A collection of real world criminals mentioned or referenced in Criminal Minds.

Serial KillersEdit

Rodney Alcala
The Dating Game Killer

Richard Angelo
The Angel of Death

Robert Berdella
The Kansas City Butcher

David Berkowitz
Son of Sam

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris
The Toolbox Killer

The Boston Strangler

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
The Moors Murderers

Ted Bundy

Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi
The Hillside Stranglers

William Burke and William Hare

David Carpenter
The Trailside Killer

Richard Chase
The Vampire of Sacramento

Andrei Chikatilo
The Rostov Ripper

Ray and Faye Copeland

Richard Cottingham
The Torso Killer

Charles Cullen

Jeffrey Dahmer
The Milwaukee Cannibal

Karl Denke
The Cannibal of Ziębice

The Eyeball Killer

Albert Fish
The Gray Man

John Wayne Gacy
The Killer Clown

Gerald and Charlene Gallego
The Love Slave Killers

Harvey Glatman
The Lonely Hearts Killer

Mark Goudeau
The Baseline Killer

The Grim Sleeper

Fritz Haarmann

John George Haigh
The Acid Bath Murderer

Robert Hansen

Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman
The Serial Shooter

Jack the Ripper

Edmund Kemper
The Co-Ed Killer

Randy Kraft
The Score-Card Killer

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng

Derrick Todd Lee
The Baton Rouge Killer

The Lipstick Killer

Henry Lee Lucas
The Confession Killer

The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run

The Monster of Florence

Herbert Mullin

Robert Napper
The Green Chain Rapist

The Original Night Stalker

Carl Panzram

Robert Pickton
The Pig Farmer Killer

Dennis Rader
The BTK Killer

Richard Ramirez
The Night Stalker

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
The Railroad Killer

Gary Ridgway
The Green River Killer

John Edward Robinson
The Slave Master

Efren Saldivar

Altemio Sanchez
The Bike Path Rapist

Heriberto Seda
The New York Zodiac Killer

Cary Stayner
The Yosemite Killer

Peter Sutcliffe
The Yorkshire Ripper

Fred and Rosemary West

Aileen Wuornos
The Florida Highway Killer

The Zodiac Killer

Rampage KillersEdit

Mark Barton

Martin Bryant

Reginald and Jonathan Carr

Seung-Hui Cho
The Virginia Tech Shooter

Gordon Cummins
The Blackout Ripper

Andrew Cunanan

George Geschwendt

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
The Columbine Shooters

George Hennard

Dick Hickock and Perry Smith

James Huberty

Andrew Kehoe

Kipland Kinkel

John List
The Boogeyman of Westfield

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
The Beltway Snipers

The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

Timothy McVeigh
The Oklahoma City Bomber

Richard Speck

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate

James Swann
The Shotgun Stalker

The Tylenol Killer

Howard Unruh

Byran Uyesugi
The Xerox Murderer

Jeff Weise

Charles Whitman
The Texas Tower Sniper

Serial BombersEdit

Luke Helder
The Midwest Pipe Bomber

Theodore Kaczynski
The Unabomber

George Metesky
The Mad Bomber

Eric Rudolph
The Olympic Park Bomber

Serial ArsonistsEdit

Paul Kenneth Keller

Bruce George Peter Lee

Other CriminalsEdit

Frank Abagnale
The Skywayman

Amerithrax
Terrorist

Robert John Bardo

Paul Bateson

John Wilkes Booth

Veronica Compton

Mike DeBardeleben
The Mall Passer

Russell Ellwood

Ed Gein
The Plainfield Ghoul

Gary Heidnik

John Hinckley, Jr.

Matthew Hoffman

John Jamelske
The Syracuse Dungeon Master

Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Dr. Death

Sante Kimes
The Dragon Lady

Ronnie and Reggie Kray

Richard Kuklinski
The Iceman

Charles Manson

Bruce Mendenhall
The Prosti-Shooter

Victor Paleologus

Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu
The High Incident Bandits

Lee Harvey Oswald

The JonBenét Ramsey case

David Parker Ray
The Toy Box Killer

Seito Sakakibara

Gerard Schaefer
The Killer Cop

Helmuth Schmidt
American Bluebeard

Iain Scoular

Sylvia Seegrist

Wayne Williams
The Atlanta Child Murderer