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| “ | He's gonna hurt me like they all did! | „ |
| ~ Juliet recoiling from her own newborn child. |
Juliet Monroe is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "...A Thousand Words". She is the lover and submissive killing partner of serial killer Robert Burke.
She was portrayed by Jolene Anderson.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Juliet was sexually abused by her father, Morris Monroe, throughout her entire childhood, and as a result became attracted to violent men and, indeed, violence itself. Juliet remained a devoted daughter to Morris despite what he did to her, and visited him in prison after he was convicted of multiple sexual assaults. During these visits, she met her father's cellmate and fellow sex offender Robert Burke, who immediately sensed her submissiveness and vulnerability and manipulated her into believing he loved her.
After Burke was released, he moved in with Juliet and enlisted her in helping him kidnap women, whom he would rape and murder after he and Juliet held them prisoner for a few months. He also impregnated Juliet, but the child died, intensifying her dependence upon him.
The police eventually began to close in on Burke, so he wrote a farewell letter addressed to Juliet, who was once again pregnant by him, in which he gave her instructions on killing their latest victim, Rebecca Daniels, whom they had kidnapped months earlier. He then committed suicide, leaving behind evidence of his crimes.
"A Thousands Words..."[]
When Juliet receives Burke's letter, she is devastated and enraged, and takes it out on Rebecca, blaming her for his death.
Meanwhile, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) starts investigating Burke's murders, and Agent Spencer Reid learns from Burke's journal that he had a partner. Reid and fellow BAU Agent Jennifer Jareau examine Burke's corpse and find a tattoo in invisible ink of a fetus, indicating that his partner is female and pregnant with his child.
When Juliet goes into labor, she forces Rebecca to help her deliver the baby. When the child turns out to be a boy, Juliet recoils from him in terror, believing that the child will grow up to hurt her just like every other man in her life. As the childbirth is too aggressively traumatic, Juliet dies shortly after. At that moment, the agents of the BAU burst into her house, having tracked her down, taking Rebecca and the baby to safety.
Trivia[]
- Juliet is inspired by multiple real-life accomplices of criminals:
- Veronica Compton, the manipulated partner and lover of Kenneth Bianchi, one of the "Hillside Stranglers", releases from prison after serving time for attempting to a murder a woman in a copycat crime, to paint suspicion away from the Stranglers.
- Rosemary West, the accomplice of British serial killer Fred West.
- Cynthia Coffman, the accomplice of American serial killer James Marlow, sharing tattoos between them.
- Monique Olivier, the accomplice of French serial killer Michel Fourniret.
- Nancy Garrido, the accomplice of American serial rapist Phillip Garrido in the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.
- Aileen Wuornos, a.k.a. "The Florida Highway Killer", an America serial killer of men who was raped by her grandfather, her father imprisoned also for child sex crimes, which perverted her sense of love and sexual safety.
- Juliet and Burke's names are a macabre allusion to Romeo and Juliet, the Shakespearean stage romantic tragedy.
External Links[]
- Juliet Monroe on the Criminal Minds Wiki
