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| “ | Look. You got a case to make, run along, get your papers and come back with the bracelets. Otherwise, I got a business to run. | „ |
| ~ Russo |
Michael Russo is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Natural Born Killer". Russo is a low-rate Baltimore mobster affiliated with serial killer and freelance hitman Vincent Perotta, putting him in the focus of the FBI when Perotta conducts his own killings outside of Russo's orders.
He was portrayed by Francesco Quinn.
Biography[]
Russo is a mob boss based in Baltimore, Maryland, who launders the proceeds of his criminal syndicate through a scrap yard he owns. He frequently employs freelance assassin Vincent Perotta to ger rid of witnesses and rival gangsters.
The FBI's Organized Crime Unit division has been investigating him for three years. In the two latter years, Agent Jimmy Baker infiltrated the network and gained Russo's trust, eventually establishing a rapport with one of Russo's enforcers, Freddy Condore. However, Perotta saw through Baker's cover, so he went after Freddy and Baker to protect himself. Perotta dispatched Condore's aunt, Helen DiMarco, by cutting her throat, then tortured Freddy and Helen's husband William to death. As Perotta knew Freddy, he dismembered him and planned to dispose of his remains so he wouldn't be found and traced to Perotta and Russo's mob.
When Baker was supposed to meet his colleagues, Perotta kidnapped him and held him in the basement of his family home, torturing him for info on who else knew who he was. Perotta then left Baker to be eaten alive by rats in the basement.
Russo was questioned by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), but he said he was a legitimate businessman and wanted them out of his junkyard unless he was under arrest. They came back later to reveal what happened: Perotta went outside of Russo's orders because he was too paranoid about witnesses. Russo was rattled himself enough he called Perotta and told him to meet Russo at the junkyard. The BAU arrested him before Perotta arrived, and after he makes a failed attempt to kill Agent Aaron Hotchner, he was arrested. In interrogation, Perotta let slip Baker's location eventually, and Baker was rescued. Perotta was sent to federal prison, and Russo was also incarcerated for his involvement with Perotta.
External links[]
- Michael Russo on the Criminal Minds Wiki
