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| “ | What did I tell you about the duct tape? | „ |
| ~ Vogel abusing one of his victims. |
Timothy "Tim" Vogel, also known as the Seattle Strangler, is a minor antagonist in the CBS crime series Criminal Minds, serving as the main antagonist of the pilot episode "Extreme Aggressor".
He is a misogynistic serial killer who kidnaps women and imprisons them in a cage for seven days on a boat, before strangling them with a belt and dumping their bodies. He is assisted by his submissive partner-in-crime, Richard Slessman.
He was portrayed by Andrew Jackson, who also played Andrew Scott in Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms.
Biography[]
Early life[]
As theorized by Agent Jason Gideon of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), Vogel is impotent, and hates women because they remind him of his sexual dysfunction and make him feel inadequate. Gideon also theorizes that Vogel was a bully in school, but often protected weak classmates whom he felt could be of use to him. As an adult, he became a guard at Cascadia Prison, where he protected weak but smart prisoners from the other inmates so they would feel like they owed him. While Richard Slessman was doing time at Cascadia, Vogel protected him, and manipulated him into helping his "protector" kidnap and murder women once he was out of prison.
Slessman's job was to lure victims by sending them self-deleting emails offering to buy something they put up for sale on the Internet. The victim then met with Vogel, who charmed them into his car and subdued them. Vogel then took the victim to his boat in a shipyard, put tape over their eyes and threw them in a cage. For the next seven days, he tortured and raped them with foreign objects; once he was done, he killed them and dumped their bodies. With his first victim, he tried strangling her with his hands, but it took too long, so he just stabbed her. With his next three victims, he evolved his modus operandi by strangling them with a belt.
In "Extreme Aggressor"[]
After Vogel kidnaps a fifth woman, Heather Woodman, under the ruse that he is selling a car, the BAU are put on the case, with famous FBI profiler Jason Gideon joining them. With Gideon's help, they are able to profile and track down Slessman. After the BAU arrests Slessman, Gideon and Agent Elle Greenaway go to Cascadia to find out more about Slessman's deceased former cellmate, Charles Linder, hoping more information will lead him to the killer. Gideon talks to Vogel, and notices that his keychain has the symbol for the car that Woodland's kidnapper drove; that, and Vogel's descriptions of Slessman as weak and needing protection, helps Gideon realize that Vogel is the dominant partner. Agent Aaron Hotchner interrogates Slessman, who reveals where Vogel has been keeping his victims.
Gideon and Greenaway head to the shipyard and confront Vogel, who holds Heather at gun point. Gideon is able to divert Vogel's attention away from Heather by mocking his impotence. Vogel finally snaps and shoots Gideon, who is wearing a bulletproof vest. Moments later, Greenaway shoots Vogel dead.
Victims[]
- Melissa Kirsch
- Anne Cushing
- Amy Haberland
- Sondra Watts
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
Vogel is inspired by multiple real-life serial killers:
- Ted Bundy, who was also active in Washington State; his M.O. also consisted of luring women with ruses and raping them with foreign objects.
- Robert Lee Yates, a.k.a, "The Grocery Bag Killer" and "The Spokane Serial Killer", a serial killer of prostitutes in Washington State, who also with a job in the penitentiary system. Instead of tourniquets, he tied plastic grocery bags around the heads of the women he murdered.
- Anthony Allen Shore, a.k.a. "The Tourniquet Killer", an executed serial rapist and murderer of women and girls in Houston, Texas, with a similar M.O. of strangling women and leaving the ligatures used tied around them after they were already dead; Shore also manually strangled the first woman he killed.
External links[]
- Tim Vogel on the Criminal Minds Wiki
