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Home Invasions 8 Criminal Minds episodes

Attacks on families inside their own homes by offenders who watch, break in and take control.

  1. Season 1 · Episode 7

    The Fox

    Aired November 9, 2005

    The BAU tracks a killer who moves in with families about to leave on vacation, plays the father for days and then murders them in the basement.

  2. Season 2 · Episode 19

    Ashes and Dust

    Aired March 21, 2007

    When an arsonist burns San Francisco families to death in their homes, the BAU traces him through a radical environmental group whose secretive, dying leader may be the key.

  3. Season 3 · Episode 4

    Children of the Dark

    Aired October 17, 2007

    When Denver-area families are wiped out in their homes, the parents beaten and the children given lethal injections, the BAU hunts two foster brothers acting out their own abuse.

  4. Season 3 · Episode 14

    Damaged

    Aired April 2, 2008

    On the 20th anniversary of an unsolved double ax murder in Indianapolis, Rossi goes back to the case that has haunted him, and the team follows him to find the killer and the person who has been sending the orphaned children toys.

  5. Season 4 · Episode 5

    Catching Out

    Aired October 29, 2008

    When a killer who makes himself at home in his victims’ houses strikes across California’s farm country, the BAU follows the rail lines to find him.

  6. 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.

  7. Season 5 · Episode 4

    Hopeless

    Aired October 14, 2009

    A trio of construction workers kills strangers for the thrill of it in a gentrifying D.C. neighborhood, while Morgan’s bond with a victim’s sister worries Garcia.

  8. Season 5 · Episode 23

    Our Darkest Hour

    Aired May 26, 2010

    During a Los Angeles heat wave, the BAU hunts a killer who invades homes during rolling blackouts and always leaves one witness alive, and whose past crimes reach into the lead detective’s childhood.

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