The Behavioral Analysis Unit pursued the fragmented clues left by a disturbed individual, desperate to save his latest victim. Gideon insisted the team maintain professional distance, directing their focus to a standard offender profile. Me…

A year after his disappearance, a young boy reappears, offered for sale on an online auction by a child pornographer in Cleveland. The news reaches Dr. Morgan, now leading the FBI’s Crimes Against Children Unit, who implores Hotch and the B…

The Behavioral Analysis Unit suspects a coordinated effort in a recent string of murders. In each case, the victims’ families discovered a DVD left at the scene, accompanied by evidence of psychological manipulation, suggesting the work of …

The Behavioral Analysis Unit was dispatched to investigate a string of bank robberies. It quickly became apparent that financial gain was not the motive; instead, the perpetrator inflicted a disturbing cruelty upon his victims, forcing them…

The Behavioral Analysis Unit is called upon to investigate a serial rapist who had previously preyed on young women attending religious institutions, laying low for six weeks before resuming his assaults. Now, however, he has shifted his fo…

The team journeyed to a quiet Texas town, drawn by the grim task of investigating a series of child murders. Simultaneously, Elle grappled with the aftermath of her injury, the physical and emotional wounds proving difficult to reconcile. H…

A man, having abducted three teenage girls and confined them to a cellar, presented them with a horrifying ultimatum: only two would survive, and they must decide who would perish. The Behavioral Analysis Unit was called upon to investigate…

The Behavioral Analysis Unit journeyed to Seattle, tasked with identifying and apprehending a serial bomber who had been inflicting terror upon the city. His targets were predominantly centers of automated technology. To understand the bomb…

Special Agent Emily Prentiss, daughter of influential diplomats, integrates into the team, facing the challenge of proving her worth to Gideon and Hotchner through skill rather than lineage. Soon after, the Behavioral Analysis Unit is dispa…

Gideon, Reid, and Prentiss journeyed to Guantanamo Bay to question the leader of a dormant terrorist cell held within its walls. The interrogation followed the discovery of a chemical weapons dispersal device during a raid on a house deemed…

The Behavioral Analysis Unit was dispatched to Washington D.C., where a string of murders targeting prostitutes had occurred. During the investigation, Dr. Reid became convinced that a teenager he had recently encountered, seeking his assis…

Morgan’s homecoming to Chicago, a visit with his family, turns into an arrest. The charges: serial killing. The detective executing the arrest had relied on a psychological profile crafted by Gideon, and the team finds itself dispatched to …

Gideon finds himself facing the most terrifying and depraved murderer he has encountered in his career. When the Behavioral Analysis Unit confronts the sadistic killer in a desolate diner in the Nevada desert, local authorities are eager fo…

Following a Super Bowl celebration, a wealthy couple is found murdered in their home, prompting the arrival of the Behavioral Analysis Unit. They are summoned to unravel the circumstances surrounding the crime.

The stakes reach a fever pitch in this concluding segment of our two-part story. The BAU’s focus narrows to a single, urgent objective: locating the serial killer. Their desperate pursuit is ignited by the horrifying discovery that Dr. Reid…

When the murders of four young Black women in a predominantly white New York suburb are suspected to be hate crimes, the Behavioral Analysis Unit is called in to avert a potential race riot.

The Behavioral Analysis Unit journeyed to Houston to examine a string of murders linked to construction zones and derelict buildings. The killings, seemingly without discernible pattern, led the team to consider the possibility of a perpetr…

The gruesome pattern—three victims found with throats savagely cut—suggested a copycat of Jack the Ripper, and the case drew Gideon to New Orleans. Rumors had long declared the killer lost in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, but the d…

The investigation focused on a series of arson attacks, each targeting the homes of affluent families while they slept. The Behavioral Analysis Unit discerned a connection between the victims: all were linked by their association with corpo…

Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss, mother to SSA Emily Prentiss, turns to the Behavioral Analysis Unit for assistance when a Russian immigrant is abducted and taken hostage for ransom.

The Behavioral Analysis Unit received a call to investigate a disturbing discovery: the bodies of missing individuals had been found in a remote section of the Idaho wilderness. The horrific nature of the remains quickly indicated to the te…

A growing unease settled over Kansas City as reports began to surface of homeless individuals vanishing without a trace. The disappearances, occurring with unsettling frequency and lacking any apparent explanation, prompted a local detectiv…

Frank, the notorious serial killer, has returned. He murders Gideon’s girlfriend, and in the immediate aftermath, Gideon disappears, leaving the team behind without a word. The Behavioral Analysis Unit must then turn its attention to both m…