn't bother to even name her like he did the other victims.
Calling Card: Kidnapping tourists, using a drug called "trilomide" to make them controllable and then instructing the victims to stab themselves with a knife. He'd also make them write a postcard for their families telling them they'd stay around Jacksonville so they wouldn't come looking when they went missing, and later dumped their bodies on the sea from his boat.
For the Evulz: When Morgan questions him about his victims, Wells takes sadistic delight in talking about how he killed them, citing their names but no exact reason for why he did it. Catching on that the last photo is of a woman his interrogator is clearly related to, he takes the opportunity to gloat and rub it in Morgan's face that he killed her. Morgan then tells him "no you didn't" and walks out, denying Wells the satisfaction of attention and leaving him furious.
Freudian Excuse: His father abused him and made him work with him at a fish cannery after Wells' mother died of breast cancer in his teenage years.
Self-Made Orphan: His first victim was his abusive bastard of a father, who he tortured for a long time before killing.
Villain of the Week: Of "Big Sea".

Lucy's Gang

A gang of Human Traffickers who operate all across the United States, Lucy's unit specializes in kidnapping college students to serve the tastes of a rich and exquisitely depraved clientele. Never staying in one place for more than three days, and communicating only by payphone, Lucy and her men have evaded the FBI for years, and racked up a sizeable body count.

Lucy

Played by: Angela Sarafyan

The cold-blooded leader of the human trafficking ring, Lucy is a depraved young woman who befriends college students in order to lure them into the clutches of the rest of the gang. Fond of playing the victim, Lucy often stages her own abduction, and has herself placed in the cages alongside the other captives, in order to better savour their fear. Profiled as an unstable sexual sadist, Lucy maintains her grip on the rest of the outfit through a combination of blackmail, force of personality, and fear.

Bad Boss: Doesn't care about her mooks, and throws them all to the dogs when the police arrive.
Big Bad Friend: To the various prisoners.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be a victim in order to win the trust of the other girls. This both gets her off, and helps her prevent possible escape attempts.
Brainy Brunette: Evil Genius variation.
Decoy Damsel: Pretends to be one of the prisoners in her human trafficking ring. Is actually the brains of the operation.
Evil Genius: Why her men listen to her. With Lucy in charge they've been evading the law for years.
Final Boss: Of Season 6.
First-Name Basis: And Lucy may not even be her real name.
Framing the Guilty Party: Lucy frames her right-hand man, claiming he was the one running the ring.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Her thug, Leon, is a towering giant who does the actual killing while she gives the orders.
Interplay of Sex and Violence: Gets off on the terror her victims feel.
It's All About Me: Throws her entire gang, including The Dragon, under the bus in an attempt at making her own getaway.
Lack of Empathy: Staggeringly so.
The Leader: Of the trafficking ring.
Manipulative Bitch: A very convincing actress, who plays on her victims' fears and hopes.
Motive Rant: Gives a short one to Renee while tormenting her.
Murder Is the Best Solution: Killing Rossi probably wouldn't have done much for her honestly. Doesn't stop her from trying anyway.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Has one inflicted on Renee by her goons.
Only in It for the Money: Lucy gives a speech to Renee wherein she claims this is why she does what she does, but given the obvious pleasure she gets from it, she's either lying or not very self-aware.
Only One Name: We never discover her last name.
Psycho for Hire: She claims she's Only in It for the Money, but is obviously getting off on it.
Quick Draw: She's got a pretty good one, though not quite quick enough.
Revolvers Are Just Better: Prefers one.
Russian Roulette: Was going to play a game of it with Renee before the arrival of the agents.
Sadist: Gets off on the pain of her victims.
Serial Rapist: Facilitates the mass rape of kidnapped women by the members and clients of her ring.
Sex Slave: Makes a living out of selling women as them.
Smug Snake: Not nearly as smart as she thinks she is.
The Sociopath: She even pretends to be a kidnapped victim to enjoy every moment of the actual victims' suffering.
Taking You with Me: It's possible that she was trying this when she attempts to shoot Rossi. She was in the middle of an active crime scene, surrounded by federal and local law enforcement agents. There was absolutely no chance of her shooting Rossi and getting away, but she still gave it her best attempt.
Tiny Tyrannical Girl: The team were originally expecting the leader of the human trafficking ring to be a very big man and yet she manages to have total control over her employees.
Torture Technician: Has the girls tortured as part of breaking them.
Villain of the Week: Of "Supply and Demand".
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Tries it on Rossi; it doesn't work.

Max

Played by: Maximillian Alexander

Lucy's second-in-command who seems to handle most of the gang's administrative work.

The Dragon: He heads the ring while Lucy pretends to be a victim, and is killed trying to ram the police with a car in order to facilitate her escape.
Framing the Guilty Party: Lucy tries to pin all the gang's crimes on him.
Number Two: He holds the second position in the ring's hierarchy, giving orders to the others in Lucy's absence.

Leon

Played by: Massi Furlan

An enormous man who does most of the gang's killing, Leon is a taciturn thug entirely loyal to Lucy.

Bald of Evil: Has no hair.
The Brute: Leon's a huge one and actually manages to curbstomp Morgan. He's subordinate to both Lucy and Max in the ring's hierarchy though.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Crushes Morgan in a fist fight before being forced to surrender at gunpoint.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The huge guy to Lucy's tiny girl, doing the actual killing while she watches.
Neck Lift: Leon's big enough that one of his hands can wrap around a normal person's throat, and he often lifts the victims off the ground before throttling them to death.

Kyle

Played by: Matt Baker

A comparatively low-ranking member of Lucy's gang, Kyle acts as their disposal man, getting rid of the bodies of victims after Leon or a client murders them. His death in a car crash and the discovery of the contents of his trunk, is what kick starts the investigation in "Supply & Demand."

Asshole Victim: Kyle at first appears to be an innocent car crash victim, until the police see the hair sticking out of his trunk and discover the bodies

Season 7

Chloe Donaghy

Played by: Ursula Brooks

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"I'm your mum."

An international criminal, human and contraband trafficker, and Ian Doyle's former lover, mother of his son Declan. She appears in Season 7 in a revenge scheme that sees the team working with Doyle in order to stop her.

Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Inevitably murders her partners.
Disproportionate Retribution: Only because she brought Declan into it.
Evil Matriarch: Tried to abort her son before he was born; later kidnaps him and tries to sell him as part of a plot to get at his father.

Foil: Her desire for revenge on Doyle and the irrationality she displays in trying to get it, more or less mirrors Doyle's desire for revenge on Prentiss.
Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: A non-humorous example to Doyle
Revenge: Wants revenge on Doyle for preventing her from aborting a child she didn't want to have then chaining her to a bed for seven months, forcing her to carry Declan to term and give birth to him.
Revenge by Proxy: Uses Declan to get to Doyle.
Villain of the Week: Of "It Takes a Village"
Would Hurt a Child: Poisons an entire elementary school class.

Ben "Cy" Bradstone

Played by: Andy Milder

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"I see on the news, on the TV, that people question. They question why-why people do this. It's the same reason people do anything, 'cause, 'cause they feel like it, they like the way it feels. When I was a kid, my dog, Poppy, running across the grass. When I hit her, I liked that feeling. That has not changed."

A mentally-challenged "wound-collector" serial killer living with his brother, who's unaware of "Cy"'s murderous tendencies and his lust for said brother's now-wife, Ben's former crush and stalking target, the reason why he kills young women who look like her.

Alliterative Name: Ben Bradstone
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Uses his disability to seem harmless, but he knows what he is doing is wrong.
Cain and Abel: Hates his brother Matt for marrying the girl he was infatuated with. He plans to kill him one day, hopefully after raping his wife and daughter.
Creepy Uncle: Goes after his niece.
Ephebophile: Targets teenaged girls, whom he rapes before killing them.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His real name is Ben, but his family calls him Cy at his insistence.
Evil Laugh: Gives out a particularly impressive one after mocking his brother's angry reaction when he revealed that he taped his brother's daughter while he held her in bondage and tortured her.
Evil Uncle: Attempts to rape his niece, after burning off the nerves in her hands.
Faux Affably Evil: He uses his condition to get people to trust him and see him as harmless — this includes his own family.
For the Evulz: His actions have no logic aside from his being a sadistic monster.
Giggling Villain: Takes childish joy in his crimes.
He-Man Woman Hater: A raging misogynist.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: Films his victims because he wants to listen to them scream.
Mental Handicap, Moral Deficiency: Cy is a mentally handicapped serial killer and psychopath.
Obliviously Evil: At the start of the episode it’s implied that because of his mental handicaps, Cy doesn’t realise what he’s doing is wrong. Over the course of the episode, it’s made very clear that this is not the case.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Cy's dumb, but not nearly as dumb as he pretends to be.
The Pig-Pen: Doesn't bathe, brush his teeth, or otherwise take care of himself.
Psychopathic Manchild: He giggles like a kid at a carnival while he tortures his victims with sulfuric acid.
The Resenter: Towards his brother Matt, who isn't handicapped, was popular at school, and got the girl Cy was obsessed with.
Sadist: He brutally rapes and tortures his victims with sulfric acid, filming the ordeals all the while.
Serial Killer: Differently from Samantha Malcolm from Season 5 (whose brain damage was one of the causes of her delusions), he's actually a serial killer who just happens to have brain damage.
Serial Rapist: Rapes his victims in addition to torturing and killing them.
Sibling Triangle: His crush on his sister-in-law, Lyla, leads to a very sick one.
Smug Snake: Very much so — before his crimes are revealed, he’s shown to make innocuous comments that allude to his crimes without giving anything away. Once he’s in custody, he gleefully tells his brother what he did to Tammy, and mocks him over his anger.
The Sociopath: Has no empathy for his victims. He likes hurting people.
Stalker with a Crush: To Lyla Smith.
Villain of the Week: Of "Proof".

Luke Dolan

Played by: Max Martini

"I don't want you, I want my family."

A traumatized navy veteran who suffered a psychotic break on top of his PTSD after his time away in South Africa in a classified operation, devolving into a spree killer who believes his family has been abducted and targeting the "impostors" he thinks are responsible for taking them.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Because of his infiltration training, he manages to kill an FBI officer and use his outfit to sneak into the FBI Headquarters in Quantico, right into the BAU offices were he knows Rossi is. He holds the entire place hostage with bombs strapped to himself, threatening to blow it all to hell if his family isn't brought to him.
Bittersweet Ending: He's successfully arrested by the BAU and his bombs are safely disarmed, but his daughter crying out for him makes him look at her and his wife and his syndrome makes him think he was tricked into surrendering, now seeing the two as impostors as well.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His entire "mission" during the episode is to find his wife and child, who he thinks were captured by enemy agents sent to spy on him. He only finally surrenders and disarms the bombs on himself when he hears they're okay (since he can't look at them).
Mentor Occupational Hazard: His first victim is his former team leader Adam Werner, shooting him in the middle of his crowded office floor, then proceeding to kill seven other employees to prevent the "impostors" from "reporting to their superiors". Boyd Milgram, his former commanding officer, is set up to be another target later on, but he ends up being part of a distraction for Dolan to enter the BAU headquarters.
Mistaken For An Impostor: The car crash he suffered damaged his brain to the point he developed Capgras Syndrome, a psychiatric disorder that causes the sufferer to perceive people in their lives as "impostors" who replaced their loved ones and acquaintances. Because Luke is a former navy lieutenant and navy SEAL, his training makes him target and kill these "impostors" under the belief they're enemy spies sent to drill out information from him about Operation Dorado Falls.
"Not So Different" Remark: Rossi attempts this angle with him, being a former marine himself. While it does get Luke to listen to him, it also makes him focus on Rossi as a possible enemy to the point he invades the FBI headquarters in Quantico in order to demand Rossi give him his wife and child.
Self-Made Orphan: His delusion makes him torture and kill both of his parents, thinking they were also replaced by substitutes sent to spy on him.
Shadow Archetype: Arguably one to Roy Woodridge from Season 2, another traumatized veteran who just wants to be reunited with his loved ones, except Woodridge was reliving the worst days of his life and only killed whenever he felt threatened, dying in a Heroic Sacrifice to save what he perceived was an innocent bystander. Dolan, on the other hand, actively hunts down, tortures and kills people he thinks replaced his loved ones in his manic quest to find his family, acting without an ounce of emotion and treating every killing as if it were just part of the mission.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: He was forced to execute two children witnesses during Operation Dorado Falls and their deaths were ruled as collateral damage, something that broke him when he was finally discharged back to the US. His war and combat experience added to the covert nature of his mission, plus the car crash that instigated his Capgras delusion, all essentially turned Dolan into a remorseless killing machine hellbent on his imaginary mission.
Villain of the Week: Of "Dorado Falls".

Randy Slade and Robert "Bob" Adams

Played by: Hudson Thames & Eric Jungmann

Randy Slade

Robert Adams

Slade: "I am God. Now, who's brave enough to look God in the eye?"

Adams: "Can you look at me in the eye, Jerry?! Huh?! Look at me! Look at me! Look at me, LOOK AT ME!"

Randy Slade was a psychopathic school shooter responsible for the bombing of a high school in Boise. Ten years later, the survivors return for a reunion, only for them to become the targets of Robert Adams, himself a survivor of the massacre whose story was stolen by the others, now wanting to make them suffer the same threat they once lived through.

Asshole Victim: Robert Adams's victims were survivors of Randy Slade's massacre who went on to take credit for halting the tragedy. One of them being Jerry, who told them Robert's story of looking Randy Slade in the eye.
Calling Card: Zigzagged; most of Robert's kills were done in ways that mirrored Randy Slade's massacre as a form of compact composite of all his actions (shooting, bombing, physical strikes to show dominance), but he eventually devolved into flat-out beating the victims to death before the bombing attack at the restaurant.
Character 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
Criminal Mind Games: "Look me in the eye." Robert had one of his own too.
Robert: Guess my name.
Hostage: Ralph?
(Warning shot)
Robert: Guess again.
Disproportionate Retribution: Robert's killing spree more or less amount to him not having received any fame like the other survivors and one taking his story to look good.
Feel No Pain: Robert can't feel physical pain, so he ignores the first shot but ultimately drops down when he is shot too many times. He also severly cut himself when he attacked Jerry, which is how Reid is able to know the person they are looking for must have a condition to use that much force with no self-preservation.
Flashback: The only thing we see of Randy in the show.
Foil: Randy Slade (the original bomber) was a high functioning, highly social model student and a narcissistic psychopath, while Robert Adams (the copycat) was a socially awkward outcast among outcasts who took revenge on those who stole his story of looking Randy Slade in the eye. Randy Slade and his unnamed submissive partner were this too, although no details are provided for a proper comparison.
For the Evulz: There is no logic to why Randy Slade did what he did. The only possible reason was that he clearly thought he was God.
Freudian Excuse: Robert's inability to feel pain made it really hard for him to socialize or express much empathy, not understanding the survivors aren't that happy about the bombing and feel traumatized by it since he didn't feel much from the whole ordeal.
A God Am I: Randy Slade himself says it all.
"I AM GOD!"
In the Hood: Robert Adams when he storms the restaurant that Randy's surviving victims were attending for a private gathering. It then strangely seems to disappear.
Jack the Ripoff: Robert's first murder wasn't exactly this (Considering that he didn't reenact Randy Slade's massacre) but he used a similar style with a bomb for it. Then he just devolved into savage beatings for his next two murders.
Loners Are Freaks: Robert Adams. Part of why he was not pushed as one of the survivor is that he was not that appealing in front of the media for being a lonely kid with a strange condition.
Long List: Randy's kill list his submissive partner contributed to it too. The list was separated into a Group A and a Group B. Group A was Randy's social circle and Group B was the submissive partner's social circle.
Mad Bomber: Randy Slade most definitely. Robert Adams also but not as much as mad as Randy was.
Narcissist: Randy Slade never mentioned his submissive partner because he wanted to take all the credit for the massacre himself.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Robert beat his second victim to death with his bare hands.
No-Sell: Sort of. Robert had a condition whereby his brain didn't register pain. When he is initially shot by a member of the team, he says "didn't hurt!" and continues to move threateningly. The next one kills him though.
No Social Skills: Implied that Robert Adams suffered from this in contrast to Randy.
Not Worth Killing: Randy spared Robert when he looked him in the eyes by saying he wasn't worth the bullet.
Revenge: Robert's motivation.
Sympathetic Murderer / Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Robert.
Taking You with Me: Randy Slade and all the students that happened to be in the cafeteria. Unfortunately for him he wasn't able to take all of them out and probably as many as he wanted to.
Villain of the Week: Of "Painless".
Who's Laughing Now?: Robert Adams' motive.

George Kelling

Played by: Patrick Stafford, Blake Bertrand (young)

"Your mother, she's unhappy a lot. Would you like it if her pain could stop? 'Cause I can make that happen. Do you want me to help your mom?"

A budding serial killer, abductor and stalker who targets homes where children have strained relationships with troubled mothers, kidnapping the pair in a deranged attempt to "save" the kids.

The Bad Guys Are Cops: A budding serial killer who finds his victims through the children's phone calls, since Kelling is a 911 dispatcher.
Batman Gambit: Hotch brings up Kelling's mother's death and points out the truth behind it, that he pushed her himself. Enraged, Kelling screams and, after Hotch perceives his gesturing as an attempt to shoot, fires and hits him non-fatally in the arm, letting the team free Connie and take Kelling in.
Calling Card: Kidnapping children, then later their mothers, under the pretense of a "follow-up" to the child's previous 911 call about said mothers.
Cruel Mercy: He targets children whose mothers have some kind of troubled mental state or indication of abusive or self-destructive behavior, offering to the kids that he can "stop [the mothers'] pain" and, after the kids naively tell him "yes", killing them in a way that relates to their problems.
Death by Irony: His own mother had suicidal wishes and was found by Kelling staring down the height of a bridge... which he pushed her off of. Later, with Marlene Smith, he slashed her across the wrists to simulate her own suicidal tendencies... before also stabbing and strangling her in a fit of rage.
Freudian Excuse: His father left him and his mother, the latter suffering from suicidal ideations, when he was still a child. Seeing his mom at the edge of a bridge contemplating the act, he pushed her off himself, but repressed the memory and led himself to think she jumped on her own.
Know When to Fold 'Em: When he moves to kill Kelsey Tanner after kidnapping her son Timothy, he promptly stops when he learns she's been taken into protective custody before he had a chance to approach. Despite the rage at being denied a target and Timothy's insistence at wanting his mommy, Kelling decides to just save himself the trouble and releases Timothy at a bar.
Serial Killer: Averted due to only killing two people.
Take Me Instead: A variation with Connie Barton, his final targeted mother. She plays up her daughter's perceived hatred of her to try and get Kelling to kill her instead, thinking that he'll turn his gun on Shannon after the girl told him not to kill her mother even after her boyfriend tried to force himself onto her. She thankfully doesn't end up sacrificing herself, since the BAU moves in at that precise moment.
Villain of the Week: Of "From Childhood's Hour".

Chase Whitaker

Played by: Sam Murphy

"Did you see it? The darkness? The light? Did you see?"

A terminally-ill serial killer and a devout Christian. With only three months to live and having suffered a near-death experience as a child, Chase abducts people into his van so he can drown them at a nearby lake, hoping they'll tell him what's waiting on the "other side".

Abusive Parents: His father beat him and had him buried alive when he was a child. The experience was his Start of Darkness when he nearly died from suffocation.
Sympathetic Murderer: Fears Hell, so he tries to give others Near Death Experiences so they can tell him how to reach Heaven instead.
Throw the Dog a Bone: Attempts suicide when finally confronted by the FBI and has another Near-Death Experience. This one, however, entails him escaping his Hell-like scenario and reaching "the light" just before being resuscitated and subsequently arrested. Complete with Prentiss even telling him, "It's not your time, Chase", implicitly as a way to reassure him.
Villain of the Week: Of "Epilogue".
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Has had lymphoma most of his life, got No Sympathy from his abusive dad, was near-fatally beaten and Buried Alive for finally facing said dad, had a Near-Death Experience of what was implied as Hell, and then saw others get to have NDEs of what was implied as Heaven instead. Just... damn.

Travis James

Played by: Alex Weed, Brandon Hender (young)

"Beautiful, ain't it?! Wrath of God himself!"

A delusional serial killer and abductor who kidnaps teenage boys in Kansas and dismembers them post-mortem, using the tornado season to trick the authorities into thinking the deaths were the results of the storms.

An Arm and a Leg: Kills and dismembers his victims, removing specific body parts from each of them, managing to get arms, legs and a full torso around the time the BAU investigates. This is all so he can bring his dead brother back.
Ax-Crazy: His delusion is so severe he actively thinks he can bring his brother back from the dead by creating a patchworked body replica of Tucker with his victims' body parts, then offer it to a tornado. When the team finally corners him just as another tornado is approaching, he's screaming ecstatically as he lets himself be swept away by the wind.
Back from the Dead: Wants to bring his brother back by creating a replica body using the body parts of his victims, most of them older, problematic teenagers like Tucker was.
Blow You Away: His entire shtick is tornadoes, using the tornado season to disguise his victims as casualties of the violent storms, having tornadoes as an integral part of his backstory, and believing a tornado will bring his brother back to life.
Big Brother Instinct: His older brother Tucker, who protected Travis in their youth from a pedophile who repeatedly harassed them. Said pedophile ended up killing Tucker before dying to a tornado himself. Travis' insane goal in the episode is to bring Tucker back.
Driven to Suicide: Because the BAU stops him from completing his body plan by saving Shaun Rutledge, Travis carries the unfinished "replica" towards the incoming tornado and lets himself be taken along with it, gleefully shouting like it's a fun ride.
Enfante Terrible: Driven to commit a string of petty crimes during his teenage years because of his earlier trauma.
Frankenstein's Monster: His main objective, creating a stitched-together copy of his brother Tucker using the body parts of troubled teenagers like Tucker and himself, which he believes will be given life by letting it be taken by a tornado. Reid even references the novel directly during his analysis.
Off with His Head!: His intention with Shaun Rutledge, his final victim, requring his head freshly-decapitated so his brain will still be fuctional enough to "reanimate" the dead body he put together. The BAU arrives just in time to stop it.
Trauma Conga Line: As a child, he was repeatedly harassed by a local pedophile in his trailer community in Oklahoma, his brother died protecting him from said pedophile, right before a tornado hit the park and killed both the rapist and Travis' own mother. In his adult years, another tornado hit the cemetery where Tucker was buried. This, as it turns out, was his stressor.
Villain of the Week: Of "There's No Place Like Home".

William "Bill" Rogers

Played by: Jack Coleman

"The moment I saw her, I knew what a beautiful woman she'd become."

A delusional hebephile rapist, stalker and abductor who's recently taken a member of Garcia's support group, Monica Kingston, as his hostage in a deranged walk down memory lane concerning her missing daughter Hope.

Ax-Crazy: Delusional, psychopathic and without a shred of sympathy. He wants another "Hope" in his life, and thus he kidnaps her mother to make her go through the same hell he put her daughter through.
For the Evulz: He drags Monica at gunpoint throughout all the places he stalked her daughter Hope at before leading her to his home. In his mind, he's doing this to recreate the circumstances of her kidnapping in his mind and have "Hope" back to him again, but it's clear he's drawing a lot of pleasure from seeing Monica suffer.
It's Personal: Monica Kingston was a member of Penelope's victim support group she hosted on the side, whose daughter was abducted and later raped by Rogers when she became a teenager. With her kidnapping (made possible through the psycho stalking her and entering the group as well), Penelope begs the rest of the BAU for help, one of the few times where she participates in a case directly, and even ends up talking to Rogers directly when he holds Monica hostage in his home.
Pædo Hunt: A creepy, delusional hebephile rapist who wants to start a family with the right "woman" and thought Hope Kingston was the right choice until she killed herself to get away from him and avoid having his child. With her mother Monica now his hostage, the BAU is tasked with catching him before he does something awful to her next.
Psychological Projection: He kidnapped Monica because he wanted to have another "Hope" to toy with, figuring her mother was the second best shot at having his "family".
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He seeks teenage girls to abduct and rape so he can have the proper "wife" he wants to start a family with, their say on the matter be damned, and Hope was the one he thought was the perfect choice. With Monica taken hostage and in his home, he also rapes her when she tries to escape him.
Villain of the Week: Of "Hope".
You Killed My Daughter: Even after being raped by him, Monica feels nothing but sheer hatred for Rogers when she learns of her daughter's fate, despite being afraid of him and his gun before. When the BAU intervenes and manages to talk him into surrendering, she instead grabs his gun and shoots him dead.

Colonel Ron Massey, Lieutenant Shockley Tawes & Chris Shelton

Played by: René Auberjonois, George Gerdes, & Don R Williams

Massey: "I make a promise to watch after these boys. In many ways, they're my own."

A group of military personnel from the Somerville Military Academy. Massey is a sadistic tyrant who believes misery builds character, allowing a group of bullies from his academy to target and harass a young cadet named Bailey Shelton and his new friend Josh Redding. In order to prevent the bullying from being discovered after Bailey commits suicide, he enlists his lieutenant Tawes and tricks Bailey's father Shelton into working for him.

Didn't Think This Through: Massey was counting on the BAU taking his side without question against the "dangerous rogue cadet", never realizing they would actually follow the evidence and question him as a suspect.
Evil Versus Evil: Massey tries to have Shelton kill Josh for his defiance, but Shelton gets wise to Massey and kills his top Jerk Jock cadets first as a Revenge sign.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Shelton via Josh's trap.
Ironic Echo: Josh sarcastically salutes Massey when he and Tawes are finally busted.
Misery Builds Character: Massey believes this and teaches it to his cadets (although a flashback where Josh beats up one of Massey's bullies implies he just gets off on kids fighting each other). Backfires badly when they bully Shelton's son to suicide, then worsens when Shelton himself invokes Roaring Rampage of Revenge for that. Not to mention Josh's Spanner in the Works role against this.
Oh, Crap!: Tawes at seeing Shelton's body in Josh's trap.
Present Absence: Shelton's only seen in flashbacks and as a corpse and has no lines, but he's still The Heavy and indirectly causes Massey and Tawes's downfall.
The Starscream: Shelton to Massey. He thought he could make him an Unwitting Pawn but by reading his son's diary he knows about the bullies that were Massey's protegés and kills them first.
Sympathetic Murderer: Shelton. He already lost his wife, but losing his son, too, made him just snap.
Villain of the Week: Of "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy".
Too Dumb to Live: Tawes for attacking Hotch in front of the BAU.

Jimmy Hall

Played by: Shawn Hatosy

"So I'm the punching bag, huh?!"

An aspiring boxer with a violent streak since his childhood, his son Ryan's leukemia diagnosis triggered his psychosis and bloodlust, turning Jimmy into a spree killer who beats his victims to death as he desperately tries to save his son's life.

All for Nothing: His son's situation is hopeless, and no matter how much Jimmy "fights" to try and save him, Ryan is just not strong enough to whitstand the necessary bone marrow surgery. The episode's finale is all about him finally coming to terms with this.
Berserk Button: He's already in a perpetual Hair-Trigger Temper due to his psychosis, but he'll go ballistic at the mere idea of looking weak, which is part of the reason he wants to see his son pull through, and the primary reason he killed the two bar patrons who called him a "punching bag" earlier. His quote above is a direct taunt towards them as he beats them to a pulp.
Enfant Terrible: He's had a penchant for violent behavior since his childhood, being expelled from three other schools and later attacking one of his bullies to the point the kid was rendered comatose.
Kick the Dog: His killing of Tony Cole, his own boxing teacher, especially after the man tries at all costs to plead with Jimmy that he has a family too.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: His mentor Tony Cole, who later reveals he consistently bet against Jimmy on his fights since he kept losing in the beginning. After Tony bets away money that Jimmy was hoping to use to save his son, Jimmy abducts and pummels him to death as well.
My God, What Have I Done?: His first two victims in the alleyway had their faces covered, since Jimmy felt remorse over killing two random people. As his bloodlust grows, however, he feels much less remorseful.
Morality Pet: His son Ryan, who's in the hospital by the time the episode's events begin due to leukemia.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: His M.O., beating his victims to death with his bare hands.
Pipe Pain: His first two victims were beaten with a steel pipe, one of them over 30 times repeatedly.
Stay with Me Until I Die: Hotch is the one who finally convinces him to be there for his son and tell him that it's okay to "let go", and it doesn't make you a quitter if you do.
Jimmy: "When I was in that ring gettin' punched over and over again, I figured out somethin'... Sometimes I wanna fight, but my body keeps telling me to stop and, doesn't matter how hard I punch, I just... I can't do it. And uh... And when that happens, you know what I do? I let go, Ryan..."
Unstoppable Rage: Suffers from a severe psychotic break that makes him violent at the slightest provocation, which also makes him attack anyone who aggravates him with far more anger and brutality than the situation probably calls for.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Bittersweet Science".

Caleb Rossmore and Harvey Morell, Jr.

Played by: Jeff Newburg and Finn Wittrock

Caleb: "I did all this to save you, from a life of misery, of pretending to be somebody you're not."

Two chess prodigies who met in high school and killed a classmate's little brother in secret. Years later, after Harvey started dating a girl both had a crush on, Caleb snapped and became a serial killer bent on getting his former classmate's attention by copying the crimes of the killer the two once studied.

Batman Gambit: Caleb sets up one of his own for the BAU, using his cypher to set up a possible murder scene that was only bait for the BAU while he murdered his actual targets.
- He's taken down by one of these as well, with Reid cornering him and Harvey at the restaurant Marisa Devon is being held hostage at, and telling Caleb point-blank that Harvey is about to move away from him to Shanghai. Devastated, Caleb confesses to their murder of Robbie Shaw and gets himself and Harvey arrested so they'll be taken together.
Calling Card: Caleb minuciously mimicked the signature and methods of the Zodiac Killer to a T, leaving symbols, placing items from a previous crime scene on the next and copying his kills with only a few minor deviations due to his own history and personal gripes influencing his decisions.
Evil Is Petty: Their first and only kill together back in high school was the 7-year-old brother of a bully that picked on Harvey once. Furthermore, Caleb sets up a fake crime location and murders people when the BAU takes the bait just so he can show up Reid.
Freudian Excuse: Subverted. While they committed their first murder out of boredom, Caleb appears to be traumatized by that and is killing people as an adult, while Harvey seems to have put it behind him like an ordinary psychopath.
The Heavy: While both are considered UnSubs for the episode, Caleb is the one who does all the killing and is motivated by his own emotional gripes and distress. Harvey only killed one person with Caleb, but it was done years before the episode's events and his role is to be Caleb's primary motivation for becoming a serial killer.
I Have Your Wife: Caleb kidnaps Harvey's fiancee and locks her in a room as the end of the scavenger hunt he takes Harvey on. It's actually subverted, since he never tells Harvey this, but lets him discover it for himself.
It's All About Me: Caleb has trouble talking about anything without making it about himself. He gives a toast at Harvey's engagement party and it's mostly about Caleb. The main reason he even liked Harvey was due to Harvey being a prodigy on a level Caleb deemed equal to his own.
It's Personal: Caleb takes special offense at Reid's presence in the investigation, seeing him as a rival and wanting to diminish his efforts, even deliberately setting up a false lead through his imitated cyphers just so he could murder more people to show Reid up, sending a message for him that he "is not as smart as he thinks he is". For his part, Reid treats the case with some personal involvement himself, but still not nearly as much as other cases he's handled before or since.
Jack the Ripoff: The two were fascinated by the stories of the Zodiac Killer during their high school years, making their own newspaper and thesis all about him. When Caleb devolved, he took the Zodiac's M.O. as his own precisely so Harvey would be sure to notice and suspect him, with a few minor differences caused by his own pathology; namely, he targeted specific types of women as stand-ins for Marisa Devon and their deaths, while a result of overkill much like the Zodiac's method, were done way more angrily due to Caleb's personal gripe with Harvey about to marry her.
Ripped from the Headlines: Not the plot, but the two men's backstory is basically that they were Leopold and Loeb as kids, except they got away with it for much longer.
Smart People Play Chess: Caleb and Harvey met at a chess championship as children and bonded over being the only intelligent people they knew. Becomes a plot point in that Reid deduces the killer's geographical pattern by superimposing the endgame of a famous chess match that ended with a Queen sacrifice over a map of the area, and the sacrifices line up with the kill sites.
Too Clever by Half: Caleb's coded messages in the newspapers tell Reid that the UnSub must have an IQ of at least 160. This rules out a lot of suspects for the BAU.
Villain of the Week: Of "True Genius".

Hamilton Bartholomew (The Piano Man)

Played by: Jay Karnes

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"You think you know me? I know who you are, Regina."

A serial rapist and killer who targets women in public venues, drugs them and ties them up in piano wire before taking them to a secluded location and raping them to the tune of a piano ballad played by different audio devices each time. While he hides his identity and covers his tracks well, one of his victims abducts a man she believes to be him and tortures him into confessing.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He tries to pass as an innocent pianist for most of the episode.
Conviction by Contradiction: Played for Horror. Even if Regina turned out to be right, he still sounds correct (at first) in the fact she kidnapped and is torturing him just because she noticed he knows how to play "Total Eclipse of the Heart" on the piano.
Isn't It Ironic?: Why did Regina know he was lying when he said that he learned the song so that he could sing it to propose to his wife? Because the song was "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
Oh, Crap!: When he realizes that Regina Lampert has recognized him.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Rapists in the show are usually the worst and Regina accuses Prentiss of not letting her have her revenge while she killed her personal nemesis.
Serial Rapist: Raped over a dozen women. Another man then targeted these women too.
Soundtrack Dissonance: He plays romantic songs from The '80s when raping his victims.
Villain of the Week: Of "Unknown Subject".

Curtis Banks, Jr. (The Circle of Eight Killer)

Played by: Dean Cain

"I meant what I said about my luck turning around. It's going to, I can sense it."

A ritualistic serial killer in Atlantic City who believes that his killings improve his luck in gambling, formulating his own demented "system" he thinks will improve his odds.

Arc Number: 8, which Curtis considers his own personal "lucky number", theming his killing signature around it. He also used to own a plumbing company called "88 Plumbing" and he kills himself at exactly 8 o'clock.
Calling Card: His winning "system" involves killing someone personally associated with him, then spreading a circle of eight 1-dollar notes around his victims' bodies, then leaving behind a playing card on the bodies proper, usually an eight-of-something. For his ex-friend Eddie Langdon, he left 88 dollars in the circle along with two 8 cards (thinking the double value would make the luck boost stronger after his last victim, a random gas station attendant, was a fluke). He didn't use this signature on incidental victims, however, so they wouldn't count on his "system".
Casino Episode: A gambling-themed serial killer acting in Atlantic City, so this is a given. The team even ends up playing a game of poker with the UnSub in order to identify him.
Disappeared Dad: Curtis Sr. left him and his mother after winning a jackpot and running off to Las Vegas.
Driven to Suicide: After finally realizing he's become exactly like -- if not worse than -- his gambling-addict father, he lets his wife go then shoots himself when the clock strikes 8.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does have a friend in Eddie Langdon, his former business partner, as well as his own wife Teri, both of which he does value... Except his addiction to luck is so strong that he's ready and willing to sacrifice them for it, even if he'll regret it later.
False Cause: In his mind, killing someone personally associated with him led to a luck boost at the poker table, therefore continuing the cycle will further improve his odds as long as he only performs his ritual with people close to him.
Freudian Excuse: His father left his son during his childhood after winning a casino jackpot, being the one who taught his then-infant son how to gamble to begin with.
The Gambler: He doesn't use actual gambling paraphernalia as weapons, but his serial murders are all casino-themed and he kills people he thinks have jinxed his lucky streak in some capacity, as well as people related to him personally, even his own friends and loved ones if he feels it must be done.
The Gambling Addict: Fell into addiction not far into adulthood, promising his wife Teri a trip to Tahiti through his winnings, but only succeeding in nearly getting his house doomed to foreclosure. A lucky scratch ticket kicked him right back into it to the point he took money from a loan shark, but by that point his addiction had become so severe it led him to think killing his opponents and people associated with him directly would improve his odds on the table.
Punny Name: A money-themed serial killer with the last name "Banks".
Villain of the Week: Of "Snake Eyes".
Villainous Breakdown: After escaping the casino when the BAU identifies him as their UnSub, he breaks into his sister-in-law's home and holds both her and his wife Teri hostage, blaming the latter for his ruined winning streak, so far into his delusion that he's willing to kill her to keep up the streak.

Michael "Mike" Janeczko

Played by: Geoffrey Blake

"I mean, it gets to the point whe-where you can't even look at yourself in the mirror; you think it's your fault. Sometimes you have to move on, but sometimes you can't move on! And that's no way to live."

An "angel of death" serial-turned-spree killer targeting wealthy men going through broken relationships, having snapped after his own wife's affair and subsequent pregnancy.

Acrofatic: Janeczko's not exactly fit, but he puts J.J. through one hell of a brawl when she corners him in his basement with Hunter, managing to briefly overpower her until she kicks him in the genitals.
Calling Card: Shooting the victims on the head execution-style after restraining them in his basement, castrating them post-mortem and later dumping their bodies under lifeguard towers along the local beach, as well as destroying their GPS and cars at the local junkyard he used to work at. If the men were victims of cheating instead of the perpetrators, he'd wrap them in plastic as a sign of remorse. As he degraded and with the authorities closing in on him, he started dumping the bodies in other locations.
Cruel Mercy: An "angel of death" killer who believes he's freeing his victims from the pain of being cheated on by killing them, except he's also projecting his own insecurities as a man onto them in the process.
Cuckold: Andrea Wright, his ex-wife, cheated on Michael with his best friend Doug Summers, even having a baby from the affair, his new stepson Hunter (although they didn't tell Hunter that Doug was his father). After she dumped him for Doug and forced him to take a new bartending job and live on the bar's loft, Michael snapped shortly after the New Year.
A Deadly Affair: Naturally holds immense hatred towards his ex-friend Doug Summers, who is now married to Andrea. So much so that, when the opportunity arises after Michael accidentally pushes Doug into the trash compactor at the junkyard, he traps him under Kelsey Ashwood's car and turns on the machine, crushing Doug to death.
Psychological Projection: His kills are done in a way that reflects Janeczko's own insecurity towards his masculinity, castrating the men because of his own perceived failure to "be a man" when it was "necessary". This plays differently when he kills Kelsey Ashwood, stabbing and dismembering her while she was still conscious since he was now projecting his ex-wife Andrea onto her, even dumping her body in a dumpster out of spite.
Save the Villain: J.J. manages to subdue Michael and disarm him... except Hunter then takes his gun and aims, rightfully pissed off at his stepfather for killing Doug, his biological father. J.J. convinces him to stop and consoles him while Michael is dragged off in cuffs.
Villain of the Week: Of "Closing Time".
Villainous Breakdown: After killing Doug, Janeczko becomes paranoid that he'll immediately be made out as the killer and kidnaps Hunter from his school, trying to erase any links to himself while also feeling conflicted over whether or not he should kill Hunter for it. By the time J.J. reaches him, he's childishly throwing a tantrum over Hunter finding out he killed Doug and defiantly saying he's not his father.

Trevor Mills and Clark Preston

Played by: Kevin Sheridan & Paul Johansson

Trevor: "You damn half-breed, you don't know anything!"

Preston: "As demographics change, so do crime rates. Now we may not be able to slow the browning in America, but we can sure as hell take our city back. And if you elect me, I'll lead that charge."

Trevor Mills is a "family annihilator"-type serial-turned-spree killer targeting low-income family homes and framing their deaths on supposed gang activity tied to non-Caucasian people living near the communities. As it turns out, he's being guided by a mayoral candidate who wants to use the killings to push his controversial campaign.

Ax-Crazy: Traumatic as his experience was, Mills grew up an utterly hateful psychopath with no regards for human life. He wastes zero time shooting at the BAU when they intercept his attempt at Hillary Ross' life and screams at them to back off with his gun on her head. No matter how much the team tries to show him that Preston doesn't care about him, he's so far gone that he has to be put down by Morgan.
Calling Card: Mills targets middle-class Caucasian families in the Inland Empire of southern California, cuts off the power and phone lines, then kills each family member with a single shot from different guns he finds in the households. He then kills and places a dead non-Caucasian male near the location, someone he abducted before the attack, to pin the blame on "gang activity" as instructed by Preston. Unlike the family members, the minorities were shot eight times, showing Trevor's rage and racism.
Expy:
- Preston's usage of Trevor, a young man with a family member they're taking care of while carrying out a killing spree of specific targets in order to promote his campaign, is not too different from Ray Campion using Gina King to kill off Dante's fans back in Season 5 to promote the singer's new album. The differences here are that the masterminds are in widely different areas (show business in contrast to politics), Trevor is not a vampirist like Gina and his family member (his mother) is confirmed alive by the time of the episode, he targets families while Gina's targets are singular, and while Campion was motivating Gina with her object of idolatry, Preston is the object of idolatry for Trevor;
- A politician who's also a closet psychopath using a crime wave of their own creation and setting up patsies to take the blame and push their own campaign sounds very much like James Stanworth from Season 6, with the episode even drawing attention to it by having Preston arrested before multiple witnesses during a staff meeting, mirroring Stanworth's arrest during his private dinner party. Unlike Stanworth, however, who did kill a few of his victims personally, all of Preston's murders were done by proxy via Trevor.
Freudian Excuse: Trevor's family was attacked by two African-American gang members when he was still a child, with his father and oldest sister dying in the struggle and his mother nearly getting raped, left in a vegetative state afterwards. Preston then showed up after Trevor went to court as a witness against the criminals and started helping his now-vegetative mother, her welfare checks now being donated to his campaign. Trevor latched onto his new benefactor's racist beliefs and used it to drive his rage against ethnic minorities living in the area, without knowing that Preston was also the man who hired the criminals to begin with.
Greater-Scope Villain: Clark Preston, who's guiding Trevor into committing the murders to further his campaign as he promises to stop the crimes once he's elected.
Greed: Preston's key motivation. As a former real estate worker, he knows that a rise in crime rates devalues property and makes it cheaper, so he hired two hitmen to start targeting family homes and, one night, ended up hitting Trevor's. With Ronnie Green and Carlos Jackson now arrested, Trevor took inspiration from Preston's "racist" campaign and adopted his views, giving him a new tool for his political rise. As Morgan himself later points out, even Preston's "racism" is just talk. He's a closet psychopath who doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself and the money he makes with each death.
Morgan: "Trevor, listen to me, he doesn't give a damn about black or white! The only color that son of a bitch cares about is green!"
Hero Killer: Averted. Trevor opens fire at the BAU the second he spots them coming, but all he does is hit Prentiss non-fatally in the arm.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Mills screws up with Ramon Gomez' drugging and kidnapping and doesn't get to kill him when he fights back and runs, straight to the police and the BAU, giving them a witness. Not only that, despite Preston wising up and telling Trevor to run away, he chooses to instead try to kill Preston's political opponent Hillary Ross just as the BAU are already on their way. This not only saves her in the nick of time, it finally gets Trevor killed and Preston arrested.
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Invoked. Preston's campaign is very clearly racist and surrounded in controversy, but as a closet psychopath, he doesn't really care about the image as anything other than how it draws more attention to himself.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Mills grew up idolizing Preston's racist views after his own family was violently assaulted by two African-American gang members when he was still a child, while Preston himself wants to use the string of crimes and deaths (which he was the main instigator of) to propel himself up the political ladder. Even worse, however, is that Preston isn't even really racist; he deliberately uses the image to spice up his campaign and reap in the money he still gets.
Undying Loyalty: Trevor, unfortunately, having been essentially raised by his racist beliefs since childhood. Even with Morgan pointing out how Preston has been using him, he refuses to listen and has to be shot dead before he can kill his hostage.
Villain of the Week: Of "A Thin Line".

The Collins Family

Played by: Derek Maygar (Jeffrey), William Russ (Donald), Kathy Baker (Linda)

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A family of three who are all complicit in the killing of several prostitutes. The son, Jeffrey, is a paraplegic who lashes out at them due to his own sexual dissatisfaction caused by his condition, forcing his parents Linda and Donald to dump the bodies and hide any evidence of his crimes.

The Alcoholic: Donald. This is what also caused the car accident that paralyzed his son from the waist down.
Driven to Suicide: Donald drives his car into a tree in a similar fashion to the accident that crippled his son.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Jeffrey has a sorrowful expression after Linda gets herself shot by the BAU.
Evil Cripple: Jeffrey, whose paralysis keeps him from getting aroused and causes him to lash out at prostitutes.
The Family That Slays Together: More specifically, Jeffrey does the slaying and his parents clean up after him. They become this after Donald kills Jeffrey's last victim who survived via blunt force trauma to the head.
Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Donald.
Lady Macbeth: Linda.
Offing the Offspring: Linda tries to shoot her son before she gets shot. She might have been trying to prevent him from going to jail by killing him herself.
Unholy Matrimony: Donald and Linda are a married couple who help their son kill.
Villain of the Week: Of "A Family Affair".

Margaret Hallman

Played by: Teri Polo

"We're gonna be a family, honey. Nothing can stop us now."

A former high school teacher in Seattle who's also a delusional ephebophilic spree killer and statutory rapist in love with a student, 14-year-old Thomas Brown, to the point of having a child with him. Unbeknownst to Brown, however, the baby bears the name of someone who means just as much, if not moreso, to Margaret.

Batman Gambit: The BAU, having cornered Margaret and Tommy at her house, tell the latter about her previous statutory "love" with Johnny Lewis. While Margaret denies it, her repeated bouts of paranoia with Tommy and unstable behavior make him distrust her and he surrenders, but not before Margaret attempts a final shootout only to be gunned down non-fatally.
Calling Card: Started her killing spree by targeting the couples who once cared for her baby son through the foster system.
Ephebophile: A former high school teacher who "falls in love" with a male student and rapes them, even getting herself pregnant the second time around with Tommy Brown. Her delusion is about wanting to have a family with the underage father and their baby.
Kick the Dog: She shoots Sandra Montgomery repeatedly and kills her because the poor woman was too busy praying for her life. When she kidnaps Karen Wilson later, we see that Hallman clearly stole Sandra's dress and jewelry for herself.
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: A statutory rapist who wants to start a family with an underage boy.
Suicide by Cop: Averted; once it's clear that Tommy no longer trusts her, she tries grabbing the gun he put down to shoot Morgan and JJ with, but is shot non-fatally by Hotch. She's then incarcerated or institutionalized afterwards.
Villain of the Week: Of "I Love You, Tommy Brown".
The One That Got Away: A psychotic variation; she still misses her first "crush" Johnny Lewis, and even named her baby after him. The BAU informing Tommy Brown of this is what finally tips him off that Margaret is not the woman he thought she was.
Wham Line: Shot down by the BAU, Tommy runs to her side in concern. Before passing out, she says "I love you, Johnny Lewis".

J.B. Allen

Played by: Garrett M. Brown

"You better not give me any trouble."

A pedophilic and hebephilic serial killer, serial rapist and abductor who targets and kidnaps young boys in Arizona so he can keep them for long periods of time as his victims before disposing of them. Angel Suarez, a boy who's been kept 8 years under his torture, manages to escape and tip off the police, who call in the BAU to help catch him for good.

Archnemesis Dad: 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.
Calling Card: Lures in his victims through his construction job by giving the kids a ride on his vehicles. Keeping them captive in his basement, he'd rape and torture them through biting. When he killed them once they got too old for him, Allen used his original construction site in Mesa as a dumping ground, building new houses on top of the area the body was buried in. He also kept the children's original belongings, like toys.
Creepy Souvenir: He kept the toys and belongings of his victims to himself, giving them as gifts for his daughter Samantha, including the puppy Angel Suarez had when he was taken.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed; creepy rapist that he is, he still held genuine affection for his daughter despite his "construction work" keeping him busy. The toys he took from his victims were given to her as gifts through a demented display of care, and it was that ability to project kindness towards her that made Samantha try to repress her memories of the first time she saw her father with an underage boy until she couldn't bear it any longer.
Hope Spot: Finally willing to help, Samantha is wired and told to search her father's basement room for any signs of his criminal activities, but ultimately finds nothing. The BAU has to rely on her "gifts" to catch Allen in the act, which they do.
It's Personal: Morgan is the one who interviews Angel Suarez, relating to the boy because of his own past with Carl Buford. The case aggravates him to the point that, when they manage to catch up to Allen when he tries running, Morgan has to be held back from beating him to death.
Mask of Sanity: Acts friendly and cordial as a real-estate developer, and nice and loving as a father, but all of it is just to hide how depraved he really is.
Pædo Hunt: A pederast who kidnaps young boys and rapes them for years until he gets sick of them. Angel Suarez managing to break free is what gets the BAU involved and finally puts him away for good.
Villain of the Week: Of "Foundation".

James Heathridge

Played by: Kyle Gallner

"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.

Brother–Sister Incest: 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 the BAU team are heading towards his residence.
Burn the Witch!: Believes he's on a mission to kill the Brides of Satan.
Disney Villain Death: Ends up falling down a well while fighting Hotchner. Also doubles as a Karmic Death, since he'd used that same well to torture his victims.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Gets into a fistfight with Hotch right before his death.
Idle Rich: 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.
It Runs in the Family: His mother had the same delusions and his sister eventually believes she's one of the devil's wives.
Karmic Death: Dies by falling headfirst into the same well he used to torture his victims.
Knight Templar Big Brother: 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.
Momma's Boy: Was indoctrinated by his mother.

Villain of the Week: Of "Heathridge Manor".
Well-Intentioned Extremist: How he sees himself, though he only thinks he's doing God's work.
Wrong Genre Savvy: Thinks he's The Chosen One on a mission to save the world from the devil's wives rather than a Serial Killer in a Police Procedural.

Malcolm Ford

Played by: Chad L. Coleman

"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.

Antagonist Title: The "Company" is the organization he's a part of.
Crazy-Prepared: 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.
Death by Irony: 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.
Frame-Up: 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.
Greater-Scope Villain: 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.
It's Personal: The kidnapper of Derek's cousin Cindi Burns, who left the rest of his family worried sick about her ever since 2004.
Minor Major Character: Given all the gravitas and attention of a two-parter UnSub despite only truly appearing in one episode.
Smug Snake: 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.
Stalker with a Crush: 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.
Stockholm Syndrome: 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.
Villain of the Week: Of "The Company".

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.

The Bad Guy Wins: Kohler is arrested but, in a way, he kills exactly the number of people necessary to achieve his goal and actually succeeds in it: by the end of the episode, Helen Garrett has fallen for him and visits him in prison to read Garrett's fan letters.
Calling Card: 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.
The Dog Was the Mastermind: 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.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Garrett genuinely loved his wife Helen and lived an average life with her while moonlighting as a serial killer. 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.
Human Resources: Kohler uses the hair of his victims to make a wig he wants to present Helen Garrett with.
Jack the Ripoff: 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.
Posthumous Character: 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.
Stalker with a Crush: 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.
Villain of the Week: Of "Divining Rod".

Characters / Criminal Minds: UnSubs (Seasons Six to Seven)

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