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“ | How do you know what the killer's family is thinking? | „ |
~ Jacobs pressing Ashley Seaver about her knowledge of a serial killer's family life. |
Andrew "Drew" Jacobs is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "What Happens at Home". He is a serial killer in a gated community in Las Cruces, New Mexico. While he is not suspected at first, he is found out when the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is called in and they reexamine the list of potential suspects.
He was portrayed by Kenneth Mitchell.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Very little is known about Drew Jacob's early life, other than that he was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and was charged several times with assault when he was young. He married his wife Aubrey as an adult and they had a child, Heather. He got a job as an IT expert and began living in an upscale gated community called Oak Tree Hills in Las Cruces, New Mexico. His marriage was an apparently stable one, although he was distant towards his wife but he appeared to be a good father to his daughter.
His façade as an upstanding family man and pillar of the community masked a dark side, however; in his secret life, he was a serial killer who preyed on young, attractive women. His M.O. was to troll houses for victims, break into their houses and apartments at night, ambush them from behind, and garrote them to death with piano wire.
Shortly before the events of the episode, he murdered two women who lived in his community within days of each other. By the second murder, he had become so brazen and arrogant that he had killed her while her husband and son were camping in the backyard. The local police considered him a prime suspect due his habit of wandering alone at night near the victims' houses. Desperate to throw the police off his trail, he killed Audrey to draw suspicion away from himself. This murder genuinely devastated him, as he loved her and felt guilt at depriving his daughter of her mother.
In "What Happens at Home"[]
Jacobs is first seen being interrogated by Detective Felix Ruiz. He is later interviewed by agents of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), who have been called in to assist the police in the investigation.
When the BAU holds a meeting in an attempt to observe the body language of the children and fathers in the gated community, Jacobs takes this opportunity to strike again and kill another woman, Maureen Watson, while her family was at the meeting.
FBI cadet Ashley Seaver, who is assisting the BAU in profiling the killer, shows up at Jacobs' house to return his wife's laptop back to him. Jacobs asks her about what the FBI knows about the killer, which makes Seaver suspicious. When she says the killer's family will be just as devastated by his crimes as the families of his victims, Jacobs becomes agitated and corners her in his daughter's bedroom, demanding to know how the killer's family will feel after he is caught. Seaver realizes that Jacobs is the killer and says as much to BAU Supervisory Agent Aaron Hotchner when he calls her.
Jacobs holds Seaver against a wall at knifepoint, demanding she tell him how she knows how the killer's family will feel. At that moment, they both hear a scream, and see Jacobs' daughter Heather staring at him with horror and disbelief. Seaver sees how it pains Jacobs to be feared by his own child, so she tries to win his trust by asking him to tell Heather to leave so she will be spared the sight of her father killing someone. Jacobs returns to his questions and Seaver tells him that her own father, Charles Beauchamp, was a serial killer known as The Redmond Ripper. She reveals to the surprised Jacobs that he once told her that the day he was arrested was the best day of his life because he could finally stop. Jacobs starts crying, and says that he wants that, too. Jacobs then asks Seaver if she hates her father, a question she cannot answer.
At that moment, Hotchner bursts in, weapon drawn, and orders Jacobs to drop the knife. Jacobs looks at Heather one last time and apologizes to her for everything he has done. He then commits suicide-by-cop by charging at Hotchner with the knife, forcing Hotchner to shoot him dead.
Trivia[]
- Jacobs is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- Timothy Wilson Spencer, a.k.a. “The Southside Strangler”, a serial killer/rapist of women in Virginia, strangling them in their homes and with the same schedules of breaks and escalation between each of the murders.
- Wu Chein-tai, a Taiwanese-American serial rapist of teenage girls in his local community, breaking into homes by getting garage codes from the victims’ families with easy lies of offering assistance at their homes.
- Joseph Kondro, a.k.a. "The Longview Serial Killer", a serial killer/rapist of the daughters of families he got acquainted with in the community, which helped him to avoid being a suspect for years.
External Links[]
- Drew Jacobs on the Criminal Minds Wiki