Female Unsubs 14 Criminal Minds episodes
Cases in which the killer turns out to be a woman, a rarer profile that upends the team’s assumptions.
- Season 1 · Episode 2
Compulsion
The BAU must throw out the usual arsonist profile to stop a fire-setter who has turned deadly on an Arizona college campus.
- Season 1 · Episode 18
Somebody's Watching
While teaching in Los Angeles, Gideon and Reid join the hunt for a stalker who kills a young TV actress’s rivals, and Reid grows close to her.
- Season 2 · Episode 3
The Perfect Storm
When a pair of killers in Jacksonville start mailing videos of their torture to victims’ mothers, the BAU must find out which partner is really in charge before another woman dies.
- 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 2 · Episode 20
Honor Among Thieves
When Prentiss’s mother asks the BAU to help a Russian immigrant family whose father has been kidnapped and mutilated, the team finds that the mob, the ransom and the daughter are not what they seem.
- Season 3 · Episode 5
Seven Seconds
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.
- 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 6
The Instincts
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.
- Season 4 · Episode 16
Pleasure Is My Business
Called to Dallas, the BAU hunts a call girl who poisons wealthy clients who abandon their families, while the men’s lawyers fight to keep their names hidden.
- Season 5 · Episode 7
The Performer
When young women in Los Angeles are found drained of blood, the BAU’s trail leads to a goth rock star whose fans worship his vampire persona.
- Season 5 · Episode 8
Outfoxed
As a killer wipes out Virginia military families while the fathers are deployed, Hotch and Prentiss question the imprisoned family annihilator who received the killer’s fan mail.
- Season 5 · Episode 12
The Uncanny Valley
Women in Atlantic City are drugged into months of conscious paralysis and dressed like dolls, and the BAU traces the killer to a childhood scarred by abuse.
- Season 5 · Episode 16
Mosley Lane
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.
- Season 5 · Episode 20
…A Thousand Words
A serial killer tattooed with his victims’ faces stages his own suicide, and the BAU races to find the hidden partner still holding a missing college student.