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CBS's Criminal Minds has seen many dangerous unsubs throughout its run and in its many spin-offs.
The term was first heard in Season 1 Episode 1, when Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Team called a potential suspect 'unsub', meaning an unidentified criminal.
Since then, almost every episode has opened with an unsub and the team then works on building a criminal profile and identifying the potential perpetrator.
While the show has seen some deranged, menacing and dangerous unsubs over the seasons, some were simply more harrowing than the others.
Here are the five most dangerous Criminal Minds unsubs.
5 Criminal Minds unsubs that still give me chills
1) Anita & Roger Roycewood (Criminal Minds Season 5)
The murderous Roycewood couple in Season 5 Episode 16 can easily give nightmares even after many years. A perfectly normal couple, Anita and Roger, were probably mentally unstable as they used to kidnap a child annually.
The couple would then take them home and treat them as their own child, until they become old and stop being compliant with them. The couple would then drug them and place their unconscious bodies into a crematorium and burn them alive.
While their motives were not fully revealed, they continued this crazy children massacre for about 12 years before the FBI caught them.
2) George Foyet AKA The Boston Reaper (Criminal Minds Season 4)
This list would certainly be incomplete without George Foyet AKA The Reaper, who was partly inspired by the real-life Zodiac Killer. Foyet was psychopathic, narcissistic and misogynistic, and grew up in an abusive household.
Since his mother could not protect him from his abusive father, he developed a hatred for all women and eventually became a serial killer. With no fixed Modus Operandi, Foyet would usually taunt and torture his victims before brutally killing them.
I still cannot forget his effect on unit chief Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner. He not only brutally killed Hotch's wife, but also went after his son, before Hotch killed him.
3) Peter Lewis AKA Mr. Scratch (Criminal Minds Season 10)
While the show eventually lost its charm in the latter seasons, following many cast exits, it is hard to ignore Peter Lewis AKA Mr. Scratch. What makes Peter so terrifying is that he did not commit even one murder during his initial run on the show.
He was a proxy killer who used to sedate his victims with a special drug and hypnotize them into seeing 'Mr. Scratch' and compel them into killing their loved ones. Mr. Scratch would hypnotize innocent people into committing the horrific crime of killing their own family, which made him the most horrific unsub on the show.
4) Stanley Howard (Criminal Minds Season 3)
The most chilling unsub on the show, who probably made seeking therapy a horror experience after his appearance. Stanley Howard was a psychiatrist who 'helped' patients deal with their worst phobias.
So far so good? But Stanley would then use this information and kill his patients using their fears. He was a sadist who derived pleasure from seeing people tortured and eventually succumb to their phobias. Stanley not only failed his patients as a medical professional, but was also one of the most dangerous serial killers on the show.
Some of his most brutal killings, like drowning an aquaphobic man and trapping a claustrophobic woman in a box, still give me chills.
5) Adam Rain (Criminal Minds Season 8)
Adam Rain's father was a puppeteer and he grew up believing those dolls were real and that he could also control them one day. After a major car accident, Adam goes into a coma. When he wakes up in Season 8, he suffers severe brain damage, which takes him back to his childhood once again.
In his deranged state of mind, Adam made people into live puppets, controlling them while dislocating their limbs and covering their faces with masks. His childhood infatuation and the need to control made him a serial killer because many people eventually succumbed to their injuries while being puppets.
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