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| “ | My last hope is that you finish what we started. | „ |
| ~ Burke's last message to Juliet. |
Robert Burke is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "...A Thousand Words". He is a serial killer and rapist who manipulates a young woman, Juliet Monroe, into finishing his "sequence" of murders before committing suicide.
He was portrayed by John Thaddeus.
Biography[]
Born in 1967, Burke is obsessed with raping teenage girls, and is arrested twice for attempted rape but is not convicted. In 1991, he is convicted of rape and is sentenced to eight years in prison. While incarcerated, he meets Juliet Monroe, the daughter, and victim, of child molester Morris Monroe, Burke's cellmate. Burke manipulates Juliet, who had been conditioned by her father to allow older men to do whatever they wanted with her, into becoming his lover, and impregnates her following his release in 1999. Their child dies, however, which makes Juliet even more more dependent on him.
Soon after being released from prison, Burke begins kidnapping and raping teenage girls, and has Juliet help him take and kill the girls. They hold each victim prisoner in their house for a year, with Burke sexually abusing them the whole time, before they kill her to "tie up loose ends". He also impregnates Juliet again.
In 2011, Burke becomes a prime suspect in the kidnapping of Rebecca Daniels, his latest victim, because police had discovered that he is a sex offender and had been issued a parking ticket near the site where Rebecca had disappeared, at approximately the same time. Knowing that it is just a matter of time before he is sent back to prison, this time for life, he decides to commit suicide, but not before he has ensured his "legacy" as a killer.
He rents a storage space, creates a montage of newspaper clips about the missing girls, and writes several journals describing his murders in graphic detail and urging Juliet to continue his "sequence" of murders. He then calls 9-11, provides emergency responders with the address of the storage space, and commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is called in to investigate the murders, and fortunately are able to find Juliet and arrest her before she can kill their latest victim, Rebecca Daniels. They also rescue Juliet's newborn child with Burke.
Trivia[]
- Burke is inspired by multiple real-life killers:
- Fred West, a British serial killer/rapist of women and girls later committing suicide to try and protect his wife and accomplice, Rosemary West (the inspiration for Juliet).
- James Marlow, an American, tattoo-covered serial killer/rapist of women with the complicity of his former girlfriend Cynthia Coffman.
- Anthony McKnight, an American serial killer/rapist of women and girls in California, haging been imprisoned for a series of rapes that were originally difficult to tie him to, then a series of rape-murders through DNA matches while still incarcerated. McKnight was convicted and died on death row.
- Lorenzo Gilyard, a.k.a. "The Kansas City Strangler", a serial killer/rapist of women and girls with a previous record of recidivist serial rape, before being tied to dozens of murderd through DNA evidencd
- Herb Baumeister, a serial killer of gay men tied to several murders of men lured from gay bars and the "I-70 Strangler" spree, fleeing once the bodies of the men were found in his yard and shooting himself in the head, his suicide note admitting no guilt.
- Robert Garrow, a serial rapist and later spree killer shot dead by police and, in the "Buried Bodies case", left unfound people he murdered, which resulted in his lawyers being placed on trial to get answers out of them past attorney-client privilege.
- Michel Fourniret, a.k.a. "The Ogre of the Ardennes", a French serial killer/rapist with the complicity of his wife, Monique Olivier, who he met through a prison pen pal program.
- Bobby Joe Long, a.k.a. "The Classified Ad Rapist", a serial killer and serial rapist with one surviving teenage victim, connected by DNA to murdering other women.
- Phillip Garrido, a serial rapist responsible for the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard with the complicity of his wife Nancy, who met him while he was in prison for other rapes.
- Marc Dutroux, Belgium’s worst serial killer, a serial rapist and later a serial killer/rapist of girls with the complicity of a girlfriend and other accomplices, having repeatedly raped captive girls before murdering them and leaving their remains on his private property his accomplices paid for.
- Charlie Brandt, a serial killer responsible for the murder of his pregnant mother as a teen, then of his wife and niece after his release and before he committed suicide. Brandt was posthumously confirmed to have killed another woman and is suspected of more murders pulled together from cold cases police reevaluated.
- David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "The Son of Sam", a misogynistic serial killer of couples in New York City, who was caught due to his name in parking ticket records.
- Burke and Juliet are named after the Shakespearean romantic tragedy stage play Romeo and Juliet.
External Links[]
- Robert Burke on the Criminal Minds Wiki
