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| “ | Most people in life deserve better than they got. That's a plain and simple fact. But I truly believe things can get better if you only wish it hard enough. And that way, I guess you could say I'm an optimist. But all the optimism in the world doesn't mean a thing if people aren't ready to help themselves. I know what I do is wrong, but...there's not always a good choice to be made in life. Sometimes, you need to pick the lesser of two evils. Each time I do this, I can feel something die inside of me. It's awful. I don't think you appreciate how awful it is. And what scares me the most is I'm going to turn into something evil, too, bit by bit, gradual, so slowly, I won't even notice until one day, suddenly, that's all I am. Pure evil. Nothing else. Give me credit for trying to do the right thing, but you need to find me. You need to stop me. Please. | „ |
| ~ The killer’s manifesto plea |
The Beaumont Unsub (so named for Fandom, real name unknown) is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode “Family Tree”. The unnamed unsub is a serial killer of businessman and sex workers out of a rage against his family history.
He’s portrayed by TJ Power.
Biography[]
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The unnamed unsub was born in 1989 from an affair between his parents: Billy Crawford, a then teenage business heir, and Lydia Parris, teenage sex worker. Lydia demanded child support when she kept the unsub to raise him, so the Crawfords, a historic family of tycoons, took care of Lydia and her child Houston. Parris returned to the streets and to substance dependence, which was bad enough for her to grow sick from cirrhosis. The unsub, who moved out shortly before his mother’s long decline, returned to care for her until she died in 2019. Out of a hatred for the Crawford family and in a desperation to save other women from the streets, the unsub began a frenzied killing spree with both focuses. Setting up a hideout at Crawford Ranch, where he was conceived. His first ritual was knocking businessmen out with blows to their heads, kidnapping them, and stabbing them to death in the shed on the property. The other group he targeted were prostitutes on the street, who he brought to Crawford Ranch to tell the story about him and his family in hopes of “saving” them by his own definition of seeing the women as people. When the women were disinterested or too terrified, the unsub would drug them and choke them to death. Each and every victim was mutilated postmortem, their eyes, tongues, and left hands hung from the tree on the ranch under which the unsung was conceived. As the women would see this when they were kidnapped, this was a common reason they were too shaken to give the unsub what he wanted. The men would be left in dumpsters, and the women would be wrapped in white sheets and buried face-down in the forest.
After two repetitions of the cycle, the Behavioral Analysis Unit was dispatched. Coincidentally, this is when the unsub goes into a lengthy monologue on a cassette recording, chronicling a manifesto about his crimes and how it turned him as evil as what he hated, pleading for the police to stop him. After kidnapping and murdering another businessman, Bo Zachary, he snatched Becky Silverman, bringing her to the tree to try and turn her away from the streets too. She’s too horrified and sickened and refuses to listen to him, and he prepares to kill her in the shack, refusing to listen to her pleas for mercy. Agent David Rossi chases the unsub inti the woods, and they get into a shootout, Rossi, in spite of PTSD, coming out on top and killing the unsub instantly with a shot to his head. The police and agents found the unsub killed far more victims than they expected, because of the remains suspended from the tree. The agents took much evidence from the shack, including more tape recordings, to Quantico to track the murders.
Trivia[]
- The unsub is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- David Berkowitz, a.k.a. “Son of Sam”, a serial killer of couples who was adopted and motivated by a hatred of women due to a feeling of abandonment over his birth mother. He also sent a rambling letter to the police when he nicknamed himself and described his motives.
- The “Lipstick Killer”, an unidentified serial killer popularly believed to be convicted suspect William Heirens, a violent serial killer of various women implementing stabbing and dismemberment, writing a message on a crime scene wall in lipstick, pleading the police to stop him.
- Yoo Young-chul, a.k.a. “The Raincoat Killer”, a South Korean serial killer of businessmen and women in sex work with a similarly violent M.O.
- Albert Fish, a.k.a. “The Grey Man”, a serial killer/rapist of children with a traumatic childhood, responsible for murdering and dismembering the kids, then sending the family of the last child he killed a twisted harassing letter. Fish himself had a history of prostitution.
- Lydia Parris appears to be inspired by Vicky Sandy, a prostitute and live-in mistress of a businessman, who was murdered later in her life.
- The unsub is the last lone, one-episode unsub of the series, until the reboot of the series with Evolution.