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| “ | Alan: It was like our first time all over again.
Judith: I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it. |
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| ~ The Andersons professing their resurged killing spree. |
Alan and Judith Anderson are the main antagonists of the Criminal Minds episode "Mr. and Mrs. Anderson". The Andersons are a sadistic couple, Alan a serial rapist and serial killer, Judith his wife and eager accomplice participating for the thrill. They kill at-risk people, mostly women, as a solidifying staple of their marriage, then go to counseling when their marriage begins to fall apart and their killings aren't as enjoyable continuing on.
Alan is portrayed by Ned Bellamy, and Judith is portrayed by the late Mary Mara, who also portrayed Carlene Palaver in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Marisa in Love Potion no. 9.
Biography[]
Early Lives and Crimes[]
The Andersons' backgrounds aren't elaborated upon in the episode. Alan worked as a tow-truck driver, as well as raped and stabbed a woman in Pittsburgh in 1989. During the 90s, he was also responsible for a series of rapes of women in a spree that left him known as "The Crestview Rapist", but he was never caught. Alan met Judith, who knew about his predispositions to violence and found it exciting promise for her, as she hoped to vicariously experience crimes through him. They married in 1994, and their favorite activity as a couple was working as a killing team. Over the next sixteen years, they found ten hitchhiking and vagrant women and girls at rest stops and gas stations, luring each one to seedy hotel rooms for showers. Once the women emerged, Alan would pounce on and kill each of them, repeatedly choking them with a belt until they died. Judith, a practicing scopophiliac, watched the violence of Alan's murders for her own rushes and arousals. The Andersons would celebrate by having sex just after in the same hotel room. Judith, out of maternal instinct, would clean the women, give them manicures and pedicures, and wrap them in the rooms' shower curtains, before leaving the dead women scattered across various nearby highways. Alan wasn't fully satisfied with too rigid a criminal routine, finding the chance of Judith's growing assertion emasculating, so Alan raped and murdered three other women in the cities of Clifford, Delaware, and Scottsdale, Maryland. One woman, Hannah Franklin, was kidnapped and raped by Alan in Pittsburgh in 2008, but she narrowly lived when he assumed she was dead, and the investigation later went cold. Alan contracted an STD from one of the women Alan killed alone, which he transmitted to Judith. Judith either realized the truth about Alan's actions or assumed he had an affair, so this shook up the dynamic in their marriage, along with Judith herself briefly cheating on Alan as compensation and possibly payback. Their criminal partnership hit hard, for four years, the Andersons tried counselor after counselor for their marriage, until they signed up for sessions with Dr. Kathleen Benedict. Dr. Benedict specialized in insight therapy, where the couple would be encouraged to face each other's grievances and wants to personally understand and settle them better. In spite of Alan resenting a woman providing him therapy, which mildly deflated his sexist superiority complex like his marriage to Judith, as well as him believing she favored Judith and finding her a hypocrite as a divorcee, the Andersons eventually came to rejoice their recovered marriage from Dr. Benedict's two-month reinforcement of their relationship's stamina, which she never realized was their love for killing together they'd never fully disclose. The Andersons decided to celebrate by committing more murders.
In "Mr. and Mrs. Anderson"[]
The Andersons lured and killed Tatiana and left her remains behind accordingly, before setting their sights on Maya Taylor when seeing her at a gas station two days later. The Anderson again repeat their killing and sex arrangements and leave Maya dead and off a highway as well. The couple return to Benedict to recount their improved happiness without revealing their crimes to do so. She's elated to hear and asks if they'll continue, the Andersons simultaneously replying, "Absolutely." Dr. Benedict meets with Alan privately, noting his more dominant position over Judith, and she implores him to offer Judith a courteous gesture for their marriage. Disgruntled as Alan was again to be instructed by her, he's delighted to try to appeal to Judith's happiness. The Andersons have a dance at home, where Alan proposes Judith have her choice in picking someone to kill, remarking it's "all about her" that night. Overjoyed, Judith sees James Crayton, a man in street sex worker, and they repeat the same ruse. While Alan's killing James, he fights much more due to his strength, but Alan's successful in choking him to death anyway. Judith is more riled than ever, remarking she "picked a good one" for their change in pattern. Alan's overjoyed by Judith's content, but still conflicted with his rage over Judith choosing a man, who was harder for Alan to kill, and Dr. Benedict insisting Alan stepping out of his comfort zone. To pour our his aggressions and invigorate his masculinity, Alan rapes and kills Gloria Walters, stealing her necklace after she's dead. After the Andersons tell Dr. Benedict in vague terms they're restoring their killing spree as part of their "therapy", Alan gives Judith Gloria's necklace as a gift. Still deflated, Alan surfs TV channels, then leaves the house to clear his head. When he doesn't return, Judith leaves him a voicemail, just as the FBI storm in to arrest her. As Judith had a hysterectomy, the team know the condom at the crime scene with Alan's DNA was meant to cover their crimes up. Confronted in interrogation with Alan's murders outside of their shared crimes, Judith is in complete denial, being refused a phone call to Alan and still insisting on a lawyer. Alan hers the voicemail of the BAU's arrest, realizing his world's unraveling. Enraged again, Alan blames Dr. Benedict for the mess the couple's in and sets out to murder her too. Lying into her office by saying he and Judith are going on vacation, Alan requests one last "session". The agents discreetly inform Dr. Benedict over the phone Alan's the killer they're after. Alan picks up on this and cuts the phone line before jumping her with his belt. Dr. Benedict stabs Alan with a letter opener in his arm and runs out, but Alan jumps her again. Near raping her, the agents arrive just in time to stop and arrest him. Judith is still in denial even after the attack on Dr. Benedict and refuses testimony for a deal, until the agents tell her the truth about the necklace. Judith marches up to Alan when she sees him brought in, hits him, and screams she hates him while throwing the necklace in his face. As she tries to lunge at him, the police and agents hold her back and detain her again. The couple are both incarcerated for their respective crimes.
Quotes[]
| “ | Judith: Why can't it always be like this?
Alan: I'm starting to realize that change doesn't have to be a bad thing. |
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| ~ The Andersons while dancing and enjoying their reignited love |
| “ | I just find it amusing we're paying you for advice on something you failed. | „ |
| ~ Alan insulting Dr. Benedict out of his misogyny |
| “ | I think I speak for both of us when I say we'd love to make this part of our regular routine again. | „ |
| ~ Alan vaguely implying his and Judith's killings to Dr. Benedict |
| “ | Judith: You couldn't bother to call?
Alan: No, I couldn't, because it would have ruined the surprise. All that overtime...it finally paid off. |
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| ~ Judith inquiring Alan after he went out to murder on his own, and Alan giving Judith Gloria's necklace |
| “ | Judith: There was a point in time when both of us were unfaithful in our marriage. When I found out he had cheated-
Alex Blake: You thought if you retaliated it would make you feel better. |
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| ~ Judith defending Alan in interrogation |
| “ | That's one thing I've learned in the 20 years I've been married, is to listen to how a woman speaks on the phone. | „ |
| ~ Alan seeing through Dr. Benedict's phone alert |
| “ | Dr. Kathleen Benedict: Alan, you're not being rational right now. We can talk about whatever's on your mind.
Alan: Or I can just show you. |
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| ~ Alan threatening Dr. Benedict before attacking her |
| “ | Alan: You don't know how long I've been waiting for this!
Dr. Benedict: (choking and gasping) Alan, don't do this- |
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| ~ Alan nearly killing Dr. Benedict |
| “ | Judith: Can I see him?
Alan: Hey...sweetheart- |
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| ~ Judith's final confrontation with Alan after accepting the full truth |
Trivia[]
- The Andersons are inspired by multiple real-life serial killer couples:
- Doug Clark and Carol M. Bundy, a.k.a. "The Sunset Strip Killers" a serial killer couple of women and girls in California, motivated by Clark's sexual aggression, as well as of a man Bundy killed from knowing too much about their crimes.
- Gerald and Charlene Gallego, a.k.a. "The Love Slave Killers", a serial killer couple of teenage and preteen girls motivated by Gerald's sexual dominance and Charlene's thrill of participating as an accomplice.
- Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, a.k.a. "The Ken and Barbie Killers", a Canadian serial killer couple, the husband being a violent serial rapist in Scarborough before the murders, responsible for kidnappings, rapes, and tortures of schoolgirls and other women and girls before murdering them, including Karla's own little sister Tammy Homolka.
- James Marlow and Cynthia Coffman, a couple of American nationwide drifter serial killers and rapists of women along highways, who had a falling out once they were caught.
- Alan along is inspired by multiple real-life serial killers:
- The "New Bedford Highway Killer", a serial killer of women in prostitution in Connecticut, suspected in additional murders, but instead across Europe as the "Lisbon Ripper".
- The "Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer", a suspected serial killer of numerous young women and girls who were hitchhiking across the aforementioned area in California, often found off roadsides and killed by strangulation and sometimes stabbing.
- Altemio Sanchez, a.k.a. "The Bike Path Rapist", a serial rapist of women and girls in New York, later escalating to strangling three women and girls to death before being arrested.
- David Parker Ray, a.k.a. "The Toy Box Killer", a serial rapist and suspected serial killer of women across Arizona and New Mexico, with accomplices including his partner, once confirmed to have tortured a woman and left her for dead on a roadside.
- Josepg James DeAngelo, a.k.a. "The Golden State Killer", a recently xonvixted state wide serial killer tied to multiple crime sprees across California, from burglaries to rapes to murders of couples.
- Rodney Alcala, a.k.a. "The Dating Game Killer", a nationwide serial killer/rapist of women and girls with violence involving repeated strangulation and stabbing, easily angered by rejection of women.
- Charles William Davis, Jr., a serial killer/rapist with a complex of emasculation against resilient women, even once tried to kill a social worker who removed his son from his custody, but instead raped and murdered a different woman.
External links[]
- Alan and Judith Anderson on the Criminal Minds Wiki
