Copycat Killers 8 Criminal Minds episodes
Offenders who imitate a notorious killer or another case, forcing the team to tell the copy from the original.
- Season 1 · Episode 3
Won't Get Fooled Again
A Palm Beach bomber copying a jailed killer’s designs forces Gideon to bargain with the man behind his worst failure.
- Season 1 · Episode 17
A Real Rain
A killer who executes New Yorkers acquitted in court is hailed as a hero in the press, and the BAU races to find him before he strikes again.
- Season 2 · Episode 18
Jones
When a New Orleans killer believed lost in Hurricane Katrina resumes a string of Jack the Ripper–style murders, the BAU and Detective Will LaMontagne Jr. decode the one word his father left behind.
- Season 3 · Episode 1
Doubt
When three brunette students are stabbed to death on an Arizona campus, the BAU arrests a security guard who fits its profile, until another student dies while he is locked up.
- Season 3 · Episode 11
Birthright
When women start vanishing around Fredericksburg in the pattern of an unsolved 1980 killing spree, the BAU needs the original sheriff and a survivor who has denied her ordeal for decades.
- Season 4 · Episode 2
The Angel Maker
When a dead serial killer’s DNA turns up at a new murder, the BAU must find the devoted copycat determined to complete his work.
- Season 4 · Episode 10
Brothers in Arms
An unseen gunman is setting deadly traps for Phoenix police officers, and the BAU must look past an easy gang suspect to stop him.
- Season 4 · Episode 15
Zoe's Reprise
When a student who warned Rossi about a Cleveland serial killer is murdered, the BAU finds a young offender copying famous killers to discover his own style.