DISTURBING EPISODES FROM CRIMINAL MINDS THAT ARE BASED ON REAL LIFE-CASES

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama
tv series that premiered on CBS on September 2005. Created by Jeff Davis, the
show follows the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit as they investigate crimes and
find the suspects known as unsubs.
With an IMDB rating of 8.1/10, some disturbing episodes from Criminal Minds coined from real-life cases will make your skin crawl or make you wonder what the Criminal Minds writers were thinking about making them.
Before we get down to those disturbing episodes of Criminal
Minds based on real-life cases, this is where to watch the
show if you’ve been asking if Criminal Minds is on Hulu. Criminal Minds is
on Netflix too (but only the first twelve episodes); for context, there are
sixteen seasons if you’re wondering how many seasons of Criminal Minds
Season 1, Episode 11
The Behavioral Analysis Unit, BAU tracks a paranoid schizophrenic in this episode. After
violently murdering his victims, the unsub performs cannibalism and
even drinks their blood.
In real life, the unsub is Richard Trenton Chase, ‘The
Vampire of Sacramento’. His crimes were necrophilia, cannibalism, and
vampirism.
Season 4, Episode 22
In this chilling episode, the BAU took on the case of an unsub suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder who
targets blonde women. The unsub sends the police a video of him murdering a
victim and leaves a “Help me message” in red ink; a plea for them to stop him
before he murders another victim.
This episode is based on the real-life story of William
Heirens ‘The Lipstick Killer’ after he left this message in red lipstick for
the police on the wall of a victim’s apartment “For Heaven’s sake catch me
before I kill more. I cannot control myself”
Season 4, Episode 25
In this episode of Criminal
Minds, the BAU is called to track an unsub after multiple transients go missing
in Detroit. The team BAU eventually finds themselves on a pig farm where they
discover that a disabled man has been instructing his mentally unstable brother
to kidnap people, experiment on them, kill them, and then feed their bodies to
pigs.
This chilling case is based on
Robert Pickton, ‘The Pig Farmer Killer’. His victims are believed to be all women,
and he fed most of them to his pigs. It is also thought that he mixed ground
human flesh with the pig meat he sold at the local markets.
Season 6, Episode 1
During the Season 5 finale and Season 6 premiere episode, the
BAU tracks a serial killer ‘The Prince of Darkness’ who breaks into homes at
night and leaves with a trail of dead couples; sparing only the children.
This double episode is based on the story of Richard Ramirez
‘The Night Stalker’, a serial killer, rapist, and burglar who reaped havoc in
Los Angeles.
Season 6, Episode 13
In this episode, the killing spree of newlywed young couples
comes to an end inside a gas station convenience store
Although not an accurate depiction, the couple 14-year-old
Caril Fugate and 20-year-old Charles Starkweather murdered eleven people during
their killing spree. Prior to that, Starkweather killed Fugate’s mother,
stepfather, and baby half-sister in front of her.
Starkweather was executed via the electric chair and Fugate got a life sentence in prison.
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