'Criminal Minds' Most Memorable Killers Part 2

In looking at the part one of this I came to realize that most of the killers mentioned in that list were from season eight or earlier, there was no killers from the later seasons. There definitely should be as the later seasons had some great (terrible) killers as well.

10. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson

Just the whole mentality of this couple is what landed them on the list. Never before in the seasons has there been a killing couple in this sense. It was not that their crimes were anything weird or crazy, it was mainly the dynamic between them. They were a married couple who killed to get aroused, and they are in therapy to help their marriage... Twisted I know. The wife is the watcher while the husband is the one typically picking the victim, bringing them back to their hotel room and killing them. Without this, they would be constantly fighting and on the verge of divorce so really killing was the only thing that kept these two together. During the episode, as some kind of "romantic gesture" the husband let the wife pick a victim to bring back, because apparently romance isn't dead... The shock of it all came when it was discovered that the husband, one the side, was raping woman all over the city and sometimes killing them as well. Agent Blake after mentioning this to the wife summed it all up beautifully I find in saying " It isn't the cheating that hurts the most, it's the killing without you that you cannot forgive." Easily this couple is the opposite of relationship goals.

9. William Pratt a.k.a Mirror Man

A theme I noticed in the newer seasons of Criminal Minds that I quite enjoyed was how they used current themes and trends in the episodes. That's why this killer was so memorable because what he was doing and why is so current. The whole theme of this episode was based around social media, the victims were those who had a large follower count and were all about their online presence. The killer was using the internet horror story of the Mirror Man, where if you see his reflection in your mirror then you were the next to die as the legend has it. Turns out that the whole reason William started killing was to be more popular on social media really, he wanted to be noticed. He had a very interesting style of killing as well, the first murder he simply used a broken piece of mirror which is very ironic because it seemed that he was first attacking a person's vanity, then with all the other murders committed he used a nail gun. Though a nail gun has been used before for a very brief moment, it was not the main weapon and it was more psychotic fashion! He was enjoying it, what he was doing brought him so much pleasure. The end of the episode just showed how sick and twisted he really was. Having the news camera's attention on him made him smile, and then when he was handcuffed in a hospital bed, he wanted to take a selfie cause he thought it was so cool having being shot by the FBI. Totally missing the point that he killed innocent people to gain popularity.

8. The Killer Woodsman

This unsub was so memorable due to namely his look. His fingers were all twisted and he just looked different and nothing is wrong with that but it gave him a very recognizable look. It was also the first time in a very long time that the unsub was namely a revenge killer. He went after members of the families that his true parents were from, as a form of exposing the truth about their past, as well as getting back at them for how they abandoned him/gave him away to a random lately who lived in the forest basically. His killing methods were quite graphic as well. He used traps to kill his victims, and used barb wire to strangle his victims, and at times used his bare hands with it as well. He made the entire thing seem more like a family war over what it really was. He was calculated the entire time, knowing that it was his birth mother he was really after. Kidnapping her and making sure that she confessed her sins was really what he wanted out of it all. He wanted an explanation of it all. The next part, the ending the season is something that rarely happens, he got away. In a very spectacular fashion at that. He takes down agent Blake into the water with him, drowning her for a moment, then somehow escapes through the mass of bullets fired into the water downstream to freedom. He then pops up in the couples cottage demanding for the keys to their car. It was the ending this unsub needs, it makes you wonder does he make a return since he did not get to kill his birth mother like he wanted to. It is all quite mysterious and for this type of killer that is how we like it to be!

7. The Hines Twins

These two started off season ten with confusion! Mass confusion to say the least. The episode was already a creepy one for the start of the season but then we had no idea what really was going on and who was who. To start you had a disturbing story line, where the one Hine twin was making woman eat human flesh, killing them with the use of a butcher's knife and then posing them as a praying mantis. Later finding out that it was because he was obsessed with the concept of how the female praying mantis would have sex with the male then kill him by eating him. Turns out he felt personally hurt by an ex-lover and ending up cutting off her head, and feeding parts of it to his victims. Now where things got confusing is when they arrested who they thought was the unsub but it ended up being the the twin. This made things tricky because after the twin as released he used the real unsub to cover up his own murders, he used a motive that was already known by the FBI to commit his own murders as close to what it was as he knew. The mother was also a piece of work to say the least, but getting into her is too much. She just made her twins who they were that's for sure. But having the brothers team up and become a duo who kill together as well as try to figure out who they really are. Then adding another twist about how they went after their own mother who in turn had a plan with both of the brothers with the other. That entire family was just twisted.

6. Adam Rain

To say that Adam Rain is a memorable killer is an understatement! The name may not ring a bell as it was not said often, but his killing method was unique and something that I don't think crossed anyone's mind. To turn people into a marionette doll by dislocating all their joints, drill holes into their hands, wrists and feet to be able to suspend them was not expected at all! The very eery part of it all was that the whole reason he was doing this was to correct something that happened in his childhood. We find out his father made these marionette dolls which he thought were real, and during a robbery the dolls (obviously) did not help like Adam wanted them to, leaving his father shot dead. It was somewhat sad, you almost felt sad for him, because he obviously did not want to hurt his victims, all he wanted was to find the best match to recreate the past, hence why he hangs onto the girl he's taken for the duration of the episode. He did this all to put on a play, a production to recreate what he believed should of happened the night his father was murdered, in front of an imaginary crowd. This level of mental illness with extreme delusion and the clarity of his vision is quite rare and makes for it to be interesting when the BAU arrives at his production, he see the audience give him a standing ovation. That does not seem strange, except for the fact that there was no crowd, it was all in his head, just like his sidekick . It is the bizarre nature of this murders that land Adam Rain on this list. No other show has ever had such a unique murderer and everything about him was not expected.

5. Tivon Askari

This man... It is hard to describe how much you can hate him as a Criminal Mind fan. Just for what he did to JJ alone was brutal. Hence why he was so memorable. His methods of torture made episode 200 just as great as the 100th episode, though in a different manner. The entire episode was really very memorable but he was just such a relate-able villain, we all know that man, he is one of the terrorists in ISIS or something similar. Hearing his back story was kind of incredible in the worst sense, he began killing before he was even 13, becoming what seemed to be a triple agent, in that he was a part of the Iraq military, came to work for the US State Department, but was still working to the Iraq military/terrorist group. With all of these, let's say, job titles, it gave him to do the one thing that he really enjoyed: killing and torturing. As disturbing and morbid that it is to say he probably has one of the most efficient torturing methods. He had it down to a science where he spent 24 hours with a victim and that would be enough time for them to break. He was very much a sadistic serial killer in that he derives sexual pleasure from torturing, hence why there was no sexual component to it. And the PTSD he installed in JJ's mind will forever make him a memorable killer.

4. The Hitman Network

We have seen plenty of team killers in the seasons, but never anything like this. Though they were a group, a team, they each worked individually still. There were not many cases where all five members would do one job together. And what these people did to the BAU was unprecedented. Other than what Foyet did with Hotch, never before was another member of the BAU hunted down by an unsub and Hotch was not really hunted, it was more his wife being the one Foyet was after really. But in this case the Hitman Network hunted down Garcia, they were all focused on her outside of all their normal jobs. They made her have to live out of an office in the FBI office for months! As a group it is to believe that they had the highest body count that the team has ever seen, probably because they each have a specific line of work they are willing to do. There's the bomber, the chemist, the sniper, the black widow and the hitman. All were organized by a teenager who was the one who organized everyone, though not on his own terms, he was also a victim of the organization as their prisoner who if he worked, would stay alive. There was at least one of the hitman with him at all times. They were so memorable based on the dynamic, it is very rare to see individuals with different morals and values work together as an organization. Typically, with serial killers it is all about the ego boost, as we know from many episodes of Criminal Minds. But the terror they installed on Garcia and then later how a member of them in-sighted terror on Reid. They were some of the best classed criminals that the show has seen in quite some time and new and fresh, hence why they made the list!

3. John Curtis a.k.a The Replicator

John Curtis was too good as a killer. What he did was so unexpected and yet genius in such an evil way. He spent an entire season pretty much copying solved cases that the team had worked on. They made him question if they had caught the right killer, and in each case sent something personal to the team. Never before was the entire team a target, we were used to having one or two members targeted from time to time but this was everyone, including Strauss. It was done in such a genius fashion, targeting the crimes, then setting up the unveiling that he was also stalking each member of the team individually and getting access to areas and events that he wasn't supposed to, like the dinner Morgan and Garcia went to. He made a point to include and make sure they all knew no one on the team was safe. All of this, to kill Strauss, and then abduct Blake was all to get payback for what had happened to him in the FBI so many years ago. He and Blake used to be on the same team and Strauss threw them under the bus when a case went wrong. While Blake worked hard to make her way back up in the ranking, he was reassigned to a unit in Kansas. All of this was because he was a narcissist who could not take the ego blow of being demoted. In his mind, he should of been the one to rejoin the team not Blake. Either way, every detail of his plan throughout the entire season was methodical. He knew how to push the buttons of each team member, when to go commit his copy-cat murders and when there was an event going on that he should be at. Never have we seen the team so exposed and a chance for all to be killed at once. He truly was an upper class of unsub that the team has faced.

2. Chazz Montolo

For a man who fired only one shot during the episodes he was involved in, there was so much more he was involved in to land him this high on the list. For those who do not know, he is the father of Giuseppe Montolo, a member of the Hitman Network. He believes that it was Morgan who ended up killing his son and turns all his attention to him. This leads to the "Derek" episode, where Chazz recruits a Royal Marine killing group to go after Morgan. The amount of torture that Chazz wants the Marine's to put Morgan through in confessing that he killed Giuseppe is something no one could imagine seeing in the show. Some how Morgan makes it out alive, bringing us to the shot. Chazz is shown looking out of a scope and having Morgan and very pregnant Savannah in the lens. He shoots Savannah, not a deadly shot, but one to put not only her but the baby at risk. He plays an entire mind game with Morgan for an episode, luring him to one of the houses Morgan owns, and telling him that he is going to die and leave his baby alone in the world without a father. Having Morgan call Garcia to give her his goodbye note, saying for her to have her and the team look after Savannah and his baby was something so cruel and another huge form of torture. What he did different than Foyet was go after the person directly related to his rage. Foyet just wanted Hotch to suffer as much as possible. Montolo wanted revenge for something that Morgan did not even do. He forced a fan favourite character to leave the show, because the character needed to focus on his family and protecting them and felt that working for the BAU was not the way for him to do that. Chazz Montolo showed just how vengeful a father really can be when you take away his child.

1. Mr. Scratch a.k.a Peter Lewis

I do not know why but every really evil character seems to have a liking to going after Hotch. This was also a first for the show, even in ten seasons there was never a killer who used a hallucinogen to drug his victims. He also appeared or was mention in 15 different episodes which is one of the highest numbers of the show. What he did was drug his victims to see and be able to manipulated to do what he wanted, with this he became the monster Mr. Scratch. Where this got intense was the second half of the episode when he and Hotch has their confrontation. He drugs Hotch and gets into Hotch's mind. Mr. Scratch makes Hotch "see" Mr. Scratch kill his entire team in a very gruesome fashion. When the actual team arrives, Mr. Scratch tells Hotch that he is about to come through the door and to shoot him. Luckily, Hotch overcomes the drugs and does not shoot anyone. Though this starts Mr. Scratch's obsession with Hotch and not even just Hotch, but his son as well. He testified against Hotch to prove that he was mentally affected by the drugs still, claiming that he was worried that Hotch would go after his team as well as his son. Then with escaping prison he updates his usual hunting pattern and in the process begins haunting Hotch's son. In season 12 Peter began stalking Hotch's son Jack. He first appeared at one of Jack's soccer games, prompting the FBI to put Hotch and Jack on 24-hour surveillance. Peter then attempted to visit Jack at his school while the BAU closed a child abduction case in California. As a result, Hotch and Jack went into witness protection. It is the longest that a criminal ever stalked a member of the team, it was for two seasons that his man hunted Hotch down after that first episode. His modus operandi (the way he kills) is something that could never be replicated.