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argyle47

Real life serial killers not yet used as episode basis

The show often uses real life serial killers as bases for episodes. Anyone know some interesting real life serial killers who haven't yet been tapped? What brought this question to mind was a Radiolab piece, "The Buried Bodies Case", that I heard on NPR, today, which was about the Robert Garrow case, the subject of the book, "Terror in the Adirondacks". The guy was a real scary piece of work, including being terrifyingly cunning and patient.

Edit - I'm thinking of infamous serial killers who haven't yet been used and who would make for a compelling episode(s) inspiration.

Posted Oct 27, 2018, 11:29 PM UTC · edited

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SamanthaGoeff•

The Scranton Strangler

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safftastix•

🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯

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marnieparneyBAU•

"I tell you what, those Canadians, they seem so sweet and innocent but when they go bad they go Darth Vader bad." -- Garcia

Bruce McArthur

Elizabeth Wettlaufer

Both those cases are very recent/current, so I don't think the show will get to them before it ends.

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joeclark5•

The episode "To hell... and back" was obviously based on Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton.

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SkullsNRoses00•

While some of the unsubs are clearly modeled after a specific person, many of them kind of blend together traits from more than one serial killer. I think you'd be hard pressed to find one that didn't have something already incorporated into one (or more) of the episodes.

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argyle47OP•

I haven't recognized the more striking aspects of Robert Garrow in any of the previous episodes, but, as has been pointed out, there are a lot of serial killers out there.

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SkullsNRoses00•

Yeah, I'm not familiar with him (yay! Something new to read about), I just meant INA broader sense. Like a killer child, cannibal, family, couple, sniper, etc

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argyle47OP•

Ah! As far as cannibalism goes, I thought the one in season 3 episode 8, "Lucky", had a particularly vicious twist at the end.

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SkullsNRoses00•

And for usually playing such goofy comedic characters, Jamie Kennedy is amazing!

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ev710•

There are hundreds of serial killers who have been found, so i think there are plenty. And then there are the ones who are so good they went undetected....

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argyle47OP•

I was thinking of infamous ones who haven't yet been used. I'll go back and edit that in.

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ev710•

Ah, probably should've realized that. Not sure if there are any.

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joeclark5•

Reid mentioned Andrei Chikatilo in that episode where the team was teaching a college class, think it was Profiling 101.

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Eloy89•

Jeffrey Dahmer Chaundra Levy case Joran van der Sloot Maddie Clifton case Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño, the real-life inspiration for Hannibal Lecter, according to Thomas Harris. Andrea Pia Yates

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argyle47OP•

Spencer's referred to Dahmer in several episodes, if I recall correctly. I think with him, they split aspects of his case (e.g. cannibalism, victimology, lobotomized sex zombies, etc...wow! Dahmer was really sick!), if even as references, amongst different episodes.

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