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Child Abductions 11 Criminal Minds episodes

Missing children and the hours-long hunt to bring them home before the worst can happen.

  1. Season 1 · Episode 11

    Blood Hungry

    Aired December 14, 2005

    In a small Tennessee town, the BAU hunts a psychotic killer who takes his victims’ blood and organs and then abducts the young boy who saw him.

  2. Season 1 · Episode 12

    What Fresh Hell?

    Aired January 11, 2006

    A girl is lured from a Wilmington park by a man searching for a lost dog, and the BAU, called in late, races the clock while the police first suspect her father.

  3. Season 2 · Episode 2

    P911

    Aired September 27, 2006

    When a boy the FBI lost track of a year ago appears in a live online auction, the BAU joins the Crimes Against Children Unit to find him before the sale closes.

  4. Season 2 · Episode 23

    No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank

    Aired May 16, 2007

    When Frank Breitkopf kills a woman in Gideon’s apartment and leaves him under suspicion, the BAU hunts Frank as he targets the people Gideon has saved.

  5. Season 3 · Episode 5

    Seven Seconds

    Aired October 24, 2007

    When a 6-year-old disappears inside a Virginia mall a week after another girl was abducted and killed, the BAU searches the locked-down building and finds the danger is closer to home.

  6. Season 4 · Episode 6

    The Instincts

    Aired November 5, 2008

    A woman in the grip of psychosis abducts young boys in Las Vegas, while Reid’s recurring nightmares point to a child murder from his own past.

  7. Season 4 · Episode 13

    Bloodline

    Aired January 21, 2009

    A nomadic family that has stolen girls and killed their parents for generations strikes in Alabama, and the BAU follows the clues a rejected captive remembers.

  8. Season 4 · Episode 21

    A Shade of Gray

    Aired April 22, 2009

    When a third boy disappears from his home in Cherry Hill, the BAU catches a child killer but finds that the latest case doesn’t fit his pattern.

  9. Season 4 · Episode 22

    The Big Wheel

    Aired April 29, 2009

    When a Buffalo killer sends police a film of a murder ending in a plea for help, the BAU hunts an obsessive-compulsive man who has killed for a decade.

  10. Season 5 · Episode 2

    Haunted

    Aired September 30, 2009

    A Louisville man who stopped his medication to recover lost memories kills three people, and the BAU traces his violence to a decades-old child murder case.

  11. Season 5 · Episode 16

    Mosley Lane

    Aired March 3, 2010

    When a girl is snatched from a crowded festival, the BAU comes to believe a grieving mother who has spent eight years insisting her own abducted son is still alive.

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