Top 10 Criminal Minds Unsubs with the Most Tragic Backstories
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Date: 2023-11-21
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Cassandra
#7- OMG YES! I actually commented about that entire episode in the video for your Top 20 saddest Criminal Minds episodes and the comment has SO MANY UPVOTES! Im very surprised that episode didnt make that list because DAMN ITS SO DEVASTATING! If theres ever another video tackling sad episodes that should definitely be in the top 5. Personally I think the saddest Criminal Minds is Derek but theres a biased reasoning for that. Morgan was my favorite character and seeing him be tortured the way he was and getting to know how rough of a life he had, its just too much for me. I knew about him being molested by a camp counselor at age 15, but in the episode Derek I also learned that when Morgan was 10 he saw his dad get shot and killed by a person he was trying to arrest. After Derek left the show I did continue to watch until I think mid season 14. The show was never really the same to me after he left though.
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#7- OMG YES! I actually commented about that entire episode in the video for your Top 20 saddest Criminal Minds episodes and the comment has SO MANY UPVOTES! Im very surprised that episode didnt make that list because DAMN ITS SO DEVASTATING! If theres ever another video tackling sad episodes that should definitely be in the top 5. Personally I think the saddest Criminal Minds is Derek but theres a biased reasoning for that. Morgan was my favorite character and seeing him be tortured the way he was and getting to know how rough of a life he had, its just too much for me. I knew about him being molested by a camp counselor at age 15, but in the episode Derek I also learned that when Morgan was 10 he saw his dad get shot and killed by a person he was trying to arrest. After Derek left the show I did continue to watch until I think mid season 14. The show was never really the same to me after he left though.
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PrettyEyesNGlassez
The one I cried about was the one about the lady who was on death row, because she was found guilty of the murders of 12 teenaged girls and also the death of her toddler son, but she didn't do any of the murders, and her son was still alive because she managed to get him away safely. it was the guy who she was dating at the time who was the actual serial murderer and also on death row too.
The BAU found out she was innocent and even tried to talk her in to being released from prison and reuniting with her now teenaged son.
But she chose to die instead and refused to see her son because she didn't want to uproot his life and hurt him.
I think the episode is either in season 2 or 3.
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The one I cried about was the one about the lady who was on death row, because she was found guilty of the murders of 12 teenaged girls and also the death of her toddler son, but she didn't do any of the murders, and her son was still alive because she managed to get him away safely. it was the guy who she was dating at the time who was the actual serial murderer and also on death row too.
The BAU found out she was innocent and even tried to talk her in to being released from prison and reuniting with her now teenaged son.
But she chose to die instead and refused to see her son because she didn't want to uproot his life and hurt him.
I think the episode is either in season 2 or 3.
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P.
While I won't argue with this
list, I think Thomas Yates
from season 8 had a fairly
traumatic childhood, but the
m o for his victims was
viciously cruel, and he showed
no shame with any of it.
I could empathize with his
victims easily, and how he
toyed with Rossi didn't help
me empathize with him
either.
Good choice with Paul W. as
well, I don't agree with
conversion therapy as it is,
so the methods used to
convert him were rather
extreme and enraged me.
To be continued.
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While I won't argue with this
list, I think Thomas Yates
from season 8 had a fairly
traumatic childhood, but the
m o for his victims was
viciously cruel, and he showed
no shame with any of it.
I could empathize with his
victims easily, and how he
toyed with Rossi didn't help
me empathize with him
either.
Good choice with Paul W. as
well, I don't agree with
conversion therapy as it is,
so the methods used to
convert him were rather
extreme and enraged me.
To be continued.
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Louisa
Which Season and episode is the snake lady one, please? I always felt sorry for the goth teen whose dad is encouraging his sons classmates to strangle/hang themselves. Season 3 or 4, I believe.
I also had a lot of empathy for the woman who shoots her husband, after years of mental/emotional abuse. Her children had been brainwashed by the dad to think that their mother is a useless piece of crap.
Tobias Henkel makes me cry every time. As Tobias hes v sweet to Reid giving him medication for the pain and I think tending his wounds.
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Which Season and episode is the snake lady one, please? I always felt sorry for the goth teen whose dad is encouraging his sons classmates to strangle/hang themselves. Season 3 or 4, I believe.
I also had a lot of empathy for the woman who shoots her husband, after years of mental/emotional abuse. Her children had been brainwashed by the dad to think that their mother is a useless piece of crap.
Tobias Henkel makes me cry every time. As Tobias hes v sweet to Reid giving him medication for the pain and I think tending his wounds.
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fanjoy
Honestly I think the an honorable mention could've been John Meyers. He was deaf and raised by his abusive mom who isolated him from the outside world. His mom was paid $650 in order to have her son be given a cochlear implant where all he could hear was a constant buzzing and was always in a sensory overload. Or Gina King who had severe schizophrenia and delusions that caused her to kill people including her friend to drink their blood. She only did it because she was being influenced by the manager of her favorite 'vampire' singers
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Honestly I think the an honorable mention could've been John Meyers. He was deaf and raised by his abusive mom who isolated him from the outside world. His mom was paid $650 in order to have her son be given a cochlear implant where all he could hear was a constant buzzing and was always in a sensory overload. Or Gina King who had severe schizophrenia and delusions that caused her to kill people including her friend to drink their blood. She only did it because she was being influenced by the manager of her favorite 'vampire' singers
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Book_lover
Tom was stabbed. They killed the security guard that was there at the club. They thought that the man didn't do enough to help Tom survive the stab wound. The sad thing is about that was they only went to the club to celebrate his first semester as a freshman at a college. Then James tried to kill someone on the campus of the college that he was going to. Marcus didn't even want to do it. He did it because James wanted to do it. He was just going along with his older brother. They also only killed four people not three.
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Tom was stabbed. They killed the security guard that was there at the club. They thought that the man didn't do enough to help Tom survive the stab wound. The sad thing is about that was they only went to the club to celebrate his first semester as a freshman at a college. Then James tried to kill someone on the campus of the college that he was going to. Marcus didn't even want to do it. He did it because James wanted to do it. He was just going along with his older brother. They also only killed four people not three.
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Lieselot
How on earth did the 27 minutes guys make this list? There were so many more tragic backstories than that. Darin Call, just to name one. Sure, they lost a family member, but that's nowhere near as tragic as the Darin Call backstory or certain others. Some on the list I agree with, some feel more like they were put on the list to gain woke brownie points cause we all know there are dozens of other episodes with the background stories being far far more tragic
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How on earth did the 27 minutes guys make this list? There were so many more tragic backstories than that. Darin Call, just to name one. Sure, they lost a family member, but that's nowhere near as tragic as the Darin Call backstory or certain others. Some on the list I agree with, some feel more like they were put on the list to gain woke brownie points cause we all know there are dozens of other episodes with the background stories being far far more tragic
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LuckyHyde
How about the guy who set fires in his home town? Yeah he was in love with his sister but he was a kid in need of help and the adults beat the shit out of him and basically exiled him. Or the guy who was killing people from high school whos bullying lead to his only friends suicide. The teachers knew and didnt do a damn thing about it. Or the guy who made people into dolls so he can try to save his father during a robbery? How about a list 2?
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How about the guy who set fires in his home town? Yeah he was in love with his sister but he was a kid in need of help and the adults beat the shit out of him and basically exiled him. Or the guy who was killing people from high school whos bullying lead to his only friends suicide. The teachers knew and didnt do a damn thing about it. Or the guy who made people into dolls so he can try to save his father during a robbery? How about a list 2?
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Pri-The-Writer
For me the saddest unsub was Luke Dolan, the veteran with capgras syndrome. One day he's living a normal life and the next he kills his friends and parents all due to a simple head injury. He might recover from the syndrome one day but he's never coming back from the things he did while he was sick. He was a genuinely good person who did horrible things without knowing it. He thought he was rescuing his family, not murdering them.
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For me the saddest unsub was Luke Dolan, the veteran with capgras syndrome. One day he's living a normal life and the next he kills his friends and parents all due to a simple head injury. He might recover from the syndrome one day but he's never coming back from the things he did while he was sick. He was a genuinely good person who did horrible things without knowing it. He thought he was rescuing his family, not murdering them.
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Earl
The first one I thought of was number 1. There is an episode involving a hit man for the mob that is actually a sadistic sereal killer. After he is caught he tells Hutch about his abusive father and Hutch reveals that the man could have gone in a different direction and try to help people instead of hurting them. The implication was that the Agent also suffered from an abusive home life and thats why he choose police work.
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The first one I thought of was number 1. There is an episode involving a hit man for the mob that is actually a sadistic sereal killer. After he is caught he tells Hutch about his abusive father and Hutch reveals that the man could have gone in a different direction and try to help people instead of hurting them. The implication was that the Agent also suffered from an abusive home life and thats why he choose police work.
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Tanya
Vincent is my number one. May be because he had a really beautiful connection with the blind boy. The man did unforgiving things but he truly loved that boy and gave him the meaning what father love is.
And why is Sarah Jean in this list? Because this woman is innocent. But I feel so sorry for her. Sarah Jean died like a criminal but she was a pure soul. And her son Riley will never know.
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Vincent is my number one. May be because he had a really beautiful connection with the blind boy. The man did unforgiving things but he truly loved that boy and gave him the meaning what father love is.
And why is Sarah Jean in this list? Because this woman is innocent. But I feel so sorry for her. Sarah Jean died like a criminal but she was a pure soul. And her son Riley will never know.
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Hunter
One unsub who I felt a great deal of compassion and sympathy for was Lucas Turner. Even though Lucas didn't necessarily have a tragic backstory and did in fact kill 89 people, he had autism so severe that he didn't even realize that he was killing people and was only doing what his psychopathic quadriplegic brother Mason told him to do, so it's impossible not to feel bad for the poor guy.
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One unsub who I felt a great deal of compassion and sympathy for was Lucas Turner. Even though Lucas didn't necessarily have a tragic backstory and did in fact kill 89 people, he had autism so severe that he didn't even realize that he was killing people and was only doing what his psychopathic quadriplegic brother Mason told him to do, so it's impossible not to feel bad for the poor guy.
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Snow
I didnt exactly have a similar type of abuse that Desi had but I related to her too much having a younger sister that was the same age as her, I know shes favoured more that me she gets babied I had to grow up at such a young age I was abused by others and made to believe it was my fault by my own mother calling me selfish for not thinking of my sister when she never got hurt
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I didnt exactly have a similar type of abuse that Desi had but I related to her too much having a younger sister that was the same age as her, I know shes favoured more that me she gets babied I had to grow up at such a young age I was abused by others and made to believe it was my fault by my own mother calling me selfish for not thinking of my sister when she never got hurt
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kanna231
To me its all Desi's mother fault that she cause that to Desi this is payback don't play favorites and I do feel bad for Charles that girl and her gang cause this hot mess on him scar him for life I hope they will get karma back at them and number one that father is worse kind of father ever its all his fault he needs to be in jail and lose his licesense.
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To me its all Desi's mother fault that she cause that to Desi this is payback don't play favorites and I do feel bad for Charles that girl and her gang cause this hot mess on him scar him for life I hope they will get karma back at them and number one that father is worse kind of father ever its all his fault he needs to be in jail and lose his licesense.
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The
Twenty-seven minutes? You need to see what Vegas is like. I was violently attacked at my job and the only response I got was some uptight prick of an officer showing up TWO HOURS later, and even then that was just to piss and moan at me about how thefts etc. I'd called to report in the past.
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Twenty-seven minutes? You need to see what Vegas is like. I was violently attacked at my job and the only response I got was some uptight prick of an officer showing up TWO HOURS later, and even then that was just to piss and moan at me about how thefts etc. I'd called to report in the past.
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This
DID is developed during childhood trauma, prior to the age of 8. These shows claiming that an adult can just suddenly develop it is really sad because it's a totally different mental issue. also so many people with DID suffer with enough stigmas, showing them only as unsubs perpetuates it
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DID is developed during childhood trauma, prior to the age of 8. These shows claiming that an adult can just suddenly develop it is really sad because it's a totally different mental issue. also so many people with DID suffer with enough stigmas, showing them only as unsubs perpetuates it
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PrincessA
Johnny (Number 9) was a victim, those animals deserved their punishment. Number 3 was just terrible! Charles was justfied but the daughters of those wicked men didnt deserve it, especially since one of them was his son's girlfriend. I can never watch 'Strange Fruit' again.
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Johnny (Number 9) was a victim, those animals deserved their punishment. Number 3 was just terrible! Charles was justfied but the daughters of those wicked men didnt deserve it, especially since one of them was his son's girlfriend. I can never watch 'Strange Fruit' again.
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TheLadySilverMoon
I remember the unsub from Elephant's memory played by Cody Kasch. He was being bullied and humiliated both in school and by his father, and even though everybody in town knew about it, they all decided it wasn't their problem, leading to Reid empathizing with him.
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I remember the unsub from Elephant's memory played by Cody Kasch. He was being bullied and humiliated both in school and by his father, and even though everybody in town knew about it, they all decided it wasn't their problem, leading to Reid empathizing with him.
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RubyGrace
Tobias Henkels episode made me cry! It was so disturbing and heartbreakingKnowing that such a cruel parent could turn a guy who seemed really sweet and caring into this messed up awful person. Ugh! Ive seen that episode probably twice but I cried both times I saw it
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Tobias Henkels episode made me cry! It was so disturbing and heartbreakingKnowing that such a cruel parent could turn a guy who seemed really sweet and caring into this messed up awful person. Ugh! Ive seen that episode probably twice but I cried both times I saw it
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Kayli
How is Kaman Scott not on this list? A former criminal who turned his life around but was disfigured by a car accident, put into a coma for months, evicted from his apartment and had a son that he didnt know about while in said coma. That doesnt even get a mention?
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How is Kaman Scott not on this list? A former criminal who turned his life around but was disfigured by a car accident, put into a coma for months, evicted from his apartment and had a son that he didnt know about while in said coma. That doesnt even get a mention?
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Lady
What about the set of brothers that kidnapped variants? I always felt bad for the one who could still walk because he had cognitive problems and was just following the directions his smarter brother gave him in regards to stem cell therapy reversing paralysis
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What about the set of brothers that kidnapped variants? I always felt bad for the one who could still walk because he had cognitive problems and was just following the directions his smarter brother gave him in regards to stem cell therapy reversing paralysis
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Rock
The worst part about the William Taylor episode is that the last scene is a mom and her kid pulling off the road to get some sleep, and then a man with a skull tattoo walks up to the car, implying the man was real and was still active at the time of the case.
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The worst part about the William Taylor episode is that the last scene is a mom and her kid pulling off the road to get some sleep, and then a man with a skull tattoo walks up to the car, implying the man was real and was still active at the time of the case.
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Jamie's
So Johnny McHale, a man presumably of at least average intelligence, decides to take his pregnant girlfriend into a dark alleyway in a sketchy neighborhood in the middle of the night so he can propose? I cant be sympathetic here cause Im too busy howling
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So Johnny McHale, a man presumably of at least average intelligence, decides to take his pregnant girlfriend into a dark alleyway in a sketchy neighborhood in the middle of the night so he can propose? I cant be sympathetic here cause Im too busy howling
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Night
The father losing his child. I can garuentee you, that happened to me and my kid, I'd snap the same way most likely. Or, once the body was found, I'd take myself out. I know the pain of losing a soul mate. I lose a kid too? Game over.
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The father losing his child. I can garuentee you, that happened to me and my kid, I'd snap the same way most likely. Or, once the body was found, I'd take myself out. I know the pain of losing a soul mate. I lose a kid too? Game over.
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TrynaBeALady
This show really portrayed real life stories well. People in need wont be helped, will continue to be victimized and when they loose their mind and seek revenge, the state will stop them and protect their abusers
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This show really portrayed real life stories well. People in need wont be helped, will continue to be victimized and when they loose their mind and seek revenge, the state will stop them and protect their abusers
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Katie
I started watching an episode, zoned out, turned it off, watched this video, then went back to the episode I was watching and tripped out seeing that the episode I was on was William Taylor
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I started watching an episode, zoned out, turned it off, watched this video, then went back to the episode I was watching and tripped out seeing that the episode I was on was William Taylor
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LeniiNero
#10 was heartbreaking cause he was devastated! And also because I hoped they'd eventually find the skull tattoo guy later on in the series and they never did. That baby deserved justice!
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#10 was heartbreaking cause he was devastated! And also because I hoped they'd eventually find the skull tattoo guy later on in the series and they never did. That baby deserved justice!
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Lucius
I felt the most sympathy for Frank Breitkopf! He basically didn't stand a chance from the very beginning! (And Shelly Chamberlain, Tobias Hankel, Peter Folkmore, and Sarah Danlin)
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I felt the most sympathy for Frank Breitkopf! He basically didn't stand a chance from the very beginning! (And Shelly Chamberlain, Tobias Hankel, Peter Folkmore, and Sarah Danlin)
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VSaber365
These UnSubs actions were hardly justified, but they were at least somewhat understood, because what and/or who drove them to such actions never shouldve happened to them.
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These UnSubs actions were hardly justified, but they were at least somewhat understood, because what and/or who drove them to such actions never shouldve happened to them.
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tvguy
Just started this show. Are all the perps white males or do we get women and child like in csi.
Also the show acts as people with any mental health issues becomes a killer
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Just started this show. Are all the perps white males or do we get women and child like in csi.
Also the show acts as people with any mental health issues becomes a killer
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