Criminal
Name	Trevor Mills
Gender	Male
Birth Date	c. 1987
Family	Robert Mills (father; deceased) Pamela Mills (mother) Julie Mills (sister; deceased)
Occupation	Messenger
Pathology	Serial Killer Family Annihilator
Modus Operandi	Execution-style shooting (familicides) Shooting repeatedly (minorities)
Status	Deceased
Portrayed By	Kevin Sheridan Austin Michael Coleman (young)
First Appearance	"A Thin Line"

"You damn half-breed, you don't know anything!"

Trevor Mills was a serial killer and family annihilator who was manipulated by mayoral candidate Clark Preston. He appeared in Season Seven of Criminal Minds.

HistoryEdit

In 2002, Trevor's family was the victim of a home invasion, the perpetrators being two African-American men, Ronnie Green and Carlos Jackson, both of whom were caught and sentenced to life in prison. Trevor's father and younger sister were beaten and stabbed to death. His mother, Pamela, was also sexually assaulted, barely surviving, and was left in a near-vegetative state, forcing Trevor to take care of her. Trevor escaped the horror by hiding in a closet. A businessman, Clark Preston, took note of the case and supported Trevor and his mother financially, paying for Pamela's medical care. Thanks to Trevor, Pamela also became a (likely unwitting) financial contributor to Preston, donating the money she got from her disability check to him. Because of this, Trevor absolutely idolized Preston and adopted his racist beliefs as his own. What he didn't know was that Preston, who dealt in real-estate, had been the one who hired Green and Jackson to do the home invasion on his family, intending to create a crime wave and cause the property values to plummet so he could buy them cheaply. In 2012, Preston started a mayoral election campaign, strongly basing it on promises to lower the crime rate. In an effort to support his campaign, Trevor began a series of home invasions in which he killed white middle-class families and framed men of ethnic minorities of whom he also killed. Preston, having been the one who convinced Trevor to do so, then used the home invasions as arguments for his campaign. After the second set of murders is committed, the BAU is called in to investigate.

After killing his third set of victims, Trevor is visited by Preston, who had just been interrogated by the BAU. Preston gives him flowers for Pamela and then tells him to keep a low profile, much to his shock. Becoming impatient, Trevor instead abducts another minority, Ramon Gomez, and then stations himself near another family household. When the family goes to sleep, he cuts out the power and methodically kills every member. Trevor goes back outside and opens the trunk of his car, where he has stuffed Ramon inside, but he is attacked by Ramon, who recovered earlier due to his drug tolerance. Trevor fights back, but ultimately, Ramon gets the upper hand and incapacitates Trevor before escaping. Ramon flees to the police station, where Prentiss interrogates him and finds that the unsub lives near train tracks. Worried that there is now a witness to his crimes, Trevor tries going to Preston, who just tells him to leave and never come back, as the BAU is beginning to suspect him of involvement in the murders. After watching a speech made by Hilary Ross, Preston's rival candidate, Trevor's fury increases and he devises an endgame, leaving a goodbye note for Pamela before going to Hilary's house and cutting out the power. He then breaks into the house and finds Hilary. Prentiss, Morgan, and JJ arrive, but Trevor fires at them and manages to hit Prentiss in the arm. He then holds Hilary at gunpoint, and Morgan tells him of Preston's involvement in his family's attack. Unconvinced, Trevor tries to shoot Morgan, only to be shot dead by him. Preston is later arrested by Rossi and Hotch.

Modus OperandiEdit

Trevor targeted Caucasian, suburban middle-class families, usually ones who lived in houses with outdated or inactive alarm systems that could easily be disabled and were registered gun owners. He would break in through the back window, cut the power and phone lines and kill everyone in the house by shooting them. To cover his tracks and make the murders look like the work of gangs, he would drug a man of some ethnic minority with Oxycodone and kill them as well, using the family's own guns to make it look like they had attacked the families and been killed when they fought back. The homeowners were usually killed quickly and mercifully with single shots to the head. The fall guys, on the other hand, were killed with several shots to the head and abdomen, all fired from a gun owned by the family. To ensure that the killings resembled separate incidents, it is extremely likely he used different guns for each attack; during the second home invasion, he utilized a .357 handgun. During the fourth home invasion, before killing the son, Trevor put him into a closet to emulate how he hid in a closet during Ronnie Green and Carlos Jackson's attack on his family. He didn't do this to the other children because he didn't relate to them.

ProfileEdit

The UnSub is a white male in his late 20s-early 30s who is trying to make his murders look like the work of black gangs or undocumented immigrants by staging the crime scenes. The goal is to create racial tensions, not unlike Charles Manson's Helter Skelter plan. He may be a member of a hate group such as the Aryan Brotherhood who believes that such race wars are inevitable. If so, he may be an ex-convict or related to a convict, since such gangs have strong ties to the prison system. He may also be some kind of zealot who believes that his war is already being fought and the murders are just his contribution. He may also be vulnerable, weak-minded or even lonely, so his cause gives him a sense of power and belonging. He is unlikely to surrender. Because he is strong enough to move dead bodies, he is probably young. But he is also quite disciplined, since the attacks took time to plan. Since he is able to drug his victims using Oxycodone without killing them, he probably has knowledge of dosage. Since it is an expensive drug, he may work in medical care.

Known VictimsEdit

• The first home invasion:
  • The Mitchell family
    • Brian Mitchell (father)
    • The unnamed mother
    • Two unnamed sons
  • Alex Collison (set up as the attacker; shot repeatedly, presumably in the head and abdomen and with the family's weapon)
• The second home invasion:
  • The Lewis family (all were shot with a .357 handgun)
    • Matt Lewis (father; shot once in the head at point-blank range)
    • Trisha Lewis (mother)
    • Mackenzie and Blake^[1] Lewis (daughters)
  • Ronald Underwood (set up as the attacker; shot eleven times in the head and abdomen with the family's weapon)
• The third home invasion:
  • The Nelsons
    • Charles Nelson
    • Karen Nelson (was eight months pregnant)
  • Pedro Mendez (set up as the attacker; shot six times in the head and abdomen with the family's .38 snub-nosed revolver)
• The fourth home invasion:
  • An unnamed family
    • The unnamed parents
    • The unnamed son (put him into a closet before killing him)
    • The unnamed daughter
  • Ramon Gomez (drugged, abducted and intended to kill and frame him for the familicide; he escaped)
• The attack at Hilary Ross's house:
  • Hilary Ross (Preston's rival candidate; attempted; threw across a table, shot at and later held hostage)
  • Emily Prentiss (attempted, but survived; shot at her, non-fatally hitting her arm)
  • Jennifer Jareau (attempted; shot at, but missed)
  • Derek Morgan (attempted; shot at, but missed; later tried to shoot again)

NotesEdit

• Kevin Sheridan had previously played a family annihilator in an episode of the crime drama The Closer.
• According to an interview by Virgil Williams, Trevor's case was inspired by Neo-Nazi Matthew Hale, who tried to hire someone to kill a judge who had rejected his license to practice law on the grounds that he lacked the requisite moral character and fitness to do so. His contact was an undercover FBI informant, leading to him being convicted and sentenced to 40 years for attempting to solicit the murder.

AppearancesEdit

• Season Seven
  • "A Thin Line"

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Though Blake Lewis's first name is more common as a male name, it has been said several times she was a girl