Kidnappings 25 Criminal Minds episodes
Abductions of adults and whole families, and the race to find the victims while they are still alive.
- Season 1 · Episode 1
Extreme Aggressor
Called back from medical leave, Jason Gideon leads the BAU to Seattle to stop a pair of killers before their latest captive’s time runs out.
- Season 1 · Episode 5
Broken Mirror
When a prosecutor’s daughter is kidnapped, the BAU must protect her twin from an abductor who seems to know the team’s every move.
- Season 1 · Episode 8
Natural Born Killer
A Baltimore triple murder leads the BAU to a mob hit man who tortures his victims, and to an undercover FBI agent who has gone missing.
- Season 1 · Episode 16
The Tribe
When college students are tortured and killed on former Apache land in New Mexico, the BAU looks past the reservation to a cult bent on a race war.
- Season 1 · Episode 22
The Fisher King: Part 1
On vacation, each BAU agent receives a clue from a killer who sets the team a medieval quest to save a girl missing for two years.
- Season 2 · Episode 1
The Fisher King: Part 2
With Elle shot and a kidnapped girl still missing, the BAU decodes the Fisher King’s last clues and finds that Reid’s mother knows who he is.
- Season 2 · Episode 7
North Mammon
When three teenage soccer players disappear from a small Pennsylvania town, the BAU must profile a whole community before a deadline set for the championship game.
- Season 2 · Episode 15
Revelations
With Reid held by a killer who lives as himself, his dead father and an avenging archangel, the BAU combs the man’s house and Reid’s hidden clues to find him before he is killed.
- Season 2 · Episode 16
Fear and Loathing
When black teenage girls who love to sing are murdered in a New York suburb and marked with swastikas, the BAU sees past the hate-crime staging to a serial killer and clashes with a mayor afraid of its profile.
- 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 2 · Episode 21
Open Season
When young travelers vanish on the roads into Spokane and turn up dead in the Idaho wilderness, the BAU hunts two brothers who stalk people like game.
- Season 2 · Episode 22
Legacy
When a Kansas City detective insists that dozens of homeless people have quietly vanished from his beat, the BAU must find a legal way in before a mission-driven killer strikes again.
- Season 3 · Episode 2
In Name and Blood
With Gideon missing and Hotch and Prentiss on their way out, the BAU and Section Chief Strauss hunt a Milwaukee killer who cuts out women’s hearts and uses his young son to lure them.
- Season 3 · Episode 6
About Face
Women in the Dallas area find “missing” fliers with their own faces on them before a killer takes them, and the BAU’s new veteran, David Rossi, clashes with Hotch over how to draw him out.
- Season 3 · Episode 12
3rd Life
When two teenage girls disappear from a movie theater and one turns up dead, the BAU must sort out whether a witness’s violent past or a local gang of drunken boys is to blame.
- Season 3 · Episode 18
The Crossing
While JJ fights to protect a young lawyer from a stalker who has followed her from Atlanta, Hotch and Rossi help a Boston prosecutor judge a wife who shot her husband.
- Season 4 · Episode 4
Paradise
When three highway crashes in Nevada prove to be staged murders, the BAU hunts a killer who traps traveling couples before he can claim another pair.
- Season 4 · Episode 14
Cold Comfort
A killer embalms young women alive to recreate the woman who raised him, while a psychic’s promises to a desperate mother divide the BAU.
- Season 4 · Episode 25
To Hell…
An Iraq War veteran falsely confesses to ten murders to force the BAU to hunt the killer he believes took his sister and other homeless people from Detroit.
- Season 4 · Episode 26
…and Back
On an Ontario pig farm, the BAU uncovers dozens of victims and races to find the brother of a paralyzed doctor before he kills a kidnapped girl.
- Season 5 · Episode 5
Cradle to Grave
A couple holds runaways captive to bear children, killing each mother after she gives birth, while pressure from Strauss leads Hotch to step down as unit chief.
- Season 5 · Episode 11
Retaliation
A paroled bank robber escapes custody with an unlikely accomplice, and the BAU must learn what hold he has over the man before more people die.
- 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 17
Solitary Man
The BAU tracks a lonely trucker who abducts women along the interstates, tests them in his rig and kills those who fail, while he fights to keep his daughter.
- Season 5 · Episode 18
The Fight
Sam Cooper persuades Hotch to defy orders and let his Red Cell team join the BAU’s case in San Francisco, where a former convict abducts fathers and daughters and makes the fathers fight for their lives.