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“ | You better not give me any trouble. | „ |
~ J.B. Allen threatening one of his victims. |
J.B. Allen is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Foundation". He is a psychopathic pedophile who rapes, tortures, and murders pre-pubescent boys.
He was portrayed by Garrett M. Brown, who also portrayed Peter Ridley in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Biography[]
Overview[]
Allen is a real estate developer in Crawford, Texas, who is secretly a pedophile and serial killer who preys on prepubescent boys. In his daily life, he is a very successful businessman and a pillar of his community, having an especially good relationship with the local police. He has a daughter, Samantha, with his late wife, who died when Samantha was five.
He uses his business to cover up his crimes, constructing buildings over the sites of his murders in order to conceal his victims' bodies. He also takes his victims' possessions and gives them to Samantha as gifts so he can keep them as trophies without running the risk of being directly connected to the murders.
He kills most of his victims right away, but keeps one of them, Angel Suarez, as his prisoner for eight years, raping and torturing him in a makeshift cell under one of his properties. Angel finally escapes while Allen is transporting him to another site to kill him, as the boy, now a teenager, had grown too old for Allen. Allen immediately kidnaps another boy, Billy Henderson, which gets the attention of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
"Foundation"[]
After seeing a TV news story about Angel, who had been rescued by a passing car, Samantha, now an adult, is suddenly troubled by a vague memory of a young boy in pain, and starts to wonder if she knows anything about Angel's abduction. She goes to the local police, but leaves after seeing a witness sketch of the suspected kidnapper, which strongly resembles her father.
BAU Agents David Rossi and Emily Prentiss question Samantha about the incident at the police station, suspecting that she knows more than she realizes. Prentiss conducts a cognitive interview that helps Samantha recover a repressed memory of her witnessing her father murder a young boy when she was five, and Samantha agrees to wear a wire tap in order to help arrest her father.
While wearing a wire, Samantha visits her father under the pretext of exploring his basement for her old catcher's mitt, in order to search for incriminating evidence. Unfortunately, she does not find anything. With Prentiss' help, however, she remembers that her father once gave her a puppy that matches the description of one stolen from Angel. With that information, plus that already supplied by Samantha and Angel, the BAU are able to stop Allen from burying Billy alive and arrest Allen, who is beaten briefly by Agent Derek Morgan and later imprisoned for life.
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Trivia[]
Allen is inspired by multiple real-life criminals:
- John Wayne Gacy, a.k.a. "The Killer Clown", a serial murderer/rapist of boys and men also with his own construction and real estate properties, which attracted kids for entertainment in the communities.
- Dean Corll, a.k.a. "The Candy Man", a serial killer/rapist of boys in Texas, white and Latino, who were tortured to death and buried on his property, before one of his accomplices stopped his last murder attempts by shooting him dead. The boys' disappearances were originally treated as runaway cases until Corll's death.
- Michael J. Devlin, a pedophilic kidnapper and rapist, responsible for kidnapping and raping a boy, Shawn Hornbeck, for five years, then kidnapped another boy with the intention of raping him and was swiftly arrested shortly after.
- Jürgen Bartsch, a.k.a. "The Carnival Killer", a West German serial killer of boys who were raped and murdered while they were held captive in an abandoned war shelter. One escaped and reported Bartsch to the police.
- George Franklin, a convicted rapist and murderer of his daughter Eileen's friend, arrested and imprisoned after Eileen's repressed memory recall decades later; the conviction was later overturned, and Franklin was released.
- Edward Edwards, a.k.a. "The Hook Man", a serial killer and career criminal later turned in by his daughter.
External links[]
- J.B. Allen on the Criminal Minds Wiki