"Birthright" is the eleventh episode of Season Three and the 56th overall of Criminal Minds.
Summary[]
The new sheriff in Fredericksburg, Virginia, requests the BAU's assistance in the investigation of a series of mutilation-murders that appear to mimic similar crimes that had occurred over two decades earlier.
Guest Cast[]
- Andre Alexson - CSI Tech
- Jon Barton - SWAT Leader
- Lacey Beeman - Molly McCarthy
- Jesse Bernstein - Danny
- Curt Bonnem - Charles Wilkinson
- Rebekah Brandes - Young Karen Foley
- Jeffrey Corbett - Sheriff Michael Ballantyne
- J. Claude Deering - Man
- Rodney Eastman - Stephen Foley
- Kandis Erickson - Julie Stanton
- Jennifer Hetrick - Mary Wilkinson
- Matt Hoffman - Robert Wilkinson
- Royce Thomas Johnson - Boy
- Sally Pressman - Chrissy Wilkinson
- Houston Rhines - Guy
- Elizabeth Ann Roberts - Tara Ricker
- William Morgan Sheppard - John Caulfield
- Nathan Sutton - Justin
- Dendrie Taylor - Karen Foley
- Erika Whalen - Girl
Referenced Criminals[]
- Dennis Rader, BTK
Music[]
- "Where the Devil Don't Stay" by Drive-By Truckers
- "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones
- "Skin and Bones" by JET
- "Decoration Day" by Drive-By Truckers
Bookend Quotes[]
- Aaron Hotchner: The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote, "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
- Jennifer Jareau: Wordsworth wrote, "A simple child, that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?"
Trivia[]
- One of the murder victims killed prior to the events of the episode is also the same name of the murdered mother of Cat Adams.