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| “ | I said, watch it! | „ |
| ~ Sheppard menacing one of his victims. |
Caleb Dale Sheppard, nicknamed The Stripping Bandit, is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Psychodrama". He is a bank robber who forces his victims to strip down to their underwear to prevent them from fighting back as he commits his robbery.
He was portrayed by Jason Wiles, who also portrayed Alexander Gammon in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Sheppard during a robbery.
The reason behind Sheppard's crimes mainly steps from his abusive relationship with his mother and drugs, causing him to steal to gain money. His signature was to make all the victims undress, so they would feel to embarrassed to go after him, and then tale their clothes to store his purloined cash. He also wore lifts in his shoes so no one could tell his height, and once during a bank robbery, Caleb made a couple have sex in front of the victims and made them delete the footage afterwards. When a robbery went south and the BAU arrived, he was chased on his motorbike but made it off. After this, Sheppard went to a kid's birthday party and forced the kid to hold his mom at knife point, intending to have the kid kill his mother before being caught by the BAU, who imprisoned him for his crimes.
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Trivia[]
- Sheppard is based on multiple real-life criminals:
- An unnamed real armed bank robber with a similar M.O. of forcing witnesses to take off their clothes, profiled as having been to keep them from trying to stop the robber.
- Mehrdad Dashti, an Iranian-American hostage-taker responsible for the Henry's Pub hostage incident, where he forced women to remove their pants and underwear while insulting them. When the police stormed the pub to kill him, one of the hostages died.
- The killers of Gail Cobb, a D.C. patrol cop and the first woman and woman of color killed as a law officer in the line of duty. She was shot by armed robbers after she was called to respond to a chase to apprehend them while she was writing traffic tickets.
External links[]
- Caleb Dale Sheppard at the Criminal Minds Wiki
