serial killers goes on for 15 seasons, things are bound to get even weirder.
It wasn't always a bad thing. Writers worked their magic to relate bizarre Criminal Minds finale. The strangest and most unexplainable episodes are the most fun though. Let's cover a bit of both.
The Man In Love With His Sister (Who Was Actually His Mom)
“Taboo” covers one of the most convoluted episodes in Criminal Minds history. The unsub, Stuart Baker, was raised to believe his mother was his foster sister. He discovered the truth when she refused his sexual advances. The revelation sent him into a murderous rage that resulted in her death. That’s where the killing spree began.
He abducted single mothers in their 30s with sons that looked like him. They were lobotomized, a procedure his own mother had undergone, and then drowned in concrete.
Human Heads Sacrificed To A Parallel Universe
A goat-like creature appeared before George Peters in “Rusty.” It promised to retrieve Peters’ deceased son from a parallel universe if he brought back seven human heads. Peters went after other fathers. He took the heads to the mines he used to visit with his son.
Mathematical symbols from Schrodinger’s Equation, the lynchpin in several parallel universe theories, were bruised into the bodies before they were deposited for the police to find. Peters managed to complete six of the seven demanded sacrifices before the team located him.
The DEA Hitman Who Stole People’s Faces
Corrupt NSA director Brian Cochran spent his free time running the Libertad Cartel. He employed several hitmen to kill the agents that figured him out, but it was Jacob DuFour that garnered the most attention. This hitman tortured and murdered at least two DEA agents. After they died, he would remove their faces to wear as masks.
His capture led to the capture of Cochran. Nothing more came of Cochran’s imprisonment in “Internal Affairs,” but he ratted out several other hitmen a few episodes later.
The Search Party That Accidentally Ate The Victim
Things were weird before the search party ever got involved. Floyd Feylinn forced his hostages to eat the fingers of his previous murder victims. Larger chunks of their bodies were stored away to meet his own cannibalistic needs. The rest went to use in his BBQ restaurant.
When the time came to organize a search party, Feylin showed up to the event with a pot of chili. It took a few bites before the police realized where the women they were searching for had gone.
Women Made Into Living Dolls
The young women that Samantha Malcolm abducted were fed sedatives through IVs to keep them paralyzed. She dressed each woman to resemble a doll from the collection her father had taken from her. They would accompany her to tea parties and in other childish games. It took two months of constant paralysis for each woman to finally away.
One of the victims was helping the others escape when both Malcolm and Spencer Reid arrived on the scene. Reid used her old dolls to talk her into a peaceful surrender.
The Unsub That Turned His Victims Into Fragrances
The unsub in “Sense Memory,” Steve, is given no backstory to help his audience make sense of his actions in the episode. He isn’t even given a last name. All our protagonists know is that Steve seeks out women with a seductive, natural scent. They’re chosen from the female customers that hail his taxi cab.
If they suited his tastes, he sealed off the backseat and flooded it with chloroform. The women were then taken to his garage where their scents would be extracted and made into candles.
Derek Morgan Framed For Murder By His Own Ab
Morgan was arrested in “Profiler, Profiled” for the murder of three children. The remaining agents looked into Morgan’s past and discovered Carl Buford, a prominent member of the community known for his work at the Upward Youth Center. He had put on the facade of being a father figure for Morgan even after he began to abuse him.
By way of police interviews, the agents discovered that the most recent victim had been abused by Buford too. Morgan escaped from police custody and tricked Buford into confessing his crimes.
Cult That Initiated By Freezing Them To Death
Frozen were resuscitated to complete the initiation. This strange ritual attracted Jon Kanak to the cult, a man obsessed with watching people freeze to death. The obsession is “explained” by a vague backstory about a hiking trip in a cold forest where unnamed bad things happened.
The occasional freezing wasn’t enough to sate Kanak’s urges. So, he began killing off of the cult who considered leaving. Victims were tossed into the freezer for another round. Except that this time, there was no intent to revive them.
Human Puppet Show
Brain damage left Adam Rein trapped in a traumatic memory from his childhood. His father, a puppeteer, was murdered in a home invasion while Adam begged the puppets to come to life and save him. With the memory once again fresh in his mind, he sought out men and women who resembled the two puppets.
The unlucky candidates were taken back to his home where each of their bones was dislocated. They were then attached to a control bar with wires. He used the living puppets to reenact and alter his memory so that the puppets would fend off the robbers and his father would get to live.
The Woman Who Used Men As Fertilizer
Emma Kerrigan’s skin disease started out as real. The symptoms vanished when she began eating produce grown in the garden where she’d spread her husband's ashes. When she began to hallucinate new symptoms, human fertilizer was the obvious answer to her problem.
She force-fed her victims enriching nutrients through the nose before grinding them into fertilizer. Kerrigan was apprehended when she attempted to bury her own daughter in the soil. Her intent was to cure her of the same imagined skin disease, not to kill.
