Serial Killers 62 Criminal Minds episodes
Cases in which the team links a string of killings to one offender before he or she can strike again.
- 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 4
Plain Sight
The BAU hunts a San Diego killer who strikes in daylight, glues his victims’ eyes open and slips past heavy patrols unseen.
- Season 1 · Episode 7
The Fox
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.
- 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 14
Riding the Lightning
Hours before a convicted killer couple is executed in Florida, the BAU interviews them, and Gideon comes to believe the wife never killed anyone.
- Season 1 · Episode 15
Unfinished Business
A Philadelphia serial killer resurfaces after 18 years with older victims and new methods, and the BAU works with the retired profiler who never caught him.
- 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 1 · Episode 19
Machismo
Invited to Mexico to rule out a serial killer, the BAU finds one: a man in women’s clothing who murders elderly women in their homes.
- Season 1 · Episode 20
Charm and Harm
The BAU races to catch an identified serial killer, a master of disguise, as he flees Florida and kills his way across the South.
- 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 6
The Boogeyman
As the BAU hunts a killer of children in a small Texas town, Hotch presses Elle over the shooting of the man who attacked her.
- Season 2 · Episode 9
The Last Word
A pair of rival St. Louis serial killers compete for attention, while an unexpected new agent arrives at the BAU.
- Season 2 · Episode 11
Sex, Birth, Death
When a troubled teenager tells Reid he dreams of killing prostitutes, the BAU must decide whether he is the D.C. killer or a future one, while a congresswoman pressures Hotch to keep the case quiet.
- Season 2 · Episode 12
Profiler, Profiled
When Morgan is arrested in his hometown for a boy’s murder, the BAU has to clear one of its own, and the trail leads to the man who mentored him.
- Season 2 · Episode 13
No Way Out
Called to a Nevada town where bodies missing a single rib have surfaced for years, the BAU closes in on the most prolific serial killer it has ever tracked, who has a hostage plan of his own.
- 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 17
Distress
When men are found with snapped necks in a Houston neighborhood, the BAU tracks a combat veteran who believes he is back in Mogadishu and tries to bring him in alive.
- Season 2 · Episode 19
Ashes and Dust
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.
- 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 2 · Episode 23
No Way Out, Part II: The Evilution of Frank
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.
- 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 3
Scared to Death
When a mass grave in Portland reveals victims killed in wildly different ways, the BAU tracks a psychiatrist who poses as a phobia specialist and uses each patient’s worst fear against 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 7
Identity
After a militia-minded kidnapper kills himself during a traffic stop, the BAU hunts the submissive partner who helped him imprison women and is now becoming him.
- Season 3 · Episode 8
Lucky
A ritual murder in a small Florida town leads the BAU to a cannibal who blames Satan, while Morgan confronts his lost faith and Garcia is courted by a stranger.
- Season 3 · Episode 10
True Night
A string of brutal killings of Los Angeles gang members leads the BAU to a graphic novelist whose new pages show the crime scenes and whose mind has broken since a gang attack.
- 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 3 · Episode 13
Limelight
When a storage unit sold at auction turns out to hold a sadistic killer’s journals, the BAU works with a fame-hungry Philadelphia agent to find the man who wrote them.
- Season 3 · Episode 14
Damaged
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.
- Season 3 · Episode 15
A Higher Power
When grieving parents in a Pittsburgh neighborhood start dying in apparent suicides, the BAU hunts a killer who believes he is releasing them from their pain.
- Season 3 · Episode 17
In Heat
When a killer in Miami begins taking the lives and identities of gay men traveling alone, the BAU races to find him, while JJ’s hidden romance with Will comes out.
- Season 3 · Episode 19
Tabula Rasa
When a suspected serial killer wakes from a four-year coma claiming to remember nothing, the BAU must rebuild its old case to convict him at trial.
- 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 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 5
Catching Out
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.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
Masterpiece
A killer who has studied David Rossi’s books turns himself in and dares the BAU to find a kidnapped mother and four children before his deadlines run out.
- Season 4 · Episode 9
52 Pickup
A former motel killer reinvents himself as a nightclub charmer, and the BAU must work out what a pickup-artist guru taught him.
- 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 12
Soul Mates
When a jailed suspect’s alleged victim turns up freshly killed, the BAU hunts the secret partner he has been writing to online.
- 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 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.
- 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 4 · Episode 17
Demonology
When a childhood friend of Prentiss dies after a trip to Spain, the BAU traces a string of deaths to an exorcist priest shielded by diplomatic immunity.
- Season 4 · Episode 18
Omnivore
After a dying detective confesses he made a deal with the Boston Reaper, the killer resumes his murders and turns his attention to Hotch and the BAU.
- Season 4 · Episode 20
Conflicted
When male spring breakers are raped and murdered at a Texas beach hotel, the BAU hunts a man-and-woman team, then finds both live inside one troubled worker.
- Season 4 · Episode 21
A Shade of Gray
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.
- Season 4 · Episode 22
The Big Wheel
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.
- Season 4 · Episode 23
Roadkill
The BAU hunts a killer in Bend, Oregon, who uses his truck to run down people who drive red coupes along a deadly highway.
- 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 6
The Eyes Have It
In Morgan’s first case as acting unit chief, the BAU tracks an Oklahoma City killer who hunts people like game and removes their eyes with surgical skill.
- Season 5 · Episode 10
The Slave of Duty
Days after Haley’s death, the BAU hunts a Nashville killer who forces his victims through a romantic evening, while Hotch decides whether to leave the FBI for his son.
- Season 5 · Episode 15
Public Enemy
A killer who slashes throats at Providence’s best-loved landmarks lives for the city’s fear, and the BAU stages a public event to draw him out.
- 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.
- Season 5 · Episode 19
Rite of Passage
Called to a Texas border town after three severed heads appear outside the sheriff’s station, the BAU hunts a killer who has preyed on migrants for years.
- 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.
- Season 5 · Episode 21
Exit Wounds
With Garcia joining them in the field, the BAU hunts a killer in an isolated Alaska fishing town who preys on residents planning to leave.
- Season 5 · Episode 22
The Internet Is Forever
The BAU hunts a hacker in Boise, Idaho, who studies women through social networks, plants cameras in their homes and streams their murders to an online audience.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Our Darkest Hour
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.