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At the halfway mark of season eight, Reid’s payphone romance takes a dramatic turn when Maeve’s stalker kidnaps her, causing Reid to turn to his BAU family for help.
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An unsub who believes he’s a reincarnated serial killer is criss-crossing the country killing seemingly random people, meanwhile the team learns they have a copycat on their hands.
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We’ve already watched the doll episode and now we bring you the puppet episode! When a series of men are found in boxes with their bodies broken in weird ways, the team ends up on the trail of a sinister puppeteer.
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The Unknown Subject is back, baby! Picking up where we left off, the BAU heads to Seattle to investigate a series of murders that seem to be associated with a famous motivational speaker.
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The BAU searches for a missing school bus full of teenagers only to learn that the kids have been kidnapped to create a real life, deadly video game.
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When the team crosses paths with someone from Rossi’s past, we get flashbacks of Rossi’s time with the Marines in Vietnam.
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While Morgan and Reid prepare for the FBI softball game, the team joins a case in Miami involving a baby unsub and his murderous mentor.
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It’s Halloween in the Criminal Minds universe and while JJ worries about Henry’s fear of trick-or-treating, the team heads to Oregon to search for an unsub using her victims for strange medicinal purposes.
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As Reid gets closer to a mysterious new love interest, the BAU investigates a series of bodies found either missing a leg or with a leg that is not their own.
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This week, an unsub obsessed with finding the perfect family forces a very imperfect family to reveal their deepest, darkest secrets.
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When two seemingly unrelated victims are both murdered by being dragged behind a car, the BAU must figure out who killed them and how they’re connected.
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In the season eight opener, the team struggles to adjust to Prentiss’ replacement, a linguist professor who has a strained past with Strauss.
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We’re back for another bonus episode, this time to rank our favorite episodes of season seven. Surprise! It’s slim pickings.
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On the season seven finale of the Unknown Subject, the team deals with the aftermath of an explosion, Will and JJ do the damn thing, and Prentiss says goodbye
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In part one of the season seven finale, Will teams up with the BAU to deal with a professional bank robbing crew who also likes to murder people.
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The BAU gathers to teach an undergraduate seminar and in a series of flashbacks recounts a case that continues to haunt Rossi one day a year.
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Shortly after a serial killer is executed on death row, the BAU is brought in to track down a copycat who starts killing women in a similar fashion.
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When Morgan’s missing cousin is suddenly seen alive, the team joins the case and uncovers a sinister conspiracy and a douchebag misogynist keeping her hostage.
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In a truly iconic episode, the BAU comes up against a family with a strange shared delusion that they are fighting the forces of the devil and his evil brides.
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When a boy who no one knows was missing suddenly appears in the desert, the BAU must determine who took him and whether or not it’s related to a local woman’s recovered memory from her childhood.
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This week, the search for a woman targeting foster parents leads the team to an even ickier crime, meanwhile Garcia worries over Kevin’s intentions.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, an investigation into murdered sex workers leads the BAU to a dysfunctional family.
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In a truly prescient episode of Criminal Minds, the team searches for an unsub who has been radicalized by a suspiciously orange political candidate.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, bodies are being found on the beaches of California and the BAU must solve the case in time for Hotch’s hot date.
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We’re kicking off the new year with a bonus episode ranking our top five unsub lairs.
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The team heads to beautiful Atlantic City in search of a gambler who believes killing makes him lucky.
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In our final episode of 2022, the BAU investigates a serial rapist who may or may not be re-attacking his original victims
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This week, Spencer questions his purpose in life as he approaches his 30th birthday, meanwhile the team investigates a Zodiac killer copycat.
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In a boxing-themed episode nobody asked for, the team searches for an unsub beating his victims to death and the investigation leads them to the Philadelphia boxing scene.
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Erin Strauss joins the team in the field to investigate what appears to be a mass suicide at an isolated military school, but she and Morgan butt heads when her drinking problem comes to light.
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When a member of Penelope’s grief support group goes missing on the anniversary of her daughter’s abduction, Garcia calls in the team to help find her.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, the BAU is called to stormy Kansas when a series of tornadoes leave more than the usual damage in their wake.
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As Rossi considers the impossible choice he was given in last week’s episod, the team heads to California to search for an unsub who drowns his victims and brings them back to life just to kill them again.
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A blast from Rossi’s past brings upsetting news, meanwhile the team searches for an unsub kidnapping the children of seemingly unfit mothers.
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On this week’s episode, the BAU works to determine who is targeting survivors of a school shooting on the anniversary of the massacre.
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When a former Navy Seal’s brain injury causes him to believe his loved ones have been replaced by imposters, the BAU must act fast to keep him from hurting anyone else.
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The ick factor is high in this episode as the team searches for an unsub robbing women of their senses. Meanwhile, unresolved feelings about Emily’s “death” lead to tension among the team members.
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In the season opener of the Unknown Subject, the BAU is forced to defend their actions in the Ian Doyle case and the team learns the truth about Emily’s fate.
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Season six was a bit of a mess, but Kelly and Kelsie still manage to find their top five favorite episodes.
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In the season finale, season six goes out with a whimper as the BAU searches for a human trafficking ring and a member of the team makes her triumphant return
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When an unsub’s dump site is discovered off the coast of Florida, the team struggles to identify the victims while Morgan contends with a possible personal connection to the case.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, in the search for a missing girl the profile points the team to a creepy local art teacher, but they may be looking at the wrong creepy artist all together.
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As Erin Strauss gets her nose all up in the BAU’s business– yet again– the team hunts an unsub targeting college girls who work as babysitters.
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All hail Sir Burger! On this week’s episode, the search for a spree killer ends with a dramatic showdown at a local burger joint.
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Emily may be gone, but the show must go on so the BAU heads to Portland to search for a possible gang of killers who seem to be choosing their victims at random.
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When Emily goes rogue on her hunt for Ian Doyle the team rushes to learn the truth about their relationship and stop a deadly showdown.
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The Unknown Subject is back from an unexpected hiatus! In this episode, Emily’s Ian Doyle problem comes front and center after his goon squad gets on the BAU’s radar.
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When a couple’s violent kidnapping is witnessed by their son with autism, the team must learn to communicate with the boy in order to determine a motive and reunite the family.
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In this episode of the Unknown Subject, the BAU hunts an unsub who poses as a self-help expert and preys on young women struggling with personal issues.
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An unsub with a very special sense of smell attempts to capture the essence of human woman in candle form. Meanwhile, Prentiss tries to hide her growing paranoia from the team.
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This week’s episode finds the BAU hot on the trail of a deranged, drunken duo who manages to rack up quite the body count in between make out sessions.
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Thanks to a listener's suggestion, Kelly and Kelsie celebrate the halfway point of season six by ranking the lamest unsubs we’ve met so far.
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After Morgan recommends parole for a man convicted of killing his wife and daughter, who then immediately kills a guy, the team must figure out the truth behind the original case to get justice and save Morgan’s reputation.
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In this episode of the Unknown Subject, the team calls on the very specific expertise of a rookie FBI agent to help solve the murders of several women in a planned community.
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When the body of a missing boy is discovered in the woods, the BAU is called in to find an unsub who has been stalking children all along the Appalachian Trail for more than a decade.
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In this film noir-inspired episode, an unsub with serious mommy issues is casting unwilling women in his old timey movie and taking a very specific trophy for an even creepier purpose.
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A pack of terrible college boys is abducting and killing strippers, but the situation gets more complicated when the pack starts to turn on one another.
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On this week’s episode, the BAU travels to Detroit to find an unsub who is burning his victims alive amid annual Halloween celebrations that also involve a lot more fire than you’d expect.
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As the team searches for a teenaged spree killer targeting families, Morgan struggles to figure out what to do about Ellie, who has somehow managed to fly across the country to see him.
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The swinger community in Akron, Ohio is under attack by an unsub who used to be part of “the scene,” but now gets his jollies a different way.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, one of Rossi’s unsolved cold cases is reopened and the team must determine if they’re dealing with the original unsub, a copycat, or both.
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In an episode that Kelly and Kelsie have truly been dreading, the BAU is forced to deal with the imminent departure of JJ as they race to find a young woman who was last seen with two cocky douchebags.
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In the season six opener, the team hurries to find Detective Spicer’s missing daughter who is now in the smelly, unwashed clutches of the so-called Prince of Darkness.
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As season five comes to a close, Kelly and Kelsie look back on the highs and lows as they rank their favorite episodes of the season.
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In the season five finale of the Unknown Subject, Kelly and Kelsie follow along as the BAU joins an investigation into an unsub using power outages to commit horrific crimes.
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This week’s episode of the Unknown Subject explores the dark side of social networking as the team searches for a killer who posts his murders on the internet.
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Grab your vests because on this episode of the Unknown Subject, the BAU heads to the wilderness to investigate a series of murders in a remote Alaskan town.
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When an unsub who tattoos the faces of his victims all over his body commits suicide, the BAU works to unravel the mysteries of his peculiar body art and save his final victim.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, the BAU investigates an ATV-riding, machete-wielding unsub who is killing immigrants crossing the border in a small Texas town.
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It’s spin-off time, baby! This week on the Unknown Subject, Kelly and Kelsie watch the backdoor pilot for the first failed attempt at a Criminal Minds spin-off, Suspect Behavior.
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After discovering a trail of bodies using the Highway Serial Killer database, the BAU heads to New Mexico to find a trucker unsub who is writing his own twisted fairytale.
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The team races to find a little girl who was abducted from a local carnival, but the case becomes more complicated when they discover a link to more than ten missing children from the last decade.
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An unsub is slitting people’s throats in public places in broad daylight, so the team heads to Rhode Island to figure out what’s motivating the brazen attacks.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, the BAU searches for a con-man whose lies have finally caught up with him, causing him to go berserk and start killing anyone who questions him.
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This year's Tiger King? YEAH RIGHT. We were entertained, but ultimately, disappointed by this potentially mind-blowing documentary. If you want Mormon gossip, listen to this podcast. Then, go watch literally any other documentary.
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When a small town in Wyoming is struck by a rash of teen suicides, the team determines that they weren’t suicides at all, but rather the work of an unsub tricking teens into playing a dangerous online game.
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To mark the halfway point of season five, Kelly and Kelsie try something new by ranking the episodes that they hate the most.
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Follow along for one of Kelly and Kelsie’s favorite episodes featuring an unsub who kidnaps women, dresses them up like lifesize dolls, and then dumps their bodies in public places.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, Kelly and Kelsie try their best to keep up as the team hunts for a fugitive who escapes FBI custody with the help of a mysterious partner.
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As Hotch deals with the aftermath of Haley’s tragic death, the team gets back to work and searches for an unsub who stalks his victims and then forces them to live out his romantic fantasy.
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In honor of the 100th episode of the show, Kelly and Kelsie are looking back at their favorite episodes of the first one hundred.
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It’s the 100th episode of the Unknown Subject! Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie for one of the most emotionally charged episodes of Criminal Minds as the team finally faces off with the Reaper.
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No new episode this week while Kelly moves into her new house! We're bringing you a throwback to our first Patreon episode. We'll be back with episode 100 next week!
In our first ever True Crime Review, we're discussing Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Listen as we cover everything from the bat shit history of the hotel to the creepy web sleuths to the sad truth of Elisa Lam's disappearance.
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An unsub who is killing entire families leads the team to seek insight from a family annihilator from season one, but their jailhouse interview ends up having nothing to do with the current case and everything to do with the Reaper.
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In this episode of the Unknown Subject, the BAU searches for a real-life vampire who is killing in the name of a washed up rock star.
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Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie this week as the team hunts for an unsub taxidermist who steals victims’ eyes to prove that he can, in fact, do eyes.
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Our friends at the BAU search for a pair of unsubs who are abducting women, impregnating them and stealing their babies, and Hotch’s recent erratic behavior finally catches up to him.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, a pack of unsubs is violently beating victims to death literally for the fun of it, and Morgan gets inappropriately close to a victim’s sister.
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Somebody’s dishing out mob justice to child abusers in Rossi’s hometown, so the BAU must determine who’s pulling the strings and who’s doing the actual murdering.
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Hotch is back to work this week, but the trauma of his encounter with the Reaper causes him to make some questionable choices as the team follows the trail of a spree killer that leads to another unsub and an unsolved case from decades ago.
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Season five of the Unknown Subject kicks off with an unsub seeking revenge against a trauma surgeon, meanwhile Hotch deals with the repercussions of the Reaper’s surprise reappearance at the end of last season.
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Kelly and Kelsie are celebrating reaching the end of season four (finally) by ranking their favorite episodes of the season.
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In the conclusion to last week’s episode, the team races to save the unsub’s latest victim before it’s too late. Meanwhile, the secrets of the pig farm are finally revealed.
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When a man crashes his car into a guard booth at the Canadian border and demands that the FBI be called, the investigation leads to a Canadian pig farm where the pigs aren’t the only ones on the chopping block.
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When an anthrax attack in a park kills multiple people, the BAU races to stop the mad scientist responsible and the pressure to solve the case intensifies when one of their own gets exposed.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, the BAU searches for an unsub whose weapon of choice is his truck, which he’s using to mow down victims who drive red cars.
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After law enforcement receives a video of a woman being murdered, the team determines that the unsub has a compulsion to kill, but wants to be stopped. Things take an unexpected turn when the killer’s obsession with a young boy leads to, of all things, a ferris wheel.
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When a third boy goes missing from his bed in a New Jersey town, the BAU joins the investigation in hopes of bringing him home safely, but they soon suspect a cover up when certain details don’t match the first two abductions.
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This week our friends at the BAU work to solve the murders of male spring breakers who they believe are being lured by a male-female duo and we meet a hotel janitor who serves stares that put Gideon to shame.
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Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie for a truly weird episode of the Unknown Subject, as the BAU searches for an arsonist who is seeking revenge on a small town by setting fire to local gathering places.
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After a detective from Hotch’s past makes a deathbed confession about a deal he made with a serial killer a decade earlier, Hotch is determined to solve the case for real. Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie for this twisty turny ride as we meet one of the most notorious unsubs in Criminal Minds history.
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On this week’s episode we get a glimpse into Emily Prentiss’ past when her childhood friend dies mysteriously, and it soon becomes apparent that his death is tied to a recent string of exorcisms and a rogue priest.
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An escort with a vendetta against rich assholes is poisoning high-powered businessmen, but to find the unsub before she kills again the team has to fight an army of lawyers who will do anything to protect their clients’ reputations.
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When one of Rossi’s fangirls ends up the victim of a killer she’s been investigating, the BAU determines that the unsub is taking pages out of the books of famous serial killers as he searches for his own special signature.
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As JJ makes her much-anticipated return from maternity leave this week, she and Rossi butt heads over a psychic’s role in an investigation of a case of necrophilia.
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At the suggestion of a listener, Kelly and Kelsie are ranking the absolute worst ways to meet your end in the first three and a half seasons of Criminal Minds.
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On this week’s episode, the family who kidnaps and murders together, stays together. The BAU searches for young girls who have been kidnapped as part of an unusual tradition, and Agent Todd finally decides she’s had enough of the profiling life.
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Teenage girls are ending up dead in a Florida neighborhood and just as our friends at the BAU think they’ve got their guy, it turns out he’s got a partner— and it’s a match made in serial killer heaven.
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Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie for an absolutely wild ride as our friends at the BAU search for “the Road Warrior,” an unsub with a lot of road rage who shoots women in their cars in broad daylight.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, the BAU is called in to investigate a series of cop killings in Phoenix, but first they have to convince local law enforcement that the murders aren’t gang related.
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Hold on to your fuzzy hats! Somebody is disemboweling women all over Atlanta and when it becomes clear that the unsub is using special training to lure his victims, our friends at the BAU must infiltrate the cringey world of male pickup artists.
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It’s the guest spot we’ve all been waiting for as Jason Alexander and his incredible wig step into the role of the mysterious Professor Rothschild, a creepy stranger who introduces himself to Rossi and Reid claiming to have murdered seven people and kidnapped five more.
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In this week’s episode, Reid is convinced that his dad is actually a murderer and the reason for his recurring nightmares, so the team joins in to help uncover the truth.
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As the team races to find an abducted child before it’s too late, Reid is being haunted by a weird recurring dream about a baby and a dead kid in a basement. Is it just a dream, or something more disturbing?
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All aboard the creepy train! In an all-new episode of the Unknown Subject, the team is tracking an unsub who travels central California by train, killing victims and then sleeping in their beds.
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Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie for a truly creepy episode of the Unknown Subject featuring an unsub who traps couples in his makeshift torture cabin and then stages their deaths to look like an accident.
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This week we’re watching one of Kelly and Kelsie’s favorite episodes as Prentiss and Reid go undercover in a religious cult and end up caught in the crossfire of the group’s showdown with law enforcement.
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Women in an Ohio town are ending up murdered with very distinct wounds, just like they did years before. There’s only one problem— the convicted killer was executed a year ago, and now his body’s missing.
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Season four of the Unknown Subject is off to an absolutely crazy start as we find out whose SUV blew up at the end of last season and Morgan takes us on a wild ride through New York City.
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It’s everybody’s favorite episode of the season as Kelly and Kelsie rank their five favorite episodes of season three.
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On the season three finale of the Unknown Subject, the BAU hunts for an unsub who is shooting people in broad daylight and Kelly and Kelsie play the Son of Sam drinking game.
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When an accused serial killer wakes up from a coma with no memory of his identity or his alleged crimes, the BAU is called in to determine if he is, in fact, a killer, or if they had the wrong guy all along.
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This week’s unsub is a stalker who manages to track the object of his obsession halfway across the country and steal her dog, all while getting a tan and maintaining a workout regimen.
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In this episode of the Unknown Subject, the team is in Miami to solve the murders of several men, but everyone’s in for a surprise when it turns out that one of the victims has a connection with a special friend of JJ’s.
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When a troubled teenage boy starts taking revenge against those who’ve wronged him, the BAU has to act fast to keep him from taking his innocent girlfriend down with him.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, the BAU heads to Pittsburgh to determine if a recent rash of suicides are actually what they seem or if an angel of mercy is praying on grieving families following a tragic fire.
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After watching Rossi take that weird head bracelet out of his pocket for half a season, it’s finally time to solve the big cold case that’s been haunting him for two decades.
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When two dudes buy a storage unit at auction, they get a lot more than they bargained for when they discover a bunch of bondage porn and intricate murder plans. The BAU is called in to help, but the local hotshot agent in charge might ruin everything by being a real fame-whore.
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When two girls are abducted and one ends up dead, it’s a race against time to find the remaining girl, but the case becomes more complicated when the team uncovers that the missing teen and her father are hiding a secret.
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Young women are being abducted and murdered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, just like they were 27 years ago, and it turns out the killer is a copycat with a strong connection to the original unsub.
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It’s bonus episode time! This week, Kelly and Kelsie rank their favorite BAU friendships so far, and Kelly’s keeping it interesting with some surprising choices.
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In another memorable guest spot, this week’s episode features a post-Malcolm in the Middle Frankie Muniz as a comic book artist whose violent artwork jumps off the page when he starts racking up a body count.
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The Unknown Subject is back from vacation, and last we saw our favorite profilers, Penelope was bleeding out on the sidewalk. Join Kelly and Kelsie as the BAU searches for Garcia’s mysterious (and admittedly very handsome) attacker.
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On this week’s episode of the Unknown Subject, the team heads to Florida to search for an unsub with a Satan obsession, but this unsub is so much more than just a satanist— he’s also an experimental chef.
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At its core, this week’s episode is a story of unrequited love in the ickiest way possible. The BAU is called in to find the final victim of an unsub who committed suicide, but when it becomes clear he was working with a partner, the case heads in an unexpected direction.
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David Rossi makes his long-awaited entrance into the Criminal Minds universe this week, and he’s picking right up where Gideon left off. As he rejoins the BAU out of retirement, Rossi struggles to adjust to how much things have changed since the olden days.
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When a young girl goes missing in a mall, the team has reason to believe that she’s still in the building— and with the mall locked down, her kidnapper could be anyone. Kelly claims that this is her all-time favorite episode of Criminal Minds, but will she feel the same way after watching it a second time?
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This week on the Unknown Subject, the BAU is hunting a team of family annihilators, but the case gets cracked wide open when one of the unsubs leaves a teenage girl alive.
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There may be a Gideon-sized hole in the BAU, but the team doesn’t have time to miss him. We’re kicking off a new era of Criminal Minds with a case involving an unsub who uses his victims’ deepest fears against them.
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In honor of his final episode of Criminal Minds, Kelly and Kelsie are giving Jason Gideon a proper send off with his very own bonus episode.
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In this episode of the Unknown Subject, we find the BAU in total disarray as Emily and Hotch both resign, and Gideon goes AWOL. Meanwhile, Erin Strauss really fumbles her way through a case, and Gideon makes a decision about his future.
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In the season three premiere, a killer is on the loose on a college campus, and the team is called in to investigate. Still reeling from his showdown with Frank, Gideon takes a gamble that has major repercussions for everyone.
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In the second season finale of the Unknown Subject, Frank the milkshake fiend is back, and he’s coming after Gideon with a vengeance. Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie as we watch Frank and Jane’s creepy love story come to its dramatic conclusion.
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When a peculiar detective shows up at JJ’s door asking for help finding 63 missing people, the BAU agrees to join the investigation, even though none of the victims have officially been reported missing. It turns out, there’s an unsub re-enacting the Saw movies in an abandoned warehouse, and time’s running out to save his most recent victim.
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In one of Kelly and Kelsie’s favorite episodes, the team heads to Idaho in search of a pair of killers who are kidnapping people off the side of the road, then releasing them in the middle of the woods to be hunted for sport.
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This week on the Unknown Subject, we meet Emily’s mom, a high powered diplomat looking for the BAU’s help with a kidnapping case involving the Russian mob.
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Our friends at the BAU are taking on a serial arsonist with a sadistic streak, but they end up getting an assist from an unexpected source who is willing to do whatever it takes for the greater good.
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Hurricanes! Jack the Ripper! Mardi Gras beads! This week’s episode has a little bit of everything. The team travels to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping to solve the bloody murders of several men in the French Quarter.
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Ask and you shall receive-- it’s a bonus, bonus episode! Kelly and Kelsie are re-ranking their favorite team members and discussing how far the team has come since season one.
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The team flies to Houston to investigate several murders at construction sites, and discover that the unsub isn’t their typical killer, but a veteran with extreme PTSD. Meanwhile, Reid continues to deal with the fallout of the Tobias Hankel debacle, and everyone starts to notice he’s being a real jerk.
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African-American girls are getting murdered in a small community in New York, and initially appears to be a series of hate crimes turns out to be a serial killer collecting young girls’ voices as trophies.
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The Unknown Subject is back for the conclusion to last week’s episode, which ended with JJ’s and Reid’s lives on the line. Tobias Hankel and his murderous personalities aren’t finished yet, and the team races to save one of their own before it’s too late.
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This week we’re watching one of the most memorable episodes of Criminal Minds ever, starring one of our favorite guest stars, James Van Der Beek! It’s just like Dawson’s Creek-- if Dawson’s Creek was set in backwoods Georgia and Dawson had an abusive, religious fanatic for a father who commanded him to murder people.
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The team is called to a tiny Nevada town to track down a serial killer who Gideon has been tracking for three decades. All of Gideon’s tête-à-têtes have been practice for this one, folks!
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The team is forced to profile one of their own this week, as Derek is forced to deal with his past after being accused of murder. This episode’s a real punch to the gut, so get your tissues ready.
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Thanks to a suggestion from one of our Instagram followers, on this week’s bonus episode we’re ranking the most fascinating unsubs we’ve covered so far in seasons one and two.
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When an awkward teenager approaches Reid out of the blue and starts asking questions about murdered sexworkers, the team discovers there’s a serial killer on the loose in Washington D.C. Is Reid’s teen informant a budding sociopath with a body count, or can the team save him before he becomes one?
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Gideon’s going head to head with a terrorist this week as the team races to stop a terror cell from attacking one of America’s most sacred of institutions— a shopping mall.
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Apparently opposites really do attract, even among serial killers. Two killers with totally different M.O’s and victim pools have become murdery pen pals in St. Louis, and the BAU must pit the unsubs against each other in order to bring them to justice.
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Inspired by a subpar science fiction book and an apparent distrust of technology, an unsub is detonating bombs– somewhat unsuccessfully– all across Seattle. The BAU is called in to investigate, but it soon becomes clear that the motivation behind all of it is actually far less interesting.
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It’s a very special episode of the Unknown Subject as we watch Kelly’s long-awaited trigger episode. Follow along while Kelly hyperventilates over three teenage girls with an impossible choice to make— all thanks to unsub with a petty axe to grind.
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In this week’s episode, the team heads to Texas to find an unsub who’s killing children in the woods, but the murderer ends up being the last person anyone would suspect. We also say later days to Elle, who is forced to deal with the fallout of her decision to go rogue.
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The team is hunting for a rapist with a very specific goal in mind, but when the investigation doesn’t turn out the way it should, one of the team members takes things into their own hands. It’s a watershed episode of Criminal Minds, and Kelsie and Kelly have a lot to say about it.
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This week on the Unknown Subject the BAU takes on its oddest case yet. The team is called in to help the L.A.P.D. bring down a bankrobber who makes his victims take their clothes off, so get ready to talk about a lot of old people in their underwear.
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It’s a two-for-one deal on sweaty unsubs this week as the BAU looks for a duo who kidnap women and send their torture videos to the victims’ mothers.
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Our friends at the BAU are taking on the creepiest corner of the internet as they race against time to save a young boy from being auctioned off to the highest, grossest bidder.
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We’re back for the second season of the Unknown Subject! In the follow up episode to last season’s cliffhanger, Kelly and Kelsie do their best to keep up with the resolution of the Fisher King’s murdery quest, but Sadie’s having none of it.
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Get out your excitement horns, Binge Buddies! In this bonus episode we’re ranking our top five episodes of the first season of Criminal Minds.
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It’s the season one finale of the Unknown Subject! In the first half of a two-parter, the team is on a much-needed vacation when each member is drawn into a cryptic quest involving baseball cards, butterflies, and a mystery woman in a dungeon.
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It’s spies versus profilers on this episode of the Unknown Subject. Our friends at the BAU are called in to find a mole in the CIA, but can they identify the unsub in time to save an informant and her children?
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The BAU knows exactly who this week’s unsub is— he’s a creep named Mark— but that doesn’t mean he’ll be easy to find. Kelly and Kelsie are taking the Binge Buddies along for the ride on this wild goose chase.
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In an unexpectedly deep episode of the Unknown Subject, we’re headed south of the border as the BAU hunts an unsub killing old women in a small Mexican town.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, Spencer meets a beautiful up and coming actress who also happens to have a murderous stalker. The BAU is on the case, but can Dr. Reid save the day and get the girl?
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This week’s unsub is a vigilante serving up cold, hard justice all over New York City, and not everyone thinks he’s the bad guy. Kelly, Kelsie and Sadie attempt to follow along as our friends at the BAU try to stop the killings before someone innocent gets hurt.
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When four college students are murdered using Native American war traditions and a fifth student is kidnapped, the BAU must determine the truth about who’s responsible with the help of a badass local cop.
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This week, a killer who’s been dormant for decades is back, and we’re introduced to a retired BAU team member who thinks he knows everything.
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In the latest edition of “Gideon stares intensely
at people,” a married couple on death row is about to be executed, but Gideon is convinced the wife isn’t guilty.
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Things are getting trippy on this episode of the Unknown Subject! The BAU tries to figure out who dosed several people with LSD before they strike again.
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In an all new episode of the Unknown Subject, we’re on the edge of our seats as the BAU races against the clock to find a young girl who was abducted from a park.
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To celebrate making it halfway through seasons one, Kelsie and Kelly rank their top five BAU team members and take a Buzzfeed quiz to find out which character they are.
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Follow along with Kelly and Kelsie for all the twists and turns as the team searches for an unsub with religious delusions.
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On this episode of the Unknown Subject, things are not as they seem in small town Virginia as our friends at the BAU are called in to investigate a possible satanic cult.
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This week, Kelly and Kelsie watch along as the BAU deals with a hostage crisis on a stalled train, and Reid shows off his close hand magic skills!
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On this episode of The Unknown Subject, the team gets involved in a mob case, and Kelsie and Kelly learn a fun new phrase for male genitalia.
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The BAU searches for a family annihilator who preys on families going on vacation, and a baby— yes, a human baby— gets thrown at Gideon.
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Paging Doctor Asshole! In one of Kelsie’s favorite episodes, the BAU travels to Illinois to profile a long distance serial killer.
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Kelly and Sadie get in some quality bonding time while the team hunts an unsub with a twin fetish.
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In one of Kelly’s top 20 favorite episodes of Criminal Minds, the team flies to San Diego to hunt an unsub who glues his victims’ eyes open.
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Today, we meet the best named character in television history and finally find out what the hell happened to Gideon in Boston. Plus the BAU chases down a copycat bomber.
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Join Kelly and Kelsie as they watch the very first episode of Criminal Minds and the BAU searches for a chick who really loves the color orange.
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