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| “ | Corrine. With everybody gone, we could have finally been together. But you had to call the cops. [...] I did this for us and you spit in my face! | „ |
| ~ Franco during the standoff. |
Justin Franco is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Annihilator". Franco is a mass murderer who is obsessed with Corrine Jordan, and so murders her boyfriend and three of her roommates to "get them out of the way".
He is portrayed by Daniel Robbins.
Biography[]
Franco, a marketing coordinator and internet troll, became obsessed with Corrine, a flight attendant. With Corrine sharing a house of seven, Franco wanted to move in, but leading household figure Ray Murphy encouraged a refusal, which left Franco seeing him as a rival. Knowing Corrine was infatuated with him, Franco changed his wardrobe to match Ray's, but it didn't catch Corrine's attention like he wanted. Seeing the rest of the roommates as getting in his way of being with Corrine, Franco hatched a plan to kill them all while Corrine was off on a flight to Zurich. One roommate kicked out, Larry Scanlon, would be his patsy. During a leisurely night in, Franco threatens the roommates present with Ray's hunting knife when Ray heads off to the kitchen. Pulling out duct tape, Franco makes Ray bind and gag the other three roommates present, Vicki Wilson, Jenny Kyle, and Charles Cook. To assert his dominance, Franco then restrains Ray himself. Franco then viciously stabs everyone present, leaving the knife stuck in Ray after they're all dead. Rachel Willow survived the massacre, as she was with her sister that night instead of at the house.
Linda Barnes cherry-picks the case to be the one the BAU evaluates. In spite of Barnes looking to Scanlon as an easy suspect, the team catch on Ray is the focus of the aggression. Franco suffocates Scanlon in his car with a plastic bag, then injects an overdose into his neck postmortem and leaves a fake suicide note in the car. The team know from signs of asphyxia and little drugs in his tests due to not enough circulation through his bloodstream that his death was staged. After finding Rachel, they knew Franco was the killer, so they confronted him at the airport Corinne was to arrive at once they found out he wasn't at his apartment. Agents Luke Alvez and Tara Lewis try to talk Franco down once they see him, but he pulls out a revolver and threatens to kill himself unless Corinne faces him. As the team objects to risking Corrine's safety, Barnes still puts her in a bulletproof vest and forcers her into the confrontation. When Franco angrily protests against the agents and assumes Corrine's responsible for calling them, Franco shoots her, but the vest protects her. That some moment, Alvez shoots him dead. In spite of Barnes' blatant breach of protocol, she pins it on the BAU to break up the team, which would only be temporary.
Trivia[]
- Franco is inspired by multiple real-life rampage killers:
- Ma Jiajue, a mass murderer responsible for killing his four college roommates over petty slights.
- Elliot Rodger, a spree killer and incel responsible for starting his spree with stabbing three men to death in his dorm room.
- Christopher Snider, the mass murderer of four friends with the assistance of Christine Paolilla, his girlfriend who he battered, the massacre resulting from an argument and showing distinct signs of jealousy from the violence.
- Richard Farley, a workplace shooter and mass murderer responsible for obsessing over and stalking one of his former colleagues, who was injured in the shooting before Farley was arrested.
- Charles Starkweather, a spree killer with the alleged complicity of his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate, who changed his wardrobe to fit actor James Dean to boost his confidence, then stabbed Caril's family to death before he started his spree.
External links[]
- Justin Franco on the Criminal Minds Wiki
